Hacker News: vorgol

New comment by vorgol in "Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained""

vorgol — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:51:40 +0000

"Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit."

-- Kent Overstreet, bcachefs maintainer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5wb...

New comment by vorgol in "VIM Master"

vorgol — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:05:46 +0000

When I was learning Linux back in the day, one of the most beneficial thing I did was to go though the VIM tutorial and learn to use it properly. I'm no master at it but oh boy that time spent has paid dividends down the line.

New comment by vorgol in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

vorgol — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:09 +0000

OSs need to stop letting applications have a free reign of all the files on the file system by default. Some apps come with apparmor/selinux profiles and firejail is also a solution. But the UX needs to change.

New comment by vorgol in "The Therac-25 Incident (2021)"

vorgol — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:03:09 +0000

I was going to recommend that exact podcast episode but you beat me to it. Totally worth listening, especially if you're interested in software bugs.

Another interesting fact mentioned in the podcast is that the earlier (manually operated) version of the machine did have the same fault. But it also had a failsafe fuse that blew so the fault never materialized. Excellent demonstration of the Swiss Cheese Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

New comment by vorgol in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

vorgol — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:48:24 +0000

All scandinavic countries have stopped shipment to USA due to this (except gifts valued < $100)

New comment by vorgol in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"

vorgol — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:47:21 +0000

I've acquired so many tools like this, and I don't think I've ever looked at them at though I regretted the purchase. Many have enabled me to fix and make stuff down the line.

New comment by vorgol in "A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website"

vorgol — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:21:01 +0000

A bit like "There used to be a lot of corruption is politics. There still is, but there also used to be."

New comment by vorgol in "The cost of interrupted work (2023)"

vorgol — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:38:28 +0000

For me it's a combination of the nature of task, where I'm at and the nature and duration of the interruption. But usually an interruption causes a large amount of penalty points.

New comment by vorgol in "Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers"

vorgol — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:26:45 +0000

I apologize for the side question, but what are people using for Golang SQlite cipher/encryption combination?

New comment by vorgol in "Code formatting comes to uv experimentally"

vorgol — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:20:40 +0000

We can argue if it's a feature feature creep and if it's the right choice of formatter.

But let's appreciate that this will increase the use of formatters astronomically (or part thereof), which is an excellent thing.

New comment by vorgol in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

vorgol — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:06:28 +0000

It's very tempting to assume what people will or are doing, and it's so, so easy to get it so wrong.

Picture this. Guy comes home late at night. Outdoor light is on. He goes in and presses he light switch. No lights come on but the fuse blows and now the outdoor light is gone.

What does he do?

The answer is that you have no idea based on only that information. It's tempting to think he'll do what my friends and I would do: find the fusebox and investigate.

But the thing is, his crazy ex's crazy boyfriend threatened yesterday to kill him. This guy is bolting, not looking for the fusebox.

New comment by vorgol in "Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock"

vorgol — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:32:26 +0000

Very interesting article from the same guy where he reverse engineers the randomness of a flicker LED.

https://cpldcpu.com/2013/12/08/hacking-a-candleflicker-led/

New comment by vorgol in "StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers"

vorgol — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:27:01 +0000

> pressured

Maybe incentivized? $1000? $10000? Would be interesting to hear from the developer himself.

New comment by vorgol in "Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text"

vorgol — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:45:31 +0000

Have you heard results from it? How does it know for example, when there is a romantic scene in the book, which voice to read out as?

It's definitely an exited voice, but is it read out as in a battle or as in a romantic scene?

New comment by vorgol in "Open music foundation models for full-song generation"

vorgol — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:16:01 +0000

The youtube link is suddenly not available any more (at least in the UK)

New comment by vorgol in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

vorgol — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:52:59 +0000

I wonder if it's going to have the same training data as the ordinary version?

New comment by vorgol in "Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine"

vorgol — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:20:37 +0000

Sounds very interesting but could we have examples please? All the examples are either not working on missing.

It would also be good to have a link to examples very high up on the front page.

New comment by vorgol in "The Algebra Gatekeepers"

vorgol — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:28:20 +0000

Can you meaningfully study advanced math without understanding algebra?

New comment by vorgol in "Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos"

vorgol — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:14:50 +0000

I have hitherto not timestamped or cryptographically signed my light sources, but that's something I'll be looking into.

New comment by vorgol in "One diet soda a day increases type 2 diabetes risk by 38%"

vorgol — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:02:20 +0000

Exactly. The enormously forceful craving you get for soda/beer/whatever drink will be wiped out 90%-100% by a quick chug of water.

Your brain will tell you "no that won't work", but after the water your body will approve and your brain will accept that.