Hacker News: Gerharddc

New comment by Gerharddc in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

Gerharddc — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:55:49 +0000

For sure, and I think most people would agree with this. However, I also think most people treat it differently when it is someone so high up because they have a lot of control and, more importantly, accumulate a large part of the profit.

I don't think you should not be allowed to have strong political opinions in such a position. I just think that in this case, it is very dangerous to express so much support for them in such a public way. I say this because (from my perspective at least) a large part of Mullvad's "competitive advantage" is their brand image, and it just feels that a link to controversial politics probably does more harm than good to this brand image.

New comment by Gerharddc in "Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress"

Gerharddc — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:39:55 +0000

Really cool to see work progressing on this! It would be awesome to one day be able to use Zig for serious shader work

New comment by Gerharddc in "Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig"

Gerharddc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:09:25 +0000

Fair enough. I was referring to the GUI framework space in general, not specifically for Zig

New comment by Gerharddc in "Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig"

Gerharddc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:41:56 +0000

At first I was very excited about this project. After reading the comments, I'm now deeply saddened by it... Given how much competition there already is in the GUI framework space, it's very difficult to see why something hastily thrown together by AI would get much traction. To really make an impact in this space, I think we'll need to see something thoughtfully designed that really tries to innovate in some profound way rather than just being more of the same

New comment by Gerharddc in "Asserts in Zig"

Gerharddc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:39:49 +0000

Very interesting write-up, thank you! I never really considered that compilers can also use asserts to improve performance, but it does make sense.

New comment by Gerharddc in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

Gerharddc — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:28:46 +0000

This seems like a very positive move to me. It makes it clear what Zig days are about so people know what to expect. There are 1000s of other events for people who want to build with LLMs so it's nice to have some recourse for those who still want to code by hand

New comment by Gerharddc in "Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video]"

Gerharddc — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:28:22 +0000

I'm very excited about the future of Zig! I really love the conservative and measured approach they are taking. Unlike many others these days, they appear to prioritise doing things right over simply going as fast as possible and trying to grab as much attention as possible.

New comment by Gerharddc in "Leaving the Sea of Nodes in the V8 JIT"

Gerharddc — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:21:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing, it's very informative!

New comment by Gerharddc in "Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust"

Gerharddc — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:19:04 +0000

Yeah it seems pretty insane to use a vibe-coded storage engine unless you had no other option

New comment by Gerharddc in "New Design For The FreeBSD Website"

Gerharddc — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:29:55 +0000

Nice and clean, I like it!

New comment by Gerharddc in "Litterbox: Somewhat Isolated Development Environments [video]"

Gerharddc — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:24:53 +0000

This talk introduces Litterbox. If you're developing on Linux and you're looking for some protection from supply chain attacks and/or rogue coding agents, this might be the solution you're looking for!

Litterbox: Somewhat Isolated Development Environments [video]

Gerharddc — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMCWs7qmKFc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176180

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gerharddc in "Web Neural Network API"

Gerharddc — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:19:58 +0000

Ah, I guess I should have seen this one coming :)

New comment by Gerharddc in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

Gerharddc — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:15:28 +0000

Oh wow, this looks nicely done! It's also nice that it's cross platform. I've done something similar with https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox which takes things a bit further by allowing you to easily sandbox your entire development environment (i.e. IDE and everything) using containers. Unfortunately I have not gotten around to the network sandboxing part though, that seems very tricky to get useful without being too "annoying".

New comment by Gerharddc in "PyTorch on ROCm Inside a Litterbox"

Gerharddc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:13:53 +0000

TL;DR: I'm using https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox to sandbox all my development these days and have now managed to get the ROCm variant of PyTorch running with GPU access inside a Litterbox. If you'd like to see the details of how to achieve that, this post is for you!

PyTorch on ROCm Inside a Litterbox

Gerharddc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rustyelectrons.com/posts/9-pytorch-rocm-litterbox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005093

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gerharddc in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

Gerharddc — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:08:29 +0000

> Every render in this post was made that way. Claude generated the geometry with vcad, imported each STL/GLB into Blender via MCP, set up studio lighting, and rendered to PNG. No human touched Blender.

This seems a bit wasteful to me. Why do you need an LLM to do the part of controlling Blender? Can't normal code be used to automate this instead? And save a scary amount of electricity in the process...

New comment by Gerharddc in "Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files"

Gerharddc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:11:59 +0000

Great writeup! An alternative I have explored (more for defense against supply-chain attacks than for agents admittedly) is to use rootless Podman to get a dev-container-like experience alongside sandboxing. To this end I have built https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox (https://litterbox.work/) which greatly simplifies container setup and integrates a special ssh-agent for sandboxing that always prompts the user before signing requests (as to keep your SSH keys safe).

Unfortunately Litterbox won't currently help much for specifically protecting .env files in a project folder though. I'd need to think if the design can be extended for this use-case now that I'm aware of the issue.

New comment by Gerharddc in "A deep dive on agent sandboxes"

Gerharddc — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:32 +0000

Unfortunately not since it is very much designed for Linux. I imagine it should work fine inside a Linux VM on Mac though.

New comment by Gerharddc in "A deep dive on agent sandboxes"

Gerharddc — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:58:53 +0000

The main reason is that in addition to sandboxing, I also wanted something similar to dev-containers where I can have a reproducible development environment. I guess that can also be achieved with Bubblewrap, but when you want to run containers anyway, it seems silly to not just use Podman.