Hacker News: petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petabytHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:57:04 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace"]]>vhci-hcd for USB has been so useful for usb development. Especially for testing usb driver code in CI.

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:41:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695079petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695079<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>https://danielc.dev

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:13:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626002petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626002<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"]]>I live in the USA and my ISP doesn't support ipv6

]]>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:51:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485901petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485901<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"]]>I've spent the past 8 years going back and forth between Linux and Windows. When I switched back to Linux last year I was shocked how well steam/proton/wine worked compared to a few years prior. Valve is truly making incredible progress.

]]>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:36:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478584petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478584https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478584<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"]]>There's a loneliness epidemic in our generation. I'm 20 and share the same situation. I've heard scattered bits of advice from older people:

- travel as much as you possibly can

- get out of the house and as much as you can

- talk to strangers more

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:55:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430011petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430011<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?"]]>IMO Zulip is better than matrix in every way. But I haven't used matrix in a few years now.

]]>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:07:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387334petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387334https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387334<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"]]>Windows market share drops below 90% (On steam) The great recession of 2026/2027 (AI bubble pop) Sam Altman arrested OpenAI sold or split up in some way Bitcoin drops under $50k Ukraine war 'ends' Half Life 3 announcement GTA6 delayed again

]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:04:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362862petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362862https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362862<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"]]>Leaks disproved this in 2023. HLX is a single player non-vr PC game.

]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:45:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141888petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141888<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?"]]>IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world

]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:17:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117053petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117053<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?"]]>I can't even imagine doing development in Windows without WSL anymore. I think Microsoft even requires it for some of their stuff.

]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:24:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081286petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081286https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081286<![CDATA[Ret: Online Assembly Playground and Reverse Engineering Tool]]>Article URL: https://ret.futo.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048632

Points: 3

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]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:01:37 +0000https://ret.futo.org/petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048632https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048632<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?"]]>AI for daily life stuff. I don't want AI to summarize anything for me, write my emails, or talk to me.

]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:01:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001941petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001941<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?"]]>Visual Studio Code. I don't have a rational explanation but I feel like there's something deeply immoral about writing assembly in a text editor running inside a web browser.

]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:55:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001911petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001911<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Ask HN: Comments in Code. Yay or Nay?"]]>I can't stand people who say that all code comments are bad.

]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:52:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001900petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001900<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "The Death of Arduino?"]]>Rockchip does the same thing with some of their closed source binaries

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:28:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985475petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985475https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985475<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"]]>Bad advice. Counterpoint: Wine works really well (especially for old applications) and there's nothing wrong with using it. If people restrict themselves to arbitrary rules then many won't be able to use Linux.

]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:19:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521735petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521735<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application"]]>Not related to UI translation but I've been using Sumatra PDF on Linux through wine and it's worked really well. Using it to read and search through 50k page TRMs and it's very fast.

]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:41:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383069petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383069https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383069<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Show HN: Brief introduction to C2PA and using Exify to view Content Credentials"]]>If you don't want C2PA metadata in your images, there are also tools to remove it, such as https://noc2pa.com/

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:28:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367201petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367201<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"]]>Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence against people you disagree with is never the answer

]]>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:16:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202330petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202330<![CDATA[New comment by petabyt in "CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux"]]>This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.

]]>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:12:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492464petabythttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492464https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492464