Hacker News: bboozzoo

New comment by bboozzoo in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

bboozzoo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:57:26 +0000

Why, LLMs of course. Isn't that obvious by now?

New comment by bboozzoo in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

bboozzoo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:56:02 +0000

It'd be interesting to add Nemotron, which is quite popular on Spark alongside Qwen 3.6.

New comment by bboozzoo in "Podman v6.0.0"

bboozzoo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:52:44 +0000

24.04 is a stable release. Package updates in stable releases need to follow the Stable Release Update process https://ubuntu.com/project/docs/SRU/stable-release-updates/ In essence someone needs to do contribute time and effort to make it happen. Canonical is free to choose the packages they want to maintain themselves and which ones go to universe and are community maintained. The upstream, if they care enough, can choose to get involved and try to do the updates. The process isn't exactly easy or fun. There's a bunch of requirements regarding backward compatibility and testing that need to be met. Snapd upstream goes though it for almost every release and it takes anything from a couple of weeks to a month. I don't think anything is stopping either party from updating the packages, although I don't why upstream wouldn't be interested in getting involved making this happen.

New comment by bboozzoo in "Canyon HUD helmet for road riding"

bboozzoo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:25:07 +0000

> "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed"

Funny how garmin varia gives the exact same information but on cars. "There's a car behind you travelling approximately X speed" (which is most often over the speed limit anyway)

New comment by bboozzoo in "Canyon HUD helmet for road riding"

bboozzoo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:22:02 +0000

This looks like a choice is a serious eye injury if you roll is something you're looking for. Why not buy a handlebar mirror like this one https://cateye.com/intl/products/accessories/BM-45/ I have one on each of my bikes, road/gavel/fitness. Dirt cheap, gives very good rear visibility and very compact size.

New comment by bboozzoo in "Canyon HUD helmet for road riding"

bboozzoo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:14:39 +0000

You forgot to mention it's also $200+. Some folks buy bicycles for less than that.

New comment by bboozzoo in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

bboozzoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:43:35 +0000

Seven tokens long input isn't very realistic, is it? For coding tasks it's normal for the input to be thousands or 10s of thousands. If it wasn't for prefix caching it'd be one miserable experience, but even then at the very best the input is often in hundreds each time. And don't even try to dump some logs into the prompt.

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

bboozzoo — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:47:17 +0000

> An alternative service manager could

I guess we would care if one showed up, no?

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

bboozzoo — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:32:24 +0000

Why would they care about any other views but their own and those who contribute either financially or through code? Seems like all people can do these days is complain on github, X, mastodon, reddit, HN. It's only talk, talk and more talk, but no do.

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

bboozzoo — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:20:05 +0000

Can you share what was that thing that didn't work with systemd? I've seen pretty crazy setups and can't quite imagine how horrid of a mess those would have been if a large rc.init shell script ridden with sleeps was used instead.

New comment by bboozzoo in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

bboozzoo — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:29:58 +0000

I believe this is called competition, encouraged since the EU markets are open and freedom of migration is guaranteed. If it wasn't for those guys, you'll have migrant workers from Ukraine, or India or some other place. However, I suspect that before the Poles and Romanians came to DE, you already had quite a bit of migration from Spain, Italy and Turkey, isn't that right?

New comment by bboozzoo in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

bboozzoo — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:57:13 +0000

> patch series from a competent team that changes 3000 lines should probably be

split into a bunch of much smaller changes?

New comment by bboozzoo in "Ubuntu 26.04"

bboozzoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:27:40 +0000

Isn't that essentially a release of Ubuntu with a different kernel, DE and maybe some userspace utilities?

New comment by bboozzoo in "Ubuntu 26.04"

bboozzoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:15:44 +0000

The constructed policy is quite strict and expects certain UEFI things to be set up correctly. For example both this https://github.com/canonical/secboot/blob/7434bac27844362ff8... and https://github.com/canonical/secboot/blob/7434bac27844362ff8... are enabled in the policy. The policy choices and various early checks, even as trivial as confirming that the TCG log content is correct after booting into installation system, are enough to rule out a lot of potentially problematic EFI deployments. Effectively making it more strict helps avoid a lot of funny issues where the firmware is clearly buggy and things would fall apart sooner or later.

New comment by bboozzoo in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

bboozzoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:23:09 +0000

> But maybe that's why I started drinking coffee?

you don't remember why, do you?

New comment by bboozzoo in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

bboozzoo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:47:30 +0000

If there was a major event in Belgium, which city would the news outlets refer to in order to avoid ambiguity?

New comment by bboozzoo in "Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust"

bboozzoo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:46:49 +0000

You forgot to include https://github.com/9front/9front/tree/front/sys/src/libflate which gzip is built around, which brings it closer to 10k lines.

New comment by bboozzoo in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

bboozzoo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:45:25 +0000

Main is all you need to set up a working system and deploy services. Much like BaseOS in RHEL you get full support for those packages for 5+5 years. With snaps you effectively get rolling releases of LXD, microk8s, openstack, docker and other relevant things. What else do you need? Seriously, how come this isn't enough for a non commercial user?

New comment by bboozzoo in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

bboozzoo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:50:32 +0000

> And if you aren't paying you aren't even receiving many of the updates.

Are you sure you didn't mean RedHat? Last I checked there's no requirement to pay anything in order to use an LTS release of Ubuntu. Even if you go with Pro to get those extra years of Extended Support (to make it ~12 years?) you still get up to 5 licenses for personal use. No money asked, no *BS* subscription model. Isn't that more than enough any non-commercial user?

New comment by bboozzoo in "I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"

bboozzoo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:16:30 +0000

I wonder what made them do it. The conspiracy theorists are really going to enjoy this.