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Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

wooster — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:10:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834

Points: 192

# Comments: 97

New comment by wooster in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store"

wooster — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:09:28 +0000

Interesting… https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/10156

New comment by wooster in "Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape"

wooster — Sat, 02 May 2020 01:28:36 +0000

The format plists used before XML was very JSON-like. It had its own set of issues, however.

New comment by wooster in "Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find"

wooster — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:30:19 +0000

The photo looks like it's of a cask firing at Ariake Sangyo [0], which manufactures barrels for a variety of uses. About 10 percent of their barrels go to domestic whiskey producers, and the rest to shochu. Yamazaki has their own cooperage, so that barrel isn't going to them.

However, Yamazaki does use a variety of different barrels, including wine casks for finishing, sherry casks, mizunara (Japanese oak) casks, new American white oak puncheons, hogsheads made of used barrels, and ex-bourbon barrels. AFAIK they use a variety of char levels on the barrels they produce in house and on re-chars.

[0] http://www.ariakesangyo.co.jp/, mis-captioned as a distillery here: https://www.masterofmalt.com/blog/post/qa-brian-ashcraft-aut...

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens

wooster — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:20:52 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16470166

Points: 78

# Comments: 19

New comment by wooster in "Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste"

wooster — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:08:32 +0000

There is a George T. Haymaker Jr. who "served as an Executive Vice President of Alumax Inc. from 1984 to 1986 and Vice President of International Operations at Alcoa Inc. from 1982 to 1984" [0].

His profile at Genstar Capital includes what seems like a recent photo [1].

Is that who you're thinking of?

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?p...

[1] http://www.gencap.com/team/george_haymaker.php

New comment by wooster in "A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud"

wooster — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:38:38 +0000

Have you been to southern Italy? The homeless/squatter situation I saw there was very similar.

New comment by wooster in "Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind"

wooster — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:56:30 +0000

What's your experience of art like (especially paintings and other visual art)? Does it ever evoke strong feelings? Is there some art you like more than others for reasons you can't articulate with words? Ditto for UI design.

Thanks for writing this, by the way. This is totally mind-blowing.

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

wooster — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504?hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11553439

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by wooster in "Google I/O 2016"

wooster — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 03:57:24 +0000

CHM is great and the docents there are fantastic. The Cantor Center at Stanford has a great little collection of art. There's also a TeamLab exhibition at PACE in Menlo Park that I hear is wonderful.

New comment by wooster in "Sherpa: They Die, We Go Home"

wooster — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:30:01 +0000

The trekking part of my Nepal trip I found a lot easier (and interesting) than my Kilimanjaro hike. The trek to EBC lends itself to a lot of flex days being built into itineraries (delays of flights between Kathmandu and Lobuche are normal) and some nice side trips that help with the "climb high, sleep low" pattern that helps prevent AMS. Kilimanjaro, on the other hand, is a straight shot up and down, tends to be a much shorter trek, and doesn't have as interesting terrain for side hikes.

Climbing Lobuche East and glacier traverse+rescue training on Cho La glacier were both harder than hiking Kilimanjaro, but were my favorite parts of the trip.

As far as ill effects… there were some injuries, sickness, and minor AMS symptoms among my group on both trips (headache, cough, shortage of breath… nothing serious). We were careful about acclimatization, though.

Of the two, I'd really recommend trekking in Nepal. It's one of those places I find myself missing, and I'd love to go back.

New comment by wooster in "Sherpa: They Die, We Go Home"

wooster — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:01:12 +0000

The study shows no lesions on the Kilimanjaro trek, which is more akin to an EBC trek than to climbing Everest, even if you climb Kala Patthar on the EBC trek. Even then, Kilimanjaro is much more intense than hiking to EBC, and a lot more people proportionately get some sort of altitude sickness on Kilimanjaro due improper acclimatization.

Honestly, if you want to hike to EBC, I'd worry more about the flight into Lukla. Or edema from AMS.

(I've climbed a "trekking peak" [Lobuche East] in Nepal as well as Kilimanjaro.)

About the security content of iOS 9.3

wooster — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206166

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331265

Points: 52

# Comments: 18

New comment by wooster in "Skirret: a forgotten Tudor vegetable"

wooster — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:10:51 +0000

I've seen US-grown wasabi at some specialty stores in San Francisco.

It looks like there's actually a farm in Half Moon Bay producing it: http://www.foodgal.com/2014/04/californias-only-grower-of-re...

Kurt Vonnegut Once Lived in the Shadow of His Brother

wooster — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 07:16:22 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/geeks-guide-vonnegut-brothers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10874546

Points: 25

# Comments: 0

New comment by wooster in "Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team"

wooster — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:43:38 +0000

It looks like Yahoo Messenger for iOS was released on December 3: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-messenger-chat-share/i...

And apparently there's a native OS X client coming, as well: http://mashable.com/2015/12/03/yahoo-messenger-is-back/

Why Beijing’s Air Pollution Crisis Is Complicated (2014) [pdf]

wooster — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:19:34 +0000

Article URL: http://www.consiliencejournal.org/index.php/consilience/article/viewFile/360/204

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648509

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by wooster in "How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work"

wooster — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:19:40 +0000

A navigation controller presenting a tab bar controller presenting a navigation controller with a child controller presenting a tab bar controller… on an iPad. Or any set of permutations of those.

New comment by wooster in "How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work"

wooster — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:02:53 +0000

It's been awhile since I looked at this, but tab bar controllers (selectedViewController), navigation controllers (topViewController), and child controllers are probably going to cause your current method some difficulties.

New comment by wooster in "Ask HN: FBI showed up at my house this morning. What to do?"

wooster — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 06:07:10 +0000

Based on what you've said above, I would believe them. I have heard, second-hand, of another person getting a very similar warning. That person is taking it extremely seriously, and the FBI wouldn't have any credible ulterior motives in investigating them. (Sorry I have to be so vague.)