paddor
Re:Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at bette...
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:40AM (#48932716)
Zstd already follows the pareto line very closely and also decompresses pretty fast. In case you're looking for a memory-safe version in Rust that avoids the FFI penalty in hot loops, optimized to hell and back, this here is the new kid on the block: https://github.com/paddor/zrip
Re:Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappe...
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:01AM (#47779085)
I agree on the memory usage of electron apps though. Been using Slack for 10 years now and it has never been slower. A freshly started Slack app on my macOS takes up nearly 1GB. It's nuts imho.
Re:US national level OS-level age verification bill
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:50AM (#47778953)
According to a recent CRYPTO-GRAM issue from Schneier, it's in Meta's interest to push these regulations as their product isn't an OS. Their competition (Apple/MS/Google) are OSs though.
Re:Another way to botch the security analysis of Kyber-512
on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:08AM (#38432371)
I applaud DJB for his continued efforts.
Re:Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours
on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @06:04PM (#19686872)
Can I ask why ZIP? Isn’t it quite heavy on CPU at a not-that-good compression rate? I’m thinking of LZ4 or Zstandard instead.