Hacker News: paddim8

New comment by paddim8 in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

paddim8 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:32:51 +0000

Azure does this and has amazing tooling for bringing it all together locally (Aspire)

New comment by paddim8 in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

paddim8 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:40:31 +0000

Because it gives more context. Quite obvious if you look at the readme...

New comment by paddim8 in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

paddim8 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:20:06 +0000

It is not good for your wrists. Don't do that to yourself

New comment by paddim8 in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

paddim8 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:27:54 +0000

The previous UI made no sense. Having the email viewer on the bottom and the list on the top instead of side by side makes absolutely no sense when most emails are designed for viewing in portrait.

New comment by paddim8 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

paddim8 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:42:22 +0000

Probably because your distro purposefully keeps software out of date because it is too fragile otherwise. I don't think that is reasonable at all for desktop use.

New comment by paddim8 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

paddim8 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:34:18 +0000

Yes. Premature optimisation when it comes to dynamic linking is the reason for why the year of the Linux desktop is far away in my opinion

New comment by paddim8 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

paddim8 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:31:30 +0000

Then you update those dependencies. Not very difficult with a package manager. And most dependencies aren't used by a ton of programs in a single system anyway. It is not a big deal in practice.

New comment by paddim8 in "Linux is good now"

paddim8 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:32:00 +0000

That's why I don't think Ubuntu is a newbie distro. You never have to compile for source on arch-based distros. Obviously plain arch isn't fit for beginners, but I would argue that something like endeavouros or cachyos is easier to use than Ubuntu. If you want to install something, you just run one command, and then it is installed, 99.99% of the time.

New comment by paddim8 in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

paddim8 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:19:15 +0000

It absolutely is not awful. You are doing something wrong then. It's not as good as on macOS of course but it's still great. I get 8-10 hours.

New comment by paddim8 in "Backing up Spotify"

paddim8 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:20:28 +0000

It's not. What makes you say this?

New comment by paddim8 in "Advent of Code 2025"

paddim8 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:24:36 +0000

I used my homemade shell language last year, called elk shell. It worked surprisingly well, better than other languages I've tried, because unlike other shell languages it is just a regular general purpose scripting language with a standard library that can also run programs with the same syntax as function calls.

New comment by paddim8 in "JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language"

paddim8 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:19:52 +0000

Native AOT compiled code is not necessarily faster than JIT compiled code. The Java JIT engine can do a lot of optimisations that would not be possible with AOT compilation. In the end it's compiled down to machine code anyway.

New comment by paddim8 in "This Month in Ladybird"

paddim8 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:00:30 +0000

You don't have to implement some big new feature. I found a layout rendering problem when I tested it on my own website and could quite easily go and fix it without having any prior experience with browser development.

New comment by paddim8 in "I tried Servo"

paddim8 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:41:17 +0000

Well that's why they're going to rewrite parts of the code where those things are more likely in Swift

New comment by paddim8 in "I tried Servo"

paddim8 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:39:41 +0000

What? No one is expecting Ladybird to be fast at this stage. No one is claiming that it is. Ladybird is competitive because of the speed of which it is improving.

New comment by paddim8 in "I tried Servo"

paddim8 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:38:35 +0000

Well Andreas Kling has worked on Safari and WebKit and (obviously) has talked to a lot of browser people. He knows what he is doing, and he frequently says that no one that has actually worked on a browser thinks it's impossible to create a new one, even with a small team (...of highly motivated and skilled people).

New comment by paddim8 in "Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)"

paddim8 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:00:16 +0000

What? Accused of only being done in academic environments? Never heard that. Academics seem to spend 99% of their time talking about parser generators and LR parsing for some reason while most production compilers have handwritten recursive descent parsers...

New comment by paddim8 in "Introducing tmux-rs"

paddim8 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:48:05 +0000

This is such a strange mindset. First of all, unsafe Rust is not comparable to C. It still has a lot of checks and balanced that C does not have. The author is also planning to make it more safe. And what do you mean "the primary reason"? The primary reason for this was to have fun. Let the man have fun.

> but nothing that I will install on any box of mine any time soon

Well, no one asked? I will never understand you chronically negative people that have to come in and whine about things that don't matter every time someone posts their fun little personal project that they made for fun. Have you tried being a little more positive? It makes life more enjoyable.

New comment by paddim8 in "Why F#?"

paddim8 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:55:35 +0000

The only difference is that you have to specify the type of the list when you declare it though... That's not really a big deal.

List names = ["Peter", "Julia", "Xi"]; names.Select(name => $"Hello, {name}").ForEach(greeting => Console.WriteLine($"{greeting}! Enjoy your C#"))

new List { "Peter", "Julia", "Xi" }.Select(name => $"Hello, {name}").ForEach(greeting => Console.WriteLine($"{greeting}! Enjoy your C#"))

New comment by paddim8 in "How saffron became an American cash crop"

paddim8 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:41:44 +0000

$100/g? You can buy it for less than 1/10 of that in Europe at least