Hacker News: GranPC

New comment by GranPC in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

GranPC — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:57:46 +0000

It means they rebased all their changes on top of the new version. This is usually time-consuming because AOSP is not developed in the open, so you can't do this incrementally as things change -- you just get a massive drop sometime after release.

New comment by GranPC in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

GranPC — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:43:12 +0000

No, they got it booting on bare metal a few posts down.

New comment by GranPC in "A Tale of Two File Names"

GranPC — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:30:18 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690703

A Tale of Two File Names

GranPC — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:29:01 +0000

Article URL: https://tomgalvin.uk/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165814

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by GranPC in "Halt and Catch Fire"

GranPC — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:40:56 +0000

You should probs edit out the spoiler, or encode it somehow for others who haven't watched it yet!

New comment by GranPC in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

GranPC — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:26:00 +0000

It was bundled with XP.

New comment by GranPC in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

GranPC — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:41:10 +0000

Wrong link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

New comment by GranPC in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

GranPC — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:59:52 +0000

What does that have to do with Americans specifically?

New comment by GranPC in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

GranPC — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:59:28 +0000

Sorry for the off-topic, but I was curious about Affectable so I opened the website. I saw it's very thin and light and comfortable, but I struggled to find out what "it" is and what it does for me. It's kinda buried.

I was interested enough to click through the different links in the footer. And just as I reached the purchase page, I see that it requires "an iPhone running iOS". Unsure why it requires an iPhone; and no info on a timeline for iPhone-less customers. But that immediately rules me out as a customer.

I feel like the landing page would be a lot better if it started out focusing on what it is & how it can help me.

Apologies again for the unsolicited advice. Just wanted to share my impressions in case it's helpful.

New comment by GranPC in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

GranPC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:18:55 +0000

Just for what it's worth, I just pushed an eBPF-based workaround for people who are running kernels in which AF_ALG is linked directly into the kernel and not as a module: https://github.com/Dabbleam/CVE-2026-31431-mitigation

I am running this in production right now and it mitigates the attack, with no unexpected side-effects as far as I can see.

New comment by GranPC in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

GranPC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:29:55 +0000

I don't think RustDesk was hit by this. If you weren't able to access it two weeks ago, it was due to an outage on their end: https://github.com/rustdesk/uptime/issues/53

New comment by GranPC in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

GranPC — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:44:01 +0000

By Microsoft’s convention, that would be a way to run Windows 9x on Linux. It’s a bit confusing. Another example is “Windows Subsystem for Android”, which is what they use for running Android apps on Windows. I think the idea is that it’s not a “Windows Subsystem” for X, but rather a Windows “Subsystem for X”.

(Edited: mixed it up on the last sentence.)

New comment by GranPC in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

GranPC — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:14:40 +0000

No? WSL is Linux on Windows — so W9xSL is Linux on Windows 9x. I think… :)

New comment by GranPC in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

GranPC — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:31:35 +0000

I think this is it: https://reg.redsara.es/#login

New comment by GranPC in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

GranPC — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:50:18 +0000

Well, in that case, if they want full control and attestation yadda yadda, I'm fine with them shipping me a device they fully control exclusively for use of this stuff. But if we're talking about my smartphone that I paid for with my money that I worked for, I will do whatever I damn please with it. So I guess that means eIDAS will be inaccessible to me.

New comment by GranPC in "Ask HN: Did anyone else get logged out from HN today?"

GranPC — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:17:08 +0000

I didn’t know that, thanks for letting me know. I don’t think I logged out, unless maybe I accidentally triggered that in my pocket.

I figured it was worth posting because I get relatively uneasy when unexpected things happen, and if others were also affected then I could just justify it to myself as a server side thing. In fact, what you just told me about logout being global is already very helpful, so I guess it wasn’t for naught. :)

New comment by GranPC in "Ask HN: Did anyone else get logged out from HN today?"

GranPC — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:09:49 +0000

I hadn’t checked how long the cookie is set for yet. But since I got logged out from both devices on the same day, I figured it can’t be that. I haven’t had this tablet for too long, and I think I must have signed in just 2-3 months ago. Thanks for your response!

Ask HN: Did anyone else get logged out from HN today?

GranPC — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:01:08 +0000

I opened Hacker News on my phone this morning and saw that I had been signed out. I chalked that up to a transitory one-off thing, especially since I’ve been tinkering with the browser on my phone these last few days. No other sites were affected, though.

I just grabbed my tablet and opened HN. I was logged out too! I have never seen this happen on this site, and I find it curious that both devices weee affected on the same day.

Has this happened to anyone else today?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564306

Points: 3

# Comments: 9

New comment by GranPC in "Linux is an interpreter"

GranPC — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:40:37 +0000

I think they meant employees from the hosting company. But that's a funny interpretation!

New comment by GranPC in "FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers"

GranPC — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:49:14 +0000

> The efficiency is a red herring - you will still use every CPU core for IO threads in ffmpeg, if you don't configure that away, which you do not. And it requires really annoying setup and premium features on stuff like Plex. It just makes no sense!

I would love to learn more about this! What can I do to fully optimize ffmpeg hardware encoding?

My use case is transcoding a massive media library to AV1 for the space gains. I am aware this comes with a slight drop in quality (which I would also be keen to learn about how to minimize), but so far, in my testing, GPU encoding has been the fastest/most efficient, especially with Nvidia cards.