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Re:Is my blue your blue? on Monday April 27, 2026 @07:16PM (#47928566)
If you want to explore it further, look up the philosophical aspects of the hard problem of consciousness. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

Re:Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to inter... on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:16PM (#46251028)
Not as bad as Costco. Their app and website are still stuck in 90s.
Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:29PM (#42344034)
Ublock origin is not able to filter out <dialog> elements without breaking scrolling and other buttons in most cases (depending on how the site is implemented). Is there a generic way to disable these without affecting the rest of the site?
Re:In a Git repository, where do your files live? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:19PM (#37515580)
It is fun to explore the Git internals! Some time back, I used it to learn Golang [1]. Two birds with one stone!

[1] https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit

Re:DoorDash Lays of 1250 Employees on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:15PM (#33806023)
Dubai has almost 90% of population as immigrants! TIL.
Re:Git’s database internals I: packed object store on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:40PM (#32641107)
Shameless plug: I gave a tech talk on this at my last company, and implemented some of these in Golang as a learning exercise [0]. While it is not mandatory to know the internals, but doing so helps a lot when you occasionally encounter a git-gotcha!

[0] https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit

Re:Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#32170026)
> fork() takes no arguments, and CreateProcess() takes about 48 billion arguments.

I chuckled!

Re:NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:13PM (#31533637)
Shameless plug: I created a Golang utility to scrub passwords from a deeply nested struct, before logging, at Nutanix some time back [0][1]. We also run an automated test to try out all operations with a known password, and then ensuring that it is not present in any of the log files.

[0] https://github.com/ssrathi/go-scrub [1] https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/04/22/golang-the-art-of-reflect...

Re:GitHub saved plaintext passwords of NPM users in log files, post mo... on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:12PM (#31533624)
Shameless plug: I created a Golang utility to scrub passwords from a deeply nested struct at Nutanix some time back [0]. A post describing it in detail [1].

[0] https://github.com/ssrathi/go-scrub [1] https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/04/22/golang-the-art-of-reflect...

Show HN: Go-scrub: Scrubbing sensitive fields from a deeply nested Go struct

Posted by srathi on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:04PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/ssrathi/go-scrub

Go-scrub is a utility to mask a given set of field names from a deeply nested struct at any level. It is useful for logging structs which may have customer inputs (such as passwords, keys, etc.). It uses the "reflect" package to modify the struct values at runtime.Code: https://github.com/ssrathi/go-scrubBlog post with an explanation: https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/04/22/golang-the-art-of-reflect...

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Re:Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book? on Sunday February 27, 2022 @02:14PM (#30491514)
Quantum - by Manjit Kumar, is a very accessible book covering the history of quantum mechanics.
Re:New credit card rules in India: recurring card payments to be affected on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:50PM (#28673813)
Willow.tv is a major culprit here. There is no cancellation button on the website, and you are required to email a support person multiple times (back and forth with retention offers) for cancellation. They are in violation of CA law that prohibits this behavior.
Re:The Golden Age of Quantum Physics on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:58PM (#28416760)
Quantum by Manjit Kumar is my favorite. It is a novel like walkthrough of quantum development over the years.
Re:Google's New AI Photo Upscaling Tech Is Jaw-Dropping on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:41AM (#28376725)
CSI: NY was way ahead of its time! :-)
Re:Welcome to Nestflix on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:11PM (#28190417)
https://nestflix.fun/titanic-ii/

This one had me dying with laughter! I read the punchline in Richard Attenborough's voice.

Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:52PM (#27249741)
https://redditsearch.io may help a bit with these types of queries. Bummer that there is no native way to do so.

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