Hacker News: hn92726819

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

hn92726819 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:13:32 +0000

I don't understand why anyone would continue working on the c++ project once the rust one started beating it in performance

New comment by hn92726819 in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

hn92726819 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:48:24 +0000

Spoiler alert if you haven't read it.

This happens in The Three Body Problem as well. A second ship is sent after the first and surpasses it. It's a great series.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug"

hn92726819 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:45:27 +0000

Absolutely not. It felt so laggy and buggy ~1 year ago. I think resizing my screen broke it at the time? And now it's loaded with AI and shortcuts overrides.

I switched to my custom fork of stinkpot posted a few days ago here, and it's so nice. I did have to add current-for filtering, but that was easy.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking"

hn92726819 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:29:27 +0000

This is for people unfamiliar. According to the Wikipedia page, it looks like slashdot effect was declining in 2005. 21 year olds today are younger than the decline, so it's safe to say a bunch of people probably haven't heard of it.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking"

hn92726819 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:44:41 +0000

For anyone else wondering, I guess Slashdot was an old website like Reddit. Like the "Reddit hug of death"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

New comment by hn92726819 in "Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents"

hn92726819 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:41:03 +0000

jj does not have large file or submodule support, but it does intend to in the future (you can read their design docs). Right now it's git compatible, so I'm not sure how 'permissions' would be stored compatibly, or what that means. I'm guessing ownership and xattrs

New comment by hn92726819 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

hn92726819 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:16:57 +0000

Google killed basic HTML in Gmail a few years ago

New comment by hn92726819 in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

hn92726819 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:12:46 +0000

Note that this is not what the article is about. Bash has a fake /dev/tcp path that opens sockets. What you have there is just perl opening a socket normally. Great solution, but the interesting bit is that fake path.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

hn92726819 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:52:29 +0000

I like the fun in this article, but some nitpicks don't seem right to me. This kinda reminds me of cinemasins.

1) I would assume his dad talked about always having a backdoor as a kid, so that's why Sam tried backdoor as the second username

2) temp.cfg isn't an unreasonable config filename. We don't know what the source code is. My guess would be that he hardcoded temp.cfg in the source because something wasn't working, and continued working on the actual bug

3) Killing processes to free memory? He reached for a kill -9 and then a regular kill. That hints to me that he recognized those two processes and knew -9 was required only for the first. He probably checked to see if he had enough memory, saw that he did, and then started cleaning up the processes.

4) Linux and SolarOS? Couldn't the other terminal just have been sshed to another box? That seems most reasonable to me.

New comment by hn92726819 in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

hn92726819 — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:45:04 +0000

Falling apart? You mean getting stronger? Every single one of these is an existing hole being patched. It isn't making new holes

New comment by hn92726819 in "To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain"

hn92726819 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:33:54 +0000

How reductive. Sure, there are paper mills and non-reputable colleges that hand out degrees, but that's clearly not what the author is writing about ('lecturers' there won't care about students cheating anyway).

So with that, what student expects college to be an easy pass to a job? College has always involved work, not a coupon for a free job.

> students who never signed up for the author's version of what education is

What? That's what college is. Students sign up to be taught however the college wants to teach. Students can choose to apply to colleges that match their style, but that hasn't changed at all.

I'm curious what you think students expect when they enroll in a reputable college

New comment by hn92726819 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

hn92726819 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:54:18 +0000

Millions of users, and you think exactly zero of them will hand over their credit card info?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

hn92726819 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:50:13 +0000

This is really cool. Most people here are whining that you, a college student, aren't acting like an adult. I hope you can look past that; it's supposed to be hacker nature to do stupid stuff like this.

It bothers me that most comments here are high-and-mighty. Did you guys really do nothing you regret when you were younger?

New comment by hn92726819 in "FreeCAD v1.1"

hn92726819 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:31:19 +0000

Just click the varset in the tree view and it lists them in the properties pane

New comment by hn92726819 in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

hn92726819 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:49:18 +0000

What emotion must people be feeling when they die then?

> the word is worse than meaningless

It seems as though you are redefining it to be meaningless, then projecting that onto everyone else. Is it not curious to you that everyone else takes no issue with its usage?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

hn92726819 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:09:40 +0000

I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.

Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494

New comment by hn92726819 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

hn92726819 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:21:06 +0000

When I tried Wezterm last year, you couldn't select more than 3-5 lines of text. I went to fix the 'bug', I found that it was intentional because it allocates a string and copies multiple times every time you click and drag.

Even if that's fixed, that design put me off the terminal forever.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

hn92726819 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:39:47 +0000

You may be surprised to hear that many people work to make a living and then just go home. Not every employee has to drink the kool aid to make a living.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

hn92726819 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:54:25 +0000

You can. But this makes intent clear. If you clone a git repo and see build/ with only a gitkeep, you are safe to bet your life savings on that being the compiled assets dir.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

hn92726819 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:51:24 +0000

Yeah... I don't think you were wrong. Having 100 tiny gitignores makes finding out why something is excluded annoying. Our policy is one root level gitgnore and gitkeeps where required.

Some devs will just open the first gitignore they see and throw stuff into it. No thank you.