Hacker News: 7kmph

New comment by 7kmph in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

7kmph — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:10:05 +0000

Bram Moolenaar tips his hat

New comment by 7kmph in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

7kmph — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:07:44 +0000

this is the company that cold emailed many people via email on GitHub.

New comment by 7kmph in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

7kmph — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:33:47 +0000

If anyone here from apple is reading, does the leadership even aware of this problem?

New comment by 7kmph in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

7kmph — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:49:46 +0000

The board should have stepped in and fire whoever signed off on it, the designers who have advocated this (because they have no taste thus not fit). I feel like Apple is running on the momentum of Steve Jobs.(The hardware is good though). I cannot realistically expect them to go McMaster Carr but at least rollback these distracting light pollution

New comment by 7kmph in "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]"

7kmph — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:37:42 +0000

It probably won’t, would kill too many businesses and jobs. And frankly many people don’t see its value

New comment by 7kmph in "Design the next iPhone"

7kmph — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:40:33 +0000

No BB keyboard?

New comment by 7kmph in "Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers"

7kmph — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:48:37 +0000

And the theme is unusable on KDE dark theme to a red blue color blinded user.

New comment by 7kmph in "To learn a new language, read its standard library"

7kmph — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:38:24 +0000

Mathematica left the chat

New comment by 7kmph in "Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't"

7kmph — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 04:29:11 +0000

Make you think that there is hope for humanity after all

New comment by 7kmph in "Is rust hitting the sweet spot between bad and good?"

7kmph — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 03:28:44 +0000

Part of me wish that this interview is posted on HN as a real one, for the greater good.

This is really an enjoyable read, I'm glad I didn't skip it.

Is rust hitting the sweet spot between bad and good?

7kmph — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:44:16 +0000

I have a conspiracy theory* that, two widely used languages in the software industry are bad not because that people cannot make it good, rather, there is a hidden, organized effort that is surgically putting the language in a spot where it is barely acceptable to the current public's taste, and maintains a high development and maintaining cost at the same time, so that some individuals, companies, even the software industry itself, can continuously milk profits from the language, in the form of salaries, tooling and consulting fees, contracts for maintaining the resulting, often buggy, software, etc..

In summary, a strategically bad language creates more jobs, and generating more profits for individuals and companies (whose product, more or less, is the language itself) in the software industry.

Is rust hitting the sweet spot between providing jobs and profits for the software industry, and being a good language?

* this is pure speculation based on personal observation, I don't have any actual evidence, nor did I try to collect any.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177364

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

So, mission implausible turned off its comment

7kmph — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A5-eRfDQ0M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26883950

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by 7kmph in "12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks"

7kmph — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 06:00:40 +0000

Could you share your company’s website?

New comment by 7kmph in "A notebook-free notebook or Jupyter dev env for coders"

7kmph — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:22:32 +0000

This will be downvoted: Ideally you should not write tests.

New comment by 7kmph in "Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems"

7kmph — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:56:44 +0000

Sarcasm?

New comment by 7kmph in "Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg"

7kmph — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:41:56 +0000

Why judge someone who sh*t in the middle of a park without asking for anything in return?

New comment by 7kmph in "Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg"

7kmph — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:39:15 +0000

What do you expect from a programmer who chooses JavaScript as the language of a cli tool?

New comment by 7kmph in "Color blindness"

7kmph — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:19:27 +0000

I once got married just to know whether my battery pack is charging or not.

New comment by 7kmph in "Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second"

7kmph — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:13:00 +0000

So what? compiler should catch bugs as soon as possible, as much as possible, at compile time, if it can do this fast, great! if not, then not that great, but far better than chewing through billions lines of code and do nothing, leaving you all your bugs to the run time.

New comment by 7kmph in "Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet"

7kmph — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:04:15 +0000

I find myself in the need of a "lib_download" a few times, a high level library that:

- support HTTP/HTTPS

- support proxy (for by-passing firewall, censorship, etc, http/https/socks5)

- download one large file in parallel (configurable temporary directory)

- download many small files in parallel (seems too high-level to put in a library, not sure this is a good feature)

- configurable retry (maybe too high-level to put in a library)

- resume download

- good error semantics

- an interface with defined behaviour

- progress report (useful for downloading large files)

I tried using a wrapped (in rust) version of libcurl, and in the end I decided to just use the curl cli, and read through the man page and pass about 13 arguments to it to make it's behaviour defined (to me, to a certain confidence level), I also pinned the curl executable to a specific version to avoid unknown changes.

The end result works, but the process is unnecessarily complicated (invoke the cli binary, know what argument to pass, know the meaning of the many error codes), and the resume is not pleasant to use. I guess libcurl is designed to be that way, so that to an curl-master, he can tune all the knobs to do what he want, but to a average library user who just want to download things, it requires more attention than I'm willing to give to.

Used in an interactive context, the issue of defined behaviour is usually overlooked, but when used a library in a program that runs unattended and expensive to upgrade/repair, achievable defined behaviour is a must, and test is not an alternative to it, even experience is not an alternative (experience are time consuming to get, and not transferable to others).

All package managers needs to download packages from internet, often via HTTP, it's good to have a easy-to-use, well-defined, capable download library, many of them uses curl (Archlinux's pacman, rust installation script), many of them use others with varying level of capabilities, I thinks it would be beneficial if we can have a good library (in rust) for download things.