Hacker News: johnny22

New comment by johnny22 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

johnny22 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:32:06 +0000

Reserved sounds like it would have been a better term now that I'm reading this many years later.

New comment by johnny22 in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

johnny22 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:42:23 +0000

it's that texas has it's own power grid. Other states tend to share grids.

New comment by johnny22 in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

johnny22 — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:07:28 +0000

and how would it get that module without network access. I'd say for network drivers specifically, this is tough one.

It would work for various other drivers though.

New comment by johnny22 in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

johnny22 — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:29:50 +0000

I want an honest assessment on public criticism of the government in china.

Can i have a comedy tv show where i satirize government actions I don't like?

Can you point me to one?

New comment by johnny22 in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

johnny22 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:55:46 +0000

It is not that simple. People spend days, months, and years going down the wrong path. They aren't so willing to give that up when something that can replace it will throw all that work down the drain.

New comment by johnny22 in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

johnny22 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:17:36 +0000

nowadays? It's never been popular.

New comment by johnny22 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

johnny22 — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:42:06 +0000

for the same reason most ruby and javascript/typescript stuff is. Heck, even most python.

Most of them never got into the GPL in the first place.

New comment by johnny22 in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

johnny22 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:04:13 +0000

privacy legislation would just solve the problem by itself though.

New comment by johnny22 in "Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks"

johnny22 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:50:33 +0000

sure has been awhile since i thought about vagrant

New comment by johnny22 in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

johnny22 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:39:20 +0000

glad pnpm disables those by default!

New comment by johnny22 in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

johnny22 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:13:32 +0000

no it is not.. not yet anyways

New comment by johnny22 in "No AI in Node.js Core"

johnny22 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:17:44 +0000

Bun has claude code generated commits as we speak (as robobun).

New comment by johnny22 in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

johnny22 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:22 +0000

no, because a broken printer is just a broken a printer. a broken fs is somebody else's important data potentially lost forever.

New comment by johnny22 in "Disappointing Phones"

johnny22 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:16:31 +0000

wifi would probably be faster than the cable.

New comment by johnny22 in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

johnny22 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:30:03 +0000

a more related tool would be prettier, which also has a --write option

New comment by johnny22 in "Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions"

johnny22 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:31:41 +0000

the proof is right there in all the discussion about rust in the linux kernel too.

New comment by johnny22 in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"

johnny22 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:12:50 +0000

The the whole thing can be summed up as "Paying taxes sucks, but if paying the taxes saves more money down then line, then we should do it"

New comment by johnny22 in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

johnny22 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:44:07 +0000

Games use plenty of other win32 APIs. Creating windows, running processes, opening files are all APIs.

Something like wine is needed to do that translation too.

New comment by johnny22 in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

johnny22 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:22:48 +0000

then you'd have a write a new kernel

New comment by johnny22 in "The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management"

johnny22 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:51:24 +0000

probably because meson doesn't have a lot of play outside certain ecosystems.

I like wrapdb, but I'd rather have a real package manager.