Hacker News: bouk

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

bouk — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:24:51 +0000

No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it

New comment by bouk in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

bouk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:56:42 +0000

I highly recommend anyone to look at jq's VM implementation some time, it's kind of mind-blowing how it works under the hood: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/src/execute.c

It does some kind of stack forking which is what allows its funky syntax

New comment by bouk in "Apple Business"

bouk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:18:50 +0000

Hopefully some actual competition against GSuite (or whatever it's called these days)

New comment by bouk in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

bouk — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:27:12 +0000

Wow I've heard pieces of this but never the full thing, incredible

Minimal NixOS systemd-nspawn containers

bouk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:51:39 +0000

Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/nixos-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309911

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bouk in "Redefining Go Functions"

bouk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:16:42 +0000

Wow 11 years ago, takes me back...

Tsexec: Run a command inside your Tailnet without root

bouk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:40:36 +0000

Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/tsexec/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704867

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bouk in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

bouk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:27:00 +0000

Sure, but getting this far would be inconceivable just half a year ago. It will only get better as time passes

New comment by bouk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bouk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:02:05 +0000

My website: https://bou.ke/

I should blog more, and so should you!

New comment by bouk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

bouk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:24:45 +0000

It's not available in my region (NL) :(

Nexperia got caught between two world powers

bouk — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/30/nexperia-in-no-mans-land-how-a-chip-company-became-caught-between-two-world-powers-a4916395

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442199

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Streaming compression beats framed compression

bouk — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/compressed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392382

Points: 36

# Comments: 16

New comment by bouk in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

bouk — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:29:23 +0000

big L for all the cloud providers that made the mistake of using it instead of forging their own path, they're kind of screwed now

New comment by bouk in "Rootless Pings in Rust"

bouk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:23:23 +0000

option 2 is what this blog is about, the example code creates a socket using that method

Rootless Pings in Rust

bouk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:01:03 +0000

Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/rust-ping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118432

Points: 127

# Comments: 79

New comment by bouk in "Cursor: Past, Present, and Future"

bouk — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:02 +0000

HR, finance, sales any non engineer is called an operator these days basically

New comment by bouk in "Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser"

bouk — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:41:44 +0000

Could you how a decimal point in the distance measuring tool? I want to measure distances in my backyard from the satellite photo and the rounded number makes it hard to be accurate

New comment by bouk in "Finding a Bug in Chromium"

bouk — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:33:00 +0000

Ah this makes a lot of sense, perhaps the posted flag doesn't get reset e.g. if this branch gets followed: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/...

New comment by bouk in "Finding a Bug in Chromium"

bouk — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:29:01 +0000

Prefab stone strips are used here and there but most brick facades are still built by hand on-site.

There's a huge shortage of workers, which is why we're working on this.

Finding a Bug in Chromium

bouk — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/chromium-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893581

Points: 65

# Comments: 12