Hacker News: Asmod4n

New comment by Asmod4n in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

Asmod4n — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:20:17 +0000

The framework 12 is the ideal couch device for a developer, in ultra power saving mode it’s good enough for most websites, and it having a quickly getting hot 13th gen intel cpu means you also got a dev machine on the low end spectrum, not a vm, but an actual piece of hardware a typical user might have and not some 32 thread 64 gb monster

New comment by Asmod4n in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

Asmod4n — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:07:58 +0000

He just copied their AGPL licensed code, they send the DMCA notice because he didn’t change their user agent string.

New comment by Asmod4n in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

Asmod4n — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:45:11 +0000

__builtin_add_overflow Exists and it’s basically free on most CPUs out there.

New comment by Asmod4n in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

Asmod4n — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:26:16 +0000

they could try and exploit any device on your network, and since they see which servers you connect to and how often you communicate with one they can write phishing mails which are tailored just for you.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Asmod4n — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:49:50 +0000

I'm building a small framework to make desktop apps in mruby, targeting Linux, Mac and Windows. The aim is a native app for the kind of thing you'd usually ship as a webserver and tell users to connect to via localhost. https://github.com/Asmod4n/hypha-mrb

New comment by Asmod4n in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

Asmod4n — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:14:51 +0000

Can’t run most desktops apps that way, nor apps that depend on mesa.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

Asmod4n — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:28:20 +0000

they don't run without a runtime, and that runtime is backed by glibc, they just moved the issue one more layer.

Virtually all software for the desktop is compiled once and then shipped to users and they never see the source.

This works for Windows and macOS because their ABI allows it. For Linux you have to target each and every distro like a whole OS and keep up with it or your app won't run anymore after a few years.

This is also the reason why Linux has package managers and windows didn't have a official one for nearly 40 years. So its not all bad.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

Asmod4n — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:06:17 +0000

glibc is the main reason linux on the desktop has such a low adoption rate.

you cant just go and download a precompiled blob from a website and run it everywhere, like you can with macOS and Windows.

glibc only targets one audience, one which can recompile its apps when needed.

What linux badly needs is a stable ABI for Userspace Apps, and Win32 is just that sadly.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

Asmod4n — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:24:57 +0000

Afaik the hardware supports it for a while now, but there is no firmware to expose the functionality.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

Asmod4n — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:54:07 +0000

No WiFi cards for pcs support it.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

Asmod4n — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:53:02 +0000

There is an open standard for that which is included in Apple devices since the iPhone 15. google implements it since the pixel 3. It’s called NAN. There are no WiFi cards available for consumers to buy which expose that as part of their firmware sadly. But wpa_supplicant has implemented part of the standard.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

Asmod4n — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:25:18 +0000

He has been using it for quite a long time for mruby already.

For Ruby and c development it’s the best llm we got right now, the others lag behind by a lot sadly.

With openAI it’s so bad for my usecase it’s basically unusable.

New comment by Asmod4n in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

Asmod4n — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:51:37 +0000

That’s surely bounded now much it can show, so an attacker can just fill it up till the api throws an error

New comment by Asmod4n in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

Asmod4n — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:08:41 +0000

In the python eco system you can just replace CUDA with DirectML in at least one popular framework and it just runs. You are limited to windows then though.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

Asmod4n — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:35:49 +0000

Have gone back to Linux after 23 years, Ive only had to go to the console once to make all hardware of my framework 12 work since i chose to use a non supported distro. That's definitely a breath of fresh air compared to the old times, where getting wifi to work was a major hassle, anyone remember ndiswrapper? ouch.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

Asmod4n — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:39:38 +0000

Defender warns you this happened.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

Asmod4n — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:32:35 +0000

I’ve tried to use Claude code for a month now. It has a 100% failure rate so far.

Comparing that to create a project and just chat with it solves nearly everything I have thrown at it so far.

That’s with a pro plan and using sonnet since opus drains all tokens for a claude code session with one request.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

Asmod4n — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:04:57 +0000

ish runs a full blown x86 alpine linux distro.

New comment by Asmod4n in "TruffleRuby"

Asmod4n — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:46:39 +0000

With truffle Ruby you don’t have to rewrite anything: Ruby code gets way faster and so does c code.

New comment by Asmod4n in "Anthropic: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

Asmod4n — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:23:25 +0000

When asking it to write a http library which can decode/parse/encode all three versions of it the usage limit of the day gets hit with one sentence. In the pro plan. Even when you hand it a library which does hpack/huffmann.