Hacker News: bfrog

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.

New comment by bfrog in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

bfrog — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:38:53 +0000

Ah yes, the qualcomm way. Rather than upstreaming things so it just works make a Qualcomm Linux, perhaps with NDA and laywer speak to sign off on to get access to anything at all, all to use their mediocre hardware.

Qualcomm you suck, upstream your drivers, make it open. Stop faffing about with closed proprietary junk. Somehow Intel, Tenstorrent, and AMD understand this but you don't. You aren't NVIDIA! Even if you were NVIDIA know that people absolutely despise that model.

New comment by bfrog in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

bfrog — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:28:31 +0000

Sitting in a modern pickup is worse than a school bus for visibility. You cannot see in front of the truck at all. Real blue collar work seems to mostly have moved to work vans like the sprinter which have much better visibility, much more friendly height for storing, can still tow, etc.

Pickups are 1000% pointless now

New comment by bfrog in "Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack"

bfrog — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:21:58 +0000

I’m moving all my machines to NixOS. I’d done this before but ran into time constraints creating ports for convoluted binary software. With LLMs now as good as they are it’s quite possible this isn’t a problem anymore. I’ll be finding out.

New comment by bfrog in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bfrog — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:49:40 +0000

Wild. A great book by Clive had this exact sort of scenario where an AI so powerful it could break into any system. In typical Cussler fashion there was some Indiana Jones/Laura Croft mysticism around it but still…

The modern world is a wild place!

New comment by bfrog in "Claude Fable 5"

bfrog — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:09:22 +0000

How do you measure the performance of people? This is subjective and biased every time.

New comment by bfrog in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

bfrog — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:13:55 +0000

There is no inherit in Rust. If you choose to try and do OOP horror Rust makes this fairly painful