Hacker News: nromiun

New comment by nromiun in "The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi"

nromiun — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:47:16 +0000

What is wrong with having options? Even the ESP32 family already have C line for low power applications. No need to project Electron into everything.

New comment by nromiun in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

nromiun — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:59:12 +0000

I am waiting for the cure to cancer. Multiple AI CEOs have already said it is just the first step for AI anyway. Should be pretty easy.

New comment by nromiun in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

nromiun — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:53:25 +0000

I don't know how the general public can't see that AI companies are fueling this moral panic to attract more and more VC money to make their companies even more ridiculously valued. Every one of their public announcement is designed to create FOMO for investors.

New comment by nromiun in "ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward"

nromiun — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:37:44 +0000

It is actually more difficult because superpowers are not willing to spend unlimited money just to get ahead (like during Cold War). You can brute force a lot of technical problems by just using money (for example just one big expensive engine like Apollo 11). Nowadays nobody is willing to spend that kind of money for just one mission.

New comment by nromiun in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

nromiun — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:03:48 +0000

Both lead and lead free solder use the same chemical flux in their core. So you have the same problem with leaded flux cored solder. With the additional problem of lead.

New comment by nromiun in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

nromiun — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:18:11 +0000

Of course syntax matters in any programming language. That is like saying the alphabet and grammar does not really matter in English.

New comment by nromiun in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

nromiun — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:33:03 +0000

Because all these things require a grid, unlike on-site generators. Most grid equipment (specially high voltage transformers) are backordered and all companies have empty inventories. Unlike traditional companies these AI companies are deathly afraid of not getting to AGI first, so they can't wait.

New comment by nromiun in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

nromiun — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:44:05 +0000

This is a static website running on Cloudflare infra. What on earth costs $90 per month? First optimize your infra before throwing up rules in front of your visitors. I have several websites on Cloudflare too and I don't even check how many million requests I get. Because it does not cost me anything.

> And yes, my site gets its data by scraping those public documents. So I'm a scraper writing a blog post complaining about scrapers. I'm aware of how that sounds.

Being self aware does not make it okey. Either you are okey with scraping (like me) or against it. Don't use it yourself and block your site at the same time.

These same people will be crying about how Cloudflare ruins the internet because they get these captchas.

New comment by nromiun in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

nromiun — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:41:41 +0000

> My hypothesis is quite simple: I don't think GingerBill ever cared about Wikipedia's standards for programming. He follows several right-wing figures on Twitter, who have long since made up their mind that Wikipedia has been ideologically captured by activists and "the woke".

What a sh*tshow. When I look up a programming language on Wikipedia I am trying to learn about the programming language only. What does the political views of the creator of the language has to do with this at all?

New comment by nromiun in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

nromiun — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:10:08 +0000

> You don't lose half a million people from an ethnic group in just ten years without some kind of war or genocide.

Nothing happened to the people, they are growing year on year. But languages can die very easily if governments don't put efforts on teaching it to children. That is exactly what happened to the Ho language. There is no advantage on learning these small regional languages so children put their effort on more popular languages like Hindi, Odia and English.

Here is a good article on this topic:

https://www.vogue.in/content/when-languages-in-india-disappe...

New comment by nromiun in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

nromiun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:40:36 +0000

But AAPL has a big weight on the market/indices.

New comment by nromiun in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

nromiun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:37:02 +0000

Apple stock is down more than 4% right now. That is a big dump for such a blue chip stock. IDK if it is due to this EU ban or Apple choice of going with Gemini (instead of making their own models).

New comment by nromiun in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

nromiun — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:34:50 +0000

Is there any proposed timeline for a stable release? Big features like the recent async IO shows the language is very unstable right now.

New comment by nromiun in "Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s"

nromiun — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:36:23 +0000

> Is 1.1 Tflop/s good? Theoretically, the GPU on my M3 Max is capable of around 15 Tflop/s. But the real ceiling for this kind of task is going to be 3-5 Tflop/s

This is so true. And also why people should not take basic GPU benchmarks so seriously. Getting peak performance out of a GPU is much more complex than it is with a CPU.

And it is one of the reasons why Nvidia still has a software moat compared to other GPU companies. CUDA has so many small kernels tuned for getting peak performance for your dataset.

New comment by nromiun in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

nromiun — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:31:25 +0000

It is an inherent limitation. Multithreading is not free after all. One of the big pros of async programming is the concurrency you get within a single thread. When you make the async runtime multithreaded by default (like Tokio) you don't get this advantage anymore.

New comment by nromiun in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

nromiun — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:06:37 +0000

Async in Rust and C++ is nothing like it is in Python or NodeJS. Choose your own runtime is a very different model than having a default one.

Not to mention Tokio (most popular runtime for Rust) is multi-threaded by default. So you have to deal with multithreading bugs as well as normal async ones. That is not the case with most async languages. For example both Python and NodeJS use a single thread to execute async code.

New comment by nromiun in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

nromiun — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:02:03 +0000

Python 3.10 is only used for the exploit. You can easily rewrite it for 3.8 as well. The vulnerability itself does not require Python at all.

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:35:47 +0000

Of course, but it does not matter as the entire AF_ALG module is forbidden by SELinux anyway (on Android).

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:15:31 +0000

I tried this exploit on Android and it looks like you need root in the first place to create an AF_ALG socket. I guess it is an SELinux policy to disable AF_ALG entirely.

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:10:38 +0000

To even get the su binary on Android you have to patch the OS. So this exploit can't work on Android. Because there is no su binary to target.

Update: Just tried it on Termux and as expected even creating an AF_ALG socket requires root access.