Hacker News: hnav

New comment by hnav in "Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing"

hnav — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:54:42 +0000

IPFS?

New comment by hnav in "Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom"

hnav — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:51:24 +0000

Apparently a good chunk of 5090s have had their chips ripped off to make frankencards for those who can't get DC cards.

New comment by hnav in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

hnav — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:34:13 +0000

but one of his execs will buy and raze the whole block and build himself a luxury compound?

New comment by hnav in "The Double Headed Stack Allocator"

hnav — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:49:14 +0000

It could be if you packed both tos variables into a single atomic and the compare and swapped the combined value.

New comment by hnav in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

hnav — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:20:45 +0000

too bad it's just LARPing, underneath the covers it's the typical bloated Framer site.

New comment by hnav in "Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27"

hnav — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:30:57 +0000

It drains up to 256K unread bytes period, it doesn't just optimize the case of the body not being read at all.

https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.27.2:src/...

What it won't do looking at the code is handle streamed responses over transfer-encoding:chunked which means that if the other end is doing

  json.NewEncoder(responseWriter).Encode(&someStruct)

this optimization won't do anything.

New comment by hnav in "Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27"

hnav — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:17:58 +0000

HTTP libraries in general are tough because HTTP in practice requires understanding of at least DNS and TLS and in a lot of cases L4 networking as well. If you try to target application developers you end up with leaky abstractions (unread H/1 body draining behavior when you don't even know what HTTP version you're using) or a library low level enough that application developers don't know how to use it. See rust's hyper and reqwest as an example of an attempt at that split.

New comment by hnav in "Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27"

hnav — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:11:12 +0000

It's mostly the property of servers and clients that you interoperate with that don't speak H/2. There are other situations too like if you run a CDN and you're doing sendfile with kernel TLS, you can do stuff like the below

  sock.write('HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\ncontent-length: ' + f.size() + '\r\n\r\n')
  sendfile(sock, f)

which wouldn't work with H2/H3. WebSockets are still in practice H/1 only (spec exists but is disabled in browsers). Another aspect is that if you're simply using HTTP as a preamble to 1 large (bidi) pipe, the extra framing and flow control of H/2 is just a performance handicap.

New comment by hnav in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

hnav — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:47:32 +0000

Basically not possible to do JIT (needed for decent JS perf) on iOS for 3p apps (since that requires pages that are both writable and executable) and then on top of that Apple bans 3p browsers specifically in markets where they're allowed to.

New comment by hnav in "Apple HomeView"

hnav — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:27:27 +0000

This is true of all forms of confidential compute.

New comment by hnav in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

hnav — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:06:20 +0000

There are more avenues for immoral but legal behavior once you have money.

New comment by hnav in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

hnav — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:03:56 +0000

Since Jan 2019

New comment by hnav in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

hnav — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:33:31 +0000

Even within California there are smog-exempt counties. This makes perfect sense, things like excess NOx simply don't matter if the population density is low enough which incidentally is also true of a lot of the rest of the country. CA is the strictest with smog-related, going as far as barring federal (non-CA) vehicles from being registered unless they're 7500+ miles on the odometer. Tint should be limited to 70% VLT nationally really, but that's another topic. Other than that some north-eastern states have safety inspections which makes total sense given the rust. By developed country standards we have it very easy.

New comment by hnav in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

hnav — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:27:58 +0000

Because not paying is tax evasion. If you go abroad, purchase a $50k watch, get a VAT refund then fail to declare, US Customs will fine you and probably pull your trusted traveler status. Are those people going to leave the US?

New comment by hnav in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

hnav — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:22:46 +0000

That's a highly contrived scenario. In reality the rich guy who employs both A & B is using tax avoidance strategies (including registering their Ferrari 812 in Montana) to pay single digit tax on their actual net worth growth and debt taken out against it, while A & B pay 20-35% on their W2 income.

New comment by hnav in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

hnav — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:39:23 +0000

That's the way it was explained to me. Letting the fringe do what they're going to do anyway while inoculating the majority to outside influence is the goal and the difficulty setting is dynamic.

New comment by hnav in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

hnav — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:37:33 +0000

Russia's ROSKOMNadzor has been trying to get users to install its own Root CAs in recent years. About 10 years ago everyone in the west removed CNNIC (Chinese counterpart) roots after they were caught MITM-ing.

New comment by hnav in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

hnav — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:02:05 +0000

Does 87% gross margins sound like that them lowering prices is tantamount to dumping?

New comment by hnav in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

hnav — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0000

if they pay less, there's more pressure on you and I to pay more

New comment by hnav in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

hnav — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:55:08 +0000

the rich already pay enough, just let it trickle down, trust me bro