Hacker News: rstat1

New comment by rstat1 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

rstat1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:26:59 +0000

I've played a little bit of it so far, and really enjoyed it.

New comment by rstat1 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

rstat1 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:55:04 +0000

>>>At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code.

Execution speed only matters to investors and the stock market. Your users don't give a shit.

New comment by rstat1 in "Zed 1.0"

rstat1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:17:16 +0000

I mean all 3 of those also support LSP plugins, so would also spawn "multi GB nodeJS processes" with your tiny golang projects if you enable them.

New comment by rstat1 in "Zed 1.0"

rstat1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:20:17 +0000

So I'm not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that's not at all close to true.

Zed for me on my Linux machine opened to a massive C++ project (the Ladybird browser if you were curious) is (not including LSP or extension processes) using around 480MB of memory.

VSCode on the other hand with nothing open but a 20 line JSON file is (again not including any LSP or extension processes) using around 920MB of memory as reported by its own builtin task manager thing.

I suppose 480MB for a text editor might be a tad high but calling it worse than VSCode is a massive stretch.

New comment by rstat1 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

rstat1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:13:38 +0000

and limited to one type of device that not everyone can get or wants.

New comment by rstat1 in "Warp is now open-source"

rstat1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:54:34 +0000

Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?

New comment by rstat1 in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

rstat1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:28:31 +0000

Well no actually I do not think either of my granmothers could have done that, nor would they have even known (or cared) what a Bitlocker even was.

New comment by rstat1 in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

rstat1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:37:31 +0000

Yes use Bitlocker, the thing that uploads the encryption key to OneDrive "for convenience" thereby negating the whole point of FDE in the first place

New comment by rstat1 in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

rstat1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:09:36 +0000

In my opinion if you learned something from it, it was useful. Bonus points if others learn from it as well, but if not then as long as you did then it doesn’t matter. AI age or not.

I’ve always found hobby OS projects like this interesting, and I hope there’s never a shortage of them in the future

New comment by rstat1 in "Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong"

rstat1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:40:16 +0000

The letter of the law says you are correct. Reality however disagrees. People who are most definitely US citizens have in fact been put in jail for the simple not-crime of refusing to provide passwords to their devices to law enforcement.

New comment by rstat1 in "Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong"

rstat1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:36:22 +0000

The US has been doing that for years already. There's plenty of stories of people (US citizens included) being detained by border agents in US airports for refusal to provide said agents with access to their devices.

New comment by rstat1 in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

rstat1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:09:59 +0000

So if a company uses as part of its marketing for a product the phrase "advanced security, privacy, and connectivity for homes of every shape and size" and then is later found to have lied about the "advanced security" and "privacy" part of their marketing by shipping firmware with security bugs, does that not now fall under the "deceptive" category of the "unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices" part of the FTC's mission?

Sounds like it does to me. Also you're forgetting the part where the FTC under a prior administration either banned DLINK from selling in the US or heavily fined them for selling routers in the US that they knew were running insecure, buggy firmware.

(both quotes were taken verbatim from first, Netgear's US website, and secondly the Bureau of Consumer Protections' section of the FTC's website)

New comment by rstat1 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

rstat1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:17:03 +0000

If that is truly what you think, then you clearly haven't used a Linux desktop distro since then because that absolutely incorrect.

New comment by rstat1 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

rstat1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:26:50 +0000

OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said until your kids are mature to understand what's going on

The onus is on the parent to the be parent. Not the tech industry, and especially not the government.

New comment by rstat1 in "Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels"

rstat1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:57:05 +0000

Google did it with the Tensor-powered Pixels a while back, from w/e they shipped with to 6.1

New comment by rstat1 in "MacBook Neo"

rstat1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:55:46 +0000

You can with Dev Drives now apparently, which don't use NTFS and disable ALL the filter drivers (including the Defender one)

I stopped using Windows just as these were added so now I'm curious if there's any actual performance benefit to using the.

New comment by rstat1 in "MacBook Neo"

rstat1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:37:03 +0000

I'd wager that's more likely due to Windows than the hardware. Like sure the hardware does play a part in that but its not the whole story or even most of it.

My C++ projects have a python heavy build system attached where the main script that runs to prepare everything and kick off the build, takes significantly longer to run on Windows than Linux on the same hardware.

New comment by rstat1 in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

rstat1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:55:10 +0000

Doesn't need to be in the cloud for it work everywhere.

New comment by rstat1 in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

rstat1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:55:32 +0000

>>he thought his job would be in jeopardy if he didn't publish

Where'd you get this from? The author's response on Bluesky doesn't imply this at all.

New comment by rstat1 in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

rstat1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:38:55 +0000

Here’s the PR explaining why they disabled this function

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18336

Seems like it caused tons of problems due to the variability of TPM quality among other things