Hacker News: philkrylov

New comment by philkrylov in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

philkrylov — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:18:09 +0000

bash, zsh, and ksh93 support `exec -a` especially for this case.

New comment by philkrylov in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

philkrylov — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:29:27 +0000

Hi, thanks for your project! Do you accept pull requests? https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2616 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2617

New comment by philkrylov in "Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser"

philkrylov — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:44:17 +0000

Hi, adding WS2812B LED strips of arbitrary length would be awesome! Scrolling the canvas is sometimes problematic. Otherwise very interesting.

New comment by philkrylov in "JSON has become today's machine-readable output format on Unix"

philkrylov — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:23:44 +0000

Hi, I am still blocked with "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0"

New comment by philkrylov in "Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go"

philkrylov — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:36:01 +0000

hrx looks much better, as txtar can't include, e.g., other txtar files

New comment by philkrylov in "Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data"

philkrylov — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:38:17 +0000

The main problem with them is they are not working yet and there are not enough people working on improving that.

New comment by philkrylov in "German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license"

philkrylov — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:43:56 +0000

The link shows a list of firmwares. The actual sources are at https://github.com/Freetz-NG/freetz-ng - but it's not the original FritzBox firmware sources:

> Freetz is a toolbox for developers and experienced users to build a modified firmware based on the original firmware for the DSL/LAN/WLAN/VoIP-Routers AVM Fritz!Box and T-Com Speedport (identical hardware) and to transfer this firmware to the device. There are many extension packages available, along with options to remove unwanted functionality from the original firmware.

New comment by philkrylov in "Getting back into C programming for CP/M"

philkrylov — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:41:43 +0000

> for (int i = 0; i < strlen (str); i++) {...}

> A modern compiler will optimize this redundancy away

No, it won't: https://godbolt.org/z/xbzz4cEq3

New comment by philkrylov in "A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability"

philkrylov — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:49:39 +0000

> yes, ZFS can be configured to use a WAL too for durability

ZFS always uses ZIL for sync writes. You can optionally set `sync=disabled` for a dataset to switch it off. I would not describe it as "can be configured to use WAL".

New comment by philkrylov in "SSH as a Sudo Replacement"

philkrylov — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:05:44 +0000

Only with GNU su. A portable though limited replacement would be something like

    alias sudo="su root -c"

New comment by philkrylov in "My deployment platform is a shell script"

philkrylov — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:53:01 +0000

The heredoc in the script is never terminated. Probably it's not the production version but one for publishing ;-)

New comment by philkrylov in "Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)"

philkrylov — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:59:16 +0000

Actually, using DEBUG for creating anything besides one or two simple DOS/BIOS calls was a PITA due to the lack of symbolic labels. After that, the MASM/TASM boilerplate started to feel bearable.

New comment by philkrylov in "The ü/ü Conundrum"

philkrylov — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:52:10 +0000

The article suggests using NFC normalization as a simple solution, but fails to mention that HFS+ always does NFD normalization to file names, and APFS kinda does not but some layer above it actually does (https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/08/explainer-unicode-normal...), and ZFS has this behavior controlled by a dataset-level option. I don't see how applying its suggestion literally (just normalize to NFC before saving) can work.

New comment by philkrylov in "Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us"

philkrylov — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:30:34 +0000

Looking at your search results, there's just one recent ZFS corruption case with SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE (in several HN reflections), a 2-year old Ubuntu-only buggy patch story, and some 2008 [Open]Solaris corruption.

New comment by philkrylov in "Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us"

philkrylov — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:21:48 +0000

PostgreSQL does not use SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE so they're ok

New comment by philkrylov in "Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep"

philkrylov — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:13:14 +0000

Although being faster in some cases, ripgrep lacks archive search support (no, transparent decompression ignoring the archive structure is not enough) which works great in ugrep.

New comment by philkrylov in "Sopwith – a classic bi-plane shoot 'em up from 1984 in the browser"

philkrylov — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:16:07 +0000

just 4 CGA colors, to be exact

New comment by philkrylov in "PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)"

philkrylov — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:14:29 +0000

Right. At least for some time...

ZFS-autobackup – a lightweight but featureful ZFS replication solution

philkrylov — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37236972

Points: 1

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New comment by philkrylov in "I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS"

philkrylov — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:06:08 +0000

> the cost, besides having to actually create the file systems, is that moving data between them isn't instant.

No more the case after block cloning support goes production: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392