Hacker News: pzmarzly

New comment by pzmarzly in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

pzmarzly — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:23:46 +0000

> Personally, I think putting an interoperability protocol implementation behind a copyleft license is a little unfortunate!

Huh, haven't thought of it. Just relicensed ancs4linux to MIT.

New comment by pzmarzly in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

pzmarzly — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:33:20 +0000

They are not TB5 compatible though, and if you are going to drive monitors through it, or connect external GPU, 120Gbit (TB5) is much better than 40Gbit TB4 gives you. If you are willing to pay a bit more, consider TB5 cables from CalDigit, StarTech, CableMatters, or Apple.

New comment by pzmarzly in "Zed DeltaDB"

pzmarzly — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:04:24 +0000

I would like Zed to have feature parity with VSCode from 6 years ago. Working well over SSH or WSL, which it currently doesn't, is a part of that, even if I don't use that everyday.

I am a paying user, and have no plans to stop supporting them financially, but I wish they locked in and went through GH Issues queue, starting from the oldest.

New comment by pzmarzly in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

pzmarzly — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:17:59 +0000

One of the YouTube comments pointed out the issue is most likely the lack of support for SMB Direct (RDMA) in macOS. Would be nice to repeat the test on a Windows/Linux laptop.

New comment by pzmarzly in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

pzmarzly — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:36:40 +0000

Does it work across forks, or is it same repo only (like gh-stack et al)?

New comment by pzmarzly in "Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes"

pzmarzly — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:52:58 +0000

New comment by pzmarzly in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

pzmarzly — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:48:10 +0000

That's what Thunderbolt 4 and 5 cables essentially are - USB-C cables with guarantees on speeds and PD power.

New comment by pzmarzly in "UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction"

pzmarzly — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:53:32 +0000

22B transactions a year mean an average of ~700 QPS for the NPCI switch. Of course the traffic is not uniform, it probably peaks at many times that number, but that still doesn't sound that bad - for comparison, a quick Google tells me Nasdaq TotalView ITCH feed peaks at 100k+ QPS at market open.

New comment by pzmarzly in "Chatto is now Open Source"

pzmarzly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:52:45 +0000

I hope they introduce some sort of public read-only view that an admin can enable. Discord has https://www.answeroverflow.com/ and https://www.linen.dev/

New comment by pzmarzly in "ATProto Permissioned Data Proposal Draft"

pzmarzly — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:53:05 +0000

That would enable private repos on https://tangled.org/ , right?

New comment by pzmarzly in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"

pzmarzly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:17:58 +0000

> The range of things that can run an http server is much bigger than tftp

Don't go too crazy though, these UEFI HTTP clients are not well behaved. For example, last time I checked, EDK required the URL to end with ".efi", instead of checking Content-Type header.

Google Discover's headline rewrites strike again

pzmarzly — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/936822/google-discovers-headline-rewrites-strike-again

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255955

Points: 13

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New comment by pzmarzly in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

pzmarzly — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:07:38 +0000

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, Building-Integrated Photovoltaics are its own market of products. But you have many much cheaper options there, at least in Europe. For example https://solroof.eu/en/discover-solroof/what-is-solroof/ or https://metsolar.eu/products/bipv-roof/

New comment by pzmarzly in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

pzmarzly — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:12:39 +0000

Does anyone know what changed in iOS 16.5 that made Google stop requiring the app? To me it seems to correlate with Private Access Tokens, aka remote attestation by Apple. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10077/

New comment by pzmarzly in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

pzmarzly — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:08:40 +0000

TIL, and they look great indeed. Shame they are all sold out except for <= 0.3m lengths. https://global.lttstore.com/products/ltt-truespec-cable-usb-...

New comment by pzmarzly in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

pzmarzly — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:28:52 +0000

IIRC a few years ago I saw some store asking for 6 or 8 digit BLIK codes, I guess the latter was how they were planning to expand from supporting just Poland to supporting whole EU. But that effort seems to have died out.

New comment by pzmarzly in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

pzmarzly — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:55:33 +0000

https://tangled.org/ supports many jj features, but they seem to only offer public repos.

New comment by pzmarzly in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

pzmarzly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:16:39 +0000

Jujutsu equivalents, if anyone is curious:

What Changes the Most

    jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & committer_date(after:"1 year ago")' \
      -T 'self.diff().files().map(|f| f.path() ++ "\n").join("")' \
      | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Who Built This

    jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & ~merges()' \
      -T 'self.author().name() ++ "\n"' \
      | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Where Do Bugs Cluster

    jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & description(regex:"(?i)fix|bug|broken")' \
      -T 'self.diff().files().map(|f| f.path() ++ "\n").join("")' \
      | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Is This Project Accelerating or Dying

    jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk())' \
      -T 'self.committer().timestamp().format("%Y-%m") ++ "\n"' \
      | sort | uniq -c

How Often Is the Team Firefighting

    jj log --no-graph \
      -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & committer_date(after:"1 year ago") & description(regex:"(?i)revert|hotfix|emergency|rollback")'

Much more verbose, closer to programming than shell scripting. But less flags to remember.

New comment by pzmarzly in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

pzmarzly — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:14:37 +0000

I guess one way to protect yourself from this would be to use another IAM solution for SSO login to Google Workspace, but is there any reasonable choice for small businesses other than Entra ID or Okta?

New comment by pzmarzly in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

pzmarzly — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:03:03 +0000

You will run into problems if destination drive has different sector size than your VM, as GPT header won't be aligned.

QEMU defaults to 512B sectors, which isn't true for many NVMe drives. There are some flags to change that. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/722450

I think it should be possible to make an image with many headers at different locations, so that it works on all types of disks at once, but I don't think any tools do it for you by default.