Hacker News: calmingsolitude

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:19:28 +0000

Thanks for the update. The usage of an affiliate link feels quite dishonest here because the hyperlink says bunny.net but then opens up bunny.net/?ref=xxxx

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:33:55 +0000

What trust model? Is there anyway to verify that an app from the app store is the same as the one the developer uploaded?

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:22:58 +0000

IMO closing issues via stale bot is fine, the problem is locking issues so that no further conversation is allowed on the issue. Multiple times, I've encountered multi-year old issues (which is usually not fixed due to the fix not being simple or compatible with the current architecture). There's usually a good amount of conversation between users offering workarounds (and those workarounds updated for newer versions) - till stale bot locks the issue.

This site is only accessible via UDP

calmingsolitude — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://udpquiz.com/only-udp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350230

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

calmingsolitude — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:25:57 +0000

Working on an alt-tab window switcher for wayland compositors! Currently only supports Hyprland but working on adding support for others as well.

Check it out at https://github.com/radiantly/alttabway

New comment by calmingsolitude in "A Broken Heart"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:51:12 +0000

When I read the first sentence, I expected the author to use `git bisect`.

However, what the author seems to have done is used a prompt with claude that probably looked something like this:

"Some piece of code is causing the page to load very slowly. To debug this, I'd like to use binary search, where we keep commenting/uncommenting 50% of the remaining code, and then I manually check if the page is still very slow. Let's start now; Comment out a component (or parts of a component) that you estimate is 50% of the page, and I will tell you if the page is still slow."

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:25:43 +0000

The challenge outlined by the article is the lack of communication regarding the change in availability of Debian volunteers themselves. TFA doesn't mention issues regarding recruitment of new developers.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF"

calmingsolitude — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:27:23 +0000

This is a pretty cool project and I think the comments here are being overly negative. Sure, removing the constraints that the eBPF verifier requires might encourage more complex and less performant code - but this is just another tool in the toolbox. For truly production systems, I can see the battle-tested eBPF being the top choice over a dubious kernel extension. But for quick prototyping? Rex can probably take the cake here once the project matures a bit more.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:14:50 +0000

Here's the problem: your reply is factually correct, but it doesn't address the GP's overarching complaint - the start menu is simply not performant. And since the code powering the start menu is closed source, it is not possible to perform a benchmark to see if the react native portion of the start menu is to blame or if it is something else.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:17:24 +0000

Visiting this site on mobile is not great. A good portion of the screen is covered by a sticky header and there is no underline or feedback when a link is clicked. Additionally, it is missing the story position and with infinite scroll there is no way to differentiate whether you are looking at the 10th story or the one in the 100th position.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:26:42 +0000

This is because many of the "native" windows components like the start menu are written in react native.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Affinity Studio now free"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:20:43 +0000

Downloaded v3 but it kept crashing for me on Windows 10. Possibly because I had designer v1 previously installed. If anyone's facing the same issue, deleting %APPDATA%\Affinity directory fixes this.

WebGPU Fundamentals

calmingsolitude — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-fundamentals.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480640

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by calmingsolitude in "BrowserPod: In-browser full-stack environments for IDEs and Agents via WASM"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:48:16 +0000

Unfortunately when visiting the demo (https://vitedemo.browserpod.io/), the terminal just shows "/lt/npm/bin/npm.js install" and does nothing more. There does not seem to be any errors in the developer console and no network requests have failed either. This is on Chrome v140, Windows 10.

Wireview – Wireshark on the Web

calmingsolitude — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:13:14 +0000

Article URL: https://wireview.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691606

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Termux on Android 5 or 6"

calmingsolitude — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:28:18 +0000

I have termux installed to quickly run `ip neigh` to find the IP addresses of devices connected to the hotspot - unfortunately my version of Android doesn't have this feature built in.

This is especially useful when you have multiple Pis connected and need to know the IP address to ssh to.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort"

calmingsolitude — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:52:02 +0000

And here's a version I wrote that visualizes it on your terminal https://github.com/radiantly/simplest-sort

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Starring your repo does not give you permission to spam me"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:28:07 +0000

Stars are public - navigating to any GitHub profile and clicking the 'Stars' tab shows all the repositories starred by the user. Moreover, all users that have starred a repository can be viewed by appending /stargazers to the repo url or clicking the stars link in the sidebar.

Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP

calmingsolitude — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 05:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kognise/arpchat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762921

Points: 88

# Comments: 4

Three DDoS attacks on my personal website

calmingsolitude — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:43:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/three-ddos-attacks-on-my-personal-website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30700211

Points: 2

# Comments: 0