Hacker News: lazka

New comment by lazka in "Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler"

lazka — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:37:58 +0000

Here is a podcast episode were the devs talk about the new profiler: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/corepy/episodes/The...

New comment by lazka in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

lazka — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:14:46 +0000

It's a native build. Only various tools it is shipped with are cygwin builds, like bash etc.

New comment by lazka in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

lazka — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:27:07 +0000

In Austria you can use a web browser + FIDO key as an alternative. It works nicely. https://ida.gv.at/de/hilfe/hilfe-zu-ida/authentifizierungsfa...

New comment by lazka in "Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter"

lazka — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:21:20 +0000

I'm also still using 3.11 for a FastAPI app since 3.12 and 3.13 are quite a bit slower.

New comment by lazka in "FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding"

lazka — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:36:25 +0000

On Windows (so libwinpthread), 8C/16T machine:

  $ flac --version
  flac 1.5.0
  $ hyperfine -r5 "flac -f -8 a.wav a.flac" "flac -j16 -f -8 a.wav a.flac"
  Benchmark 1: flac -f -8 a.wav a.flac
    Time (mean ± σ):     13.148 s ±  0.194 s    [User: 12.758 s, System: 0.361 s]
    Range (min … max):   12.934 s … 13.318 s    5 runs

  Benchmark 2: flac -j16 -f -8 a.wav a.flac
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.404 s ±  0.012 s    [User: 14.126 s, System: 1.355 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.395 s …  2.425 s    5 runs

  Summary
    flac -j16 -f -8 a.wav a.flac ran
      5.47 ± 0.09 times faster than flac -f -8 a.wav a.flac

New comment by lazka in "YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)"

lazka — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:01:58 +0000

See "Why not use graphs / frequency analysis to compare codecs?" https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=FAQ#:~:text=Why%...

"I decided that analysis should focus on the higher, more conventional rates – 48k and 44k1" - opus is always 48khz, so that doesn't mean much.

New comment by lazka in "SAMA – open-source Chat server"

lazka — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:50:36 +0000

Discord has "Forum" channels now which are similar to Zulip, with forced "threads" which they call "posts".

New comment by lazka in "Just Use MSYS2 You Say?"

lazka — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:11:48 +0000

> > After you get through this hurdle you then have to install the right software, and MSYS2 makes the "genius" decision of letting me pick which binary I want to install for every single install. Do you need to install fmpeg? Better spend an hour sifting through clang-amd64-ucrt-mingw32-ffmpeg vs. gcc-x86_64-w32-gnu-ffmpeg and tons of packages.

> Huh. Yeah, that does seem odd - is it a result of MSYS2 being oriented at devs who need compatible libraries?

Yeah, we are oriented at devs that re-package our binaries and also want to be a development environment for upstreams, and also a testbed for toolchains. So we provide x86/x64/arm64, then ucrt/msvcrt, and llvm/gcc. I wouldn't blame anyone for finding this confusing. It's described here: https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments

For ffmpeg, since it was mentioned as an example, this looks like: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-ffmpeg

New comment by lazka in "Fastly launches free developer accounts"

lazka — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:34:14 +0000

What happens if you go over the 200GB or 2 Million monthly requests limits?

OpenJDK Port to mingw-w64/GCC

lazka — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:34:57 +0000

Article URL: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8288293

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480977

Points: 3

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New comment by lazka in "Cython 3.0 Released"

lazka — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 06:03:38 +0000

They don't use pinning in their examples: https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/source... and https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/source...

New comment by lazka in "I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you"

lazka — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:17:32 +0000

Could UFW detect/warn that there are iptables rules interfering with its own rules?

New comment by lazka in "One does not simply 'pip install'"

lazka — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:25:30 +0000

The next Debian/Ubuntu releases will no longer allow `pip install` outside of a venv: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-668-marking-python-base-env...

You can still force it via `pip install --break-system-packages ...` if needed.

New comment by lazka in "MSYS2 – Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows"

lazka — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:24:51 +0000

For those of you who haven't looked at MSYS2 in a while: We now also have a Clang/LLVM based toolchain and ARM64 support.

New comment by lazka in "PHP 8.2"

lazka — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:52:30 +0000

Sure. (1) it is a global setting so I can't decide if I want it on a per application basis, with Docker that is less of an issue though (2) it is disabled by default, so hardly anyone uses it from what I see (3) I'd like to have it always enabled, also in production, so my code doesn't end up in states that I didn't expect and I get notified.

But that might just be me and/or my particular use case.

New comment by lazka in "PHP 8.2"

lazka — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:55:01 +0000

assert() is still broken if it's disabled in php.ini.

New comment by lazka in "Faster CPython 3.12 Plan"

lazka — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:42:28 +0000

Only C extensions that themselves have no global state and don't depend on the GIL for locking, which most of them do. So they will all require some porting, and it will take time since it requires newer CPython API only available in 3.9+ and some even 3.11+ (PEP 630).

New comment by lazka in "Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN"

lazka — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:03:14 +0000

Imo that it's not phishable and that there is no secret on the target server is even more useful in practice. And both those properties don't require physical isolation.

New comment by lazka in "Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach"

lazka — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:18:52 +0000

U2F generates a new keypair for each origin. Public keys are not re-used.

New comment by lazka in "Don't Use RAR"

lazka — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:47:09 +0000

Microsoft ASF/WMA also has a similar limitation, where it disallows writing an open source implementation if you use the official format specification.

Luckily it is too mostly irrelevant nowadays.