Hacker News: ognarb

New comment by ognarb in "Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia"

ognarb — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:53:58 +0000

Do you have a link to this work about dbus?

New comment by ognarb in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

ognarb — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:20:09 +0000

Even more impressive: https://api.transitous.org/ (but not everything is live)

New comment by ognarb in "I attended the State of the Map conference"

ognarb — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:13:24 +0000

For public transport, transitous is great https://transitous.org/

KDE for Digital Sovereignty

ognarb — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506990

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Modern, Stable APIs for Your Nextcloud Application

ognarb — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/18/modern-stable-apis-for-your-nextcloud-application/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350167

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ognarb in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

ognarb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:50:58 +0000

2 commits in the repo both generated by claude. This is AI slop, I wonder where you see good momentum?

New comment by ognarb in "Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1M in KDE software development"

ognarb — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:13:51 +0000

So the scope of this investment from STA is mostly focused on area which are underfunded in KDE, useful in a bit more corporate context while also being core components used by the rest of KDE and some third parties.

Wayland protocol development is fortunately already funded by Valve. And for the kernel work, this is something where KDE developers are very rarely involved with.

New comment by ognarb in "Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1M in KDE software development"

ognarb — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:12:03 +0000

I'm one of the board member of the KDE e.V. I'm super pleased to see this news finally out in the public and that the German government decided to strategically invest in KDE and open source in general. If anyone has a question about this, shoot away.

New comment by ognarb in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

ognarb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:20:53 +0000

Source: I worked two years on GnuPG, which is certified VS-NfD: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheimhaltungsgrad

New comment by ognarb in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

ognarb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:26:09 +0000

And nowadays, PGP technology is mostly used by the government and military. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also the case when Bitcoins was originally developed

New comment by ognarb in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

ognarb — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:56:52 +0000

To be fair. Plasma BiScreen is now lead by Devin Lin which has done a amazing job moving Plasma Mobile once the initial sponsor of it turned its interest somewhere else. So i am quite happy to see the progress there :)

New comment by ognarb in "GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation"

ognarb — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:30:02 +0000

We do that in KDE too, where the decision to update to a possible gpl4 is decided by a vote of the KDE e.v. (the legal non profit organization behind the project) membership.

https://invent.kde.org/office/marknote/-/blob/master/LICENSE...

New comment by ognarb in "High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64"

ognarb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:10:42 +0000

> History/Motivations This project started as an exploration of using AI agents for software development. Based on experience tuning systems using Abseil's B+tree, I was curious if performance could be improved through SIMD instructions, a customized allocator, and tunable node sizes. Claude proved surprisingly adept at helping implement this quickly, and the resulting B+tree showed compelling performance improvements, so I'm making it available here.

It seems the code was written with AI, I hope the author knows what he is doing. Last time I tried to use AI to optimize CPU-heavy C++ code (StackBlur) with SIMD, this failed :/

New comment by ognarb in "Linux Instal Fest Belgrade"

ognarb — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:35:36 +0000

There is a nice overview of this sort of events on the End Of 10 website: https://endof10.org/places/

New comment by ognarb in "Switching from GPG to Age"

ognarb — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:16:58 +0000

I knew about gpgme-json, but I didn't knew, you could do web auth with that. I though the usecase was mainly mailvelope. How does that work?

New comment by ognarb in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

ognarb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:21:49 +0000

Thanks for the link to the screenshots page, I completely forgot we had one

New comment by ognarb in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

ognarb — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:19:02 +0000

That screenshot is very old, for an actual screenshot. For an actual screenshot, you can find one on today's announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Btw as one the web developer behind KDE's website, do you mind telling me where you found that screenshot?

New comment by ognarb in "LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis"

ognarb — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:42:20 +0000

On linux, you are likely missing the db drivers for Qt for other database types.

New comment by ognarb in "NetBird Is Embracing the AGPLv3 License"

ognarb — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:51:25 +0000

Honestly I think it's fair. Really the only people affected by this change are people creating proprietary forks, everyone else benefits from this change.

I just wish there was a way to ensure that the company itself doesn't do a proprietary fork.

New comment by ognarb in "Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening"

ognarb — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:49:43 +0000

The US is not only restricting the free speech of their own citizens but also from citizens of other countries...