<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: xrstf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xrstf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:53:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xrstf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "The Goals of XML at 25: and the one change that XML now needs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it incredibly hard to understand anything in TOML that is more than simple, unnested key-value pairs. If you get into arrays, maps etc. then TOML is a nightmare to read.<p>The "O" in TOML is not deserved in my opinion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:47:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884703</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Cryptocurrency buzz drives record investment scam losses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We had those scams from beginning<p>I tend to disagree a bit. In the early days, most scams at least pretended to have some non-pump-and-dump usecase. Like Dentacoin or Filecoin. You could at least pretend to "buy filecoin today so you can store PB's worth of data in a year" or "buying Dentacoin now because in a year you need some dental work done".<p>Nowadays all new tokens/coins have 0 usecases attached and only exist to be pancake swapped and pumped and separating other people from their money. It's all about lending, yielding, farming, interest rates, staking, ...</p>
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<p>Don't forget Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), which tries to replace the Internet but is also based on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 10:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640823</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, your first comment made it sound to me like the country shuts down (grocery stores, home improvement stores, furnite stores, banks, offices, government agencies, taxis, ...) ;-)<p>I found one Austrian source ( <a href="https://www.vol.at/wo-die-produktion-urlaub-macht/3314076" rel="nofollow">https://www.vol.at/wo-die-produktion-urlaub-macht/3314076</a> ) mentioning the issue and I can see how it would make sense for some industries to need some maintenance time each year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27594738</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27594738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27594738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Citation needed. Germans do not quit working for 2 weeks in the summer. Where did you get that from? What German companies shut down for 2 weeks in the summer of 2019?</p>
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<p>Can you give some examples? I live in Europe and have never experienced that in my country suddenly everything stops for 2 weeks in the middle of the summer.</p>
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<p>EU-friendly archive: <a href="https://archive.is/AL9cX" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/AL9cX</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 11:52:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569180</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mean CGI[1]?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Common_Gateway_Interface" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Common_Gateway_Interface</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432126</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good thing there are many spam knock-off sites re-using their content, so we don't need to start an archiving campaign like with Geocities.</p>
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<p>Is it coincidence that comments are turned off on _all_ videos on YouTube[1] related to the redesigns?<p>What options do I as a "normie" have to give feedback? Is there really only one way, to use the ancient Bugzilla and hopefully finding a ticket somewhere?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/firefox/videos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/firefox/videos</a></p>
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<p>A lot of this seems to hinge on "go get" being the best way to get Go source code. Most discussions I've read so far come down to "well, this might be cool, but it would break go get, so we cannot ever do it".<p>I for one could live without go get alltogether. In 99% of cases it boils down to a simple git clone anyway, which could (should?) be done by the package manager anyway.<p>Maybe it's time to re-evaluate the existence of go get, now that we're seeing that "just clone master and hope nothing breaks" has obviously not worked for everyone outside of Google? Maybe bundling Go (the compiler and linker) with tools for fetching source code wasn't such a good idea after all?<p>Just my 2 cents...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425079</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cert is signed by GeoTrust and works perfectly fine on my Chrome on Windows 10.<p>[Edit: Ah, the chain is incomplete, see <a href="https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.equifaxsecurity2017.com&s=104.20.65.37" rel="nofollow">https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.equifaxse...</a>]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209189</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Caddy 0.10 Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are using Caddy as a simple reverse proxy in Docker environments. The configuration is a bit simpler than nginx and we love the tiny Docker images we can create (not sure how large an nginx-full installation is).<p>That being said, we did run into a few issues that forced us to go back to older Caddy versions, like broken websocket support or the timeout issue in 0.9.5. Also, sometimes the documentation is a bit lacking and unclear. DNS resolution seems to be flaky sometimes (we're using alpine-based containers and sometimes Caddy just won't resolve names of other containers, even though a curl inside the container can resolve the names just fine).<p>So if you've got a working nginx setup, I'd say stick with it. For new projects it is worth to check out Caddy. The issues we ran into occured early in our development process, they didn't just suddenly happen in production, so once you've tested everything, Caddy just works.</p>
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<p>I have been running my own instance of Tiny Tiny RSS (with ~30 feeds) for years and couldn't be happier. Migrated from Feedly because of their usability and annoying upgrade reminders.</p>
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<p>> But a lot of things about php sucked, at least 10 years ago when I stopped needing to write it.<p>Sadly you missed out on the major advances that happened in the PHP ecosystem, like properly namespaced code, massive performance gains since PHP 5.3, Composer, modern frameworks, the PSR initiative (even though one might not agree with all their "standards") and so much more.
So I would not judge PHP's evolution by that one proposal ;) A lot more were accepted, implemented and released, from type annotations to the spacechip operator. Personally I'm thankful that nobody further pursued the idea of tainted strings for PHP.</p>
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<p>Quick benchmark on a 194MiB SQL dump:<p><pre><code>    gzip -9: 27.574s, 48MiB output
    zstd -9: 14.182s, 41MiB output
</code></pre>
Thanks, I'll gladly use zstd as a drop-in replacement for my daily backups. :)</p>
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<p>Are your questions maybe answered in part IV of the series, the FAQ[1]?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2015/2/9/the-myth-of-ram-part-iv" rel="nofollow">http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2015/2/9/the-myth-of-ram-pa...</a></p>
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<p>Because using certain keys could break your JavaScript (and JSON was designed to be a subset), like<p><pre><code>    { delete: "me" }
</code></pre>
If you don't want to keep a list of known keywords around, just insisting on quotes is the easier way.<p>[EDIT: See also this YouTube video, where Douglas Crockford explains it himself: <a href="https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=5m" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=5m</a>]</p>
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<p>Is your client possibly the same person who was interviewed for Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" on the "War on Drugs" episode[1]?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQS910WVlKc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQS910WVlKc</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281587</link><dc:creator>xrstf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xrstf in "Facebook will start showing ads to users even if they’re using an ad blocker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Discussion about this seems to happen in this submission: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254680" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254680</a></p>
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