Hacker News: happyweasel

New comment by happyweasel in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

happyweasel — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:55:15 +0000

Same ,I switched to cursor. I told it how to invoke msbuild and it can edit away without needing a native Visual studio plugin.. no problems at all. Target language c++

New comment by happyweasel in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

happyweasel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:54:43 +0000

wow, basic stuff c++ had since the 80s. congrats. clap, clap, clap. now can someone please make this app that is running with -Xmx360m not use 700mb of resident memory ? asking for a friend.

New comment by happyweasel in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

happyweasel — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:03:34 +0000

You go to the gym to lift. Not to talk. You may talk shortly if it is related to something you need to continue your workout. Apart from that you do not talk. End of story.

New comment by happyweasel in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

happyweasel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:54:49 +0000

Used this kind of font for output on the 320x200 screen all of the time in the late 80s while coding 68k asm on the Atari St

New comment by happyweasel in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

happyweasel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:01:34 +0000

In the early 1990s, C++ had not yet been standardized by ISO, so your argument doesn’t apply to that period.

New comment by happyweasel in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

happyweasel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:58:06 +0000

Let's see how this unwrap()s in production scnr

New comment by happyweasel in "Shrinking While Linking"

happyweasel — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:15:04 +0000

hmm how can I reuse this useful Go library in python... Oh I can't.. hmm and how can I reuse this useful java library in php ? Oh I can't. Oh and which of the programming languages you mentioned can and do use C libraries? All of them.

Reminds me of that coworker who thought that OpenCV was basically written in python.

New comment by happyweasel in "Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"

happyweasel — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:54:35 +0000

does your gtx 1060 help in any way for the NAS use case?

New comment by happyweasel in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

happyweasel — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:13:36 +0000

>BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can >build a community around them and stick around for years...

Why ? who cares? if the tool solves the problem, you need a community maintain it. And that's it.

New comment by happyweasel in "14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal"

happyweasel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:09:34 +0000

Oh, let me guess... The protests were organized by groups that get their funding from the NED or other Western sponsored NGOs ? (Asking for a friend)

New comment by happyweasel in "XMLUI"

happyweasel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:34:45 +0000

I always wanted to check out https://qskinny.github.io/ it looks compelling and sticks to c++

New comment by happyweasel in "Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines"

happyweasel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:07:29 +0000

vcpkg it

New comment by happyweasel in "Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix"

happyweasel — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:15:29 +0000

I share the same perspective .. I was also wondering how UDA handles the problem of evolving schemas, "old clients" communicating with newer server or vice versa.

New comment by happyweasel in "Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS"

happyweasel — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:23:57 +0000

>The truth is that although the AWS Load Balancer Controller is a fantastic piece >of software, it is surprisingly tricky to roll out releases without downtime.

20 years ago we used simple bash scripts using curl to do rest calls to take one host out of our load balancers, then scp to the host and shut down the app gracefully, and updated the app using scp again, then put it back into the load balancer after testing the host on its own. we had 4 or 5 scripts max, straightforward stuff..

They charge $$$ and you get downtime in this simple scenario ?

New comment by happyweasel in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

happyweasel — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:32:21 +0000

Absolutely. Information can no longer be retrieved via internet search. Discord and Slack are effectively silos.

New comment by happyweasel in "The History of S.u.S.E"

happyweasel — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:49:06 +0000

IMHO, Deutsche Linux-Distribution (DLD) was the first german linux distribution (first release in 1992).

New comment by happyweasel in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

happyweasel — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:56:23 +0000

Buggy/incomplete Openapi codegen for rust was a huge disappointment for me. At least with grpc some languages are first class citizens. Of course generated code has some uglyness. Kinda sad http2 traffic can be flaky due to bugs in network hardware.

New comment by happyweasel in "Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#"

happyweasel — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:51:08 +0000

mfc has resizable ui layouts called Dynamic layouts (since the 2015 update?), and for wxwidgets there is wxformbuilder. Most stuff for mfc can be set in the dialog builder wrt to resizing, or in code. I cant remember doing manual pixel layouting ever, there are dialog base units or sth like this. People have been setting the ui to 120dpi from the 96dpi standard already decades ago. And the dialogs automatically readjusted without recompiling.

I also recently found out my mfc tools are per monitor high dpi aware without any interference from my side.

New comment by happyweasel in "Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite"

happyweasel — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:55:03 +0000

The only real comparison would be a rewrite in modern c++ and then compare that to the rewrite in rust. Also the author mentioned that the original code had no tests at all. Well, good luck.

New comment by happyweasel in "Winamp Legacy player source code"

happyweasel — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:29:52 +0000

> Back in the summer of 1999 [..] > We went all digital. We were ahead of our time.

Well I had a DAT recorder in 1993. Even a DAT walkman.