Hacker News: bfrog

New comment by bfrog in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

bfrog — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:30:15 +0000

I see another service I will be cancelling. Thanks for the heads up on another improperly run email service

New comment by bfrog in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

bfrog — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:07:24 +0000

Good

New comment by bfrog in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

bfrog — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:57:13 +0000

Right then it’s still not where it needs to be

New comment by bfrog in "Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)"

bfrog — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:36:23 +0000

I really enjoyed cryptonomicon and seveneves most recently. And while yes snow crash was a faster read with just the right amount of detail the stories in both cyrptonomicon and seveneves were absolutely worth the bit of extra detail in between. Could they have been edited shorter? Possibly, but the length of the adventure in part comes from the length of the text and I couldn’t see either being paced faster in hindsight. They were paced well.

New comment by bfrog in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

bfrog — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:34:30 +0000

Yep… massive waste. A dsp coprocessor hobbled by npu workflows.

New comment by bfrog in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

bfrog — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:06:12 +0000

These things are a waste of sand.

Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

New comment by bfrog in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

bfrog — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:46:07 +0000

Is it all upstream? Is there a newer part coming with upstream support on day 1 like every Intel laptop I’ve had for the last decade+?

New comment by bfrog in "Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies"

bfrog — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:16:08 +0000

Please no llm posts?

New comment by bfrog in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

bfrog — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:45:20 +0000

I definitely see a future race of who can accelerate open models and their usage locally with realistic desktop hardware.

I fully await my ai in a usb box. The models are plateauing and some clever company is secretly working on this already I’m sure of it.

Imagine baking in a model weight set in ROM with an analog computer doing what otherwise takes way too much power in digital form.

New comment by bfrog in "Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)"

bfrog — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:02:12 +0000

On hardware? Usually hardware issues or quirks are a bigger issue than memory honestly.

New comment by bfrog in "Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)"

bfrog — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:48:30 +0000

Meanwhile nothing really seems to matter anymore but Zephyr which has become almost Linux like in its escape velocity. Every vendor on earth now supports it, and these guys follow the money.

Rust seems to have modest support in some places.

With AI I don’t know language really matters anymore.

New comment by bfrog in "Creepy Crawlies"

bfrog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:41:40 +0000

This greatly implies online advertising is dead, that the internet as something useful to humans is soon becoming questionable.

New comment by bfrog in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

bfrog — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:50:19 +0000

Why would anyone be surprised by this outcome? No one should be surprised.

New comment by bfrog in "Git at any scale"

bfrog — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:51:46 +0000

Why go back to a centralized model at all. Guess which project isn’t suffering in this whole debacle of GitHub? The one git was made for of course.

New comment by bfrog in "The August 17 outage"

bfrog — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:58:44 +0000

Copilot probably wrote the code confidently and it was never looked at by a human then yolo’d out to meet the pointy haired bosses arbitrarily short timeline to then look good to his boss and so on

New comment by bfrog in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bfrog — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:48:02 +0000

radicle.xyz to avoid centralization again

New comment by bfrog in "Incident with Github.com"

bfrog — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:47:02 +0000

GitHub is down days of that week that end with day these days. If I were a paying customer I'd be cancelling soon. GitHub is sort of foundational at this point and when its down nearly every day of the week it cannot be foundational.

New comment by bfrog in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

bfrog — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:02:18 +0000

There's still repercussions to the unaligned variable length instruction set that is x86 though, and the decoder and prefetch have to deal with the insanity that falls out from it... ultimately limiting how parallel the instruction decode and dispatch can be.

New comment by bfrog in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

bfrog — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:59:59 +0000

The encoding being oddball does have some effects on linkers/loaders though I imagine?

Not that linking/loading is a super hot path people generally worry about.

New comment by bfrog in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

bfrog — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:42:24 +0000

Nah they'd rather try to continue to force snapdragon on windows where no one actually cares about this and the experience is trash.

AArch64 is dead for Windows and client Linux, and the knife is in Qualcomm's hands.