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The state of the kernel Rust experiment

howtofly — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050174/604164032b9a01cc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252651

Points: 11

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New comment by howtofly in "Problems with C++ exceptions"

howtofly — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:32:09 +0000

All this hassle can be avoided by using `cleanup` compiler attribute.

Manage classical C resources by auto-cleanup variables and do error-handling the normal way. If everything is OK, pass the ownership of these resources from auto-cleanup variables to C++ ctor.

Note this approach plays nicely with C++ exception, and will enter C standard in the form of `defer`.

New comment by howtofly in "Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010)"

howtofly — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:53:27 +0000

Note that these books were written when design pattern was still a buzzword.

Cline Officially Supports JetBrains

howtofly — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:18:02 +0000

Article URL: https://cline.bot/jetbrains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342454

Points: 4

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Junie Is Now Available in CLion

howtofly — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:18:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/09/junie-availability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297290

Points: 2

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Cline for JetBrains

howtofly — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/28247-cline

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262007

Points: 2

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Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

howtofly — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1033955/d15f4560010e2337/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980676

Points: 1

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New comment by howtofly in "AI is different"

howtofly — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:07:50 +0000

The real issue is determining how much non-renewable resource consumption is justified for these "valuable" things? Note that we are always inclined to value ourselves too much.

I agree the things you mentioned are valuable in the very common sense and I deliberately assign them no value to the avoid the above issue.

New comment by howtofly in "An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)"

howtofly — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:22:22 +0000

IIRC, all latency-driven congestion control algorithms suffer from violent rtt variance, which happens frequently in wireless networks. How does BBR perform under such circumstances?

New comment by howtofly in "AI is different"

howtofly — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:51:56 +0000

It's all about human technology, which enables massive resource consumption.

I should really say humans never truly produce anything in the realm of technology industry.

New comment by howtofly in "AI is different"

howtofly — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:45:50 +0000

> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system).

Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste (resulting from consumption). Human technology merely enables the extraction of natural resources across magnitudes, without actually creating any resources. Given its enormous energy consumption, I strongly doubt that AI will contribute to a better economic system.

Conventions for Extensible System Calls(2020)

howtofly — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:17:21 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/830666/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450993

Points: 1

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Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

howtofly — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:56:16 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1022920/ad60263cd13c8a13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324084

Points: 224

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New comment by howtofly in "Ada Continues to Climb in June Tiobe Index and PYPL"

howtofly — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:56:39 +0000

I just checked it for Rust:

"18 17 change Rust page Rust 0.97% -0.20%"

We Built Cline to Never Hold You Hostage

howtofly — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://cline.bot/blog/why-we-built-cline-to-never-hold-you-hostage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198364

Points: 4

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New comment by howtofly in "Show HN: Open-source P2P file transfer"

howtofly — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:43:14 +0000

Should users trust the signaling server? IIRC, the signaling server can easily intervene SDP offer/answer so that it can intercept user files or instruct users to send files wherever it wants.

New comment by howtofly in "Show HN: Open-source P2P file transfer"

howtofly — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 03:29:45 +0000

My understanding is that the signaling server could be used as the perfect place to perform MITM attack. The README does not mention how berb addresses this concern at all.

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

howtofly — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:07:42 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113735

Points: 154

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New comment by howtofly in "You do not need NixOS on the desktop"

howtofly — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:06:59 +0000

> If I work on a repo, all I have to do is enter my dev distrobox, SSH in from my IDE, and work within that environment - no devcontainer or flake.nix required.

With Ubuntu 24.04 and vagrant virtual machines, you could have even less hassle than with Bluefin.

New comment by howtofly in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

howtofly — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:21:40 +0000

Serious software development is rarely an individual endeavor; most issues should be resolved through collaboration. In other words, they should be addressed through management. What the author needs to overcome, in my view, is essentially a form of extreme individualism.