Hacker News: iambvk

New comment by iambvk in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

iambvk — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:13:11 +0000

I like this approach. Thank you.

Would it work if a user's device that is already connected to the VPN, but has custom DNS override to say 8.8.8.8 ? How can I allow my users to be able to use 8.8.8.8 DNS override and still work seamlessly?

New comment by iambvk in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

iambvk — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:05:41 +0000

There used to be a Debian Live iso builder website for building custom Debian Live isos. It probably is discontinued, I can't seem to find it anymore.

New comment by iambvk in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

iambvk — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:18:47 +0000

Only looked at the first two examples. No language can save you when one writes bad code like that.

New comment by iambvk in "Memory Safety for Skeptics"

iambvk — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:58:37 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by iambvk in "Memory Safety for Skeptics"

iambvk — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:56:25 +0000

> No, it does not always crash.

Can you give me an example that I can reproduce?

New comment by iambvk in "Memory Safety for Skeptics"

iambvk — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:52:32 +0000

> No. It's undefined behaviour, it may do anything or nothing.

This is clearly nonsense.

New comment by iambvk in "Memory Safety for Skeptics"

iambvk — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:44:19 +0000

Doesn't null-pointer-dereference always crash the application?

Is it only an undefined-behavior because program-must-crash is not the explicitly required by these languages' specs?

New comment by iambvk in "Memory Safety for Skeptics"

iambvk — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:02:11 +0000

What is the justification to call `Null pointer dereference` as a memory safety issue?

New comment by iambvk in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

iambvk — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:43:55 +0000

My favorite monospace font is "Ubuntu Mono" for ages.

As an engineer, I like to see -- for the lack of better word -- some taste instead of characters being too formal and too symmetric. Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Mono satisfy this to a good extent without being too much, like in comic sans.

The closest font with similar taste, which I found recently is Mononoki

New comment by iambvk in "Why the hell does Android even exist anymore?"

iambvk — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:23:32 +0000

This is a necessary condition for CBDC goals (now being marketed as Stablecoins).

New comment by iambvk in "My Foray into Vlang"

iambvk — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:17:43 +0000

I am actually more interested in removing/reducing even more features from Go than adding more features.

New comment by iambvk in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

iambvk — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:28:39 +0000

Is anyone able to get streaming audio to text conversion working with whisper.cpp?

I tried several times to get this into a reasonable shape, but all have been failures. If anyone has pointers I really appreciate it.

New comment by iambvk in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

iambvk — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:56:29 +0000

Peter does this every few months on Hackernews.

New comment by iambvk in "Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success"

iambvk — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:29:49 +0000

I am not a sysadmin -- so I keep forgetting the command to see logs cause I only need it once every 3 months.

So, systemd change is a pain for me.

New comment by iambvk in "The 5 levels of configuration languages"

iambvk — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:37:51 +0000

IMO there is another level in between 3 and 4 where config file allows for cross referencing among config values, forming a graph.

   foo.password = xxx
   bar.password = yyy
   wifi.ssid = foo

New comment by iambvk in "Time to Take a Stand – Sam Altman (2017)"

iambvk — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:43:09 +0000

Yeah, they sure forget their faults fast.

The amount of hatred Dems showed openly during 2016 election run was truely something special.

New comment by iambvk in "B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know"

iambvk — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:33:58 +0000

I am working on implement on-disk B+Tree for the last few months. Man, keeping the on-disk state consistent with proper locking is a real challenge -- specially when we want to avoid IO-holding-mutex. And forward/backward iterators make me doubt the correctness.

All this with just fixed size keys/values. I am yet to start on variable sized keys and values, but I already want to give up on my initial performance targets.

New comment by iambvk in "EmacsConf 2024 Notes"

iambvk — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:26:51 +0000

> The total hosting cost for the conference was USD 42.92 + tax and the BBB testing in the lead-up to the conference was USD 3.11 + tax, so a total of USD 46.03+tax. The web node and the livestreaming node are kept as 1GB nanodes the rest of the year (USD 5 x 2 servers + tax, so USD 110). Very manageable.

How does this compared to all other conf costs?

New comment by iambvk in "Ghostty 1.0"

iambvk — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 03:39:29 +0000

Cool. Thanks.

New comment by iambvk in "Ghostty 1.0"

iambvk — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:57:34 +0000

Does this support the non-standard key-press, key-release, etc. events proposal by kitty project? They are necessary for nicer terminal UI projects.