Hacker News: wbl

New comment by wbl in "S3 Files"

wbl — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:41:52 +0000

Don't forget the locking semantics. That was fun and caused Sage to fail.

New comment by wbl in "S3 Files"

wbl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:35:12 +0000

"NFS provides the semantics your applications expect" is one of the funniest things I have ever read.

New comment by wbl in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

wbl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:30:47 +0000

Have fun trying that in CA.

New comment by wbl in "A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)"

wbl — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:45:48 +0000

The first time I played it I got a little sleepy and went to bed. It was 3 am.

New comment by wbl in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

wbl — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:39:42 +0000

A site can authenticate a client cert from a different PKI than one it has.

New comment by wbl in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

wbl — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:57:17 +0000

Dylan going electric was not about instrument choices. It was about abandoning the radical folk music tradition that Seeger, Guthrie, etc. had revived.

New comment by wbl in "Using calculus to do number theory"

wbl — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:56:43 +0000

Hensel's lemma is an analytic fact about the radius and speed of convergence of Newtons method in the p-adics.

New comment by wbl in "Java 26 is here"

wbl — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:50:24 +0000

Why exactly do you have complex error analysis happening above a component that has the error? That's anti modular.

New comment by wbl in "Java 26 is here"

wbl — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:24:55 +0000

I think you want sum types which admittedly Go doesn't have in a matchable way. However complex error recovery is an anti pattern for Go.

New comment by wbl in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

wbl — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:46:53 +0000

That's what all these accounting rules exist to stop. No, you can't pretend that equipment breaking doesn't happen. No, you need to account for fixing the roof etc.

New comment by wbl in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

wbl — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:10:40 +0000

People are dying of these diseases every day

New comment by wbl in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

wbl — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:42:21 +0000

Worth it

New comment by wbl in "Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe"

wbl — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:30:55 +0000

Kids have different maturities and should face increasing responsibilities as they age.

New comment by wbl in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

wbl — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:17:35 +0000

Ultrahigh density polyethylene isn't that exotic.

New comment by wbl in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

wbl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:10:49 +0000

JP threw his own money on the table . Silicon valley's VCs whined for bailouts.

New comment by wbl in "About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design"

wbl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:33:57 +0000

This is well known in Perl as the Schwartz transform

New comment by wbl in "The Day the Telnet Died"

wbl — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:29:54 +0000

Not at interconnect speeds

New comment by wbl in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

wbl — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:46:32 +0000

They wouldn't for me: not that obese, no other health effects.

New comment by wbl in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

wbl — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:23:14 +0000

I'm obese. The drugs are approved. But without another condition they aren't covered by my HMO so I have to go outside.

New comment by wbl in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

wbl — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:11:33 +0000

He's helicopter crash away from being remembered as a daring wartime president.