<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: HexDecOctBin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HexDecOctBin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=HexDecOctBin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a fall from grace for the progenitor of Non-Aligned Movement to be bowing down to USA and hurting its own people. The Nation has been betrayed by the State.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:14:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341177</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So primarily state intervention then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:11:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328210</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is that? Is it simply a matter of scale (not enough shipping containers leaving from India to Trinidad and Tobago)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:57:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327327</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So they still don't support the Content Blocker API? Wouldn't that have been easier? Then I could use whichever lists or providers (Adguard, uBlock, etc.) that I want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321281</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, graphics programmers were used to the mess from OpenGL days. Now compiler writer and hardware designers get to share the sorrow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:10:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312314</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "The Indo-European Family Tree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The theory of an immigration of IA speaking Arya ("Aryan invasion") is simply seen as a means of British policy to justify their own intrusion into India and their subsequent colonial rule: in both cases, a "white race" was seen as subduing the local darker colored population.<p>Source: Edwin Bryant in <a href="https://archive.org/details/EdwinBryantLauriePattonIndoAryanControversyEvidenceAndInferenceInIndianHistoryRoutledge2005" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/EdwinBryantLauriePattonIndoAryan...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:40:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302912</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "The Indo-European Family Tree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People don't like getting their dogmas challenged, especially when it comes to their Fathers' sins.</p>
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<p>But the advent of Indo-European languages in Northern India (let alone Southern Sri Lanka) has nothing to do with Alexander or the Mughals.<p>The Aryan Invasion Theory was propagated by the British to justify their colonial brutality, and no self-respecting historian will now call the gradual Aryan migration an invasion. The only people who still do are usually trying to achieve some political aims, usually imperial apologia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:41:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294211</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "Sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, despite puritanical hand-wringing over C23, I do like both the discipline and the selectivity with WG14 has shows (and I say this as a card-carrying C++ hater).<p>I do wish they will start looking into proper arrays since there is already a syntax for this can can be augmented semantically:<p><pre><code>    int func (int arg[static 5])</code></pre></p>
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<p>It doesn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123128</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But if I don't care for object atomicity, can I get struct-like behaviour in Java for arbitrary large types?</p>
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<p>What's the latest status? Is it still limited to 63-bits of data plus 1 bit for nullability?</p>
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<p>How is this different from SDL_Render? <a href="https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryRender" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryRender</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:26:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111356</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "AI in Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate how this ostentatious caring for Indians is used to push personal political goals. Want to help with global warming? Reduce your consumption. Stop driving, stop eating non-local food, stop buying things made off-shores or with supply chains that require global shipping. Move to a much poorer country (or just a poorer neighbourhood of your country) and live the way people there live.<p>It seems like for much of Western world, Indians aren't really humans but a giant undifferentiated mass of temporarily animated bodies that are fit only as a canvas for one's own political paintwork.</p>
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<p>Another good one is the visual editor of .werkkzeug3 used to make .kkrieger which serves as an alternative interface to the typical node based shader editor.<p><a href="https://media.demozoo.org/screens/o/82/e2/a055.334456.png" rel="nofollow">https://media.demozoo.org/screens/o/82/e2/a055.334456.png</a></p>
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<p>Yeah, but I am guessing one needs a bit more info on how this works together with GC. For example, once an arena goes out of scope, what happens to allocations made inside it that have been returned and thus are referred to from outside that scope? Are they copied out or do we have a dangling pointer? Stuff like this needs some decent documentation in order to be able to use a low level feature like this properly.</p>
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<p>If any SBCL dev is here, please add documentation for how to use the memory arena feature. The only doc is an very old proposal document.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:41:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088142</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mike Acton (author of this presentation) has released a LLM skill for Data Oriented Programming: <a href="https://github.com/macton/nagent/blob/main/context/data-oriented-design.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/macton/nagent/blob/main/context/data-orie...</a></p>
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<p>This becomes particularly important when the allocation and metadata cannot (or should not) be stored in the same address space. An example of this is allocating memory on GPUs.<p>The conventional approach for allocating memory on GPUs for games and other applications is to use a real-time allocator such as TLSF. However, it is not usually discussed that TLSF is real-time because it stores metadata in-band. It is possible to create a variant of TLSF that preserves its real-time properties while storing metadata out-of-band, but this requires careful consideration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:35:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017663</link><dc:creator>HexDecOctBin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HexDecOctBin in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glibc is the opposite of backwards compatible. This thread I was a part of explains some issues faced in the past: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029789">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029789</a></p>
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