Hacker News: jackhalford

New comment by jackhalford in "My Software North Star"

jackhalford — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:21:07 +0000

It’s getting attention because the subtext of the article is the zig vs AI ideological battle going on (and zig vs Rust somewhat on the backburner)

Recent events AFAIU: - bun (bought by big AI) switching to Rust - zig team banning AI pull requests (because they want to review humans) - The cloud industry buying all coding tooling companies (uv, vite, bun) but zig being unbuyable

If anybody from the zig core team is reading this: thank you and carry on the good work.

New comment by jackhalford in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

jackhalford — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:14:59 +0000

I’d prefer to live in a world in which we don’t need this

New comment by jackhalford in "Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly"

jackhalford — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:54:54 +0000

Could we compile tailscale with tinygo to run it on openwrt? Last time I checked tailscale was too large for 8MB flash routers

New comment by jackhalford in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

jackhalford — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:07:07 +0000

Fluent french speaker and currently learning spanish, I feel so lucky it’s not the other way around…

New comment by jackhalford in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

jackhalford — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:42:20 +0000

I wonder if having a /dev/ntsync device could make it easier for game devs to compile their games for linux in the first place, instead of having to use wine. There may be other windows specific dependencies though, but this is one less right?

New comment by jackhalford in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

jackhalford — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:59:09 +0000

I’ve had trouble installing proxmox with ventoy, I had to install debian and then proxmox as a package. AFAIK there isn’t really an alternative to ventoy?

New comment by jackhalford in "Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code"

jackhalford — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:12:18 +0000

> By removing a bunch of conditionals for UDP-Lite from the fast path, udp_rr with 20,000 flows sees a 10% increase in pps (13.3 Mpps -> 14.7 Mpps) on an AMD EPYC 7B12 (Zen 2) 64-Core Processor platform.

Considering the number linux udp sockets in the wild this is huge. It’s a shame C/compilers can’t optimize this away though without entirely removing the code, this is exactly why zig’s comptime exists.

New comment by jackhalford in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

jackhalford — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:03:55 +0000

> Some licenses require you to contribute improvements back. Your shareholders didn't invest in your company so you could help strangers.

Took me a minute to recognize the satyre, good one boys.

New comment by jackhalford in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

jackhalford — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:21:06 +0000

> Secondly, it should perhaps be a concern for Zig, now at 10 years old, to still produce solidly breaking code every half year.

Not at all, if the team needs 30 more years they should take it.

> However, the outlook for a Zig 1.0 is bleak from what I gather from Zig social forums: the most optimistic estimate I’ve heard is 2029 for 1.0.

Funny you see it as bleak when most of the community sees it as the most excitinh thing in systems programming happening right now.

I think you comment is in bad faith, all the big zig projects say that the upgrade path is never a main concern, just read HN comments here or on other zig threads, people ask about this a lot and maintains always answer.

New comment by jackhalford in "The MacBook Neo"

jackhalford — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:12:28 +0000

> Given Apple's historically very premium pricing, launching such an affordable product is certainly a shock to the entire market

No? Apple has been delivering way cheaper laptops ever since M1, this one is just even cheaper. I thought PC execs were asleep at the wheel but not this bad.

New comment by jackhalford in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

jackhalford — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:34:04 +0000

Excited for this, GrapheneOS teased this a few months back. I might finally move away from iOS.

New comment by jackhalford in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

jackhalford — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:05:37 +0000

thanks!

New comment by jackhalford in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

jackhalford — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:44:19 +0000

Can you please add an rss feed to your blog? Thanks for the amazing work

New comment by jackhalford in "Six Math Essentials"

jackhalford — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:30:29 +0000

Which ebook provider should I use to get an actual epub file?

New comment by jackhalford in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

jackhalford — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:54:42 +0000

I’m interested which french bank is this?

New comment by jackhalford in "Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)"

jackhalford — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:40:35 +0000

What are the advantages of this setup rather than reverse proxying right where your jellyfin is?

New comment by jackhalford in "Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)"

jackhalford — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:39:40 +0000

I was thinking of using this to tunnel all of my public sites, do hide my home ip. But in the end whats the issue of showing my home ip? The attack surface stays the same. I just reverse proxy everything through Caddy.

Also weren’t some feature gated behind the cloud version? An appeal for this to replace cloudflare tunnels and tailscale funnel is the _fully_ opensource aspect

Cycling in France

jackhalford — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923887

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jackhalford in "Zig Package Manager Enhancements"

jackhalford — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:42:39 +0000

> In the future, it is planned to support peer-to-peer torrenting of dependency trees. By recompressing packages into a canonical form, this will allow peers to share Zig packages with minimal bandwidth. I love this idea because it simultaneously provides resilience to network outages, as well as a popularity contest. Find out which open source packages are popular based on number of seeders!

Really like this ideas, this space is lacking and we are silently looking at github stars, we can do better

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

jackhalford — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923772

Points: 9

# Comments: 3