Hacker News: ceving

New comment by ceving in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

ceving — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:59:23 +0000

I don't understand why anyone would bother doing something like Stow. I keep my home directory directly in a Git repository that ignores all files by default, and for systems with specific configurations, I simply create a branch.

New comment by ceving in "Your ePub Is fine"

ceving — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:15:43 +0000

If nobody is able to implement the standard it is probably not amazing.

New comment by ceving in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

ceving — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:48:35 +0000

Don't know, but I have uninstalled it a few minutes ago.

Go's regular expressions are either slow or even slower than expected

ceving — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:21:05 +0000

Article URL: https://ceving.gitlab.io/goregexpbench/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049110

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ceving in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

ceving — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:22:38 +0000

Outch! Security is security. Obscurity is obscurity. Piety is piety. All three have nothing in common.

New comment by ceving in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

ceving — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:33:39 +0000

Is there anything less important than the origin URL of a Git repository?

New comment by ceving in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

ceving — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:17:25 +0000

The ability to nest proxy servers using TLS would be sufficient for me.

New comment by ceving in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

ceving — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:27:15 +0000

AI is like sugar. It tastes delicious, but in high doses it causes diabetes.

New comment by ceving in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

ceving — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:16:22 +0000

They should have called it Emacs. Then everybody would have known.

New comment by ceving in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

ceving — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:04:03 +0000

No. Droid48 has replaced it.

New comment by ceving in "Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes"

ceving — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:12:07 +0000

Did something similar some time ago: https://gitlab.com/ceving/mdexec

New comment by ceving in "What happened to WebAssembly"

ceving — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:44:44 +0000

Wasm has a fundamental problem: int64 is an insufficient data type for real use cases. If you want to create some kind of plugin system based on Wasm, you need to exchange structured data. But most languages disagree about the memory layout. Dynamic languages do tagging, compiled languages do not. And the UTF issue shows that even with strings, there's still no real agreement.

Furthermore, there are now competing interest groups within the Wasm camp. Wasm originally launched as a web standard: an extension of the JavaScript environment. However, some now want to use Wasm as the basis for replacing containers: an extension of a POSIX environment.

New comment by ceving in "What happened to WebAssembly"

ceving — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:32:51 +0000

The data exchange between host and guest is still unspecified. You can not access host objects from Wasm. Most do just string serialization, which is not fast. Or they write libraries for some particular languages, which damages the universal idea of Wasm. And WASI seems to be quite controversial: https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html

New comment by ceving in "Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig"

ceving — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:28:23 +0000

The spacing issue isn't working quite right yet.

    zpdf extract texbook.pdf | grep -m1 Stanford
    DONALD E. KNUTHStanford UniversityIllustrations by

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [video]

ceving — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150655

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ceving in "Ruby is not a serious programming language"

ceving — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:25:54 +0000

Click-bait title for pay-wall spam?

New comment by ceving in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

ceving — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:17:49 +0000

Can you give a reference for ECC? I can not find anything about ECC support on the Odroid site.

New comment by ceving in "Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification"

ceving — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:36:15 +0000

And now "absolute rot and chaos" is in "~/.config". What is the difference?

New comment by ceving in "Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification"

ceving — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:41:38 +0000

I think the XDG spec is pretty petty. What difference does it make that the files are in ~/.config/mozilla instead of ~/.mozilla? And calling it a bug is presumptuous.

New comment by ceving in "FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT"

ceving — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:49:29 +0000

I had to upvote right after this sentence: "I wanted to be able to play the EGA version of Monkey Island 1 on it"