Hacker News: rjsw

New comment by rjsw in "AlpineBSD"

rjsw — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:50:10 +0000

... or commercial software vendors would roll back a couple of years in their VCS and start again from that point.

New comment by rjsw in "AlpineBSD"

rjsw — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:06:32 +0000

The reason for NetBSD rejecting any use of AI is the concern that a future legal case will rule that the output of LLMs trained on GPL code is itself subject to the GPL due to the viral clause in the licence.

New comment by rjsw in "AlpineBSD"

rjsw — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:45:53 +0000

As a NetBSD developer, I wouldn't claim that it works on everything.

New comment by rjsw in "AlpineBSD"

rjsw — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:43:48 +0000

NetBSD retains the old ABI as well if anything changes to a syscall.

New comment by rjsw in "OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp"

rjsw — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:16:49 +0000

Your "light mode" button doesn't work.

New comment by rjsw in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

rjsw — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:50 +0000

The GitHub mirror of the equivalent NetBSD package is here [1].

[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/emulators/wine

New comment by rjsw in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

rjsw — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:11:42 +0000

The US did try going the 'cheap cannons' route [1] at one point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M247_Sergeant_York

New comment by rjsw in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

rjsw — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:03:41 +0000

There is a short video on the BBC website of a blind person using them to give an audible warning of uneven pavement/sidewalks in front of them.

New comment by rjsw in "Tesla Roadster"

rjsw — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:51:00 +0000

There is another car [1] with a fan to improve downforce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Murray_Automotive_T.50

New comment by rjsw in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

rjsw — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:03:10 +0000

The Gestapo didn't really spy on German citizens, it just waited for those good citizens to denounce each other then rounded them up.

New comment by rjsw in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

rjsw — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:04:55 +0000

My house is from the 1870s.

New comment by rjsw in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

rjsw — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:59:37 +0000

The same CEO was ultimately responsible for both those cars.

New comment by rjsw in "Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait"

rjsw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:52:38 +0000

I thought that the gas was being flared off anyway, feeding it into a turbine at least makes some use of it.

New comment by rjsw in "AI does math. Should you get a PhD?"

rjsw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:31:49 +0000

People do humanities PhDs without much expectation of a job using it afterwards.

New comment by rjsw in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

rjsw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:29:26 +0000

The next edition of STEP AP242 will contain support for IGA.

New comment by rjsw in "AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic"

rjsw — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:00:13 +0000

Both of those are listed on the image of the book cover in the article.

New comment by rjsw in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

rjsw — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:27:27 +0000

Prigozhin had the chance to do something but bottled out.

New comment by rjsw in "Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD"

rjsw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:01:23 +0000

TBF, there is an experimental wireguard implementation in NetBSD as well.

New comment by rjsw in "The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)"

rjsw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:40:08 +0000

Your original Smalltalk port described in "Bits of History, Words of Advice" wasn't on top of an operating system but the 4404 does have one. What was the reason for this, was it to be able to run the other languages on the 4404?

New comment by rjsw in "The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)"

rjsw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:24:08 +0000

He seems to have added emulation of the 4404 to Mame.