Hacker News: zorpner

New comment by zorpner in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

zorpner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:06:24 +0000

Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.

New comment by zorpner in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

zorpner — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:26:34 +0000

It provides no benefit, so even the smallest amount of added complexity or additional engineering effort required isn't worthwhile.

New comment by zorpner in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

zorpner — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:09:09 +0000

Even given the other objections to your argument, there are an extraordinary number of examples of now-very-appreciated artists, writers, etc whose work was not valued at the time they were creating it.

New comment by zorpner in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

zorpner — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:28:18 +0000

Here's a good summary of some recent stuff: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

New comment by zorpner in "More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage"

zorpner — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:00:08 +0000

Corey Quinn wrote an interesting article addressing that question: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_bra...

Some good information in the comments as well.

Ruby Central's "security measures" leave front door wide open

zorpner — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://joel.drapper.me/p/ruby-central-security-measures/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428812

Points: 28

# Comments: 0

New comment by zorpner in "I'm leaving Ruby Central"

zorpner — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:07:32 +0000

DHH joined their board in 2024 [0], and is using this opportunity to purge people he disagrees with politically from the Ruby ecosystem. It really is as simple as that.

0: https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board

New comment by zorpner in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

zorpner — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:11:24 +0000

Specifically, it was in a meeting called by Jason Fried to address people who were concerned about the ongoing existence of an internal list of "funny customer names" (which by all accounts was extremely racist), in which Ryan Singer (who had reportedly previously posted a fair bit of politically right-wing content on internal forums -- those were all deleted when the "no politics at work" policy was rolled out) repeatedly asserted that white supremacy/privilege did not exist (he then resigned).

In the aftermath, DHH dug through old chat logs to find a time in the past when one of the people complaining about the list participated in a discussion about same without complaint, and posted it in a way that was visible to everyone saying that their prior participation meant that their current complaint was invalid.

Then they rolled out the no-politics-at-work policy in this post dated April 26 2021 -- I would encourage anyone interested in the specifics to read through the various versions and edits of this post made in the week following, all without noting that it was being actively changed: https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5

New comment by zorpner in "AGI is not multimodal"

zorpner — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:22:45 +0000

Why would we think that intelligence would increase in response to universality, rather than in response to resource constraints?

New comment by zorpner in "Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure"

zorpner — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:44:18 +0000

I wonder if those would be useful in identifying the potential contents of specific Marion Stokes tapes (my understanding is that they're sorted, but are only labeled with channel and date/time and are being archived slowly): https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5393

Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

zorpner — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Lina-Steps-Down-Linux-GPU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393

Points: 53

# Comments: 45

New comment by zorpner in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

zorpner — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:20:56 +0000

Not of companies. Of the people who choose to work for them (or, rather, choose not to stop working for them after they build these "features").

New comment by zorpner in "Rescue Party (1946)"

zorpner — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:58:04 +0000

In the spirit of HN, I guess I'll ask -- what did you think the point of the story was?

New comment by zorpner in "Repair and Remain (2022)"

zorpner — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:23:47 +0000

Long story short, the sword was forged during the First Age by the famed Dwarven-smith Telchar of Nogrod -- later wielded by Elendil and shattered in the Battle of Dagorlad. Once this kid's dad gets around to reforging it, it will be known as Andúril.

New comment by zorpner in "Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]"

zorpner — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:01:27 +0000

These jobs do not attract the best software engineers.

New comment by zorpner in "Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his possible return"

zorpner — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:05:28 +0000

Copy at IA: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121210833/https://gist.gith...

Digest mirror: https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0...

New comment by zorpner in "The IKEA Effect – Why managers fall in love with their own ideas"

zorpner — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 03:47:13 +0000

Offhand, an understanding of the assembly and internal mechanics of a product from having built it would make me feel like I would be be more likely to be able to fix it if required.

New comment by zorpner in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

zorpner — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:11:27 +0000

So that's a no, you have no examples. Got it.

New comment by zorpner in "Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers"

zorpner — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 22:13:55 +0000

jgc knew about it in mid-2018, at least, since I was still involved with P0 at that point and spoke with him about it. I guess he forgot.

New comment by zorpner in "Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers"

zorpner — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 22:07:36 +0000

The devil has enough advocates. Don't feel the need to throw your hat into the ring.