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Stories by luu

The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available (discuss.systems)
HN 957 pts 666 comments by luu Mar 17, 2025 thread
Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
HN 471 pts 175 comments by luu May 26, 2025 thread
Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)
HN 404 pts 549 comments by luu Feb 25, 2025 thread
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 384 pts 142 comments by luu Mar 28, 2025 thread
FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security (ftc.gov)
HN 315 pts 167 comments by luu Jan 28, 2025 Security / Privacy thread
Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year (dillonshook.com)
HN 292 pts 318 comments by luu Jan 7, 2025 thread
Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1 (serd.es)
HN 275 pts 36 comments by luu May 9, 2025 Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 237 pts 126 comments by luu Feb 27, 2025 Programming (General) thread
LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (social.kernel.org)
HN 200 pts 128 comments by luu Jan 16, 2026 thread
China is the manufacturing superpower (cepr.org)
HN 199 pts 298 comments by luu Jan 4, 2025 thread
Microsoft Download Center Archive (legacyupdate.net)
HN 193 pts 35 comments by luu Dec 5, 2025 thread
We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes (pavpanchekha.com)
HN 188 pts 346 comments by luu Aug 6, 2025 thread
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
HN 178 pts 234 comments by luu Feb 16, 2026 Web Development thread
Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (osec.io)
HN 170 pts 86 comments by luu Aug 12, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (usenix.org)
HN 161 pts 134 comments by luu May 9, 2025 Apple / macOS / iOS thread
We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality (lore.kernel.org)
HN 160 pts 168 comments by luu Feb 14, 2025 thread
Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install (infosec.exchange)
HN 154 pts 58 comments by luu Nov 28, 2024 thread
Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017) (cadlag.org)
HN 153 pts 28 comments by luu Dec 1, 2024 thread
Large language models, small labor market effects [pdf] (bfi.uchicago.edu)
HN 144 pts 34 comments by luu Apr 25, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 143 pts 48 comments by luu Apr 15, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSDesign / UX / Visualization thread
The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 140 pts 100 comments by luu Mar 23, 2025 thread
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (blog.exe.dev)
HN 131 pts 91 comments by luu Feb 13, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation (ctvnews.ca)
HN 130 pts 89 comments by luu Feb 6, 2025 thread
Writing into Uninitialized Buffers in Rust (blog.sunfishcode.online)
HN 129 pts 119 comments by luu May 19, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
HN 124 pts 290 comments by luu Mar 8, 2025 thread
Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
HN 119 pts 110 comments by luu Nov 26, 2024 thread
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma (cfr.org)
HN 112 pts 73 comments by luu Aug 15, 2025 thread
Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007) (web.mit.edu)
HN 106 pts 57 comments by luu Jan 22, 2025 thread
Mipmap selection in too much detail (pema.dev)
HN 99 pts 25 comments by luu May 11, 2025 thread
Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf] (web.ist.utl.pt)
HN 97 pts 78 comments by luu Apr 22, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread