Hacker News: bfrog

New comment by bfrog in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

bfrog — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:08:05 +0000

Why would customers trust a company that does rug pull penny pinching moves like this? Tells me a lot.

New comment by bfrog in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

bfrog — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:23:23 +0000

radicle is awesome and Just Works from what I've tried of it

New comment by bfrog in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bfrog — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:40:54 +0000

Funny, I need an LLM to figure out what most people consider "readable" python as its highly unreadable to me. The lack of types, top to bottom flow, and more tends to make it all very confusing for me to read anything python that's > ~1000loc

New comment by bfrog in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:45:16 +0000

I asked claude if it thought openclaw was better. It said it didn't know what openclaw was.

New comment by bfrog in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:53:04 +0000

I mean best of luck policing this is all I'm going to say. We will soon be back to the "core contributors only" kind of policy in many projects I imagine to avoid the slop spam. The verification will be at the conferences.

New comment by bfrog in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

bfrog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:05:43 +0000

I'm not sure how you could really take a stance on this. If someone used the tool to expedite work its unlikely you'd ever know it.

If you use the tool to yeah, go one shot a ton of garbage then it will in fact be garbage.

New comment by bfrog in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:26:03 +0000

radicle.xyz also does the distributed/seeded forge setup and I think does a nice job of it already.

New comment by bfrog in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:54:17 +0000

I wonder if radicle.xyz will start taking off, as there is no corporate entity hanging over its head, and never likely will be.

New comment by bfrog in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bfrog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:53:33 +0000

GitHub lost its way right around the time it was bought by a large corporate entity.

Had they remained independent I have no doubt it'd be a very different story.

New comment by bfrog in "Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM"

bfrog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:31:46 +0000

It all runs better with Linux, Linux isn’t wasting cycles spying on me.

New comment by bfrog in "The State of Immutable Linux"

bfrog — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:06:12 +0000

NixOS can be all of these things given a nix expression to make it so

New comment by bfrog in "MacBook Neo, the Benchmarks"

bfrog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:46:29 +0000

The thing here is I doubt many people care that it’s a little slower. The price point makes it an excellent computer without a decent operating system.

The alternative is a crappy computer with a horrible operating system.

New comment by bfrog in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

bfrog — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:23:21 +0000

Exactly this. I love Apple tells you it’s a big Trojan in effect that can do anything. Yeah no thanks.

New comment by bfrog in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

bfrog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:17:21 +0000

Oh yeah no... its still terrible even without all the spyware.

First experience of Windows 11, trying to download a file through firefox caused my 18 core 10980xe to have the entire UI freeze for the full time the download was going.

Reverted back to windows 10 immediately and the problem went away.

Windows 11 is full of spyware from the Mothership

New comment by bfrog in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

bfrog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:32 +0000

Funnily it probably runs Windows better than the typical corporate spyware burdened x86 laptop.

New comment by bfrog in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

bfrog — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:49:38 +0000

Aaaand I cancelled.

New comment by bfrog in "WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?"

bfrog — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:29:51 +0000

Open Source is not Free Support, the sooner this reality sets in (accelerated surely by AI spam) the sooner we get to the happy place.

New comment by bfrog in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

bfrog — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:56:24 +0000

It’s the taxi app wars all over. Yes Claude is great. But how many people are going pay once the subsidies are over?

Like uber I believe current pricing is heavily subsidized by capital investment. The investors likely believe the bot with the users is a winner.

The real winner will be the good enough bot with customer hardware and scale to run it cheaply. There’s exactly one current contender as far as I know with both.

New comment by bfrog in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

bfrog — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:24:47 +0000

C isn't really the protocol though, its just a way every language has of exporting simple symbols. Otherwise how else does this work, you'd never every language to understand every other languages symbol name encoding scheme, some of which are complete jibberish (I'm looking hard your way C++).

The real protocol in action here is symbolic linking and hardware call ABIs.

You could always directly call Rust functions, but you'd have to know where to symbolically look for them and how to craft its parameters for example.

If this is well defined then its possible. If its poorly defined or implementation specific (c++) then yeah its a shit show that is not solvable.

New comment by bfrog in "Intel will start making GPUs"

bfrog — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:27:43 +0000

I which no one cares about. As a 1% player having a convoluted C++ centric stack when the 99% player has something different e ouch porting requires critical thinking means no one gives a damn about it.

ZLUDA has more interest that SyCL and that should say it all right there.