Hacker News: jervant

New comment by jervant in "No way to parse integers in C (2022)"

jervant — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:59:08 +0000

https://man.openbsd.org/strtonum

Killswitch: Add per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

jervant — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:24:11 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066152

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jervant in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

jervant — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:51:49 +0000

Snow

New comment by jervant in "SSH Secret Menu"

jervant — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:11:52 +0000

I'm pretty sure the ~ command style came from cu(1) which had it in at least 4.1BSD. I don't think rsh (which came in 4.2BSD) ever had such commands.

Stathat Is Shutting Down

jervant — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:29:53 +0000

I received this email (nothing on their website though):

Hi XX,

We have some difficult news to share: StatHat will be shutting down in 30 days on April 4, 2026.

Until then, you can export all of your data. Instructions are at https://www.stathat.com/manual/export

Key dates:

• Data export available now through: April 3, 2026 • Service shuts down: April 4, 2026

If you have any questions, please contact us at contact@stathat.com.

Thank you for using StatHat for all these years.

- StatHat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255481

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

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

jervant — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:25:39 +0000

How many languages are using LLVM as its backend vs Go's?

New comment by jervant in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

jervant — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:10:30 +0000

It looks like you set a startup command in the "Advanced Configuration" menu for the host

New comment by jervant in "(Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port"

jervant — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:23:26 +0000

That's not true and wouldn't work on OpenBSD anyway (binaries are not compatible). The files you're copying from another device are just encryption keys.

OpenWV is implementing the decryption itself:

https://github.com/tchebb/openwv

New comment by jervant in "Postal Arbitrage"

jervant — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:38:19 +0000

There are also things on eBay with a starting price of less than a dollar with free shipping that never get bids. I "won" two auctions like this the other week for brand new USB-C cables, each of them costing me 13 cents shipped.

I have no idea why sellers would do this with eBay fees and USPS small package shipping costing well over 13 cents.

New comment by jervant in "Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page"

jervant — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:54:46 +0000

From the headline, one might assume he directly edited or locked the page when he just commented on the article's discussion page that it should have a more neutral tone.