Hacker News: infinet

Linux kernel archives temporarily unavailable, fix has been implemented

infinet — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:50:05 +0000

Article URL: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B7viUNMy1UsGX9pwHY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764122

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fedora: 2FA, or not 2FA, that is the question

infinet — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1078964/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761007

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by infinet in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

infinet — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:12:41 +0000

I am thankful for arXiv only made minor adjustments to its UI over the years, and I hope arXiv keep it that way.

New comment by infinet in "Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs and then grew its engineering team by 45 percent"

infinet — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:45:09 +0000

I suspect after the job cut, AI is rewriting the cloudflare UI. Today I tried to add a DNS record using the cloudflare dashboard. The UI looks very different from what I remember, it took me a while to find the add new record button, which is just a blank area without label. The popup dialog is basically unusable. It is transparent and impossible to know where to input. I gave up after 20 minutes.

New comment by infinet in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

infinet — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:27:50 +0000

> "Is anyone still using emacs?"

I have never used emacs seriously as an editor, however, I couldn't work without magit. I even manually build emacs 28 so I can re-use the same set of magit configure files.

New comment by infinet in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

infinet — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:15:29 +0000

I wonder how many comments are from bots in this discussion. Few days ago there was a discussion of traffic stall at the strait of Hormuz on HN. One comment from an user with over 9000 Kama went like "I just checked the traffic on the road and it is normal ...". Unfortunately other bots are not as easy to spot as this one.

New comment by infinet in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

infinet — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:45:45 +0000

Interesting idea, but somehow I feel the world is shaking. For the processing program, what used to black(0.0) and white(1.0) has became very dark gray and very bright gray.

New comment by infinet in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

infinet — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:28:09 +0000

I use DuckDB and like it. Since many mentioned GB level json in this post, so they have large amount of data. Been column based, DuckDB uses more RAM as row count grows. It can be an advantage or disadvantage depends whether memory is constrained. Traditional row based DB such as SQLite can deal with large database with less memory.

What is to be done about MGLRU?

infinet — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1072866/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327315

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by infinet in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

infinet — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:50:08 +0000

I feel your pain. I also get "chatgpt/gemini/grok... CONFIRMED blah blah" as if these are ground truth. What is even more sad is it sometimes mixed with "from first principles...".

New comment by infinet in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

infinet — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:27:30 +0000

I have a gut feeling that human as a creature learns better when looking at the information from several different angles, both physically and mentally. Been physically I mean looking at the same concept on screen and on hard copy books, perhaps taking notes and mark relevent sentences with a highlighter. Similarly, seeing a concept on physical book and write some short code snippet is viewing the concept from different mental angles. Though I don't have a proof for that and have yet to find a formal research on this topic.

New comment by infinet in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

infinet — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:21:11 +0000

I guess I will setup something similar or more complex. But there are alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114947

"George R.R. Martin Writes on a DOS-Based Word Processor From the 1980s". No internet, no multi tasking.

New comment by infinet in "Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street"

infinet — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:34:47 +0000

It uses the Python lib Astral, which uses "equations from Astronomical Algorithms, by Jean Meeus", to find location of the Sun in the sky. That method assuming earth motion without gravitational pull from other planets or the Moon, and has accuracy of 0.01 arc degree. Meeus is a rock star in these kinds of calculations. He also gave a truncted version of VSOP87 that has error less than 1 arc second in finding Sun's location.

The method Astral uses for calculate Moon's location has precision of 1 arc minute. For higher precision, LEA-406 [1] can be used.

[1] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2007/33/aa7568-07/aa7...

New comment by infinet in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

infinet — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:46:54 +0000

Content wise the RedHat docs are great, but navigating the doc has a wired feeling that is hard to describe. Everything is black and white, the page has low information density perhaps because of the line space or paragraph space; the typesetting of command line and configure examples is not clear separated from surrounding text; mouse cannot select text of the command line examples; the page top is distracting because it keeps showing and disappearing as mouse scrolls up and down. Somehow the left navigation pane is also difficult to follow, easy to get lost when trying to find a section.

New comment by infinet in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

infinet — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:41:03 +0000

I hope FreeBSD has longer supporting cycle. Its release has a supporting life of less than one year, if missing the upgrade window, then later upgrade is more difficult than others such as debian stable.

New comment by infinet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

infinet — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:47:31 +0000

I just switched to single thread and didn't try to fix the issue. Single thread is fast enough to me, it has throughput ~ 730 Mbits/s in a OpenBSD 7.8 vm on a 7th gen i7 linux kvm host.

https://github.com/infinet/rs-wgobfs/commit/c5e62796

New comment by infinet in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

infinet — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:15:38 +0000

There is a saying that many countries have offshored building hardware, aka manufacturing. Now they are offshoring software building to AI. Perhaps the silicon valley will grow a rust belt.

New comment by infinet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

infinet — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:27:28 +0000

I tried OpenBSD recently and found it behaves very differently from other OS. The same code works on Linux/FreeBSD/Windows but has poor multi thread performance on OpenBSD, async socket stopped working after sending at high speed for few seconds. I am not saying there is anything wrong in OpenBSD, it is just different.

New comment by infinet in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

infinet — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:04:08 +0000

There are few dnsmasq (only?) features that are indispensable to some. Examples: sending query of *.example.com to certain upstream servers, or returning NXDOMAIN for phishing sites, or adding all resolved IPs for *.example.org to an ipset for policy routing. The last one works on FreeBSD as well although BSD does not have ipset. The list of *.example_xyz.com can be huge and it is said recent dnsmasq can handle them efficiently.

New comment by infinet in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

infinet — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:28:32 +0000

It is very difficult for people with impaired vision to find the scrollbars, buttons et.al. on windows 11. The scrollbars are too narrow and often auto hidden. The buttons are flat and not easy to separate from normal text. Tell one window from another is also quite challenge.