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Gundalf, young IT assistant trolls Hungary's secret service

rbalint — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/europeanunion/comments/1s82nn2/this_is_breaking_news_from_orb%C3%A1ns_hungary_a/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596401

Points: 5

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New comment by rbalint in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

rbalint — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:46:34 +0000

If the builds are slow, build accelerators can help a lot. Ccache would work for sure and there is also firebuild, that can accelerate the linker phase and many other tools in builds.

New comment by rbalint in "Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for Clang tooling"

rbalint — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:45:43 +0000

If you would like to make similar hooks work again on macOS, check out this guide: https://firebuild.com/setup-macos . Firebuild uses similar technique to explore the process tree and create a report with CPU utilizations highlighted in a graphical process tree graph.

New comment by rbalint in "I Improved My Rust Compile Times"

rbalint — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:11:42 +0000

75% is really good even if it requires changing the toolchain. Have you tried https://github.com/firebuild/firebuild ? It is a caching accelerator and it can cache the linking and the buildscripts, too in Rust builds. It can make your builds more than 90% faster, especially with low cores counts. https://balintreczey.hu/blog/improve-build-time-of-rust-java... The Mac port is experimental, though.

More than 10x faster Rust and Cargo builds with Firebuild cache

rbalint — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://balintreczey.hu/blog/improve-build-time-of-rust-java-and-intel-fortran-projects-with-firebuilds-new-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728523

Points: 1

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New comment by rbalint in "Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?"

rbalint — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:44:36 +0000

https://github.com/firebuild/firebuild : A caching build accelerator like ccache, but for any compiler or random script.

There is a short intro: https://balintreczey.hu/blog/how-to-speed-up-your-next-build...

It did not get to the first page in the first round: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34355759

Show HN: Firebuild – automatic accelerator for builds and just random commands

rbalint — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:14:53 +0000

Hi,

Many years ago I have been wondering if long builds could be accelerated by just observing how the processes in the build behaved and caching and replaying the outputs of the well-behaving ones.

Apparently this can work and perform quite well! (... after a ton of work :-)) The tool we built is available on the link above for local testing and to be used as a GitHub Action.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34355759

Points: 3

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New comment by rbalint in "Ask HN: Should I validate a client's idea?"

rbalint — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:43:52 +0000

I was in a similar situation and I laid down the cards. I think I did the right thing by doing so and the client will reevaluate the viability of the concept as they said.