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Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel

https://ironclad-os.org/
257•vitalnodo•11h ago•58 comments

I Am Mark Zuckerberg

https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/
295•jb1991•4h ago•94 comments

Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/9/gpt-5-codex-mini/
70•simonw•6h ago•33 comments

Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-firs...
238•defrost•14h ago•163 comments

Defeating Kaslr by Doing Nothing at All

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/11/defeating-kaslr-by-doing-nothing-at-all.html
36•aa_is_op•4d ago•1 comments

Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language

https://markojs.com/
290•ulrischa•15h ago•138 comments

Runc breaks pods when CPU requests aren't multiples of 10

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/4982
27•dropbox_miner•5h ago•6 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails

https://telebugs.com
12•kyrylo•1w ago•3 comments

Forth – is it still relevant?

https://github.com/chochain/eforth
34•lioeters•5h ago•15 comments

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/study-identifies-weaknesses-in-how-ai-systems-are-evaluated/
352•pseudolus•20h ago•174 comments

Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon

https://open.space/
167•fortran77•6d ago•40 comments

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

https://tabloid.vercel.app/
215•sadeshmukh•7h ago•33 comments

How Airbus Took Off

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-airbus-took-off/
67•JumpCrisscross•9h ago•48 comments

Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects

http://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/
143•SchwKatze•5d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

https://github.com/Ido-Levi/Hephaestus
43•idolevi•6d ago•4 comments

Study finds memory decline surge in young people

https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/under-40s-declining-memory
77•drcwpl•5h ago•32 comments

Avería: The Average Font (2011)

http://iotic.com/averia/
168•JoshTriplett•14h ago•29 comments

How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-build-your-own-vpn-or-the-history-of-warp/
47•yla92•6d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Sparktype – a CMS and SSG that runs entirely in the browser

https://app.sparktype.org
11•mattkevan•4d ago•3 comments

Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/11/debugging-beagleboard-usb-boot-with-a-sniffer-fixing-om...
68•todsacerdoti•11h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create

https://vicinity.social/
35•clarencehoward•7h ago•24 comments

Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

https://docs.x.ai/docs/models
80•hereme888•6h ago•135 comments

Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995)

https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~slonnegr/plf/Book/
31•nill0•7h ago•18 comments

IRIX Introduction

http://www.sgistuff.net/software/irixintro/index.html
31•naves•8h ago•13 comments

Show HN: PingStalker – A a macOS tool for network engineers

https://www.pingstalker.com/?hn
33•n1sni•4d ago•5 comments

Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/science/blue-origin-new-glenn-launch.html
4•fleahunter•17m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/
135•jtbayly•17h ago•30 comments

Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance

https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi
488•yehiaabdelm•1d ago•199 comments

WriterdeckOS

https://writerdeckos.com
177•surprisetalk•15h ago•102 comments

Why is Zig so cool?

https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.html
515•vitalnodo•1d ago•462 comments
Open in hackernews

I Am Mark Zuckerberg

https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/
292•jb1991•4h ago

Comments

koolala•1h ago
it is pretty funny
lukan•1h ago
Mostly

"I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"

Fire-Dragon-DoL•1h ago
He should be glad to be a lawyer, otherwise he might have spent so much money dealing with the name lol
chao-•1h ago
The best bit:

>Like I said, I don't wish Mark E. Zuckerberg any ill will at all. I hope the best for him, but let me tell you this: I will rule the search for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy". And if he does fall upon difficult financial times, and happens to be in Indiana, I will gladly handle his case in honor of our eponymy.

According to the Algorithm Lords of my particular filter bubble, he does indeed rule the search results for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy".

geoffbp•1h ago
I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
XenophileJKO•1h ago
The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle.

That would be right thing to do.

burnt-resistor•1h ago
Answer the question: What would an asshole do? They would buy up their neighbors' houses to make an unapproved mega compound, buy up ancestral Hawaiian land to block communal land access, and do unlicensed shit without permits making their remaining neighbors miserable. So what is right by virtue is unlikely to happen because almost all billionaires are legitimized criminal aristocrats subject to a different set of rules than average or poor people who are killed in the street for selling loose cigarettes like Eric Garner.
drstewart•24m ago
Okay
lpln3452•55m ago
No. The individuals genuinely at fault here are

1) those who inflict harm on others, considering that being wealthy or disliked does not justify actions such as death threats

2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name.

Any discussion of compensation should be directed at them.

makeitdouble•42m ago
> 2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name.

In this case that includes the other Zuck's company. He should at least do something about that.

Freak_NL•36m ago
He should at the very least ensure that there was some kind of liaison person at Meta for these not quite as rich (and certainly less obnoxious) Mark Zuckerbergs to reach in case of trouble with his service. This lawyer Mark should just have his account flagged with a huge 'Vetted, this guy is called that; leave it.' notice for any Meta algorithm or employee looking into it.
eknkc•1h ago
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that.

At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a good idea though. Would definitely continue if my “fans” were middle aged men.

rzzzt•1h ago
Michael (A.) Jackson is the inventor of representing programs in this diagram format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
mjd•1h ago
It used to be that whenever I told people about his work, they'd ask if that was the beer guy.
nickserv•23m ago
Michael Jackson is a fairly common name though, I went to school with one. Also with a George Washington, he had a harder time...
mat0•1h ago
Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM
debtta•1h ago
I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.
Propelloni•12m ago
> Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle.

Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!

lifthrasiir•1h ago
Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
rzzzt•1h ago
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
lifthrasiir•1h ago
Yeah, but in this case MikeRoweSoft.com redirects to microsoft.com after the settlement. Uzi Nissan was able to keep his domain to this day, even after his death in 2020.
swiftcoder•1h ago
Man, litigating versus a 12 year old boy has got to be the easiest job in the business - "Will you settle for an Xbox and a bundle of games?"
dataflow•1h ago
12th grade, not 12 years old.
austinjp•16m ago
Huh, having checked the wikipedia link (the kid was 17 not 12), that's exactly what happened!
cyberax•1h ago
A more hilarious example: https://korrespondent.net/strange/522473-belorus-soobshchivs... ( translated: https://korrespondent-net.translate.goog/strange/522473-belo... ).
makeitdouble•1h ago
On the "fake name" thing:

I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.

whatsupdog•1h ago
Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
f4c39012•1h ago
Tim Apple is an awesome mnemonic
makeitdouble•59m ago
It was kinda funny from across the pond, the first time around. Putin horse riding topless was also a funny meme.

Looking back at that period is depressing af.

rzzzt•1h ago
Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.
makeitdouble•1h ago
It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys.

To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.

jowea•1h ago
This is why we should replace names with uuids.
joshu•1h ago
that is silly. Obviously it should be the hash of someone’s genetic code plus the hash of the mind state vector at last checkpoint (to account for twins and clones)
drdaeman•1h ago
Right after we upload minds into machines.
chistev•1h ago
See, someone told me few days ago that sarcasm doesn't work via text. Lol
nrhrjrjrjtntbt•1h ago
Even better: social security numbers
defraudbah•1h ago
lol, if it's downvoted that's how you know americans did it, because people from other countries have no idea why SS number is important or what it is
yreg•1h ago
Oh, we know what it is and we also know that it is terrible for identification.

Just hand out IDs with an actual unique id number with a check digit to _all_ citizens.

cinntaile•24m ago
A social security number is unique. I do agree it's better to use a different unique number.
Fnoord•22m ago
Why, we got something similar in other countries. Here in NL it is called BSN; Burger Service Number (burger means civilian).

I believe the civilian should be able to create identities based on their private key (which only the government knows) and these should have different details. Like for example, a nickname, a realname, a telephone number, and address, or multiple of these. But then, also the civilian should be able to revoke the licenses. Or, rather: they should be valid for a short amount of time.

swarnie•1h ago
A quick tattoo on the arm and your set for life.
actionfromafar•1h ago
And forehead. Maybe four letters, on a scarlet base.
ed_mercer•1h ago
"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"
debtta•1h ago
I just go by Ad Bad. Yeah I know about the other guy. E7 123 and the other college friends call me Ad Bad 3 and him Ad 88
chabska•1h ago
That's impractical. Someone made a base8192 Hangul UUID conversion, only ten characters long.
GCUMstlyHarmls•41m ago
Well obviously in your personal circles you'd still use nicknames.

99ad and e128 in this case.

keyle•1h ago
okay, mr... nullptr
agnishom•1h ago
At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable
prashantsengar•53m ago
Correct horse battery staple
cheschire•13m ago
“That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
AmbroseBierce•1h ago
Sorry but I am voting for the opposite solution, meaning:

    with Session( engine ) as session:
        youngest_ids_subq = (
            select( func.max( People.id ).label( "max_id" ) )
            .group_by( People.name )
            .subquery()
        )

        purge_stmt = (
            delete( People ) 
            .where( People.id.not_in( select( youngest_ids_subq.c.max_id ) ) )
        )

        session.execute( purge_stmt )
        session.commit()

    unique_idx = Index( "uq_people_name", People.name, unique=True )
    unique_idx.create(bind=engine)
ricardo81•1h ago
An IPv6 would also. Then this chap could have his website hosted on it.
marginalia_nu•48m ago
I propose we use UUIDv4 to interfere with any attempts to build demographic databases.
dsego•20m ago
We do have personal numbers used for identification purposees, in my country we have the OIB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number...

which superseded the JMBG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number

nvarsj•14m ago
What is more likely to happen is a global namespace of unique names. Famous and powerful people get to pick first, because they are more important. Names can be inherited and become signs of your class and wealth.

You get to be Bob192382, because you got in early and only had to add 6 numeric digits. In the year 2100, we're at 15 digits.

avestura•1h ago
Some names are problematic, like this one. Some others are lucky [1] (I know it's a joke)

[1] https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video...

ivolimmen•1h ago
Even with people that are not famous it can be difficult. My wife knows three people with the same name. So when I ask with whom are you going out she needs to add the city to make me understand.
mjd•1h ago
There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber.

I'm not sure which would be worse.

defraudbah•1h ago
haha, you are in trouble, i am calling justin bieber!
AmbroseBierce•1h ago
The data is pretty clear, Justin Bieber, specially in February 2011 (but improving since) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
pinkmuffinere•1h ago
Having the same name as a famous person seems like a decent marketing benefit. And funnily enough, that’s achievable with some paperwork in many areas of the world! I wonder how/if this interacts with trademark (or other?) law. Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?
jopsen•1h ago
Sometimes your life would be easier if you just changed your name.
ncr100•1h ago
It's unjust.
Freak_NL•32m ago
Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust.

I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but at least I could put up a website there explaining my new name and that I am not the now world famous terrorist who shot up a kindergarden/fondled the pope/ate a baby.

jbreckmckye•41m ago
"Why should I? He's the one who sucks"
hunterpayne•1h ago
He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.
awestroke•1h ago
I wouldn't want to humiliate myself by letting The Zuck prevent me from using my own name
debtta•1h ago
Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.
kristopolous•1h ago
ctrl+u this ... there's some nice parts commented out
Freak_NL•29m ago
That lost bit of sample HTML below the body is cute too:

    <a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link Text</a>
It gives the site an artisanal feel.
burnt-resistor•1h ago
Michael Bolton: https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo
llamasushi•1h ago
Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =)

He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.

piker•1h ago
Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc.

Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."

unyttigfjelltol•1h ago
The website security model breaks down when people constantly try to enter your password.

The currently model assumes good behavior by most people most of the time in order for basic web services to function. Seems like an obvious vulnerability to malicious activity.

makeitdouble•47m ago
Yes. Outside of the sheer security, people telling rich people they're fake will just warrant a cute condescending laugh and they go on with their life, while the guy here is basically denied his identity.
mjd•1h ago
Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies.

“Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.”

It's preserved here:

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...

Fnoord•33m ago
> It's preserved here: > https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...

Which is preserved here [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250919063134/https://www.nokia...

tigerlily•30m ago
This made me feel the world is huge and I know nothing about the lived lives of others.
SXX•1h ago
Easy living. Go try to register company, open a bank and then send few payments if your name is "Vladimir Putin".
throwaway290•1h ago
any sanctioned individual. Some of their names are super common. Sorry Ivan Ivanov, you are on the list, no bank account for you. based by a true story.

(meanwhile the sanctioned Ivan is chilling on his yacht with 3 passports and 5 golden visas)

steve_taylor•1h ago
I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are that stupid.
fastasucan•1h ago
I worked with a guy that shares the name with the Norwegian mass murderer who targeted children at a youth camp. I think had some pretty though years, but never changed his name.
ricardo81•1h ago
It's good that he has his own website! I can relate (for non famous reasons) about the Facebook issues. I can't even sign up any more, using my real name anyway.

It can be a pain as so many local organisations use Facebook as a free way to share information. Unfortunately if you're not logged in pages can be rate limited, get spammed with modals to sign up, can't scroll very far into any feed and probably in his case a nuisance as a platform for his business.

ra•1h ago
poor bastard he cops all the flack
olirex99•58m ago
This website looks a lot like the one of Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.
shevy-java•52m ago
Mark Zuckerberg may soon sue Mark Zuckerberg about name issues.

I most assuredly would not want to be Mark Zuckerberg. That name is not inspiring to most people. (Also, by the way, because Zuckerberg is perfectly fine german: Zucker = Sugar, Berg = Mountain, so a mountain of sugar. That's not good for your health either, in particular your teeth.)

precommunicator•26m ago
already did https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko
nickserv•25m ago
The Facebook founder's father was a dentist, which is pretty funny given the name.
firtoz•44m ago
How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts?

If I wanna check the internet for someone, I find it impossible because for a lot of names there's at least thousands of people with the same exact full name. It must give both a feeling of safety but also frustration if you may want to stand out.

nurettin•37m ago
India is an interesting subject with so many Kumars and Prasads. They probably don't try to stand out with their name brand.
rwmj•25m ago
In Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)#Clans
Gigachad•19m ago
From what I can tell, official documents rely on ID numbers, and for the social side, people can just come up with informal more unique names. But I'm not an expert.
croisillon•27m ago
i went to his professional website https://zucklaw.com/ and ironically the accessibility features there are largely inaccessible
2dvisio•26m ago
In the south of Italy where families were very close to each others, children abundant, and passing the name of grandparents to first and second borns was expected people ended up with tons of namesakes. I have 6 people in my direct family who all share same name and last name.