Hacker News: tus666

New comment by tus666 in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

tus666 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:18:04 +0000

How can you write for LWN and not have heard of clone(CLONE_THREAD) and multithreading?

New comment by tus666 in "Windows 12: force copilot, a new computer and a OS subscription on you"

tus666 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:55:47 +0000

Im pretty sure the subscription is optional, and if you don't subscribe, you dont get the AI "features" and copilot.

Seems win/win to me.

New comment by tus666 in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

tus666 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 03:38:45 +0000

260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.

New comment by tus666 in "Starships Launch for Mars in 2026. Crewed Flights Possible by 2028"

tus666 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 04:20:32 +0000

The question is unexplored territory, pun intended.

The FAA could deny approval for launch, but its unclear what the basis would be. What happens on Mars is out of it's jurisdiction, literally.

The UN governs Earth, not Mars. It could expand to cover Mars I suppose. It's the sort of pointless activity you could imagine the European Parliament obsessing over, but there is little they could do about an American launch company.

But the reality is we are centuries away from something approaching a land-rush on Mars, or actual competition between nations for control of anything.

I suspect it will be a "watch and wait and see" situation.

New comment by tus666 in "Lemon64.com and Lemonamiga.com Hacked"

tus666 — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 23:45:14 +0000

> The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.

New comment by tus666 in "Researchers Say There's a Vulgar but More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinations"

tus666 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:49:01 +0000

Fair.

New comment by tus666 in "NATO has just 5% of air defences needed to protect eastern flank"

tus666 — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:03:03 +0000

Exactly.

New comment by tus666 in "NATO has just 5% of air defences needed to protect eastern flank"

tus666 — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:46:14 +0000

From what exactly? Turkey?

New comment by tus666 in "[dead]"

tus666 — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:57:53 +0000

Hopefully when we go to Mars we leave cockroaches like you behind.

New comment by tus666 in "I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:33:43 +0000

Most memory vulnerabilities are use-after-free which due to the nature of C is a very easy mistake to make.

Buffer overflows are simple inexcusable, especially if its "we didn't bother checking" rather than "we got the size wrong due to human error".

The first case is not normal, people like that should not be programming HTML let alone C code.

New comment by tus666 in "Cipherleaks is the first demonstrated attack against AMD SEV-SNP (2021)"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:22:05 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it highly annoying that exclusive domain names are registered for individual CVEs?

New comment by tus666 in "I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:21:42 +0000

No, but I would never, ever, ever, EVER write data to a buffer without specifying the buffer size or reallocing where necessary.

This just smells so much like a Javascript script kiddy who wanted to join the cool brigade and write something h4kor1sh in C. Ugh.

New comment by tus666 in "Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:20:20 +0000

For robotics sake, I hope not.

New comment by tus666 in "I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:03:09 +0000

> By reading the source code, I realized that the incoming data was put into a fixed-size static buffer in the stack, and the payload was decrypted into another fixed-size buffer. There’s no boundary or size check.

This is not normal. It's amateurish in the extreme that leads to the only conclusion that whoever wrote this ZeroMQ thing is not a real software engineer. I.e. stay away at all costs.

New comment by tus666 in "OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct, less verbose'"

tus666 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:47:15 +0000

The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT:

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT:

How many times have you seen this?

New comment by tus666 in "US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that will now never fly"

tus666 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:56:39 +0000

After spending billions of dollars on a light attack/recon heli that will never fly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky_RAH-66...

Emophilia

tus666 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:47:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916310601

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258386

Points: 1

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New comment by tus666 in "Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family"

tus666 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:53:22 +0000

How could a leading research organization not have heard or divorce and child support?

New comment by tus666 in "Why is rail patronage 50% higher in Sydney than Melbourne? (2020)"

tus666 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:54:13 +0000

Gak, as someone who has lived in both this is missing the real question which actually also answers this question...

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRIVE A CAR IN SYDNEY???

New comment by tus666 in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

tus666 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:28:57 +0000

> The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. You might be disappointed by this number, especially since this blog post has been talking about assembly and machine code and nothing is faster than that right? Well, remember that CPython is already written in C and that was already compiled to machine-code by the C compiler.

WTF has this to do with JITing the code written in Python?