Hacker News: chalst

New comment by chalst in "Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat"

chalst — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:50:00 +0000

Good link. I think it’s clear that he is the most corrupt president: while other presidents have been guilty of corruption, seeking money from foreign governments and firms via cryptocoins is a level of corruption no other president has met, and he’s quite open about it.

David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again

chalst — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:11:22 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/piece_android_iphone_apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791393

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead

chalst — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/when_he_is_alive_and_not_after_he_is_dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791223

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

How the AI 'bubble' compares to history

chalst — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:13:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/41e9d03a-e5c1-4862-9836-b3c80b3f9be4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556131

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by chalst in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

chalst — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:51:16 +0000

Some parts of more recent versions of Darwin aren’t fully open source.

New comment by chalst in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

chalst — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:41:21 +0000

You can run Windows on bhyve:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows

Arm Morello: What Is It and Why Is It Important? (2022)

chalst — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:23:06 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/morello

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322093

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chalst in "Memory Integrity Enforcement"

chalst — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:18:46 +0000

Homepage here:

  https://www.cheribsd.org/

which strangely doesn’t seem to link here:

  https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd

New comment by chalst in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

chalst — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:06:18 +0000

The case is strong for not depending on anything the Trump admin could have control of.

New comment by chalst in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

chalst — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:28:18 +0000

Amateurs. Fortunately for them, the case is lost without their efforts.

New comment by chalst in "Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court"

chalst — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:24:16 +0000

Why the disclaimer? We know that monopolies make bad platform owners.

New comment by chalst in "How University Students Use Claude"

chalst — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:13:17 +0000

Students who do that risk submitting assignments that show they don’t understand the course so far.

Swirls and scoops: Antarctica's upside down ice-scape we had no idea existed

chalst — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:47:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241119-antarcticas-upside-down-ice-scape-we-had-no-idea-existed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268073

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chalst in "Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript"

chalst — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:14:25 +0000

He’s on BlueSky, where I see Yoav already follows.

New comment by chalst in "Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript"

chalst — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:09:14 +0000

> Thanks to whoever submitted.

That would be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CharlesW aka Charles Wiltgen.

New comment by chalst in "Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)"

chalst — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:13:43 +0000

Viruses that infect USB devices can compromise systems based on air gaps.

Cf. eg., https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html and https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/ramsey_malwar...

New comment by chalst in "Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models"

chalst — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:13:33 +0000

The OP explicitly excludes training.

New comment by chalst in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

chalst — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:25:14 +0000

Difftastic is text-based.

New comment by chalst in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

chalst — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:23:35 +0000

You can be the one to create such a package…

New comment by chalst in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

chalst — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:15:04 +0000

Yes, since magit allows a call-out to diff and difftastic can be supplied as a binary, but magit allows you to use ediff, and Emacs allows use of tree-sitter, so I don’t really see the point.