Hacker News: SquareWheel

New comment by SquareWheel in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

SquareWheel — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:13:53 +0000

This seems like an impressive improvement, and I'm looking forward to it eventually being upstreamed. Though unfortunately I'm on Nvidia right now, and have been struggling with vram. They don't seem to support any kind of paging at all.

I am curious about the bit on virtual memory fragmentation. Would it make sense for the kernel to occasionally defragment that memory in place? I assume that would create a noticeable hitch, but might improve performance otherwise and allow for some applications to just fit in.

New comment by SquareWheel in "CodePen 2.0"

SquareWheel — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:50:33 +0000

I would imagine that both companies have extensive internal tooling to address this concern; likely at multiple levels.

New comment by SquareWheel in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

SquareWheel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:09:20 +0000

I'm not sure how much insight we can glean from looking at the number of commits and release cadence here. In the aftermath of such a major refactor/rewrite, I would expect it to take some time to get back up to their usual development speed.

Jared and the other developers are new to the Rust codebase, even if the structure is largely familiar. They're also likely focusing on other priorities right now such as tracking down instances of 'unsafe', rather than making user-facing changes (which might encourage a release).

Bugfixes could encourage rapid new releases, but perhaps the rewrite simply hasn't been very buggy? As far as I know, those on the canary channel haven't reported any major issues, or even really noticed the change. So perhaps there's little reason for new releases right now, as the team slowly churns through the backlog.

> P.S. Anthropic’s C compiler and Cursor’s FastRender web browser haven’t had any commits for months.

I always assumed those were just experiments in capability, and weren't meant to be ongoing projects. I would hope that nobody is using them directly today.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

SquareWheel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:13:23 +0000

If anyone wishes to remember what that looked like.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071012231544/http://www.apple....

https://web.archive.org/web/20071012025941/http://www.apple....

New comment by SquareWheel in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

SquareWheel — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:42:33 +0000

Well, I wasn't intending to violate any guidelines, and I don't believe I've dismissed the article besides. I was just trying to save some people from potential frustration, as there was no warning provided upfront.

edit: Ah, I see. You left this comment after having your last response flagged.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

SquareWheel — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:41:54 +0000

Note that this post includes a major spoiler for the show The Good Place. The show is fantastic, so I'd suggest not reading unless you've already finished season 1, or have decided it's not for you.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

SquareWheel — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:32:37 +0000

I know that an uncommon name needed to be chosen, but something about the hyphenated /.well-known/ just turns me off.

I'd have really preferred another term: registered, reserved, defined, meta -- or really anything else.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

SquareWheel — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:08:00 +0000

Yep, they solve the same problem. I built my blog on Harry Roberts' ITCSS paradigm some ten years ago, and found it extremely easy to migrate to cascade layers. They're an underutilized solution to addressing growing specificity.

They're admittedly less useful if you're already using component-based design. That's closer to something like BEM in hyper-targeting each element.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

SquareWheel — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:27:17 +0000

Personally, I forget syntax all the time. There's always a warm up period after I switch languages, and it takes me longer to be start writing good, idiomatic code.

Like sure, I can probably write some python, but will it be pythonic? I might still be Java-minded for a while, trying to OOP my way into solutions.

Earlier today I needed to write some PHP and couldn't remember if it used length, count, or size. I had to look it up. I've been doing this for 20 years.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Googlebook"

SquareWheel — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:03:21 +0000

Sure, and Microsoft acquired DOS, and Adobe acquired Photoshop. At a certain point though, after 20+ years of development, you need to give some credit to the new owners for making it into what it is today.

New comment by SquareWheel in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

SquareWheel — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:04:33 +0000

> Did vibe coding the business page inject it into ChatGPT's training data?

No, at least not directly. Inference does not train models. It is possible that OpenAI may separately collect the chat data, clean it, and feed it back into the model for future iterations. Or they could have extracted URLs for future indexing.

More likely though, I suspect, is your site just managed to be indexed naturally, and LLMs are very efficient at matching obscure data to relevant queries.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:52:17 +0000

"Open source" as a term has evolved due to its success. It wasn't some malicious attempt at redefining things from the technical elite. It was a natural shifting of language, as happens with all words, as it entered more common usage.

It's entirely reasonable that this colloquial understanding would be applied to new categories such as AI models. I'm sure it'll be applied to many other things that don't fit the OSD either. That's just language for you.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:21:51 +0000

Sorry, too busy "stealing code" to answer right now.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:28:54 +0000

This is a pretty banal comment at this point. Open source is the term used in the LLM community. It's common and understood. Nobody is going to release petabytes of copyrighted training data, so the distinction between open source vs weights is a rather pointless one.

New comment by SquareWheel in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

SquareWheel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:02:16 +0000

Well, yes, but that's why it's behind an about:config flag and users should not enable it without understanding its effects.

New comment by SquareWheel in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

SquareWheel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:50:13 +0000

Single Page Applications use the History API to create a working back/forward history within the SPA. This will cause you to navigate away on use, and potentially lose data.

New comment by SquareWheel in "JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware"

SquareWheel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:35:07 +0000

Chromium does include an ad blocker for "intrusive ads". ie. Those using many resources, flashing, auto-playing sounds, or otherwise behaving badly.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7632919

New comment by SquareWheel in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

SquareWheel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:31:12 +0000

Manifest 3 explicitly enables ad blocking through the declarativeNetRequest API. It's trivial to do so, and many blockers exist in the Chrome Web Store.

New comment by SquareWheel in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

SquareWheel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:14:07 +0000

Removing film crew, boom mics, and missed props from a scene would surely be useful to studios. It may even enable some shots that previously would have been impossible due to the positioning of cameras, etc.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

SquareWheel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:10:12 +0000

Windows has a native (cloud-based) dictation software built-in[1], so there's likely less demand for it. Nonetheless, there are still a handful of community options available to choose from.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-typing...