Hacker News: jabwd

New comment by jabwd in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

jabwd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:02:18 +0000

The A-10 is a horrible friendly-fire as a service. Might as well use the thing as a bomb truck while you are still forced to keep it in service because certain brain cell lacking individuals think brr is good.

New comment by jabwd in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

jabwd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:20:26 +0000

yes games with kernel anticheat won't work.

And those games are easily ignored, as they should be.

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:27:16 +0000

I don't remember automobiles actively harming your cognitive abilities, nor the cost increasing 5 orders of magnitude. Yet the things actively slow me down in my work by the shear impact of my coworkers using them and having to correct the many mistakes that are made. If your job was producing mediocrity, then yes, AI is awesome. Sorry for the mirror.

Edit: I have my popcorn ready for when the VC subsidies end.

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:39:36 +0000

Goodluck

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:28:20 +0000

If you mean by everything "stuff that has been done before and no one cares about" then, yeah, probably.

New code will still need to be written though.

New comment by jabwd in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

jabwd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:02:45 +0000

Hurray for micro benchmarks. Anyway, every language can be abused. I can make Java run slower than Ruby. Given that it runs on Microcontrollers on billions of devices, I don't think Swift is necessarily the problem in whatever case you have in mind (And yes I stole oracle's java marketing there for Swift, it is true though.)

New comment by jabwd in "Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel"

jabwd — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:46:46 +0000

Cool, can you now show how the protocol has been broken? Lot of smart people would love to see your novel research.

New comment by jabwd in "Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler"

jabwd — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:32:43 +0000

They do run Apple Silicon in data centers, so perhaps another custom version of Darwin + their system frameworks. It is hard to tell without some leaks :)

New comment by jabwd in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

jabwd — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:11:20 +0000

I think you are failing to realize the billions the US has made from "defending" europe. Regardless, once the US is no longer colonizing the entire planet and the dollar isn't the only currency anyone cares about your opinion will change realllll quick. You'll have forgotten this wall of nonsense you wrote though by then I'm sure.

New comment by jabwd in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

jabwd — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:23:41 +0000

This makes me think you haven't really tried it ever? Sure writing a hello world is something but, one of the best features of Swift on the server side is that it seamlessly interopts with anything C (and nowadays C++, though that is after my time).

I wrote an entire, well performing backend in Swift because I could just directly plug in to already existing libraries without having ot provide a whole bunch of "FFI" glue.

All the other languages you suggest is something that Swift excels at while staying performant (also none of those have an IDE like Xcode so idk why you even bring it up). Though for actual systems programming I don't think Rust can be beaten by Swift, simply because of its more explicit (and therefore confronting) nature.

New comment by jabwd in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

jabwd — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:14:45 +0000

What is a CMake-built swift package to begin with? You're mixing build systems and expecting them to co-exist or what is the exact problem? I've done a lot of weird swift things so might be able to point you in the right direction.

New comment by jabwd in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

jabwd — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:02:03 +0000

I'm sorry but what exactly are you doing? This is the first time I've ever heard any of this type of reasoning, and well, the fact that you're using AI makes me think you have no clue what you're actually talking about.

If its a reference cycle, instruments will find it. If it is a leak, instruments will find it. However, you seem to be worried about an implementation detail on how you get memory from your CPU which the mach kernel handles for you, and is something you don't quite grasp.

please don't reply with "I asked stupid generator", seriously, what is the actual issue you have?

New comment by jabwd in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

jabwd — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:36:56 +0000

App instalation isn't really even the problem. It is just the capabilities you have that you do not have access to. a modern iPad can easily run macOS as an 'app', if you will. The kernel is there, the userland is there, just not the checkbox from up high. Even Xcode works well in macOS VMs nowadays.

New comment by jabwd in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

jabwd — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:33:26 +0000

"work pc" -- random 50 dollar fire hazard running Linux. Anyway, those Android phones though they are obviously going to be the unreliable part in this story.

New comment by jabwd in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

jabwd — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:07:53 +0000

I don't know, you might be underestimating how much damage the orange in charge is really doing to the interests of the US. Change is slow, and the subtle things set in motion are always perceived too late. A simple example would be a small county in germany saving 5+ million a year thanks to moving away from microsoft. Add that to the budget of the many (largely european) opensource projects out there , and you can see things can shift, slowly, but rapidly once noticed.

New comment by jabwd in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

jabwd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:34:48 +0000

Serious question though, since AI seems to be so all capable and intelligent. Why wouldn't it be able to tell you the exact reason that I could tell you just by reading the title of this post on HN? It is failing even at the one thing it could probably do decently, is being a search engine.

New comment by jabwd in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

jabwd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:27:47 +0000

Sounds like blaming a tool on a problem it did not cause. Either way, solvable and encryption is important. Badly designed systems and or lack of tooling isn't really an encryption problem.

Anyway, VMs should not have authentication, it makes access sooo much easier. Also drop your IPs while you're at it. Might be useful for debugging later.

New comment by jabwd in "Can you slim macOS down?"

jabwd — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:34:50 +0000

The thing I find disappointing about the article is that nothing else seems to have been explored. Now no options might exist, but then again, isn't the point of such a write up to find the ones that.... do...?

A lot of people know that modern macOS is a bit of a let down when it comes to modifying it unless you disable a bunch of security layers. So the information gained is basically 0.

Edit: I should clarify that some of the ways they analyze how services are launched etc. are quite interesting, though I hope my prior thought makes sense to some.

New comment by jabwd in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

jabwd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:31:18 +0000

Even ignoring all the politics and crazy stuff from the "maintainer"; most of their contributions were just shuffling code around and causing a lot of breakage. The typical "but this looks nicer so its better" type of programmer, not the type of code I'd rely on personally.

New comment by jabwd in "A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap"

jabwd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:09:53 +0000

I might be very wrong in every way but, string parsing and or manipulating and memoiziation... sound like a super strange combo? For the first you know you're already doing expensive allocations, but the 2nd is also not a pattern I really see apart from in JS codebases. Could you provide more context on how this actually bit you in the behind? memoizing strings seems like a complicated and error prone "welp it feels better now" territory in my mind so I'm genuinely curious.