Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years | Hacker News
That's a good article. He's right about many things.I've been writing a metaverse client in Rust for several years now. Works with Second Life and Open Simulator servers. Here's some video.[1] It's about 45,000 lines of safe Rust. Notes: * There are very few people doing serious 3D game work in Rust. There's Veloren, and my stuff, and maybe a few others. No big, popular titles. I'd expected some A
Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise | Hacker News
Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it's "great new features". We even worked with him to fix the valgrind issue (which it turns out now was caused by the backdoor he had added). We had to race last night to fix the problem after an inadvertent break of the embargo.He has been
TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using' | Hacker News
I feel like the toy examples in the article might only make sense to people who already know why they want this feature. The examples don't make it at all obvious to me why I would want this feature. The new version in the examples have more code, more indirection, and more magic (in the sense that it relies directly on a specific property of the runtime). Could anyone here help me understand a mo
Rust has been forked to the Crab Language | Hacker News
Meh, if they forked they should have called it "iron oxide" or "FeO" or something. Lost opportunity... This fork promises "All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy!" Compelling, until you realise that all the commits are auto-merges of rust-lang/rust's main branch. Which means the same teams doing the same work, under a different name.Rust is experiencing growing pa
Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about? | Hacker News
I'm very interested in what types of interesting data structures are out there HN. Totally your preference.I'll start: bloom filters. Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or POSSIBLY in a list - with adjustable probability that influences storage of the values.) Good use-case: routing. Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algor
To folks wondering what the issue is about, I'll give a short summary that I mys... | Hacker News
To folks wondering what the issue is about, I'll give a short summary that I myself needed.Typically a logging library has one job to do: swallow the string as if it's some black box and spit it elsewhere as per provided configurations. Log4j though, doesn't treat strings as black boxes. It inspects its contents and checks if it contains any "variables" that need to be resolved before spitting out
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? | Hacker News
Say you wanted to host a personal page that can outlive you and be seen by the children of your grandchildren. Other than asking your progeny to keep paying the hosting bills, is there another way? The world wide web is only 28 years old.We've had computers for 76 years at this point. We're discussing this topic in modern English, but if you look back 500 years William Shakespeare wouldn't be born
Ask HN: How to self-study physics? | Hacker News
Hey HN,I'm a CS graduate student, and I do a lot of Deep Learning Research. I've always wanted to get a strong foundation in Physics, and while on lockdown because of COVID, I thought it would be a great opportunity. I've run across this incredible guide https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l... and I was also thinking about going through MIT Open Courseware following their b
Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base | Hacker News
I have just started working with one of the client who have existing nodeJS code which they build in last 3 years.Is there any guiding principle which is beneficial while working with existing code base? My #1 rule for existing codebases: Just because you wouldn't have done it the way they did doesn't mean they did it wrong. I think it's developer nature to look at a huge pile of code that someone
"For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclus... | Hacker News
"For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclusive, or at least 'special' access. Can you imagine if all of a sudden Google apps start performing better than anyone else's?"This is already happening. I very recently worked on the Edge team, and one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browser
I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command | Hacker News
I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type$cp file_from file_to and that $ln -s link_from link_to has a very similar effect to the cp command above. I haven't messed this up ever since. This phrasing confused me more. `$ ln -s link_from link_to` would imply the reverse behavior. How does a symlink point from the actual file to the thing-that-looks-lik
Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL? | Hacker News
I searched the web but most of the articles are written several years before. Many cons have been fixed. From many years of hosting both - MySQL seems easier at first but there are so, so many problems with its internal design that hide problems until its too late. PostgreSQL in my eyes is engineered in a much smarter way and has sensible defaults. PostgreSQL won't implement something unless it's
Nope, that would be me. | Hacker News
Sorry for the rough night Yorick. This could happen to all of us but of course it happens to the person that is working the hardest. <3 I'm going to add to your message box unnecessarily, but I want to say I love GitLab and it's a shining example of a transparent company. I still have ambitions to work there someday, and this event is hopefully a net gain in the end, in that everyone here and ther
Ask HN: What coding/programming podcasts are you listening to? | Hacker News
Wanted to know what are or if there are any coding related podcasts which people are subscribed to. The specific topics I am looking for are- Algorithms/Data Structures - Javascript - Scala Software Engineering Radio [1]. In my opinion this is one of the best software engineering podcasts out there. I find the interview format really effective at really extracting programming wisdom from the exper
Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today | Hacker News
This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening). When you were envisioning today's computers in the 70s you seemed to have been focused mostly on the educational benefits but it turns out that these devices are even better for entertainment to the point were they are dangerously addic
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