I don't get it. How is mistakenly giving a one-time login to a malicious actor worse than giving it a permanent login (aka your password) ?
Readit NewsJean-Papoulos commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
Jean-Papoulos commented on From XML to JSON to CBOR cborbook.com/introduction... · Posted by u/GarethX
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
Jean-Papoulos commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
I wonder which company is gonna be the first one to leak all of the ID and Selfies. After that, I'm expecting these laws to be lifted off.
If anything they will double down to "track cyber-bullying" or some other load of horsecrap.
Hyperoptimizing for the fast path today and ignoring that hardware and usage patterns change is the reason modern software is so slooow :)
A more robust strategy would be at least be to check if the rule was the same as the previous one (or a small hash table) so that the system is self-healing.
Ken’s solution is at least robust and by that property I would prefer it since it’s just as fast but doesn’t have any weird tail latencies where the requests out of your cache distribution are as fast as the ones in.
You were shown an example of exactly why this thinking is incorrect but you still insist...
Also, it's trivial to keep Ken's implementation as the slow path. If request patterns change, dig up the new fast path and put the old one in Ken's slow path code. Most of the performance will still come from the initial `if`.
Jean-Papoulos commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
Conversely, it's useful to get an immediate answer sometimes
6 months ago, "what temp is pork safe at?" was a few clicks, long SEO optimised blog post answers and usually all in F not C ... despite Google knowing location ... I used it as an example at the time of 'how hard can this be?'
First sentance of Google AI response right now: "Pork is safe to eat when cooked to an internal temperature of 145°F (63°C)"
Incredible, you are the problem. Didn't think I'd see such an idiotic answer on HN, please for the love of god do not use AI to know what is safe to eat.
Jean-Papoulos commented on Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given twitter.com/rameerez/stat... · Posted by u/eecc
I hope it won't take more than 10 years for the EU to actually force them to let us publish our own stuff without paying them first.
Jean-Papoulos commented on Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design github.com/Deathbyteacup/... · Posted by u/skipnup
I love how much unused spaces this adds, I really needed more blank pixels in my mailbox instead of distracting text.
Jean-Papoulos commented on Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly? · Posted by u/michelsedgh
Late 20s
If you install an app whose role it is to "use your phone in your stead with AI for free" you don't have the right to act worried about privacy.
Jean-Papoulos commented on The Grug Brained Developer (2022) grugbrain.dev/... · Posted by u/smartmic
I argue that complexity is good. Complicated things though, those are bad.
The world is complex, and we must deal with it. But as long as we organize our work and don't let it spiral into being complicated, we'll be fine.