Hacker News: tux1968

Untrusted data in Linux – How Rust is going to save us

tux1968 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:58:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzmj7K0FNRY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524842

Points: 3

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Disagreeing with Google, Postgres, Future Problems – Mike Stonebraker

tux1968 — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPObBOwIrHk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347412

Points: 3

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The true reason C++ always wins [video]

tux1968 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:22:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7fEsbksKRE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293921

Points: 8

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New comment by tux1968 in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

tux1968 — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:52:00 +0000

Anthropic only acquired Bun in December of last year. They weren't there in the first place, to make the decision.

Yann LeCun's Billion Dollar Bet

tux1968 — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:16:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkIdXwW2AE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983811

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by tux1968 in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

tux1968 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:20:40 +0000

My reading of the article, was that the author seems to be in search of a new paradigm, that moves beyond what he sees as the limitations of "fp-like" languages as they exist today. His point appears to be that Zig provides the benefits of "fp-like" languages that exist today, while avoiding at least some of the downsides.

And he does admit you may have to squint, to appreciate the fp capabilities provided by Zig.

New comment by tux1968 in "Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader"

tux1968 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:03:35 +0000

It's $20, and open source. Use-cases change, and it's very nice to have the flexibility and control to adapt.

New comment by tux1968 in "Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader"

tux1968 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:24:30 +0000

The Chameleon Ultra V2.0 open source project [1] can be configured to "Reader-to-HID" which should give you what you want. You can build your own, or buy one of many pre-built options [2]

[1] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra/wiki

[2] for example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009580619682.html

New comment by tux1968 in "Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation"

tux1968 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:33:55 +0000

Does northern Canada have the soil required to take advantage of a longer growing season? Not the Canadian Shield areas, which is a huge part of the north, because there is little soil and mostly rock. There are pockets of interior plains and lowlands, but they will mostly become swamps and bogs when the permafrost thaws.

New comment by tux1968 in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

tux1968 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:54:23 +0000

What is the chance that you've perfectly captured every aspect of the situation that led to success? Versus, what is the chance that you were lucky enough to be in situations where a multitude of factors, both appreciated and unappreciated, combined to lead to success?

There are a million possible reasons for failure, but here is a very easy one: It doesn't matter how good you feel about the development process, if the company has the wrong objective. You will still end up being frustrated, and failing. Of course this will have all sorts of pathological and uncomfortable ramifications.

So while it is easy to say, "just act this way and you'll have success". You're not actually appreciating all the hidden elements that allow any hope of acting that way. You've been lucky enough to be in situations where it happened to work (ie. the rain dance made rain), but that does not mean it's actually representative, or that the prescription actually captures the critical information needed to ensure success for other people. Instead, you've described a rain dance.

New comment by tux1968 in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

tux1968 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:13 +0000

But that isn't evidence that the method works. If you're a native tribe, that has an ancient traditional rain dance, it is invoked whenever there is a drought. Sometimes it rains shortly after the dance is performed. But if it doesn't rain, it's not proof that you danced poorly, it's evidence that you didn't understand the situation fully or properly. The instructions or "wisdom" you relied on, didn't actually capture something useful.

New comment by tux1968 in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

tux1968 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:16:12 +0000

It would be very helpful to deeply understand the truth behind this management failing. The actual players involved, and their thinking. Was it truly a blind spot? Or was it mistaken priorities? I mean, this situation has been so obvious and tragic, that I can't help feeling like there is some unknown story-behind-the-story. We'll probably never really know, but if we could, I wouldn't spend quite as much time wearing a tinfoil hat.

New comment by tux1968 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tux1968 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:32:17 +0000

Yeah, I'm sure they wouldn't be helpful in every call. But the EMT user above talked about sometimes a caller giving the wrong location of a car accident. That's a clear case where a drone quickly on site could warn that crews need to be diverted elsewhere. But if it is just the occasional case where they'd be helpful, that makes them even less economically attractive.

As for fire services, in my city there is always a lead SUV vehicle (I think a captain or supervisor) who is a few blocks ahead of the actual heavy trucks. Presumably to get someone on site as quickly as possible; which made me believe that a drone could assist in that role. But I accept what you say, that there are too many limitations for it to help much, even if it can arrive quicker.

New comment by tux1968 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tux1968 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:30:20 +0000

There are always security concerns and exploits. Some crazy gamers call 911 swat attacks on people; that doesn't mean that the police shouldn't have guns, or that 911 should be turned off.

Yes, the drones should be secure. Yes there should be measures to make sure that they're not abused. But none of that takes away from anything i've said, which is ONLY to point out the situations where they could be useful. And people seem to be having a very negative visceral reaction to even considering the possibility.

Also, i'm not recommending or supporting Flock, just the concept of drone use in general.

New comment by tux1968 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tux1968 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:13:25 +0000

> If EMS has to "search you out" so does the drone.

The point is that the drone is fast enough to arrive first, and do the searching so that you don't have to. It's just one of many possible scenarios.

I totally understand the argument that this might not be the most effective use of money, but I honestly don't understand the lack of appreciation for the number of places this could be used effectively.

New comment by tux1968 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tux1968 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:39:14 +0000

Obviously I don't know the specifics of your city, but in general there are a lot of scenarios where it's valuable to get to a scene very quickly (no traffic, etc.) and obtain reconnaissance. Especially violent scenes, or it could even be a drunk driver who is still on the move, or a stolen car where the perpetrators are likely to flee on foot if stopped.

I'm sure you can come up with a lot more ideas using your imagination.

New comment by tux1968 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tux1968 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:23:27 +0000

Yes. If you called from your cell phone while on foot or in your car, the drone can find your exact location and hover over you until help arrives, quicker than if EMS has to search you out themselves.

New comment by tux1968 in "Veracrypt project update"

tux1968 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:50:06 +0000

I'm more convinced than ever that this aphorism has it completely backwards.

New comment by tux1968 in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

tux1968 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:30:32 +0000

It would be nice if every upsampled image (done with AI or otherwise) contained a copy of the source image in its metadata.

New comment by tux1968 in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

tux1968 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:51:45 +0000

In the same way, so many current cameras (mostly phones) that do automatic post-processing of images, up to and including AI, is going to lessen their future archeological value.