Hacker News: setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=setheronHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:09:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]>This also can be handled by binfmt_misc; I include a demo of it in a gist.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:03:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995860setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995860<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]>Feel free to email me! (author)

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:21:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994428setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994428https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994428<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]>I would love to learn more about this; I'm deeply interested in replacing ELF with something either simpler or maybe leveraging sqlite for much of the functionality.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:20:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994426setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994426https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994426<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]>(author) YESSSSSSS

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:43:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993842setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993842https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993842<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"]]>(author) You did a great job articulating the points!

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:41:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993812setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993812https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993812<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Don't you mean extinct?"]]>I don't want to curate my own AGENTS file. I'd rather just copy someone else's verbatim similar to code formatting style.

Fabien, care to share your whole file? I'll plug it into my NixOS machine.

]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:58:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883039setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883039https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883039<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"]]>https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-sto...

I wrote about this recently as well.

]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:25:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872853setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872853<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "A native graphical shell for SSH"]]>I'm confused -- does this compile it live when the server ships code? How do we resolve dependencies, toolset etc.. Is the idea to just pick an old enough platform toolchain you expect to be present?

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:29:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722248setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722248<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "A TacoSprint 2026 Retrospective"]]>We also wrote an academic-style trip report at https://fzakaria.com/assets/pdfs/Attention_Nix_and_Tacos_is_... (arxiv submission is pending!)

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:38:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720704setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720704https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720704<![CDATA[A TacoSprint 2026 Retrospective]]>Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/29/a-tacosprint-2026-retrospective

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720703

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:38:35 +0000https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/29/a-tacosprint-2026-retrospectivesetheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720703<![CDATA[Nix Needs Relocatable Binaries]]>Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/21/nix-needs-relocatable-binaries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621786

Points: 21

# Comments: 0

]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:23:39 +0000https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/21/nix-needs-relocatable-binariessetheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621786https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621786<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI"]]>You can still apply. People dropped out. Reach out to me if you want. My email is in my website (see profile).

We leave Saturday to hack on Nix !

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:44:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550322setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550322<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI"]]>Come join us at https://tacosprint.org/ We have more availability! (Also sponsor maybe )

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:45:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545388setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545388<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI"]]>Big fan of exe.dev so the added Nix seems like a solid value add.

exe.dev is great but lurking in my mind is: "how will I replicate this if I ever need to move to AWS etc.." for all the service composition.

Site looks great too

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:14:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544281setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544281https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544281<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "A Visualization of Unfathomable Wealth"]]>The purpose is just to visualize scale.

Similar to Jeff Dean's visualization of numbers every programmer should know, visualizing scale is helpful -+ or at least I find it so.

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:31:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519443setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519443https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519443<![CDATA[A Visualization of Unfathomable Wealth]]>Article URL: https://fzakaria.github.io/trillion-wut/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518374

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:42:38 +0000https://fzakaria.github.io/trillion-wut/setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518374<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Every Byte Matters"]]>(author) thank you for the kind words.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:53:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392677setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392677<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Every Byte Matters"]]>Add it to my watch list!

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:50:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385699setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385699<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"]]>amazing transparency, pay and information on the site.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:44:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372695setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372695<![CDATA[New comment by setheron in "Every Byte Matters"]]>The struct can be optimized but if we keep growing it with our features we hit the same problem for the cache line sequential access.

Smaller structs help with keeping working set down though.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:03:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369111setheronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369111