Hacker News: 0x457

New comment by 0x457 in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

0x457 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:21:09 +0000

Depends on what do you mean about by web apis. Fetch API for example is not part of asm.js subset of JavaScript. You going to need a javascript shim on both cases. However, like the siblings comment says: overhead comes from conversion between big structures.

New comment by 0x457 in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

0x457 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:09:06 +0000

What's so sad about it? It was just a compilation target that made sense at one point in time. Its like being sad about i386-unknown-freebsd1 being dropped.

New comment by 0x457 in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

0x457 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:58 +0000

When I "lived" in Vietnam, they had more bars than coffeshop in the US, but they also had double amount of coffee shops. In Saigon I was never not in a short walking distance from a bar.

New comment by 0x457 in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

0x457 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:06:31 +0000

1) First generation made ESC button a touch button. Aside from ergonomics (or lack of them), at least for me, on a psychological level "abort" button needs to be something you can smash. Also, macOS already had the worst input handling under load, making it virtual button made it worse.

2) While "happy path" on macOS pretty much never requires you to use Fkeys, but my workflow does. Blindly using touch buttons is harder than real buttons.

3) I'm not huge media keys users, but I bet #2 applies here as well.

I liked the touchbar in every other sense. If it was just an addition to an existing keyboard, people wouldn't have hate it[];

[]: At that time it was hard to not be frustrated using mac (butterfly keyboard etc), so touchbar might have gotten more hate than it deserved because of overall frustration.

New comment by 0x457 in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

0x457 — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:25:20 +0000

> Like for instance... Dwarf Fortress? Minecraft?

DF for some doesn't fit into this category for me. Minecraft feels dead to me, while many other games that utilize procedural generation are not.

New comment by 0x457 in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

0x457 — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:28:56 +0000

There are better ways to measure how far underwater the car is: https://www.landrover.com/ownership/off-road/wading-depths.h..., this assumes you driving over something more or less flat underwater and that car is built for this.

Here the goal is avoiding driving into the water in the first place.

New comment by 0x457 in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

0x457 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:39:48 +0000

Step 1: Open LLC dedicated to this specific video game title.

New comment by 0x457 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

0x457 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:25:37 +0000

Oh, first time heard of it being referred as add-on. My bad.

New comment by 0x457 in "New Nginx Exploit"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:34:56 +0000

Don't have to bet: Nginx doesn't follow it. It has its own linux-kernel (odd vs evens) inspired convention.

Doesn't change the fact that only "breaking" changes in 1.x.x line are changes to defaults.

New comment by 0x457 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:22:52 +0000

First, why are you calling it "add-on". Second, it's done via the same C ABI.

New comment by 0x457 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:32:02 +0000

I have a friend who get super mad when he fails ">80% chance of success" throws.

This isn't case of this tho. Even he said that there is a high chance of RIIR, 9 days still insanely short time for such rewrite if you're planning to have some sort of community around the project.

New comment by 0x457 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:17:17 +0000

Why "no way"? You're also forgetting extensive test suite?

Merging it so quickly only odd if you're planning on retaining current community.

It's not like it was merged and shipped to every single stable distro overnight. That's how things get tested.

New comment by 0x457 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:02:02 +0000

> Ultimately, you can’t trust the user computer unless you go for the secure boot things backed by a hardware key. I’m sure there are multiple ways to bypass anti-cheats on Windows.

Trials in Destiny 2 were a struggle before BattlEye, and the day BattlEye was enabled everyone suddenly forgot how to click heads. I put it "good enough" category.

New comment by 0x457 in "New Nginx Exploit"

0x457 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:44:08 +0000

That's because nginx doesn't break things for end user every release, so there is no reason to bump major version.

New comment by 0x457 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

0x457 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:15:40 +0000

It doesn't stop LLMs provide "this feature set will require 4 months to finish" (and then finishing it one hour)

New comment by 0x457 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

0x457 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:58 +0000

I think the idea behind parent comment: it's possible to have these features and have a removable battery.

New comment by 0x457 in "We need a federation of forges"

0x457 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:56:52 +0000

atproto will suffer from centralization via Bluesky and its user wanting it to be centralized.

New comment by 0x457 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

0x457 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:55:32 +0000

Correct, and until then it won't be "big data"

New comment by 0x457 in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

0x457 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:44 +0000

Mentally, I'm still in January. For some reason the fact that March 24th, 2026 already passed didn't click in my head.

New comment by 0x457 in "Managing the Unmanaged Switch"

0x457 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:35:51 +0000

At home, I have 10G only between machines that actually do transfer between each other. The rest is either 1G or Wi-Fi 7 (which in my use case is faster than 1G and cheaper than 10G)