Hacker News: jackwilsdon

To Save C, We Must Save ABI (2022)

jackwilsdon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:25:29 +0000

Article URL: https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213607

Points: 4

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The Scramblepad Hardware and Protocol

jackwilsdon — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://bikerglen.com/blog/the-scramblepad-hardware-and-protocol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904667

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

jackwilsdon — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:18:59 +0000

This appears to only be in the Steam beta - the version available for download still requires Rosetta. There doesn't seem to be a direct download for the beta - you have to opt into it after installing Steam.

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

jackwilsdon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:48:17 +0000

There are silver pro parts on the marketplace, although I'm not sure if they're more aimed at converting a standard 13 to a pro:

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop13pro-input-cover-ki...

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop13pro-bottom-cover-k...

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/top-cover-cnc?v=FRANGKHA01 (not specifically a pro part but listed as compatible)

Implementing Stripe-Like Idempotency Keys in Postgres

jackwilsdon — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152009

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Fun With Pinball

jackwilsdon — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.funwithpinball.com/exhibits/small-boards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969088

Points: 169

# Comments: 11

GitHub Status – Degraded Performance in Webhooks API and UI, Pull Requests

jackwilsdon — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:59:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/ffz2k716tlhx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943531

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jackwilsdon in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

jackwilsdon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:11:34 +0000

Moving windows like this is already built into macOS but it's hidden behind a flag for some reason:

  defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true

You can then use Control+Command+Click to move windows from anywhere inside them. Sadly this doesn't provide resizing.

Pebble Round 2

jackwilsdon — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:56:28 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaDPMZKXcBU

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnes...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335

Points: 481

# Comments: 296

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system"

jackwilsdon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:44:23 +0000

It appears to walk up from the process's working directory searching for a .git directory: https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/blob/1e47bdb8fde179b17...

Sendspin: Music Experience Protocol

jackwilsdon — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sendspin-audio.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307319

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

jackwilsdon — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:19:28 +0000

From what I can tell, if you're running the latest security preview release[1] then it's already fixed: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025120400

[1]: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

New comment by jackwilsdon in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"

jackwilsdon — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:18:12 +0000

Both of those have over >400 dependencies each [0] [1] but just in Rust instead - there hasn't been a Rust supply chain attack yet but is this any better? [2]

Admittedly you're not normally downloading the dependencies to your machine as you're often using pre-built binaries, but a malicious package could still run if a version was shipped with it.

[0]: https://github.com/biomejs/biome/blob/93182ea8e9d479fd0187ce...

[1]: https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/blob/65bd5584bfce0c7da90f...

[2]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/yet-another-npm-supply-chain-a...

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Steam Frame"

jackwilsdon — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:31:35 +0000

It is doing eye tracking for the foveated rendering - it has 2 cameras inside the visor for it.

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

jackwilsdon — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:18:06 +0000

There's Alexa+ [0] which uses generative AI but it's planned to be a paid option at $20/mo.

[0]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

jackwilsdon — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:14:13 +0000

Monzo in the UK is basically app-only. They have an "emergency" web interface but it only allows read-only access (apart from un-freezing your card) and can only be used if you've used the app in the past 90 days.

New comment by jackwilsdon in "UK government advises deleting emails to save water"

jackwilsdon — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:01:53 +0000

Richard Stallman is pretty much already doing this!

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me

https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html#internetuse

New comment by jackwilsdon in "Gaslight-driven development"

jackwilsdon — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:52:06 +0000

New comment by jackwilsdon in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

jackwilsdon — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:15:45 +0000

There are community editions of IDEA and PyCharm which are free for commercial use too.

Gratitude and FAQ

jackwilsdon — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:14:59 +0000

Article URL: https://ericmigi.com/blog/gratitude-and-faq/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493894

Points: 3

# Comments: 0