Hacker News: jabwd

New comment by jabwd in "EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services"

jabwd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:18:02 +0000

If the US had working anti trust this wouldn't really even be a thing.

New comment by jabwd in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

jabwd — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:13:12 +0000

He just wanted to use LLMs for coding, and not enough training data on Swift code exists for his use case. Admitting to that would be rather silly, so here we have this sentiment now exist rent free in people's brains.

The C++ interop of Swift is perfectly fine, to such a degree that FoundationDB is now using it effectively alongside its C++ origins.

New comment by jabwd in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

jabwd — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:18:56 +0000

It is not an OS with bubblewrap, you can still mess up your privacy / security if you want to, that includes phishing and social engineering.

New comment by jabwd in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

jabwd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:48:09 +0000

Has nothing to do with Trump. Trump just made the need more obvious but these talks are not new.

New comment by jabwd in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

jabwd — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:50:56 +0000

You can configure them to pause them when you take them out of your ear, except when it is not an Apple device. They will refuse to do so, even though they clearly detect the event since you can no longer use the stem as a pause button when you do so.

Clearly they make it worse just because you didn't get an Apple device, so yeah idk what you're smoking but give me some.

New comment by jabwd in "PostgreSQL is enough (2024)"

jabwd — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:20:01 +0000

The amount of redis-as-database, or X really, that I see deployed that practically make no sense is insane. I haven't run the numbers to make my following claim based on anything but my feelings, but just incompetent dev alone is probably what keeps cloud computing alive.

New comment by jabwd in "Deno Desktop"

jabwd — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:06:02 +0000

Nah they stopped caring as well. Developing an application for macOS is hell nowadays. I hate the state of things but both Apple and Microsoft dropped the ball. Linux is even worse, so yeah I don't see a reality out of this unless we actually create something that surpasses the web in all measures.

New comment by jabwd in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

jabwd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:12:32 +0000

There are plenty of Rust based reverse proxies out there, why do you need to specifically rewrite nginx? You could also write a config adapter to Caddy, there are a billion options, but this is a wasted effort. The people who want to stick to their nginx configs won't use your project ever, and the people who actually care about security aren't going to use a vibe coded project.

I have no idea why you are making me spell this out, I thought it was pretty obvious.

New comment by jabwd in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

jabwd — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:59:39 +0000

Buddy, I think it is time to not engage with these models for a bit, you seem to have lost your mind.

New comment by jabwd in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

jabwd — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:34:20 +0000

Yeah I got one, why? You aren't learning anything, you are just copying code from other codebases and smashing it together to make some nginx-rust thingie... for what actual goal?

New comment by jabwd in "I am against GenAI and everything it stands for"

jabwd — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:28:12 +0000

Actively detaching yourself from the problems of a technology doesn't suddenly make it a pointless exercise. It just puts into question whether you have any moral compass whatsoever.

New comment by jabwd in "I am against GenAI and everything it stands for"

jabwd — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:11:48 +0000

Try reading the article next time.

New comment by jabwd in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

jabwd — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:16:45 +0000

It is all in the law, the problem is enforcement. 99% of the cookie banners on the web you'll encounter are in fact illegal.

New comment by jabwd in "Peter Neumann has died"

jabwd — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:47:21 +0000

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, legal, financial, environmental issues then yeah you could embrace it I suppose.

New comment by jabwd in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jabwd — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:56:21 +0000

I haven't had it in the past with PopOS or Fedora, but it could be that the nvidia drivers back then weren't an issue. I could try with another distro if you're curious, that laptop is mostly a sacrificial machine for testing out distros and other stuff.

New comment by jabwd in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jabwd — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:03:38 +0000

I was only able to install the latest CachyOS image by modifying the boot arguments in grub of the live installer, after reading the lengthy log file it pooped out after the first install fail.

I have no idea why people recommend this to people who aren't actually deep into tech and linux already.

New comment by jabwd in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jabwd — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:28:32 +0000

They have no moat.

New comment by jabwd in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jabwd — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:05 +0000

They most likely understood that it wasn't viable for anything. OpenAI just yolo'd it and now we're dealing with the fallout. I'm fairly certain that any management layer at google isn't going to say yes to "invest 5 billion to make 10 million" scheme that OpenAI, Anthropic, are currently running.

New comment by jabwd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

jabwd — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:43:53 +0000

I hate Amazon and monopolies, but I hate companies that think opensourcing their code as a marketing stunt gives them more rights or whatever. If you don't want to opensource, then don't?!

New comment by jabwd in "Copy Fail"

jabwd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:30:39 +0000

Hope the 'marketing' had the desired effect. This entire article of pure AI noise was an absolute slog to get through to get to useful information. I have no idea how you view that as positive advertising.