Hacker News: _davide_

New comment by _davide_ in "I am building a cloud"

_davide_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:31:45 +0000

Thank you, but no thanks

New comment by _davide_ in "An incoherent Rust"

_davide_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:58:57 +0000

Most examples and presented issues would not compile or be a real issue... I stopped reading midway

New comment by _davide_ in "Cancellations in async Rust"

_davide_ — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:51:07 +0000

> What could go wrong?

LoL, an insane amount of things. TCP connections are an illusion of safely, for the purpose of database commits use UDP packets as a model instead, it'll be much closer to reality.

New comment by _davide_ in "Gentoo Linux might be the best desktop Linux distro for advanced Linux users"

_davide_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:09:36 +0000

I just got a Ryzen AI 395+ and compilation times are insane, kernel compiles in one minute! :D https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-max-pro-395/5

New comment by _davide_ in "Gentoo Linux might be the best desktop Linux distro for advanced Linux users"

_davide_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:40:45 +0000

I have been using Gentoo 10+ years, you can save time using other distros but you'll waste an insane amount of time as soon as you want to properly configure a yubikey or set up a modern compilation stack (or update specific drivers or fixing the kernel). Compiling everything seems like an overkill, but remember it's unattended time, just start the upgrade before dinner twice a week and you'll be good to go. (Failure to compile in Gentoo are extremely rare, less than once a year)

The upside is deciding exactly which packets you want and which versions, and whenever you want to customize( or fix) a specific thing it's trivial.

New comment by _davide_ in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

_davide_ — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:13:35 +0000

Then it's likely that plasma just crashed :')

New comment by _davide_ in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

_davide_ — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:06:23 +0000

I have been using kde for 15+ years, except 4.0, which was painful, everything has been mostly a smooth experience.

> However, KDE considered my TV the primary desktop and put the task bar only in that monitor, and even disabling the TV didn't add the task bar to my monitor.

You can order the screens however you want; the first one will be considered primary.

New comment by _davide_ in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

_davide_ — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:38:12 +0000

100% agree, in Rust things usually just work out on the first try!

Time spent debugging is halved and you can focus on the actual product

New comment by _davide_ in "Show HN: FeOx – Fast embedded KV store in Rust"

_davide_ — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:06:18 +0000

Nice! On paper looks really promising! There is actual need for embedded databases as SQLite is painful for highly concurrent programs (I actually hit this issue in rust)

New comment by _davide_ in "Denmark: Minister for Digitalization wants to phase out Microsoft"

_davide_ — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:42:51 +0000

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/

Both works pretty well

New comment by _davide_ in "Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM"

_davide_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:21:31 +0000

When I read the title 'IBM crossed a transformer with an SSM and got ‘Bamba’' I laughed so hard I woke up my kid

New comment by _davide_ in "Jetbrains actively deleting negative reviews for AI plugin"

_davide_ — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:43:10 +0000

They recently released a huge bump of their AI package, they probably wanted to differentiate between the older and newer version...still they could have renamed the plugin, or at very least, mark older comments as "for an older version"

New comment by _davide_ in "Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?"

_davide_ — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:32:55 +0000

I actually pushed a fix for the soundcard upstream back in kernel 5.13, it had been working great. And yeah, don't expect a Wacom level pen, it doesn't come with tilt. I never trust/tried sleep on Linux(could corrupt the FS), but everything is working great on my side.

New comment by _davide_ in "Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation"

_davide_ — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:08:40 +0000

Anyone surprised that Autodesk is citing blender in a non-negative light?

New comment by _davide_ in "AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU"

_davide_ — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:32:38 +0000

The RTX 4080 should be capable of ~40 TFLOPS, yet they only report 2,160 billion operations per second. Shouldn't this be enough to reconsider the benchmark? They probably made some serious error in measuring FLOPS. Regarding the fact that CPU beats NPU is possible but they should benchmark many matrix multiplications without any application synchronization in order to have a decent comparison.

New comment by _davide_ in "Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400k over cybersecurity failings"

_davide_ — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:35:13 +0000

I really like the trend of making software companies liable for security incidents. Way too often they get away without any penalty.

New comment by _davide_ in "It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word"

_davide_ — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:13:36 +0000

Did I ever? :')

New comment by _davide_ in "Bop Spotter"

_davide_ — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:42:06 +0000

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New comment by _davide_ in "Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels"

_davide_ — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:46:48 +0000

May I suggest a tool built for application level portals instead?

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam

One binary, easy to use, no ssh getting stuck! (yep, I work at Ockam :)

New comment by _davide_ in "xAI's 100k GPUs data center in Memphis is up and running"

_davide_ — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:49:13 +0000

I'm waiting for AI bubble to burst to buy some of those at the fraction of the price :)