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New comment by devy in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

devy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:22:55 +0000

Docs full of emojis, this is another AI slop?!

Tangential note: there is already a community effort[1] to rewrite GNU commandline tools into Rust and Canonical shipped the rust version of the /bin/utils in Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon by default[2] in their "oxidizing" initiative.[3]

PS: Linus Torvalds has confirmed that the existing Linux kernel will never be fully rewritten in Rust.[4] Let's see how well that statement age.

[1]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

[2]: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-l...

[3]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-ox...

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41355731

New comment by devy in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

devy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:01:44 +0000

The submission link should have been the original editorial piece at

https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-apple-s-decade-long...

New comment by devy in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

devy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:09:06 +0000

Yep. The 4 Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB NVMe SSDs are $1100 apiece. Yikes!

https://www.samsung.com/us/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/990-pro-p...

Microsoft reveals Windows 11's Docker Replacement WSL Containers to ship soon

devy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:44:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/28/microsoft-denies-wsl-3-exists-reveals-windows-11s-wsl-containers-ship-next-week/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738929

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by devy in "Deno Desktop"

devy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:15:29 +0000

> At this point the only OS with a consistent look and feel at all is Mac.

Apparently, NOT! Apple's controversial Liquid Glass UI disrupted their long-standing Human Interface Guidelines by prioritizing cinematic aesthetics (transparency, refractions, and blur) over core tenets like readability, contrast, and content deference. Critics highlight that transparent, light-bending panes frequently clash with underlying wallpapers or videos, causing text and buttons to become illegible. This is a HOT topic in recent WWDCs and amongst UI designers.[1]

[1] https://blog.prototypr.io/why-apples-liquid-glass-design-is-...

New comment by devy in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

devy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:47:54 +0000

Gary Bernhardt's Wat lightning talk [1] was my favorite of all time.

It's only 2 years predates this talk in the title.

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Build GPUI and Ghostty (via libghostty-vt core) without writing code

devy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://xuanwo.io/2026/01-gpui-ghostty/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468484

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by devy in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

devy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:29:38 +0000

AI and their armies of agents has been making the job search much much worse for both employers and employees - the reason is simply, spamming becomes extremely cheap and easy - sometimes it's literally one prompt away.

Find offline channels to connect with potential employers in person is your best bet, IMO. Good luck job search!

The Bobafication of Manhattan's Chinatown

devy — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://nextcity.org/features/the-bobafication-of-manhattans-chinatown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348389

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Alibaba DAMO Academy Releases GPU Version of Solver

devy — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:14:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/70684711/alibaba-damo-academy-releases-gpu-version-of-solver-for-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343426

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by devy in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

devy — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:34:58 +0000

I can't believe promoting the QR code-based challenge as the agentic way of fraud defense. Having non-human readable data input is dangerous if somehow the QR code is comprised with a zero-day URL, it's game-over.

Note: I know QR code is ubiquitous these days, but still blinding scanning a QR code to go to accessing an URL is like running a binary downloaded from the internet.

Note2: yes, the `curl $URL | bash` installation approach is essentially just that, yet somehow became popular.

New comment by devy in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

devy — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:32:42 +0000

We need one for Anthropic's Claude: https://status.claude.com/

IMO, Claude is not fairing any better than Github.

New comment by devy in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

devy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:59:47 +0000

I am an early GitHub user with low 6 digit user ID (joined around 2011 with a two letter handle). I approve Mitchell's message.

It's been painful to use GitHub these days, user experience practically went down the toilet with ridiculous pains like CVEs [1][2], slow and ineffective and expensive GitHub Actions that doesn't allow local execution instead a "push & pray" workflow leading to repetitive "commit-push-wait" cycles to debug CI errors or bugs and then the absolutely horrendous Arkose Lab's Octocaptcha[3][4]. Note that only new users are encountering the Octocaptcha at account creation time, the amount of the time I wasted on solving these ridiculous visual or audio captchas are insane. I happened to need to create 3 separate accounts for the orgs that I am consulting for recently, each time it was at least 20-30 minutes to go through the account creation process. Sure it blocks some AI bots, but can't GitHub team create something that doesn't hinder the user experience?! Oh, if you have uBlock Origin or Privacy Guard on (which I did), it will take longer because each failed answer will set you back for another 5-10 mins of puzzle time!

Plus the reliability issues that Mitchell mentioned. Mona the Octocat jumped the shark in 2026. RIP.

[1] https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-38... [2] https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/trivy-security-scanner-git... [3] https://octocaptcha.com [4] https://share.google/aimode/2KOowSozTuZJVhBLw

New comment by devy in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

devy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:56:58 +0000

This reminds me the 2008-2009 era where Mac OS X Leopard was running Hackintosh on Dell Mini 9 and some other netbooks.

At $349, it was almost a fully functional laptop that runs on Mac OS X (comparing to over $1000+ MacBooks or $1599 MacBook Pros)

Two friends of mine literally working remotely in an Africa trip with Dell Mini 9 and mobile hotspots and were doing video conferencing with Skype (on Wi-Fi).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_Series

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh

New comment by devy in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

devy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:54:21 +0000

> Bad code works fine until it doesn't.

Who is to judge the "good" or "bad" anyway?

New comment by devy in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

devy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:59:29 +0000

The high cost of high end DRAM (4GB+) cost skyrocketing has caused some interesting shifts:

1. Shifting Hobbyist Focus: Because hobbyists typically prefer parts under the $100 mark (so they don't "fret over breaking them"), the community is shifting away from modern, high-powered SBCs. Instead, people are moving toward:

2. Older SBC models (like the Pi 3 or 4 with lower RAM).

3. Microcontrollers (like the RP2040) which remain cheap. So Used hardware and "repurposing" old tech is retro trending again.

IMO, perhaps there will be push to make software/firmware more RAM efficient with AI assisted coding?

New comment by devy in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

devy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:52:19 +0000

> To broaden my point, I think we’d find that many websites we use are doing this.

Your point of "I think we’d find that many websites we use are doing this" doesn't make LinkedIn's behavior ok!

By your logic, if our privacy rights are invaded which is illegal in most jurisdiction, and then it become ok because many companies do illegal things??

New comment by devy in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

devy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:49:46 +0000

LinkedIn has been a weirdest social network for a long time.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=linkedin+weird

Swift SDK for Android

devy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:27:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/swift-sdk-for-android-getting-started.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571843

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by devy in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

devy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:06:35 +0000

Yep. False report.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710#issue...