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paddoron Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

Zstd already follows the pareto line very closely and also decompresses pretty fast. In case you're looking for a memory-safe version in Rust that avoids the FFI penalty in hot loops, optimized to hell and back, this here is the new kid on the block: https://github.com/paddor/zrip

paddoron Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared

I agree on the memory usage of electron apps though. Been using Slack for 10 years now and it has never been slower. A freshly started Slack app on my macOS takes up nearly 1GB. It's nuts imho.

paddoron US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed

According to a recent CRYPTO-GRAM issue from Schneier, it's in Meta's interest to push these regulations as their product isn't an OS. Their competition (Apple/MS/Google) are OSs though.

paddoron Another way to botch the security analysis of Kyber-512

I applaud DJB for his continued efforts.

paddoron Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours

Can I ask why ZIP? Isn’t it quite heavy on CPU at a not-that-good compression rate? I’m thinking of LZ4 or Zstandard instead.