<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: xxs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:09:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xxs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> is there any knock-your-socks-off dish<p>you need an example of what you consider such a dish.<p>Rabbits are pretty decent, as a kid we used to have quite a few of them at the village (along with all other kind of animals, incl. lambs, pigs, and goats). Either way it's rather easy to tell the meat apart and most meat(s) can be prepared to be  delicious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149852</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "Fable Took My Job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is that even possible? It's a great movie (ah well watched in the period), done by people who were outcast to work on it - similar to the folks sent to the terrace in "Silicon Valley"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:14:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054135</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least in the EU an account knowing filing tax evasion reports would lose their license and can be criminally charged.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:52:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990032</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know the state law there but it's not uncommon for an account to be liable (and need to notify authorities in cases of tax evasion)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:51:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990011</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> stuff to German users, are you doing business in Germany<p>Yes, and the VAT must be paid. You'd need to have some EU member state registration to do so (and still pay the correct VAT-rate, it's different per country). If it's business-to-business it'd be somewhat different.<p>>but still ship there<p>The local folks will have to customs-clear it themselves, pay the import tax AND the VAT. It's doable but very consumer unfriendly and likely won't be doing much business at all.<p>With the regards to topic - the tax is still very much paid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:17:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989796</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Under normal conditions the code gets jitted after some use... and the VM is free to deoptimize it when it reaches its max allowed generated cache.<p>The only code in danger is the one from libraries (e.g. zlib)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965831</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For JIT languages most of the code is dynamically generated, not available to be loaded back from the disk. Morealso, the allocations do happen at large chucks where the oom_killer also happens, so it's significantly less of an issue.</p>
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<p>ref counting is expensive in  multi-threaded applications. Overall it would have worse performance. When it comes to predictability: deallocating a linked list (for instance) would have to deallocate all of the elements. Dealing with reference cycles is also not simple, either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:32:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961355</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For GC enabled languages swap is universally bad. Some gc-pauses are indistinguishable from a system crash. It's a side effect on not having tightly specified memory limits.<p>I'd rather have applications be oom_killed than having them swap out, the former  is rather obvious and demands action.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961335</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>to en-US would see the American site even if they live somewhere else.<p>Instead we have google that would serve the pages based off the local ip (and switch any time possible) which is a "horrific" experience travelling through Europe. You get a different language every day. Totally ignoring the accept-language header.<p>It's even funnier as the roaming would result in having the host mobile network IP regardless where a person resides - still ignoring the lang header, of course.</p>
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<p>...oddly enough:<p><pre><code>  - it notifies if your kids (or spouse) have left the door open.
  - you can use as a tool to check if the power company (or the road maintenance one!) has managed to reconnect the power back (or cut it, as in literally)

  - Other than that not so much.</code></pre></p>
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<p>It's just this good.<p>On a more realistic note: few years back, I've added zstd compression to our log subsystem (hand written direct buffers, native code, in-process, java). For the same CPU utilization if provides twice dense compression compared to regular [-6] gzip (the topic in the title). Zstd is =much= faster on decompression as well, and it this case - unparalleledly better as it uses twice less disk.<p>zstd is 'silicon valley' (the tv show) - life imitates fiction, except entirely open source</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798872</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "Can gzip be a language model?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Windows users should use 7-Zip<p>Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store.<p>> Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives<p>winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0]<p>In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=175&cHash=aca38142108c76995eba6c674bfd0e14" rel="nofollow">https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5...</a></p>
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<p>Not sure this is what I meant. Password is still stored, along will all the keypass stuff. If you have the option to login with the keypass... or the password - possibly sending you a link (or code) to the email, in case the device/browser has not been seen, yet.</p>
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<p>What prevents passkey being used alongside password (+ email 2fa)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:28:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754116</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slavery is a weird one. It has been there for longer than any written history exists. In ancient times (Greece, Rome), slaves didn't have rights at all. A horrific injustice but it'd be not be a theft. Then you get the serfdom in the middle ages. Up to recent times humans have been brutally exploited.<p>The copy part was a recognized right, then taken away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:22:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752762</link><dc:creator>xxs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xxs in "Jemalloc 5.4.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>...the vast majority of software was written in garbage collected language<p>and even then recently it costed (us) quite a few months to blame JVM and later the default glibc memory allocator for running out native (not java heap memory) - had to exclude all possible native libs (zlib, zstd via jna), direct buffers, sockets, thread stacks and so on. Changing the malloc to jemalloc solved the issue, even though initially it was done for its debugging capabilities.<p>It's just a great memory allocator.</p>
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<p>I sounded all legit until the comma after "solutioned". I suspect that might be a fake.</p>
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<p>All of the examples read like: "The dude abides", except in a grotesque/parody way.</p>
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<p>2k cal would be around 250ml of oil. or 350grams of peanuts. So doing with bread, meat, and other stuff alike requires over 600g of food, an excellent value to energy.</p>
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