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New comment by bdahz in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

bdahz — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:14:33 +0000

Is this the same guy talking about the same topic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0lFyPuH8Zs

I need a transcript as the FOSDEM website didn't provide a one (404 not found), but youtube has.

New comment by bdahz in "Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio"

bdahz — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:24:38 +0000

The free download requires account registration, which will discourage most people from trying it. Even third-party login might make it easier, but I didn't find that option.

New comment by bdahz in "Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance"

bdahz — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:43:04 +0000

I'm curious what if we replace Rust with C/C++ in those tiers. Would the results be even better or worse than Rust?

New comment by bdahz in "Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes"

bdahz — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:32:10 +0000

For the simplicity of implementation and code clarity, I need to know how much I need to pay for it.

If the Haskell implementation is 3x slower than C/C++/Rust implementation, it would be acceptable.

If it's 30x slower, I would rather choose C/C++/Rust even the implementation won't be simple.

If it is even possible to be 3x faster than C/C++/Rust, then why not the mainstream programmers adopt Haskell everywhere?

New comment by bdahz in "Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes"

bdahz — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:01:53 +0000

How is the performance when compared to similar implementations in C/C++ or Rust?

A simple personal website built with SVG

bdahz — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://xingyu.wang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796194

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bdahz in "Cosmopolitan v3.5"

bdahz — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:00:03 +0000

How does cosmopolitan support GPU-based applications?

New comment by bdahz in "Round Rects Are Everywhere"

bdahz — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:26:04 +0000

Related post discussing the rounded shapes (and squircles) in design tools:

https://blog.verygoodgraphics.com/posts/rounded-shapes/

New comment by bdahz in "Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?"

bdahz — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:26:27 +0000

Thanks for your advice. I've reverted the license back to 1.0, adjusted the royalty rate, and made the royalty disclaimer more apparent in case someone says it contains a HIDDEN royalty :)

As a small team, we don't expect to make great money just by the royalty. We choose to open source this project for many good reasons. But the only reason of adding royalty is that we want to protect our work from being stolen by some other random guy.

New comment by bdahz in "So you want to build a browser engine"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:48:10 +0000

Sorry, I was just raising my question. Because in my country most app maker does not care about accessibility. Now I know.

New comment by bdahz in "So you want to build a browser engine"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:29:11 +0000

The reasons to escape Flash are the performance and power-consumption issues, rather than accessibility.

If you take browser as a document viewer then accessibility is critical. However if you take browser as a universal application platform, then accessibility is not necessary, right?

New comment by bdahz in "So you want to build a browser engine"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:23:20 +0000

If there is a VGG-native browser then accessibility is not so hard to implement. The awkward problem is that current VeryGoodGraphics is just a canvas node in HTML (using WebAssembly + WebGL). So adding accessibility support will be a nightmare technically.

New comment by bdahz in "Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:35:44 +0000

Great advice. Thank you so much!

New comment by bdahz in "Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:55:28 +0000

Dual licenses, or triple licenses are common in some open source software. Maybe more rules should be presented to make the dual licensing more clear?

New comment by bdahz in "Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:52:24 +0000

My concern is, are GPL-family licenses good enough to let contributors involve with this project? Because I heard that GPL licenses are like viruses and someone hates them.

Or maybe dual licenses are good enough if one of them is Apache License (for personal use only)? This is what VGG License 2.0 does.

New comment by bdahz in "So you want to build a browser engine"

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:10:25 +0000

Does anyone have the idea of escaping from HTML/CSS? As these specs are too complicated and not friendly for web developers as well. Maybe we could re-invent a browser engine without conforming to HTML/CSS specs?

An (early) alternative spec/engine would be a Figma-compatible vector graphics spec[2] and its rendering engine[3]. It is called VeryGoodGraphics[1].

[1] https://verygoodgraphics.com/, the website is built with its own technology (wasm version).

[2] https://docs.verygoodgraphics.com/specs/overview

[3] https://github.com/verygoodgraphics/vgg_runtime

Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?

bdahz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:26:23 +0000

Hi, I'm making a rendering engine for design files & vector graphics, and it is open sourced.

I've no idea what kind of license should I choose because I have both the following concerns:

1) What if someone steels it and claims it is theirs. Because software licenses are seldom respected in my country. Or they are just using my source code without paying me, meaning that I'm working for them for free forever.

2) If I choose a more strict license, e.g. including a royalty restriction, this will irritate the open source community, because everyone will think it a scam project.

So I have done my best to update the original license from 1.0 to 2.0, like this https://github.com/verygoodgraphics/vgg_runtime/blob/main/LICENSE-2.0

But I still have no idea if it is good enough to achieve the best balance between open source and commercialization. Could you guys give me any suggestions? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632017

Points: 3

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OpenWebF

bdahz — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:00:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openwebf/webf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617602

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bdahz in "Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware"

bdahz — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:27:22 +0000

A tomato clock: https://github.com/harry75369/ESP8266_Tomato

New comment by bdahz in "Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp"

bdahz — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:55:40 +0000

So what's the difference between nsjail[1] and bubblewrap[2]?

[1] https://github.com/google/nsjail [2] https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap