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Re:Patrick Stewart has died
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:22PM (#50295304)
Amazing he managed to see the documentary so long before it was filmed
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:46PM (#50135450)
About that: https://dotplan.space/about
Re:Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gra...
on Saturday August 09, 2025 @04:29PM (#44849900)
I have been meaning to do it for ages! I got as far as finding a paper on the topic and reading it and then forgetting all about it. Nice work.
Re:The HP Printer USB Sticker Trick Also Works for Thermaltake PSUs
on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:47AM (#37997168)
I think it's something along the lines of there being a model of HP printer which was advertised as being wifi-only, and apparently had no USB port, but if you removed a strategically-placed sticker you'd find this was a lie.
Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven...
on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:28PM (#37472482)
Something that I'm not seeing mentioned in these comments (I may just have missed it) is that you can precompute the hash of the static part of the string and then extend it with the numbers in a loop, saving some cycles. This is because the full hex representation of a SHA hash gives you the entire internal state of the algorithm. This can lead to security vulnerabilities:
Re:413. The Isle of Luing
on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:04PM (#36913973)
"Knock Nah Heard", I think?
Re:Review of James Cogland’s Building Git
on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:55PM (#35646963)
Perhaps Crafting Interpreters?
Re:Review of James Cogland’s Building Git
on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:26PM (#35646599)
FWIW, the author's name is Coglan, not Cogland.
Re:Linux Preparing to Disable Drivers for Microsoft’s Rndis Protocol
on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:40PM (#34331912)
I was concerned that this might remove USB Ethernet support entirely, but I believe that the protocol prefered for this on Linux is called CDC-ECM:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65321405/linux-cdc-ecm-d...
This may not help if the objective is to connect to a Windows host, though.
Re:Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything?
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:57AM (#29682196)
I don’t believe any modern browser supports HPKP any more, due to how hard it was to set up and operate.
Re:Htmlq: like jq, but for html
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:12PM (#28446479)
Exactly this! I’ll fix it after work.
Re:Htmlq: like jq, but for html
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:06AM (#28445772)
Hah. Yeah. I had another account for a little while but then HN started to let me reset the password for this one quite recently, so here I am.
Re:Htmlq: like jq, but for html
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:53AM (#28444873)
I just wanted to be slightly more descriptive and less likely to collide with other tools.
Re:Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:18PM (#27654914)
It's not really a binding. It doesn't link to anything in systemd, it's just aware of the convention used by systemd to pass the file descriptors into the process. The actual code being executed from that repository is around 60 lines, I guess:
https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/blob/main/activation/li...
I just used that rather than writing it myself because it felt like it didn't add much to the story. Also the code was actually written on macOS, it still runs fine without systemd.
Edit: I'd be quite interested to see if passing file descriptors in this way would be a goal in, for example, the proposed Alpine service manager. A quick scan of the proposal didn't show me anything obvious, but I'll go and read it in more detail.