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"Described as a first of its kind, the mission could be a glimpse of what’s to come for amphibious operations."

Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!

https://www.openbsd.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_record

https://re-bol.com/short_rebol_examples.r for some examples of the language (from https://redprogramming.com/Home.html)

sometimes the wizards know best when to fear magic

See also the prequel at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040465

Whaddya know...

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus2.html

Don't be startled by this odd-looking name, it will make sense when you reach the end of the story.

This is the story of OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus systems. Because of its length, I have decided to split it in two parts.

OpenBSD/cats: the enabler

OpenBSD/zaurus (to be published 20260513)

...I will be visiting again in 5 days. Then, I will be searching eBay for a Zaurus...

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus.html

https://www.hpcalc.org/

Less immediately visible to someone working at the assembly language level instead of the machine code one is that relative addressing is much more common on the 6809, meaning that it’s significantly more viable to write position-independent code on it than any of the other chips we’ve looked at here. Only the 8086 comes close, and it achieves it by using its segment registers as a de facto relocation base.

I would love to learn more about this. Does more "position-independent code" mean the linker has much less to do [0], or is there an actual difference in the code base for similar tasks?

[0] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Overview.html

In terms of "safety" this leak is a drop in the bucket. The greater concern would be that election systems are involved. If election information is unintentionally readable, it is also therefore potentially alterable.

Definitely was not expecting this reference.

Agreed, how HolyC serves as an inspiration could be clarified. Was it an aspect of HolyC? The background/context of the author's life, meaning Terry Davis was inspirational? Impossible to tell. Other resources [0] [1] don't mention this aspect.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc...

[1] https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/blob/deluge/README.md

https://dyne.org/cjit/graphics.html#cjit-for-graphical-appli...

Be welcome to the exciting world of graphical C applications using SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer). SDL, originally developed by Sam Lantinga in 1998...

That's batteries included.

It's a similar subset to mruby...

This is what I've been wondering after only a cursory glance ("It...generates optimized C code" from the OP). Interesting that mruby itself got a major version update around the same time (in just the past few days) https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/master/doc/mruby4.0.md

instead of believing in magic of "free market"

It looks like magic because it works like magic. Surprisingly it is also possible to believe in the magic of "government intervention" though it looks less like magic and more like unintended consequences.

The farm equipment industry spent 20 years adding complexity and cost. Ursa Ag is wagering that a significant number of farmers never wanted any of it.

Nice tag line but not a complete picture. The "significant number of farmers" in terms of actual market spend driving the equipment industry is not mom-and-pop outfits but rather agri-industrial complexes with machines to match. What they want is (1) availability and (2) ROI. For (1), that is first and foremost subject to legal stipulations like EPA etc, then secondly subject to production availability. For (2), electronics are the name of the game if you are looking to turn a profit with farming because counting every seed, measuring every drop of chem, and tracking every inch of plotted ground leads to better ROI.

The air filter was basically a shisha-pipe that bubbled the incoming air through wire wool and engine oil.

What is a shisha-pipe?

Excel has this legacy (but extremely powerful) core with very few people left that knows all of it.

Would love to hear more about this. Especially history and comparison to Lotus etc.

Trace scheduling replaces block-by-block compaction of code with the compaction of long streams of code, possibly thousands of instructions long...

"Enormously Longinstruction Words" is very interesting, but for me the spotlight here is on "trace scheduling".

Interest per Second - General - The U.S. pays $31,688/second in debt interest — $1,901,285 every minute. Your share of that: $3893.33 [plugged in "normal" amount], gone before it bought anything.

...I thought I was already sufficiently terrified by the debt numbers...

Love it - great application of publicly-available data. Also ref https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420307 US govt provided public debt resources.

By the way, the 1040 instructions have a pie chart like this (ref https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf, page 122). Not that most people do taxes themselves, or have a reason to read to page 122 of instructions for a single form. But still it's there and perhaps a nice gesture by the IRS.

Breaking it out into pie charts etc like this can be really helpful. In my view the real kicker with taxes is the opaqueness. Kinda like a meal card versus paying for every meal, or like using a credit card versus paying with cash, it's hard for humans to really grasp what's going on unless they're involved.

Of course it would be impractical to pay taxes separately to every waiting hand in government bureaucracy. But on the other hand maybe the number one goal shouldn't be ease of use, either. Maybe a little friction when paying for public services could be a good thing for citizens who are interested in a healthy country - my opinion.

And I thought this was a reference to a Win95 problem https://www.slashgear.com/1414245/jennifer-aniston-matthew-p...

You could always write code to help doing those things direct from disk, but you know what you have just written if you do so? A database!

Yes, but that's my point. Why is this not a part of the standard library / typical package with very little friction with the rest of the code, instead of a separate program that the standard library / typical packages provide in an attempt to reduce the friction?

Or are you making the general point that databases already existed prior to the standard libraries etc, and this is just a case of interfacing with an existing technology instead of rebuilding from scratch?

Importantly, the primary metabolites also block adenosine receptors.

Biochemistry is rarely a one-and-done event it would seem.

and elsewhere on the page, ZPU (FPGA-based microprocessor) sounds a lot like "ZipCPU" FPGA-based microprocessor https://zipcpu.com/

how is "tranZPuter" not "transputer" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer)

previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303583

I’ve noticed a common misconception: spec driven development is a return to a waterfall style of software development. [It] isn’t about pulling designs up-front, it’s about pulling designs up. Making specifications explicit, versioned, living artifacts that the implementation of the software flows from, rather than static artifacts.

This seems like a straw man argument: agile wasn't without specs and waterfall wasn't without some flexibility. What is truly the difference?

The implementation is then derived from this specification, reflecting iterative changes in the specification, by AI alone or human developers working with AI. Increasingly, these tasks are done autonomously end-to-end by AI agents.

Given that he is heavily involved in Kiro (which touts "specs" as a guided flow within the tool [0]), this is starting to make sense. I read as "take some ideas from Agile and from Waterfall, but set up for purpose of AI assistance."

[0] https://kiro.dev/docs/specs/

They are using HackerOne, but not sure if VDP is part of the process.

Security reporting remains unchanged. We still accept and triage vulnerability reports through HackerOne. If you discover a security issue, please continue to report it responsibly.

Also at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629265

The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton. Its purpose is to provide: dense distributed launch/capture corridors large-scale routing geometry attachment points for high-temperature radiator fields buffering volume for material and coolant traffic alignment and vibration-control structure for the mature transport system...

Roger that