Hacker News: dvdplm

New comment by dvdplm in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

dvdplm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:07:45 +0000

Thank you. I’m constantly baffled by the terrible quality of Logitech’s software. Such great hardware and such horrible software. Very much needed an oss alternative.

New comment by dvdplm in "Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler"

dvdplm — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:40:21 +0000

This is very cool. Do you have any advice on papers to read to understand the details of search based compilation a bit more?

New comment by dvdplm in "LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers"

dvdplm — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:18:09 +0000

I like the idea of llms collaborating like this a lot; planning, critiquing, verifying, coding etc. I think that’s a very general and powerful approach. How did you end up with that structure and what did you try first? What are the downsides? How do the component agents communicate, just json?

New comment by dvdplm in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

dvdplm — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:20:06 +0000

Does it have FLAC support (or other high res audio formats)?

New comment by dvdplm in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

dvdplm — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:40:02 +0000

Sadism for some, sure. For most IDF personnel I guess it’s more about “operational expediency”: if the population is terrified they’ll listen to your evacuation orders and show up to your aid distribution/killing fields on time. Finding terrorists one by one is hard work; tossing a bomb on a whole building is quicker and safer.

Terror is just a tool in the end.

New comment by dvdplm in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

dvdplm — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:25:40 +0000

This is the kind of comment that at first glance seems measured and well-phrased. I’m sure it depicts a common situation in journalism too, after all they’re just humans like the rest of us.

The problem here is the enormity of what is actually going on in Gaza: a slaughter and a terror campaign we haven’t seen the likes of since Pol Pot. It is not two sides in disagreement, each jostling for attention on roughly equal terms, each somewhat right and somewhat wrong. Two years in, we’re well beyond that and the only thing that matters is that one side is sadistically slaughtering the other and the world is pretending it’s not happening.

New comment by dvdplm in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

dvdplm — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:15:31 +0000

The Palestinian dead have names too, and it doesn’t take much to verify them. Beyond the deaths, the hostages taken by both sides are exactly that: hostages. Why do you suggest Palestinian prisoners are not? What makes you think anything akin to “due process” is happening in Gaza right now?

New comment by dvdplm in "A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union"

dvdplm — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:47:29 +0000

Why do you need pictures of camp inmates to believe that the Gulag was an integral part of the system?

And (Nial?) Ferguson seems to be alive and well and speaking his mind freely, like wut? Was he de-banked recently?

New comment by dvdplm in "London–Calcutta Bus Service"

dvdplm — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:43:03 +0000

Isn’t it a bit sad to think that trips like these are pretty much impossible to make these days? The number of countries I would consider safe to live in and raise my children in is much lower today than it was in the seventies. On that metric, things have only gone in the wrong direction for the duration of my life.

New comment by dvdplm in "Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform"

dvdplm — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:32:38 +0000

Why is this provided for free?

New comment by dvdplm in "macOS Containers v0.0.1"

dvdplm — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:00:38 +0000

CI/CD workflows most likely. And devshops that have standadised on docker containers for their stacks (mac-based devs in such places suffer a fair amount of papercuts today). Then I guess there are people that are very security minded that might want to run all userland executables in containers (although this project here is not for them I'd say).

New comment by dvdplm in "Running Postgres as a Unikernel"

dvdplm — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:12:40 +0000

So what would be the reasons to run pg as a unikernel? To get max performance on bare metal? Smaller attack surface? Or?

New comment by dvdplm in "Rsync.net warrant canary"

dvdplm — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:36:00 +0000

If a government agency issues a secret warrant, doesn’t that imply rsync.net has to provide a valid canary at the right time as well? I don’t get how this is useful.

New comment by dvdplm in "Rust and Elixir libraries for end-to-end encrypted secure communication"

dvdplm — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:53:50 +0000

What is the business model for this? The enterprise addons?

New comment by dvdplm in "Et Tu, Signal?"

dvdplm — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:51:37 +0000

...and SGX, which is very interesting and a choice worthy of scrutiny imo.

New comment by dvdplm in "Et Tu, Signal?"

dvdplm — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:48:06 +0000

There’s no dancing going on. He said he doesn’t know the exact numbers but is asking the engineers to dig it up for you. Please don’t be rude and please don’t put words in other people’s mouth.

New comment by dvdplm in "ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’"

dvdplm — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:21:01 +0000

> he concealed criminal history.

But he didn't. The box on the form said "Have you been convicted for fraud?". He hasn't, so he didn't check the box.

Maybe the ICANN-we-dont-want-to-police-the-internet-but-then-we-do-it-anyway-people need more boxes on their forms.

New comment by dvdplm in "AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]"

dvdplm — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:33:20 +0000

Indeed. And for rust compilation, good single threaded performance can have a significant impact on that last annoyingly slow linking step (at least when building executables).

New comment by dvdplm in "Actix Web 3.0"

dvdplm — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:46:04 +0000

AFAIK the Sentry people are big on Rust and very responsive. I’m sure they’d react well to a bug report. :)

New comment by dvdplm in "Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains"

dvdplm — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 22:59:12 +0000

This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.