Hacker News: ycombinatrix

New comment by ycombinatrix in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:55:36 +0000

one step at a time

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Hyperlinks in terminal emulators"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:18:58 +0000

Not true. At the very least it can leak your IP address. There's a reason whatsapp & other messaging services have an internal proxy for generating web previews.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:39:13 +0000

especially when they don't depend on libc.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

ycombinatrix — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:06:41 +0000

I meant "just use dm-verity" as in "don't do full disk encryption"...

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

ycombinatrix — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:43:04 +0000

FYI your decryption key can be MITMed during this process by anyone with physical access to the system, which defeats the purpose of encrypting the disk in the first place.

Just use dm-verity for remote servers.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

ycombinatrix — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:45:34 +0000

How is it not a disguise? It means you can't block marketing emails without also blocking the legitimate support emails.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Show HN: Free Browser-Based Tools Client Side Only, No Uploads, No Tracking"

ycombinatrix — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:43:02 +0000

How does a DNS lookup work "client side only"?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?"

ycombinatrix — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:06:59 +0000

>Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community?

No, the same account is used. You get prompted to choose a nickname each time you join a server though.

>So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever

No, they're probably all run on the same compute. The "official" name for a discord server from the API documentation is actually a "discord guild" and it works pretty much like a subreddit.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:44:43 +0000

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New comment by ycombinatrix in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:36:08 +0000

I see, thanks. Have you considered moving to Bitwarden?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:25:19 +0000

I think GP was making a joke - since zionists claim any anti-zionist behavior is anti-semitic.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:18:44 +0000

>Important to note is that every time a KDBX file is updated, no matter how small the edit was, the entire file gets rewritten.

This seems like an implementation issue rather than a format/spec issue.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:15:46 +0000

This is most certainly not something that is covered on TV news. Seems on topic to me.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:24:01 +0000

If the website is not AI slop, presumably they would remove it from the list.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "RocksDB development finds a CPU bug"

ycombinatrix — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:51:24 +0000

AMD's security bulletin: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Harrier: A high-performance Rust hashmap using SIMD-accelerated cuckoo hashing"

ycombinatrix — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:33:35 +0000

Have you considered no_std support?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad"

ycombinatrix — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:14:11 +0000

Sorry, I didn't realize we weren't supposed to be having sex.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:07:39 +0000

Hmm, I don't quite follow. For usages like counters or version numbers, it seems like allowing negatives makes things more complicated rather than less.

Like, what if you're getting a u32 over the wire? I feel like using an i32 to represent that data makes it more error-prone. Numbers will unexpectedly appear to be negative?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

ycombinatrix — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:16:55 +0000

How come there's no unsigned numeric types in Bau?

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

ycombinatrix — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:54:44 +0000

global variables are public enemy number one