Hacker News: ceving

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

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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"

New comment by ceving in "Why I'm Learning Sumerian"

ceving — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:40:29 +0000

How does "impresses no one" and writing a blog article fits together?

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

ceving — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:57:59 +0000

This was my first dark mode: https://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=12253 Been there, done that. A black background is generally more tiring for the eyes. A black background means less light. Less light means the eye's aperture has to open wider. A wider aperture means less depth of field. Less depth of field means the eye has to work harder to focus. There are reasons for using a black background on a mobile phone, as it can save energy. But for any device that has a power adapter, a black background is simply self-flagellation.

New comment by ceving in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

ceving — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:34:38 +0000

Is there anyone in the world who hasn't cut their negatives into strips? https://www.beauphoto.com/product/printfile-archival-negativ... The ability to scan an entire film seems rather useless to me in light of that.

New comment by ceving in "The terminal of the future"

ceving — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:39:58 +0000

"stage 1: transactional semantics" sounds like pure nonsense. How can a terminal have transactions if the OS does not have them?

New comment by ceving in "The Farmer Was Replaced [video]"

ceving — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:25:40 +0000

Is this Windows only?

New comment by ceving in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

ceving — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:57:56 +0000

According to Shannon, the measure of the information content of a news story is the improbability with which the event occurs. This means that rare events automatically have a higher information content than frequently occurring events. Even though I generally don't think much of the media, one has to acknowledge that in this case the media should focus more on rarer events.