Hacker News: Jnr

New comment by Jnr in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

Jnr — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:29:26 +0000

I saw an estimate of around 160k $ somewhere in HN comments about the rewrite.

New comment by Jnr in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

Jnr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:36:32 +0000

I similarly have been using Gitea for some years. I use it as my main forge and mirror to Github for discoverability and community reports and contributions.

For public projects I have workflows that can publish and push containers to both Gitea and Github.

New comment by Jnr in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

Jnr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:32:05 +0000

How so? I am using their open source software, what have I missed?

New comment by Jnr in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

Jnr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:29:44 +0000

> "features that business care about"

I don't see companies using open source lining up to support the developers. Good for developers to come up with some monetization strategies to keep their software alive.

New comment by Jnr in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

Jnr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:12:50 +0000

From what I remember, next-auth is kind of dead and Better Auth developers have been maintaining security of next-auth for some time now. (or was it Vercel that did the maintaining?)

Better Auth is the go-to solution for many people using Nextjs, so it makes sense that Vercel puts some effort in maintaining it.

I have never had issues running Nextjs in regular containers, it is just a good open source solution, I don't see why it would be any different with Better Auth.

New comment by Jnr in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

Jnr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:02:03 +0000

Can we please get this for iPhone? Their keyboard is extremely imprecise, I have to go back and correct each sentence.

New comment by Jnr in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

Jnr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:23:01 +0000

Nothing new about it. It is a thin laptop, similar to Macbook Air which they have had for many many years.

New comment by Jnr in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

Jnr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:59:11 +0000

Perhaps Apple is also running out of ideas.

New comment by Jnr in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

Jnr — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:38:26 +0000

Last time I was in London for a day, I simply reserved a table at one of the restaurants at Sky Garden and got in without any queues. Maybe I booked it on the previous evening, but not much earlier than that.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:30:22 +0000

I doubt that. But they clearly thought that people should have a choice. And it is great. But fractured community using different tools for the same task makes slower progress. Each approach has its positives and negatives. I think it is great that we have wayland and systemd. It will eventually lead to something greater in the future.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:25:05 +0000

When it comes to incorrect profiles, I suggest making a pull request to alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf with correct configuration. I had similar issue with my audio interface a couple years ago but it was quickly merged and now it works better than on Windows or macOS.

Before that I did have custom config, it was not that hard to set up, there are great examples and explanations on Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:14:07 +0000

Like wayland?

Where none of the desktop environments offer the same feature set. And the more compositors there are the harder it is for apps to use those new protocols, and guaranteeing a ton of bug reports from users using an unsupported compositor. That just hinders Linux desktop app development.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:07:39 +0000

I think it came from the necessity for rapid integrations between different parts of the OS. And if it is handled as a single project it takes less time to improve it, since you don't have to align with 10 different projects and their release cycles.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:04:09 +0000

> after all it has replaced GRUB.

With unified kernel images there is no need for grub or any other bootloader anymore. And UKI simplifies boot configuration and helps improving security in some aspects.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:58:49 +0000

Yes, but people learned from issues that pulseaudio had and then came pipewire. Everyone is happy now.

I don't know about the philosophical aspects, but from pure technical point of view systemd brought some order into the mess. Before systemd it seemed like most distros were barely holding together with duct tape. Systemd standardized a lot of things.

I am fine with a little bit of controversy if the result is a much better desktop OS experience for the user. And as a relatively long time Linux user, I can certainly say it is much better now than it was 20 years ago.

New comment by Jnr in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

Jnr — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:41:57 +0000

But the architecture and approach is probably a bit older than that.

Systemd came out in ~2010 and maybe it was not clear if it will stay around for long enough and gain as much popularity as it did?

New comment by Jnr in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

Jnr — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:57:40 +0000

It depends on how you set it up, but main doesn't have to be the stable release branch. From what I have seen, in most public projects it is the staging area for the next release. If you have to go back to previous releases you have tags.

New comment by Jnr in "Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails"

Jnr — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:30:50 +0000

Still unable to get any repair manuals for cars, firmware locked down by PIN. For US VINs for the same car model you can purchase access to that easily. Meanwhile in EU you need to be an authorized service to get that.

New comment by Jnr in "Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails"

Jnr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:24:00 +0000

When will EU/EEZ introduce right to repair? So much talk about freedom in EU but you can't even fix your own EU made car. All we get are stupid cookie prompts.

Show HN: BitTorrent DHT Proxy – hiding your IP from DHT and trackers

Jnr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:33:01 +0000

This is a small one day project that helps reduce visibility in public trackers and DHT network.

It could be relevant to those who want a bit more privacy in general or just want to reduce chance of receiving certain e-mails from your ISP. :)

Source and containers are available on Github but I don't have a public hosted service for now since I'm not yet sure where to put such a thing.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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