Hacker News: withinrafael

New comment by withinrafael in "Veracrypt project update"

withinrafael — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:04 +0000

Will send some emails.

New comment by withinrafael in "Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel"

withinrafael — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:54:24 +0000

Looks cool, but this site is a bit difficult for me to grok.

I think the table might be slightly inside-out? The Status column appears to show internal pipeline states ("Pending", "In Review") that really only matter to the system, while Findings are buried in the column on the far right. For example, one reviewed patchset with a critical and a high finding is just causally hanging out below the fold. I couldn't immediately find a way to filter or search for severe findings.

It might help to separate unreviewed patches from reviewed ones, and somehow wire the findings into the visual hierarchy better. Or perhaps I'm just off base and this is targeting a very specific Linux kernel community workflow/mindset.

Just my 1c.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer retiring after 38 years at Microsoft

withinrafael — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/xbox-chief-phil-spencer-retiring-after-38-years-at-microsoft-asha-sharma-named-new-gaming-ceo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094190

Points: 2

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New comment by withinrafael in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"

withinrafael — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:25:17 +0000

That sounds amazing, agreed!

New comment by withinrafael in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"

withinrafael — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:33:13 +0000

Reminds me a bit of the Park of Aging in Miraikan The National Museum of Emerging Science.

I remember when staff casually handed me a paper brochure near the area dedicated to aging that when opened was blurry and difficult to read. I was confused. When it finally dawned on me this was one of their simulations of old age I never laughed (at myself) harder. Such a fun and educational experience highly recommend for all ages.

Additional: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/22/japan/science-h...

New comment by withinrafael in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

withinrafael — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:27:41 +0000

The Copilot Runtime APIs to utilize the NPU are still experimental and mostly unavailable. I can't believe an entire generation of the Snapdragon X chip came and went without working APIs. Truly incredible.

New comment by withinrafael in "EFF launches Age Verification Hub"

withinrafael — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:18:17 +0000

I believe cyber cafes in India must verify identity via ID before allowing internet access and maintain logs, browsing history, etc. for at least one year.

New comment by withinrafael in "Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival"

withinrafael — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:55:49 +0000

Somewhat along that line of thinking, I've wondered if my visual perspective was similar to a 3D game engine camera. And if upon death, it switched to a new entity.

New comment by withinrafael in "End of Japanese community"

withinrafael — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:23:43 +0000

Agree. "what you're struggling with" did it for me.

New comment by withinrafael in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

withinrafael — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:02:53 +0000

I got the same notification, US business owner here. In my case, I did not change my address (or anything else). But I suspect their system is regularly looking for work and can't handle DBAs well. To avoid this exact scenario, I was on their butts and uploaded every document I had. Eventually I was escalated and they did something, but I still can't enable their APR option due to some error somewhere. No one seems to know what. I'm very concerned one day I'll wake up to the same fate as the author.

It's a shame because I really love using the Wise website, app, payment system, and even the physical card (esp. in Japan).

Happy to work with anyone over there if they read this and want to dig in.

New comment by withinrafael in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

withinrafael — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:19:35 +0000

Was hoping they outlined their approach to handling potentially compromised packages running on dev machines prior to even shipping. That seems like a much harder problem to solve.

New comment by withinrafael in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

withinrafael — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:21:13 +0000

I have the previous generation Meta Ray-Ban glasses and they're great, but I wish I could use the underlying tech for... something more useful. It has no API, no extensibility options, nada. I--and my friends--don't use Messenger, Facebook, etc. I fear it'll be the same w/ the Ray-Ban Display, so I doubt I will be upgrading. Such a shame.

New comment by withinrafael in "You too can run malware from NPM (I mean without consequences)"

withinrafael — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:36:18 +0000

Thanks will check it out!

New comment by withinrafael in "You too can run malware from NPM (I mean without consequences)"

withinrafael — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:36:11 +0000

Thanks will check both out!

New comment by withinrafael in "You too can run malware from NPM (I mean without consequences)"

withinrafael — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:31:35 +0000

In July, packages were loading malicious DLLs (on Windows targets) [1]. It doesn't appear Lavamoat would help in that scenario. Is that right? If so, how do you mitigate this? Run everything in a container?

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-falcon-pr...

New comment by withinrafael in "Signal Secure Backups"

withinrafael — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:02:47 +0000

Do backups get pruned over time? Is there an expiration? I don't think folks want old lost-key backups sitting around forever for quantum to catch up, right?

New comment by withinrafael in "Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt"

withinrafael — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:18:15 +0000

Thank you for writing down and sharing your experiences and insights, and making it accessible for just a mere buck.

New comment by withinrafael in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

withinrafael — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:43:52 +0000

That's a really good point—I hadn't considered it from that angle. Thanks for that perspective.

New comment by withinrafael in "Ask HN: Has GitHub's web UI gotten tremendously slow or is it just me?"

withinrafael — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:35:44 +0000

And browser back button typically doesn't work either, immediately putting you in this weird webpage <> URL mismatched state.

New comment by withinrafael in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

withinrafael — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:56:14 +0000

Isn't that a good thing? As a dev submitting something to them, I want my feature/bugfix to stay with the product.

Are you suggesting that devs should be able to burden the original contribution with conditions, like "they can't use my code without permission 5 years later if you relicense"? That's untenable, isn't it?

I don't know how else you would accept external contributions for software without the grant in the CLA. Perhaps I'm not creative enough!