Hacker News: farlight

New comment by farlight in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

farlight — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:23:22 +0000

If you still did business with them after this, it's your own fault and you deserve everything they're doing to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

(Before reacting to the headline, please read at least some of the discussion.)

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

farlight — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132950

Points: 138

# Comments: 115

New comment by farlight in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

farlight — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:30:31 +0000

That's actually the default behavior for libjxl cli: encoding and then decoding jpeg via jxl produces a file bit identical to the original jpeg file.

Try it: run cjxl › djxl and hash the output against the original.

Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support by default

farlight — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/158.0/releasenotes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120272

Points: 40

# Comments: 3

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

farlight — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224

Points: 326

# Comments: 216

New comment by farlight in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font"

farlight — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:03:54 +0000

Slab serif is optional.

New comment by farlight in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font"

farlight — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:02:52 +0000

It has very poor character coverage, especially compared to Iosevka whose author speaks Mandarin as his main language (IIRC), and put a lot of effort into supporting as many languages as possible.

New comment by farlight in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

farlight — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:35:57 +0000

If running systemd, wrap that crap into a cgroup and force kill the whole process tree on exit. I've been doing it for years with badly behaving applications. On phone, from memory, may not be exactly what is needed:

  systemd-run --user --pty --wait --collect -p TimeoutStopSec=5s -- "$@"

New comment by farlight in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

farlight — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Not true since summer 2025.

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/141.0/releasenotes/#:~...

CAVEWOMAN: How LLMs Behave Under Linguistic Input and Output Compression

farlight — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:31:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24083

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036322

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by farlight in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

farlight — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:07:12 +0000

Thank you for trying to do something to prevent it, many people wouldn't bother.

New comment by farlight in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

farlight — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:25:11 +0000

This doesn't really solve the problem, but the good news is jxl has excellent generation loss in lossy mode compared to other formats, if you recompress it with high quality, it keeps original quality pretty well.

Unlike older formats:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qc2DvJpXh-A

New comment by farlight in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

farlight — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:01 +0000

Depends on who you listen to, or what you test it on. It goes either way, and avif is typically significantly better at small files sizes where loading speed (or saving data) is the priority.

New comment by farlight in "Gemini 4 Argon"

farlight — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:01:18 +0000

I don't get it. This technology has almost reached the point where they don't need you anymore, and you're joyful about it for some reason?

New comment by farlight in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

farlight — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:03:42 +0000

You think 2-8% is a problem? There's a large world outside the US. "Hundreds of dollars" per month is most of my salary, I can afford that only by going hungry half the time.

Probably going to if I want to keep my job, since I'll be making about the same amount of money moving boxes or cleaning toilets, only in much less comfortable conditions.

New comment by farlight in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

farlight — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:14:55 +0000

On Windows you do. If you have to suffer it for some reason.

New comment by farlight in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

farlight — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:16:28 +0000

One time? lscpu on my system lists two dozen CPU vulnerabilities known to the kernel. I stopped tracking them a long time ago when it felt like every week brought another information leak or bypass.

New comment by farlight in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

farlight — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:49:26 +0000

Oh come on, stop felling sorry for yourself. I'm from one of those countries compared to which even Eastern Europe you offload hardware to is a paradise.

None of what you're describing is available here at all. I sometimes see Europeans willing to ship here (already very few) offer heavily used and scratched ThinkPads and Dells for money they weren't worth when they were new. Add at least $80 on top for shipping, and no warranty, you get what you get.

On the local market, you will find those Core 2 Duo with precisely the attitude you're describing, but at 2-4 times the cost.

So I buy everything new, which is expensive with our salaries, but we have no choice. At least new hardware is available now thanks to selling over the internet and improved logistics.

10 years ago you could only buy what was offered by local shops, which was always at least two generations behind, and at least twice as expensive as it was in the EU (forget the US).

For example, if things continued like this to this day, I'd estimate the newest CPU you could buy right now would be something like Ryzen 3600, at twice the cost it was in your country when it just came out. If we're lucky, maybe 7600 would already appear at a similar overprice.

I'm sure many parts of the planet are even in a worse position than we are.

New comment by farlight in "Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip"

farlight — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:23:11 +0000

This sounds like FUD, do you have any references? Genuinely asking. I follow LWN reporting religiously, which in turn follows Fedora development (and associated drama) closely, and haven't seen anything said in this direction. Just had a quick look on LWN and Fedora development resources, and nothing came up.

New comment by farlight in "Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip"

farlight — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:17:13 +0000

Other things: since no companies sponsoring its development had any interest in raid 5/6, which is mostly a home enthusiast thing.

Western Digital picked up this work last year and is slowly getting through the new design without the write hole, I think we'll see working raid 5/6 in the next year or two.