<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tpolzer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tpolzer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:34:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tpolzer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple sends your searches to Google for money. I would call search queries data?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845980</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple, Samsung and Google all earn money from ads on your phone, just with different monetization pathways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:14:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845657</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed, but then I wouldn't call it a "big miss" (the title of the article, which doesn't mention regions either).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:53:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221842</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A moving GC would make it simple to move any remaining live objects back under normal GC control once the arena goes out of scope.<p>You could probably also do it without moving actually, it just gets a little more complex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221759</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder whether it would be possible to retrofit Arena allocation transparently (and safely!) onto a language with a moving GC (which IIUC Go currently is not):<p>You could ask the programmer to mark some callstack as arena allocated and redirect all allocations to there while active and move everything that is still live once you leave the arena marked callstack (should be cheap if the live set is small, expensive but still safe otherwise).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:07:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221146</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "You did no fact checking, and I must scream"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike opaquely financed and privately owned media companies, the Guardian is actually relatively clear and open in how it is financed and set up in a way to try to make them as independent as possible (see for example the Scott Trust's annual report <a href="https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/09/11/The_Scott_Trust_Limited_2024_25.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/09/11/The_Scott_Trust_Limite...</a>).<p>That's not to say that they don't run their fair share of gossip/clickbait... but show me an online medium that does not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618378</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a question of energy density. Multiple joules into your big phone battery is nothing, multiple joules into a small SMD component means it evaporates immediately in a bright flash!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:31:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539571</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bad drivers could brick (parts of) your hardware permanently.<p>While you should have a backup of your data anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466424</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the oldest (AFAIK) occurrences of this was AOL releasing a data set of "anonymized" search queries in 2006 and it took a about a day for the first person to be deanonymized.<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html</a><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/09/first-person-identified-from-aol-data-thelma-arnold/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/09/first-person-identified-fr...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:13:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082319</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A std::monostate member will still have non zero size, because it needs a unique address.<p>See <a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/ebo" rel="nofollow">https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/ebo</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036930</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If there was a std::unit_t and it was implicitly convertible to optional, tuple and pointer, I don't think that would be worse in terms of usability at all (maybe worse in readability for people who haven't heard of a 'unit' type).<p>As for the std::variant use case, using std::monostate is only a matter of convention there. You could use any of the other unit types just the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:19:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036890</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's really weird to me is not that C++ has a unit type and picked a weird name for it (that's just C++). The weird thing is how many unit types it has:<p>- std::nullopt_t<p>- std::nullptr_t<p>- std::monostate<p>- std::tuple<><p>And I'm sure there's more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036074</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it annoying that (a) this seems to be a hardware feature that is almost universally permanently disabled in firmware and (b) it's almost impossible to find out whether it is supported by any given product (neither of the two products you link provide any mention on the spec sheet).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410871</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The theoretical limit is 50% according to Wikipedia, but there's other factors being optimized for as well aside from efficiency:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency#:~:text=Modern%20gasoline%20engines%20have%20a,of%20higher%20wear%20and%20emissions" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency#:~:text=Mode...</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39164804</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39164804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39164804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SD Express is basically dead as far as I can tell.<p>SD card users who care about speed have UHS-II equipment, but SD Express and UHS-II use mutually incompatible high speed signalling on the same pins (so cards and readers are only supporting one of the two - I guess technically this could be fixable with special purpose chips, but at large cost).<p>Users who care about speed but not about SD card compatibility are already using CFExpress, which is supported by most modern professional cameras and has much better hardware availability than SD Express.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749061</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS power supply (2005)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ideally with PPS, your device can actually just ask exactly for the regulated voltage it needs on USB-C.<p>Most modern smartphones can use that to charge their batteries more efficiently/with less heating of the phone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183084</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Wireless is a trap (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless your 5 GHz spectrum is crowded by other WiFi, you really want to be on channel 36, because that way you do not have DFS at all, see the table on Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:17:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37946477</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37946477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37946477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The AP still has to send regular beacons for each hidden SSID, taking up air time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:54:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699768</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Over all age groups? Definitely not, cardiovascular diseases and cancer get ~everybody in the end: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-by-cause?country=~USA">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b...</a><p>You're right for 15-49 year olds, where drug overdoses only recently (around 2015) overtook cancer: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-15-49-year-olds?time=latest&country=~USA">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-15-49-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37593740</link><dc:creator>tpolzer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37593740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37593740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tpolzer in "Control USB power on a port by port basis on some USB hubs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this just a less polished/active version of <a href="https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl">https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl</a>?</p>
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