Hacker News: bw86

New comment by bw86 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

bw86 — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:19:11 +0000

Scotty from Star Trek does approve!

THEC64 Handheld

bw86 — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.c64os.com/post/thec64handheld

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019176

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by bw86 in "Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude"

bw86 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:20:15 +0000

The Emacs one is actually more a bug/feature in Git. If you execute "git ls-files" in the folder from the PoC, the payload gets executed. Emacs just does this automatically for you.

New comment by bw86 in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

bw86 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:44:45 +0000

You mean like in this example? https://web.archive.org/web/20260313042512/https://gist.gith...

There is never a guarantee with GenAI. If you need to be sure, sandbox it.

New comment by bw86 in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

bw86 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:50 +0000

https://github.com/narqo/freebsd-brcmfmac/blob/be9b49c1bf942... seems to be the only file written in Zig.

Using an entire additional programming language for 229 lines of code is definitely an interesting choice.

New comment by bw86 in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

bw86 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:12:01 +0000

I am waiting for Raymond Chen to post a "Microspeak: Morged" blog post.

New comment by bw86 in "D Programming Language"

bw86 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:44:14 +0000

> Why is that not D ?

You never get a second chance at making a good first impression.

I believe that many people that gladly use Rust or Zig or Go nowadays would be quite happy with D if they were willing to give it a fair evaluation. But I still often find people going "D? I would never use a language where the ecosystem is split between different standard libraries"/"D? No thanks, I prefer compilers that are open source" or similar outdated claims. These things have not been true for a long time, but once they are stuck in the heads of the people, it is over. And these claims spread to other people and get stuck there.

If you do not want to use a GC, it is trivial to avoid it and still be able to use a large chunk of the ecosystem. But often avoiding GC at all costs is not even necessary - you mostly want to avoid it in specific spots. Even many games today are written with tasteful usage of GC.

The one thing that really is a fair disadvantage for D is its small community. And the community is small because the community is too small (chicken/egg) and many believe in claims that have not been true for a long time ...

New comment by bw86 in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

bw86 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:14:59 +0000

That would still require someone else to burn 20000$ to try it themselves.

New comment by bw86 in "G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)"

bw86 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:32:01 +0000

Almost lisp-like, isn't it?)))))))

New comment by bw86 in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

bw86 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:51:59 +0000

It would not make Windows a good project, but it would mean that hardware vendors would have to implement good Linux drivers. It could therefore help all other distributions, too!

New comment by bw86 in "My Gripes with Prolog"

bw86 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:49:09 +0000

findall instead of bagof can also help for these cases.

    | ?- findall(A, (tree(A, N), branch(N)), As).

    As = [n,n1]

    yes

See https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=...

Where should portability stop? (OpenBSD)

bw86 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:18:12 +0000

Article URL: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/tcx.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630940

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Adaptec RAID cards are junk (2021)

bw86 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:55:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nickh.org/warstories/adaptec.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365745

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bw86 in "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"

bw86 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:57:37 +0000

I tried the pronunciation feature, which works less than awesome on my system. I am happy to share that "語彙" is pronounced "chinese letter chinese letter", while for "効果的" it is "chinese letter chinese letter chinese letter".

Is that just my Debian/Firefox system? Or is "AI slop" the reason here?

New comment by bw86 in "End of Japanese community"

bw86 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:59:42 +0000

For reference: https://xkcd.com/1425/

New comment by bw86 in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

bw86 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:03:47 +0000

Ha! I like the thought of unconciousness triggering a "kernel OOPS" and the brain dumping out a backtrace of everything. Makes you wonder who is supposed to debug it later ...

New comment by bw86 in "I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D"

bw86 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:41:43 +0000

Rust is fractured by the optional async-ness of libraries. And all languages are fractured by GPL vs non-GPL libraries.

You have a point, but it is not worth the drama. D's biggest problem comes from the strong opinions of people that have not tried using it.

New comment by bw86 in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

bw86 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:34:14 +0000

The challenge then is to differentiate between "I wanted to access the secret website/document" and "Google/Copilot gave me the secret website/document, but it was not my intention to access that".

New comment by bw86 in "[dead]"

bw86 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:21:24 +0000

The new kickstarter has launched and did meet its original goal in only seven minutes.

New comment by bw86 in "[dead]"

bw86 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:18:10 +0000

This is supposed to link to https://perldoc.perl.org/5.42.0/perldelta, but for some reason, it always changes the link to the wrong place.