Hacker News: panzi

New comment by panzi in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

panzi — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:52:37 +0000

8.8 million people? Wikipedia says Denmark only has 6 million people! Historical data too? People from other countries that had any treatment in Denmark?

New comment by panzi in "Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust"

panzi — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:31:32 +0000

I think the claim is that GCC supports a few obscure platforms that LLVM doesn't. Don't ask me which, that is just the claim that I heard multiple times. So it's not Rust that limits platforms, but LLVM. And they say the GCC backend efforts of Rust are meant to deal with that.

New comment by panzi in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

panzi — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:25:36 +0000

Sure, I still find it fascinating.

New comment by panzi in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

panzi — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:26:26 +0000

That's more than 4 times the size of Super Mario World, I believe. Always fascinating how little is done with so much these days.

New comment by panzi in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

panzi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:06:48 +0000

Black Mirror episode 2, IIRC.

New comment by panzi in "7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached"

panzi — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:02:58 +0000

For me:

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New comment by panzi in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

panzi — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:48:01 +0000

I think the "avoid people" part does a lot of work. For a lack of a better word, AI generated people still look soulless.

New comment by panzi in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

panzi — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:23:25 +0000

Will this mean they yet again throw away their component library for Shopify apps and make everyone migrate AGAIN?

New comment by panzi in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

panzi — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:43:59 +0000

The article says LibreOffice is almost 20 years old. Well, before it was LibreOffice it was OpenOffice in 2000 and before it was OpenOffice it was StarOffice and StarWriter originates in 1985. So you could say it (or the Writer component) is 41 years old.

New comment by panzi in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

panzi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:07:03 +0000

Even before I read this blog post only the way he behaved on The Standup made me suspicious, raised some red flags.

New comment by panzi in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

panzi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:03:58 +0000

I'm so disappointed that The Standup was platforming him.

New comment by panzi in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

panzi — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:33:08 +0000

If I'd were 17 I'd choose a different career.

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

panzi — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:58:34 +0000

I'm not really against such special symbols, only if they are too much, like in Perl.

~ and @ weren't replaced by anything with ::, though, ~Foo is Box and @Foo is Rc (or is it Arc?). :: to access a member of a module already existed when ~ and @ was in Rust.

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

panzi — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:09:41 +0000

Early Rust had ~ and @ references.

New comment by panzi in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

panzi — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:49:57 +0000

What's the public transport of software development? Where can I get good train service here?

New comment by panzi in "Bun 1.4"

panzi — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:10:34 +0000

Out of the things you mentioned I think the following make totally sense to be included in a language runtime like this:

JavaScript runtime (obviously), package manager, test runner for unit tests, bundler, JSX, SQLite bindings, formatter, linter, YAML and TOML parsers. Maaaaybe even a Markdown parser and HTML5 parser. Definitely JSON, CSV and XML parsers.

I.e. similar to Python. Though Python is a bit of an incoherent mess. If you have all these you need them to be coherent.

New comment by panzi in "Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901"

panzi — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:00:51 +0000

Just looked it up, that Apple license is indeed approved as open source/free software by the FSF and OSI!

New comment by panzi in "Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1"

panzi — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:29:20 +0000

I don't condemn the protocol. I specifically mention the buggy implementation. I say that I use X11 because KDE's Wayland implementation is so buggy.

I want to use KDE. KDE was perfect for me before Wayland. I don't criticize Wayland here, I criticize KDE Wayland. And I'm worried because very soon KDE will delete X11 support.

New comment by panzi in "Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1"

panzi — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:04:18 +0000

Yeah, but it works under KDE+X11. Wayland it the thing that changes. I think KDE has it's own Wayland implementation? kwin_wayland is what is broken, probably. Why they broke it when porting it from X11 I don't know. But the effect is the same: Can't use it as of now.

New comment by panzi in "Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1"

panzi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:25:41 +0000

None of that matters if you don't have a HDR monitor, only have one monitor, and when absolute basics of window management are somehow broken under KDE Wayland. Why that even has anything to do with Wayland I don't know. I just know that it all works perfectly when I use KDE X11. Maybe other DEs/WMs have better Wayland implementations, I don't know.