Hacker News: tkhattra

New comment by tkhattra in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

tkhattra — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:23:33 +0000

From Filippo's post: "Sure, papers about an abacus and a dog are funny and can make you look smart and contrarian on forums."

Three Questions About Each Bug You Find (1989)

tkhattra — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://multicians.org/thvv/threeq.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443440

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tkhattra in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

tkhattra — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:12:18 +0000

I think they're already available? e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/942572.807045

Practical Security in Production

tkhattra — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773097

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029453

Points: 20

# Comments: 1

The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)

tkhattra — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:11:39 +0000

Article URL: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/09/the-paradoxical-efficient-market-hypothesis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511294

Points: 95

# Comments: 90

Compact representations for arrays in Lua [pdf]

tkhattra — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:49:18 +0000

Article URL: https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314234

Points: 67

# Comments: 19

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]

tkhattra — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lua.org/doc/cola.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813106

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

What would early alternatives to C have been?

tkhattra — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:21:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-March/031556.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313335

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by tkhattra in "Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP"

tkhattra — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:09:50 +0000

I have one for $7.68 ($2.56*3). Alas, it was for some minor typos and grammatical errors in SPOCS [1], not "real" math errors in TAOCP. Never plan on cashing it in though. And I can't remember where I stashed it, so there's that too... :)

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html

The Art of Managing Skunks

tkhattra — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2025/02/09/2025-skunks.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004197

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tkhattra in "Byte Queue Limits: the unauthorized biography"

tkhattra — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:20:12 +0000

As the article states, BQL has been around since 2011 so it's most likely available - you can grep for CONFIG_BQL in your /boot/config-* file to confirm.

I'm not aware of any up-to-date list of drivers that support BQL. You could try something like [1], but I'm not sure if it will find all relevant drivers.

[1] https://livegrep.com/search/linux?q=file%3A%5C.c%24%20netdev...