Hacker News: mroche

New comment by mroche in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

mroche — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:39:20 +0000

I do not know if there's any overlap between these teams, but it seems like Anthropic itself is fairly invested in the Rust ecosystem.

They recently proposed some of their internal tools to be the official Rust implementation[0] of Connect RPC[1]. As a protobuf based library set, this includes a new Rust-based protobuf compiler, Buffa[2].

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/connectrpc/discussions/7#discussionc...

[1]: https://connectrpc.com/

[2]: https://github.com/anthropics/buffa

Intel Arc Pro B70 benchmarks for LLMs and video generation

mroche — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:40:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PMZFX/intel-arc-pro-b70-benchmarks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885609

Points: 1

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New comment by mroche in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mroche — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:36:43 +0000

My understanding of Backblaze Computer Backup is it is not a general purpose, network accessible filesystem.[0] If you want to use another tool to backup specific files, you'd use their B2 object storage platform.[1] It has an S3 compatible API you can interact with, Computer Backup does not.

But generally speaking, I'd agree with your sentiment.

[0]: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/supported-bac...

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-about-backblaze...

New comment by mroche in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

mroche — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:55:21 +0000

The more you know, thanks for the information!

New comment by mroche in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

mroche — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:26:13 +0000

> The claude sandbox is a good idea, but to be effective it would need to be implemented at a very low level and enforced on all programs that claude launches.

I feel like an integration with bubblewrap, the sandboxing tech behind Flatpak, could be useful here. Have all executed commands wrapped with a BW context to prevent and constrain access.

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

New comment by mroche in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

mroche — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:08:42 +0000

I'm looking at building a new system, and was waiting to see what happens with this chip and Intel's Arc Pro B70 card. I can't find ECC UDIMMs of 64GB per-stick to make 128GB, but I can put together two solo UDIMMs of 32GB or 48GB for $800 and $1000 per stick respectively.

I really want to see what enabling the L3 cache options in the BIOS do from a NUMA standpoint. I have some projects I want to work on where being able to even just simulate NUMA subdivisions would be highly useful.

New comment by mroche in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

mroche — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:20:46 +0000

> Having used `jq` and `yq`

If you don't mind me asking, which yq? There's a Go variant and a Python pass-through variant, the latter also including xq and tomlq.

New comment by mroche in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

mroche — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:57:09 +0000

> TACO

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

New comment by mroche in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

mroche — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:01:32 +0000

Y-Zer myself and I do the same thing. I never initiate the communication when called unless I am expecting it or I know who the caller is. Otherwise, they'll know when someone picked up because their side will stop ringing, and they'll only get awkward silence until they start talking. Often times it's an automated voice system that will not begin until prompted by the callee, so it hits a timeout and hangs up.

The number of calls I get where it's either dead silence in the other end or clearly a call center based on the noise can only be categorized as "too much".

New comment by mroche in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

mroche — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:55:18 +0000

What's needed beyond API docs is a review, refresh, and possible merging of the two Wayland Books by active Wayland contributors.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/book/ https://wayland-book.com/

New comment by mroche in "Standardizing Pure PQC"

mroche — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:34:31 +0000

First time I've heard of SCW...

Of all the AI voice-generated things I've heard so far, this definitely takes the cake for the funniest tech-related conversation.

Best Practices for Secure Error Handling in Go

mroche — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:30:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2026/03/02/secure-go-error-handling-best-practices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473088

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Google Summer of Code 2026 Is Here: Contribute to Kotlin

mroche — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:25:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/03/gsoc-2026-contribute-to-kotlin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473056

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Leading health tech firms and AI startups respond to HHS request for information

mroche — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:40:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/hhs-clinical-ai-proposal-health-tech-wish-list/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363694

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mroche in "FP-Go V2: Enhanced Functional Programming for Go 1.24"

mroche — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:23:30 +0000

fp-go/v2 was recently released in Dec 2025.

Prior discussion around fp-go/v1 in 2023:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171149

FP-Go V2: Enhanced Functional Programming for Go 1.24

mroche — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/IBM/fp-go/blob/main/v2/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361280

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mroche in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

mroche — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:32:56 +0000

Your comments use em dashes. Many would claim those are vastly overrepresented in AI language and thus an account overly using them are blatantly AI.

I've always found this funny. Doesn't macOS' default text substitution enable (annoying to me) things like em-dash, smart quotes, etc?

New comment by mroche in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

mroche — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:35:43 +0000

It is not, the future is currently pointing to composefs:

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/1190

There's a GitHub org that builds bootc-ready images for non-Red Hat family distributions using this backend.

https://github.com/bootcrew

New comment by mroche in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

mroche — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:39:17 +0000

> super-comma

This is the first time I've ever heard the character ";" referred to as such. It's always been "semi-colon" to me, is this a region/culture difference?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I find it interesting.

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

mroche — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:50:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/panasonic-the-former-plasma-king-will-no-longer-make-its-own-tvs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132260

Points: 30

# Comments: 10