Hacker News: throawayonthe

New comment by throawayonthe in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

throawayonthe — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:50:45 +0000

seems like a pretty bad analogy because, yeah, i don't care about my lock being tested lol? it's not a security device

New comment by throawayonthe in "Muse Spark Open"

throawayonthe — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:11:42 +0000

not a metric, it's a parameter used at inference time

New comment by throawayonthe in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

throawayonthe — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:59:44 +0000

it's a joke, riffing on the "would rust have fixed this?" referring to any vulnerability

New comment by throawayonthe in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

throawayonthe — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:48:08 +0000

> concerns that the energy being pumped into wall sockets could cause wiring in old homes to catch fire, but he says “that’s never happened in Europe,” despite its widespread adoption.

well old NA circuits are notoriously shittier and lower-amp-rated than in europe lol

i don't think it's a good argument against balcony solar but neither is that a good rebuttal

New comment by throawayonthe in "Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside"

throawayonthe — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:29:54 +0000

for this specific project, yes, since it seems to have progressed pretty quickly

New comment by throawayonthe in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

throawayonthe — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:09:52 +0000

if your IP is fixed, surely no further fingerprinting is necessary?

New comment by throawayonthe in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

throawayonthe — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:07:01 +0000

this is not what i'm talking about at all, in this case it would be a similar situation if the labels said "contains acrylamide, a papermaking precursor chemical" or something else irrelevant to both the purported danger and use/reason for occurrence

and with the vapes thing, they could just say "formaldehyde is a human carcinogen, can cause permanent adverse effects to nervous system, irritate mucous membranes and aggravate asthma etc" instead of talking about tissue preservation yk?

New comment by throawayonthe in "European Alternatives"

throawayonthe — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:07:54 +0000

i pay for mailbox.org but i never use the webmailer haha, they support IMAP/SMTP

New comment by throawayonthe in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

throawayonthe — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:57:10 +0000

it's weird how they say "One TOR exemption that allows the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate to be used in grain bags..." as well as the article they link to https://blogs.edf.org/health/2019/01/11/fda-perchlorate-in-f... focusing on it being a rocket fuel component

i guess it sounds scary? but it almost implies rocket fuel is somehow involved in grain transport lol. the real reason for its use i guess is to control static electricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate#:~:text=control-,s...

this is like that one time people came to my school to talk about vapes, and one of their talking points was "vapes can contain formaldehyde, and formaldehyde is used to preserve dead specimens/tissue samples" ; they did not get my issue with the lack of causal reasoning in that argument :P

New comment by throawayonthe in "Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry"

throawayonthe — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:31:25 +0000

would be awesome

New comment by throawayonthe in "Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry"

throawayonthe — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:28:39 +0000

oh no! security measures! scary!

New comment by throawayonthe in "What should we tell our students?"

throawayonthe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:54:36 +0000

CS students should never use an LLM

New comment by throawayonthe in "Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments"

throawayonthe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:39:28 +0000

was it perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescent_wire instead

New comment by throawayonthe in "New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads"

throawayonthe — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:32:08 +0000

one would hope model weights are already high entropy enough and would not be improved by a general-purpose memory compression algo?

New comment by throawayonthe in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

throawayonthe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:54:47 +0000

seems to refer to webp not jxl

New comment by throawayonthe in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

throawayonthe — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:16:25 +0000

no lol

Generic Const Args and You

throawayonthe — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/10/02/generic-const-args-and-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931676

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by throawayonthe in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"

throawayonthe — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:45:44 +0000

but like, this isn't the case

New comment by throawayonthe in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

throawayonthe — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:17:44 +0000

they probably mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection actually

New comment by throawayonthe in "Factorio that you can touch"

throawayonthe — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:46:57 +0000

at that point can't you just use the integrated gpu which definitely has access to more ram?