Hacker News: rounce

New comment by rounce in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

rounce — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:37:40 +0000

Github is awash with people's dotfiles including fully featured DEs built on top of things like Hyprland and Noctalia, and they don't require you to use a mess of a distro to use them.

New comment by rounce in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

rounce — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:13:13 +0000

When you say "open-source crowd demanding features (and security updates) all without donating to the project" are you referring to the profitable companies who massively benefit from FOSS but don't contribute in any way back to the projects they leverage?

New comment by rounce in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

rounce — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:19:34 +0000

The increase in healthcare costs is more a function of an aging population, rather than people (mis)using ambulances too much. However in these countries, although the rates are fairly low, misuse of ambulances is often heavily linked to poor levels of health literacy or lack of transportation options - though the caller often genuinely perceives it as an emergency - both of which can be improved through other programs such as education and public transport provisions. It’s almost as if providing good public education and transportation makes the population more productive and less wasteful.

New comment by rounce in "Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator"

rounce — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:48:57 +0000

It'd be nice if it was possible to toggle the different log classes after the fact.

New comment by rounce in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

rounce — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:36:23 +0000

I’ve run the open kernel module for some time and it seems to work well although I had to patch it to fix support for some VR hardware until upstream fixes it properly. What Vulcan extensions were you having issues with?

New comment by rounce in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

rounce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:36:04 +0000

Out of interest are they running OKM or proprietary driver?

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:32:53 +0000

Good thing neither are sports cars.

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:14:38 +0000

Why do you see enjoying doing something, driving in this case, as being some sort way of “asserting dominance”? Some people just enjoy things because of all the activities and associations they have which involve that thing. I come from a place where we have both good public transport and a sizeable automotive enthusiast subculture, one doesn’t preclude the other. You seem to be pushing the idea that car enthusiasts enjoy cars because of the some status association, when most of the time people who are interested in car-as-status have little to no actual interest in cars beyond that.

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:42:42 +0000

A GT4CLusso has 4 seats and a hatchback, yet looks reasonable as a Ferrari so it’s hardly unfamiliar territory.

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:14:12 +0000

An XY scatter plot of g forces on its own isn’t very useful, this is why multichannel analysis tools like i2 exist so you can look at things like lateral g vs yaw rate or steering angle.

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:35 +0000

I disagree, it still commits many sins of modern car design with regard to interior controls. After Ive making a big statement basically echoing what pretty much everyone has been saying for years about forcing touchscreens on drivers, he goes and slaps a big honking iPad on the dash.

New comment by rounce in "Ferrari Luce"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:48:10 +0000

Though Pininfarina, Zagato and others have a long history of designing beautiful car bodies, many of which have more than stood the test of time.

New comment by rounce in "Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C"

rounce — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:43:20 +0000

Nitpick: eBPFs aren’t just for low level networking manipulations but also lots of other parts of the kernel. In fact the expanded version of the acronym is slightly confusing as it sort of implies being entirely to do with networking, which it isn’t.

New comment by rounce in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

rounce — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:13:37 +0000

More like, if you say “I hope this movie doesn’t suck” are you preemptively implying the movie is rubbish, or are you expressing your hope that it is worth witnessing? Taken out of context you can make a case for either. Luckily we have the rest of the post for that context so surely it’d be reasonable to base one’s interpretation on that.

New comment by rounce in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

rounce — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:29:39 +0000

“I hope X isn’t Y” is far from the same thing as “X is Y”. Seems like you’ve put words in their mouth so you can argue against some anti-religious straw man.

New comment by rounce in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

rounce — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:44:47 +0000

You’d think that but Xbox game pass games still won’t natively run on Linux.

New comment by rounce in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

rounce — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:38:03 +0000

> why the sudden attack by EU lobbyists against VPNs?

Live sports, they’re already assaulting internet infrastructure in various EU member states (eg. La Liga forcing Spanish ISPs to block cloudflare IPs during matches). With this in mind it seems less a case of surveillance state and more a case of corporate state capture.

New comment by rounce in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

rounce — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:17:42 +0000

> Go at least has a more capable standard library than Rust.

Many Golang projects I see in the wild will import a number of dependencies with significant feature overlap with sections of the standard library, or even be intended as a replacement for them. So it seems that having an expansive stdlib isn’t sufficient to avoid deep dependency trees, it probably helps to some degree but it’s definitely not a panacea.

New comment by rounce in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

rounce — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:04:02 +0000

This is related to a massive annoyance of mine: when I run a piece of software and the system is missing a required dependency, I want the software to *tell me* that dependency is missing so I can make a decision about proceeding or not. Instead it seems that far too often software authors will try and be “clever” by silently installing a bunch of dependencies, either in some directory path specific to the software, or even worse globally.

I run a distro that often causes software like this to break because their silent automatic installation typically makes assumptions about Linux systems which don’t apply to mine. However I fear for the many users of most typical distros (and other OS’ in general as it’s not just a Linux-only issue) who are subject to having all sorts of stuff foisted onto their system with little to no opportunity to easily decide what is being heaped upon them.

New comment by rounce in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

rounce — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:04:15 +0000

Worth noting that these weren't low level employees watching the children's gymnastics areas but included the accounts of the Director of Growth, and the VP of Strategic Relations and Business Development among several other staff members. You really have to wonder what these people mean when they say "think of the children".