Hacker News: theginger

New comment by theginger in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

theginger — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:38:03 +0000

> based on a novel reading of the law

So they found a loop hole. Why do they need to find a loop hole in their own law, why not just make better laws to start with.

Ask HN: Experiences of Working in Big Data

theginger — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:37:06 +0000

About 2 years ago I move from web/saas startups to a very large data company. It's been an unusual experience. I work in some cases with some very intelligent and qualified people, but somehow they don't seem to do a great job. My main observation is that people tackle problems head on, rather then let the technology guide them. Golden paths is a topic occasionally discussed, but I feel like no one I work with has really ever really experienced the benefits of following a golden path so has no ability to recognise when they are or are not following one. To me it feels like a bit of a self reinforcing problem across the industry. People are going to do their own things anyway, so those behind the tools don't focus on best practices and developer experience, so the golden paths aren't very golden so there is less incentive to follow them. I am wondering how much of this is down to working in a big org vs working in big data, or maybe the 2 things are tightly intertwined.

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New comment by theginger in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

theginger — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:51:10 +0000

>There'd be a certain irony being able to reverse shell anyone doing an nmap scan.

Every TV / movie hacker has known about this.

New comment by theginger in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

theginger — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:52:37 +0000

Cors is hard to understand because the browser is protecting you and the server from malicious code that the developers are not expecting to be there. Its a hypothetical threat you cannot see during development unless you really go out of your way. If you can't see the threat it's hard to understand it, it you don't understand the threat it's hard to understand the protection against it.

Its one of those situations where you need to think like an attacker to see the whole picture.

New comment by theginger in "Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source)"

theginger — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:22:57 +0000

What does it do better than parquet? The compression ratio quoted is lower than parquet but I expect higher to be better in this context

New comment by theginger in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

theginger — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:06:02 +0000

A lot of fast chargers are over $1 per kwh so unless you have access to home charging there isn't much room for savings.

New comment by theginger in "Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]"

theginger — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:16:51 +0000

We don't use unit of measurements. We use metrics because we have a lot more context. Rps, requests per second is a commonly used unit but it has no defined standard, you could and often do average it over time for reporting but no one says you have to. For scaling however you'll probably want to use the max not the average, because no one wants a web application where in business as usual 60% of the time it works every time.

New comment by theginger in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

theginger — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:51:20 +0000

What proportion of devices would need to meet this 80% rule? 50%? 90%? 99%? Could make a huge difference

New comment by theginger in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

theginger — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:11:46 +0000

Does the existence of that knowledge make a slight bias lowering the odd on no? I could fork this and with a 1 line change earn dozens of dollars as long as I don't tell anyone what that secret change is.

New comment by theginger in "FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do"

theginger — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:24:34 +0000

You probably don't even need 2 interfaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_on_a_stick

New comment by theginger in "Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor"

theginger — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:06:38 +0000

Looking at the amount of wires going into this, my instinct is that this cannot scale, in 5-10 years this won't be doable for a Pentium chip, at least not as an at home hobby project. But I actually think it could go the other way, and in 5-10 years you'll be able to do this at home for far more sophisticated kit, unlocking crazy amounts of reverse engineering possibilities that were once thought of as near impossible, or at least only possible for a nation state scale setup.

New comment by theginger in "AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human"

theginger — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:42:41 +0000

It's not impossible that the Aws charges were wrong, it's pretty unheard of. I don't understand why the details of the charges aren't mentioned in the post. If you think it's unlikely you could have a $1500 bill because you 'barely use' it then that's just wrong. In the cloud single unoptimised choices can cost thousands if you don't keep an eye on your costs, you need to look at the charges.

New comment by theginger in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

theginger — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:55:17 +0000

Fisker owner here, hold my beer

New comment by theginger in "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)"

theginger — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:19:18 +0000

Disappointed there still isn't a protocol for sending messages in a bottle.

New comment by theginger in "Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People"

theginger — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:12:51 +0000

Seems more of a productivity killer rather than an aid but cats are great marketing. I see no reason not to submit this for YC funding in the next round

New comment by theginger in "Cloudflare was down"

theginger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:55:00 +0000

I don't want to criticize cloud flare, I love what they do and understand the scale of the challenge, but most people don't and 2 in a month or so like this is going to hit their reputation.

New comment by theginger in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

theginger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:25:07 +0000

When did a PS5 become a unit of cost? For reference seems to be about 0.002 London buses

New comment by theginger in "How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one"

theginger — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:45:51 +0000

The old trope of forgetting your wedding anniversary cheat code.

New comment by theginger in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

theginger — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:24:02 +0000

If it follows the redirect I would redirect it to random binary files hosted by Amazon, then see if it continues to not require any further action

New comment by theginger in "UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards"

theginger — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:31:20 +0000

This appears to be backfiring spectacularly. It is a shame in many ways because a decent digital ID system would be very beneficial. The problem is the approach is completely wrong. There are already 10+ competing ID system which are now largely digital. A solution on how to bring all that together done well could make things significantly more secure by reducing the attack surface and make it much more reliable.

Instead it looks like they are going for 1 more competing system, the implementation of which will be steered by politics and ideology rather than technology and technical requirements.