Hacker News: egorfine

New comment by egorfine in "We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon"

egorfine — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:22:45 +0000

The project is immensely cool, but please please do not use AI for writing. Very hard to read.

New comment by egorfine in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

egorfine — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:22:42 +0000

Ah, I can see that the binary blob is not needed anymore. Nice.

New comment by egorfine in "Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901"

egorfine — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:45:46 +0000

omg, it's been over a decade since I have last used XQuartz. Did they finally open source the whole quartz-wm?

New comment by egorfine in "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?"

egorfine — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:50:58 +0000

>> The project has over 5k open pull requests, which is the largest number of pull requests I’ve seen.

> Terrible argument, and not really an argument at all.

Technically, maybe.

But when you consider for a moment that in this pile of slop some PRs were crafted by actual people who trusted Bun and Jarred... and whose trust has been flushed down the toilet by the Rust rewrite. Well, maybe that's the price of progress. Or maybe that's a grave mistake.

I'm not yet sure which is it.

New comment by egorfine in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

egorfine — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:44:47 +0000

Indeed this is interesting. Thanks, appreciate it!

New comment by egorfine in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:41:09 +0000

So what's the endgame? Typical late acquisitions are meant to destroy things. What will they destroy with this merger? Openrouter has no moat.

New comment by egorfine in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:25:57 +0000

I need a cdn actually.

New comment by egorfine in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:25:22 +0000

Yeah, to make things spicy, what we ship is a plugin, so there's limit of how static we can link. glibc stays dynamic and that's a huge limiting factor.

I've got plans to try to build on RockyLinux9 and package its glibc along with the app. Simple helloworld works, so I have a glimpse of hope that it would be possible to ship like that.

New comment by egorfine in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:53:19 +0000

Yes but only the very last version and only paid support. Don't mind to pay, it's just that no amount of payment would be a proper solution to ancient environment with everything.

New comment by egorfine in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:48:24 +0000

It's just this short of being EOL.

New comment by egorfine in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:24:13 +0000

Impossible to run practically if your site is on CDN. Finger connects to the A record IP directly. Unfortunately.

New comment by egorfine in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:18:29 +0000

> Just dynamically link against the oldest glibc you want to support

I wish it would that simple for practical use cases.

I ship professional software for colorists for Hollywood studios and they absolutely love to never upgrade. We have to ship for RockyLinux 8. Sad.

New comment by egorfine in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

egorfine — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:14:44 +0000

Honestly? I don't even know how to write anymore. Generative text is unequivocally nice, polished and correct. And it so happens that I do write in the same style as well. I never use LLMs to write human content, but here we are: I cannot use "honestly" anymore. And the emdash. Thank God we got "delve" back, though.

New comment by egorfine in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

egorfine — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:42:44 +0000

I'm using Fastmail for about 15 years and this is one of the services I'm extremely happy with. Definitely recommend!

New comment by egorfine in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

egorfine — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:39:07 +0000

Slightly unrelated: what's up with the "tps" value? Does GPT-5.6 Sol really deliver just 32 tokens/second?

New comment by egorfine in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

egorfine — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:17:24 +0000

Because it's more likely that not that I will be affected.

New comment by egorfine in "Grok 4.6"

egorfine — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:33:27 +0000

This is absolutely how it's being done for certain topics. If you ever wanted to research suicide-related psychiatric topics with ChatGPT you would know to have your screen recording always on, because ChatGPT spits out a full answer and then a screening model takes it back.

New comment by egorfine in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

egorfine — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:20:13 +0000

If you tried a 2005 technology, don't be surprised with 2005 customer service.

New comment by egorfine in "Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record"

egorfine — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:33:02 +0000

> there are a few more advantages

I'm pretty sure Germany is more than capable to negate all those. For instance it is inconceivable to imagine company law practiced in Germany without a notary speaking out loud the whole shebang.

Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain over Missing Digital ID Checks

egorfine — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:57:56 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-locked-a-foreign-companys-domain-over-missing-digital-id-checks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260291

Points: 5

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