Hacker News: ivanjermakov

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Appreciating Exif"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:57:40 +0000

Sounds like a worse version of non-standard (X-*) HTTP headers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

Happens a lot when standard is not specific enough.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Solar Overtakes Coal in US Electricity for the First Month on Record`"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:52:49 +0000

> How do they measure or estimate that?

I suppose they can compare actual grid usage with household data to estimate off-grid usage.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Every Frame Perfect"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:25:20 +0000

Give it one day and you won't come back to those sluggish animations slowing your intent down.

Clojure, but more alive (2024) [video]

ivanjermakov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:33:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehR-KIgw7T8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516189

Points: 3

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New comment by ivanjermakov in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:05:02 +0000

Memory safety and critical performance rarely go together. Big chunk of FFmpeg is written in assembly to sqweeze most hardware performance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

ivanjermakov — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:45:05 +0000

I'm not a native speaker but I unironically use "nuke" as "delete the whole repo/huge chunk of a project".

Cambridge dictionary seem to agree:

nuke - to destroy or get rid of something completely

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Software is made between commits"

ivanjermakov — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:17:43 +0000

Just a stream of thoughts: if git commits were a list of sequential primitive changes instead of diff snapshots, conflict resolution would be trivial in most cases.

Not without cons of course: commit byte size, public WIP work and leaked secrets/unwanted edits.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Dopamine Fracking"

ivanjermakov — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:40:05 +0000

Amount of misinformation regarding dopamine is staggering. While it plays a huge role in modern social media practices, it is relevant in search/anticipation phase, not having fun/resolution phase.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

ivanjermakov — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:04:27 +0000

So because of Go's design mistakes.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "My Software North Star"

ivanjermakov — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:47:35 +0000

Not all software is about usefulness. Especially in context of hacking, where software is a way of self expression and making something fun.

In enterprise usefulness is not the end goal either. Software can be very useful, but if no one is going to pay for it, it holds very little value for the business.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "C++: The Documentary"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:10:10 +0000

Machine code is interpreted by CPU's microcode.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:09:01 +0000

When LLM managed to find a stack alignment bug in my C compiler from scratch just by looking at objdump output.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "C++: The Documentary"

ivanjermakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:17:01 +0000

Continuing the analogy, browser devs are just users playing in C/OS/kernel program.

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

ivanjermakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:52:03 +0000

Now that I think about it, moving away from GitHub surely filtered many low-quality contributions fueled by clout/GH profile reputation.

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

ivanjermakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:47:17 +0000

By definition yes, but I believe most people consider open contribution essential for OSS.

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

ivanjermakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:36:34 +0000

The core problem is that we don't have a PR respect system. 10kLOC from an unfamiliar person with empty GitHub is much different from a pal regularly contributing that you personally know.

Integrating some kind of proof-of-stake system might be a way forward for open source. Nobody wants to shuffle through a pile of low-quality PRs written by LLM.

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

ivanjermakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:32:16 +0000

> Ladybird remains open source. The source code will continue to be publicly available under an open source license.

We usually call open source software without open collaboration source available software.

This is terrible news, defeating core beliefs people had in Ladybird. Not an open browser I wished for.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:07:23 +0000

I heard that Bun is not just a JS runtime, but much more than that. JavaScriptCore (JS engine Bun uses) is property tested outside of Bun anyways, what about other stuff?

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:41:32 +0000

Were "passing tests" also generated by the same LLM?

This is much different from how Ladybird team handled a rewrite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

ivanjermakov — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:46:12 +0000

Reason #176 to not be an open source maintainer.