Hacker News: marcthe12

New comment by marcthe12 in "Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time"

marcthe12 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:26:36 +0000

Unfornately that is llvm which is not stable (abi break every 6 months).

New comment by marcthe12 in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

marcthe12 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:34:34 +0000

You can enroll your own and LP goal is basically based on the assumption that you can enroll your own

New comment by marcthe12 in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

marcthe12 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:21:08 +0000

Well platforms with CHAR_BIT != 8. In c and c++ char and there for byte is atleast 8 bytes not 8 bytes. POSIX does force CHAR_BIT == 8. I think only place is in embeded and that to some DSPs or ASICs like device. So in practice most code will break on those platforms and they are very rare. But they are still technically supported by c and c++ std. Similarly how c still suported non 2's complement arch till 2023.

New comment by marcthe12 in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

marcthe12 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:49:16 +0000

Since cgnat means NATing a huge number of legimate device to a single ip. So angry users is the answer. Also note mobile users are usually the cgnat.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

marcthe12 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:13:07 +0000

Well flatpak was started pre oci. But its core is is just ostree + bwrap. Bwrap does the sandboxing and ostree handles the storage and mount. Now there still a few more stuff but these 2 are the equivalent to docker. Bwrap is also used for steam and some other sandboxing usecases. Ostree is the core of fedora silverblue. Runtimes are special distros in a way, but since the official one are pretty building everything from source so the repos tend to be messy with buildscripts for everything.

New comment by marcthe12 in "How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers"

marcthe12 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:10:15 +0000

Basically the scrappers do not bother to cache your website or if they do, with an insanely low ttl. Also they do not specialize the content. So the worst hit sites are something like git hosting due the bfs style scrape (every link). The worst part is alot of this is done via tunneling so ip can be different each time or from residential ops. Which makes it annoying.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Show HN: Autograd.c – A tiny ML framework built from scratch"

marcthe12 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:30:01 +0000

We would need to mirror jax architecture more. Since the jax is sort of jit arch wise. Basically you somehow need a good way to convert computational graph to machine code while at compile time also perform a set of operations on the graph.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

marcthe12 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:59:38 +0000

Yes and screen recoders

New comment by marcthe12 in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

marcthe12 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:38:05 +0000

Well there is mathml but it has poor support in chrome til recently. That is the website native equations formatting.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"

marcthe12 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:35:56 +0000

The arch wiki has the best source https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

Note sbctl is one of the easier tools to do this.

A Primer on Memory Management

marcthe12 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:25:53 +0000

Article URL: https://sudomsg.com/posts/a-primer-on-memory-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413861

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcthe12 in "How I use my terminal"

marcthe12 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:22:55 +0000

I mean there is a middle ground. LSP is good for coding a project. But I do agree with your point. What I generally do (as nvim user) reduces plugins to the bare minimum and try as much as possible to do progressive enhancement (atleast I try). Maybe as nvim improves LSP, I hope the diff between LSP and native methods are close enough that they both work.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge"

marcthe12 — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:26:08 +0000

India had a meter gauge to broad gauge but India was always a mix and India did a very slow transition to standardize on broad gauge which kinda smoothen stuff quiet a bit

New comment by marcthe12 in "Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers"

marcthe12 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:48:35 +0000

Thats is xdg-portals and it works. It needs apps to support it though which slows adoption

New comment by marcthe12 in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

marcthe12 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:34:54 +0000

Do you need a wrapper script for scripts in the PATH or execve? I would usualy chmod+x the script but I am not sure here.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives"

marcthe12 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:52:09 +0000

Epiphany is a webkit browser for linux and due webkit architecture, gtkwebkit uses alot of gnome components such as libsoup and gstreamer. The biggest flaw is the webrtc support is missing so not online meetings.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

marcthe12 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:43:24 +0000

I think the distinction is a soft fork or a hard fork. A soft fork is just a patchset over upstream and some people do not call it a fork. Hard fork mean that you are diverging from upstream, you do not longer follow upstream and you are fully separate from the upstream

New comment by marcthe12 in "RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library"

marcthe12 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:01:12 +0000

Waylands problem is that to use it, you need code generation so the wayland backend kinda hard to design for a header only lib.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux"

marcthe12 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:14:58 +0000

Upstream Kde is now making an arch based immutable distro too. As steamOS is already using kde and arch, maybe once the kde distro is release, steam will rebase on that instead. Also Valve is now funding Archlinux so they are commited to arch.

New comment by marcthe12 in "Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone"

marcthe12 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:50:24 +0000

Yep. And the logic can be made very easy. Outside polar regions or outer space, timezone could simply be the longitude/15 degrees rounded to a constant fraction. This is not perfect as cities maybe in 2 time zones but this basically a really good approximation.