Hacker News: sdht0

New comment by sdht0 in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

sdht0 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:11:40 +0000

Just found out about https://github.com/DialmasterOrg/Youtarr today.

New comment by sdht0 in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

sdht0 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:48:54 +0000

Yup, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/41340

I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun (2021)

sdht0 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I feel open source has turned into two worlds

sdht0 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceTwoWorlds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315179

Points: 121

# Comments: 50

New comment by sdht0 in ""Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B"

sdht0 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:57:49 +0000

> people need to learn they shouldn't trust apps made by these giant adzillas.

I do wish life were that simple. Users (including myself) get value out of natively installed apps. Until that changes, this suggestion is impractical.

Between the Booms: AI in Winter

sdht0 — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3688379

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033803

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Complicated World of Strings in Rust

sdht0 — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://em-baggie.github.io/blog/the_complicated_world_of_strings_in_rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033786

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdht0 in "Reddit is debating if they'd upload their consciousness to live forever"

sdht0 — Sat, 03 May 2025 22:52:39 +0000

and it doesn't have to be just one copy.

New comment by sdht0 in "Tell HN: An update on your Google Maps Timeline"

sdht0 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:01:33 +0000

I've since enabled https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger/ and sync the output files to my home server using syncthing.

Also checkout Dawarich: https://dawarich.app/docs/tutorials/import-existing-data https://github.com/Freika/dawarich/wiki/How-to-track-your-lo...

New comment by sdht0 in "Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM"

sdht0 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:47:15 +0000

https://demo.kuzudb.com is our general WASM explorer with some synthetic data you can try.

Also note that Kuzu is open source. You can try running the explorer locally using Docker: https://github.com/kuzudb/explorer?tab=readme-ov-file#webass...

New comment by sdht0 in "Show HN: I researched system design questions so you don't have to"

sdht0 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:40:35 +0000

This is a handy reference to have!

Is there a way I can download this as a CSV file?

Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM

sdht0 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:12:57 +0000

We show the potential of modern, embedded graph databases in the browser by demonstrating a fully in-browser chatbot that can perform Graph RAG using Kuzu (the graph database we're building) and WebLLM, a popular in-browser inference engine for LLMs. The post retrieves from the graph via a Text-to-Cypher pipeline that translates a user question into a Cypher query, and the LLM uses the retrieved results to synthesize a response. As LLMs get better, and WebGPU and Wasm64 become more widely adopted, we expect to be able to do more and more in the browser in combination with LLMs, so a lot of the performance limitations we see currently may not be as much of a problem in the future.

We will soon also be releasing a vector index as part of Kuzu that you can also use in the browser to build traditional RAG or Graph RAG that retrieves from both vectors and graphs. The system has come a long way since we open sourced it about 2 years ago, so please give us feedback about how it can be more useful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321523

Points: 158

# Comments: 29

New comment by sdht0 in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

sdht0 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:28:00 +0000

Another way of looking at it is that Mullvad has gives their users the ability to do that, as compared to so many other "top" VPNs.

Treefmt 2.0

sdht0 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:56:22 +0000

Article URL: https://bmcgee.ie/posts/2024/06/announcing-treefmt-2.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979953

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Puppet fork OpenVox makes first release

sdht0 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:12:43 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1005781/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42805286

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdht0 in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

sdht0 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:17:59 +0000

Moreover, Firefox makes it super easy to screenshot individual elements on a webpage, such as photos, by automatically determining the screenshot boundaries, which means I don't have to manually drag the screenshot area.

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers

sdht0 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663357

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

The Year in Physics

sdht0 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:49:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20241217/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473178

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdht0 in "Linux, Year One"

sdht0 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:28:12 +0000

Quite a nice summary:

   It's frustrating instead of abusive, and we hate being frustrated but we've suffered too much abuse.

New comment by sdht0 in "Memory Sealing "Mseal" System Call Merged for Linux 6.10"

sdht0 — Sun, 26 May 2024 17:38:21 +0000

Thanks! Another important bit:

> sealing changes the lifetime of a mapping, i.e. the sealed mapping won’t be unmapped till the process terminates or the exec system call is invoked. Applications can apply sealing to any virtual memory region from userspace, but it is crucial to thoroughly analyze the mapping’s lifetime prior to apply the sealing.