Hacker News: devl547

New comment by devl547 in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

devl547 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:47:55 +0000

Is it RISC-V or bloated software full of layered abstractions?

New comment by devl547 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

devl547 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:34:08 +0000

>Bazzite's fate is sealed as a non-commercial hobbyist-like OS.

Sounds like good news to me.

New comment by devl547 in "KDE going all-in on a Wayland future"

devl547 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:00:48 +0000

>NVidia

Angry Linus noises...

New comment by devl547 in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

devl547 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:08:26 +0000

Gnome Conduit software. Used to synchronize a lot of my local-first data (calendar, photos, music) to different online services. Nice to see in one place where everything goes and what is the sync status.

New comment by devl547 in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

devl547 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:48:23 +0000

RTM or SP3? When users talk about XP being awesome, they talk about SP3.

New comment by devl547 in "Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore'"

devl547 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:04:44 +0000

Softmachines VISC architecture is not dead?

New comment by devl547 in "The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets"

devl547 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:11:44 +0000

All Moscow public transport powered by these chips (actually it was, nowadays the chips we use are clones, made in Russia itself) - trains, metro and buses.

New comment by devl547 in "Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?"

devl547 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:01:30 +0000

Elbrus are VLIW/EPIC, based on home-grown architecture.

The SPARC-based one is the old MCST R1000.

>who would be willing to fab it

Before the conflict, they used TSMC. Now, AFAIK, the only fab available is Mikron, located in Zelenograd near Moscow. And only 90nm process. There were some rumors about switching to SMIC, but I have not heard any updates for quite some time.

New comment by devl547 in "Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice"

devl547 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:37:52 +0000

Do Mozilla next, Mozilla!

New comment by devl547 in "Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding"

devl547 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:01:08 +0000

Official specs only state 4Kp60 HEVC decoder

So no encoders and no h.264 decoder.

New comment by devl547 in "MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive"

devl547 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:56:38 +0000

We are currently trying to bring SliTaz back to life.

https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/usage-of-slitaz-40-rolling/pa...

New comment by devl547 in "Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx"

devl547 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:39:42 +0000

"At last!" - said Igor and installed lighttpd ;)

New comment by devl547 in "Ask HN: What does it take to build a browser from scratch?"

devl547 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:47:18 +0000

It IS possible to build one from scratch, but the limiting factors as always are money and time.

>Otter, LibreWolf and Qutebrowser

They are all based on readily available Webkit and Firefox engines and wont ever be full-featured alternatives to Chrome, cause they dont develop their own tech.

New comment by devl547 in "Body Shaming Dressed Up as a Fitness Goal Is Still Body Shaming"

devl547 — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:32:54 +0000

Well...

- Knock-knock!

- Who's that?

- Heart attack.

New comment by devl547 in "Ask HN: Why did PowerMac G3 and G4s have 64-bit PCI slots?"

devl547 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:37:16 +0000

Simply speaking - more bandwidth due to increased bus width. And later increased frequency in PCI-X slot.

But lack of useful desktop/workstation hardware and adoption of PCIe on PCs killed it.