Hacker News: DASD

New comment by DASD in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

DASD — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:04:52 +0000

To extend this, what's the state of accessibility for user interfaces built in Rust?

New comment by DASD in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

DASD — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:44:29 +0000

Russinovitch (Azure's CTO/CISO) gave a speech at RustConf 2025 and mentions it(DirectWriteCore) took 2 engineers 6 months resulting in 154K LOC and 5-15 percent performance increase for font shaping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtMuS7BExE&list=PL2b0df3jKK...

New comment by DASD in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

DASD — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:59:21 +0000

Curious the direction of Webkit as there was a nebulous mention of select portions being rewritten from C++ to Swift. And yet, the new ECMAScript module (ESM) loader for Safari 27 is implemented in C++ (https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...).

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

DASD — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508726

Points: 238

# Comments: 126

New comment by DASD in "Elfeed 4.0 (Emacs)"

DASD — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:24:56 +0000

Tangential - I have officially retired from Emacs(hand-off of maintenance of Elfeed recently) - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/

Elfeed 4.0 (Emacs)

DASD — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed/blob/main/NEWS.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428652

Points: 75

# Comments: 1

Safsaf – A Web Framework for Guile

DASD — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbaines.net/posts/safsaf_a_guile_web_framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419691

Points: 33

# Comments: 0

Blk – text navigation on your terms (Emacs)

DASD — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://mahmoodsh.com/blk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398005

Points: 33

# Comments: 0

New comment by DASD in "OpenBSD 7.9"

DASD — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:11:35 +0000

Single tenant(and single core) tiny VMs with OpenBSD's VMM hypervisor and confidential computing through AMD-SEV.

New comment by DASD in "OpenBSD 7.9"

DASD — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:10:04 +0000

Nice! Had to lookup when one was last released, 7.3. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

Jank now has its own custom IR

DASD — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151251

Points: 218

# Comments: 53

New comment by DASD in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

DASD — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:55:58 +0000

How about F# support? Until then, happy to support Avalonia.

Remove ML Compatibility (F#)

DASD — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/19143

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135678

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Let's kill off half the builtins in C3 0.8.0

DASD — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://c3-lang.org/blog/lets-kill-off-half-the-builtins-in-080/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076857

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Contributions to CPAN: The Copyright Question

DASD — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:37:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.perl.org/users/todd_rinaldo/2026/04/ai-contributions-to-cpan-the-copyright-question.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057449

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Learning OCaml: PPX for Mere Mortals

DASD — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:26 +0000

Article URL: https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/03/ppx-for-mere-mortals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053697

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Best practices for password hashing and storage (SASL)

DASD — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-password-storage/10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015546

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Seeking maintainers for our OCaml SIP server, gRPC, and HTTP/2 libraries

DASD — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/seeking-maintainers-for-our-ocaml-sip-server-grpc-and-http-2-libraries/18000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009816

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by DASD in "Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell"

DASD — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:37:24 +0000

There's also Crunch Scheme(from creator of Chicken): https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/6/crunch

New comment by DASD in "I am building a cloud"

DASD — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:35:19 +0000

This brings back painful yesteryear memories when consultants would push Microsoft Small Business Server for an on-prem all in one IT solution and charge extra to move to the cloud(colocation). A Linux-based alternative appeared named Clark Connect.