Hacker News: GalaxySnail

Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning

GalaxySnail — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://farnoy.dev/posts/linux-latency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458895

Points: 130

# Comments: 43

Plumbum v2.0.0 Pythonic Shell Combinators Released

GalaxySnail — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:47:01 +0000

Article URL: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433319

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Python 3.15.0 beta 1 is here

GalaxySnail — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.python.org/2026/05/python-3150-beta-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061909

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

curl DNS 2026, part IV, threads

GalaxySnail — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-dns-threads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947447

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Comparing Compression Tools

GalaxySnail — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arp242.net/cmp-compress.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776658

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

cppreference.com has been under maintenance for a year

GalaxySnail — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:35:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.cppreference.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700828

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by GalaxySnail in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

GalaxySnail — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:07:30 +0000

git-bug[1] looks promising, but I haven't tried it.

[1] https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

Passagemath: A pip-installable modularized fork of SageMath

GalaxySnail — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:39:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/passagemath/passagemath

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47090285

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Tutorial: Linux kernel profiling with perf

GalaxySnail — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://perfwiki.github.io/main/tutorial/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046915

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

O_DIRECT – The Problem That Grew Up with Multi-Threading

GalaxySnail — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:26:18 +0000

Article URL: https://zazolabs.com/odirect-the-problem-that-grew-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941868

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

GalaxySnail — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866544

Points: 253

# Comments: 192

SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache

GalaxySnail — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:47:55 +0000

Article URL: https://biriukov.dev/docs/page-cache/0-linux-page-cache-for-sre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512906

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Vali, a C library for Varlink

GalaxySnail — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:13:58 +0000

Article URL: https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538628

Points: 43

# Comments: 15

CDC File Transfer

GalaxySnail — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:38:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433768

Points: 389

# Comments: 102

Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (Or Fun)

GalaxySnail — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://css-tricks.com/using-css-cursors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321261

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How Binary JSON Works in YDB (2022)

GalaxySnail — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://laplab.me/posts/how-binary-json-works-in-ydb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149124

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Wayland Compositors – Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients (2014)

GalaxySnail — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:08:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.mupuf.org/blog/2014/02/19/wayland-compositors-why-and-how-to-handle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010409

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

PuTTY has a new website

GalaxySnail — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:35:06 +0000

Article URL: https://putty.software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919891

Points: 506

# Comments: 283

Hashcat v7.0.0 Released

GalaxySnail — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:10:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/releases/tag/v7.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44764622

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Gradual negation types and the Python type system

GalaxySnail — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:56:15 +0000

Article URL: https://jellezijlstra.github.io/negation-types.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44590498

Points: 2

# Comments: 0