Hacker News: silon42

New comment by silon42 in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

silon42 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:09:06 +0000

Maybe Pause key could be used for legacy "Ctrl+Z" and "Ctrl+Break" for Ctrl+C

New comment by silon42 in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

silon42 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:05:44 +0000

I immediately swapped the Alt/Cmd when I had to use a Mac...

Regarding Fn even Thinkpad has now changed it so Ctrl is in the corner.

New comment by silon42 in "A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap"

silon42 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:39:21 +0000

It would probably make sense to disable swapping "code" also for non-GC languages (or at least do it as a last resort).

New comment by silon42 in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

silon42 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:20:55 +0000

It's a turbo that muffles the sound (and resulting reduced revs because high RPM was restricted due to cost reasons).

New comment by silon42 in "European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance"

silon42 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:52:51 +0000

I remember when there was Eurocard/Mastercard...

New comment by silon42 in "Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks"

silon42 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:10:30 +0000

The only reason I'd consider buying a Chromebook is to install Linux on it... Same is true for Googlebook.

New comment by silon42 in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

silon42 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:38:01 +0000

Tesla Model 3 is a huge car for Europe. I would never consider it due to that.

New comment by silon42 in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

silon42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:10:50 +0000

That sounds great, but I don't fully agree... IMO a compositor should be able to provide a data structure (unchangeable, mostly or fully opaque) that the app can save/restore across sessions.

New comment by silon42 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

silon42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:04:28 +0000

There's a name for when they don't: e-waste.

New comment by silon42 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

silon42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:01:58 +0000

Maybe they were testing spoiled food detection /s

New comment by silon42 in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

silon42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:18:44 +0000

That's not a full solution... proper platform would have backward compatibility, so an OS from today will work on hardware released in 5 years.

New comment by silon42 in "Markdown in /src"

silon42 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:31:09 +0000

yet is extremely load-bearing here.

New comment by silon42 in "Markdown in /src"

silon42 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:34:13 +0000

So, if .md is the new "source", target LLM generated sources should be removed from VCS?

New comment by silon42 in "I don't like passkeys"

silon42 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:40:47 +0000

Then passkeys are a guarantee of account loss, if there is no reasonable way of recovery.

New comment by silon42 in "I don't like passkeys"

silon42 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:31:29 +0000

Is there a reason why passkeys couldn't be used in "expire-periodically" mode?

New comment by silon42 in "Minimal Phone 2"

silon42 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:19:18 +0000

Is this missing Android navigation buttons? I wonder if they considered to have them physical again.

New comment by silon42 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

silon42 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:16:00 +0000

They could offer controlled "failure of service" service where they randomly take stuff offline and you have to pay to get it back if you don't have a backup/recovery strategy.

New comment by silon42 in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

silon42 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:55:07 +0000

Ironically, most XML signatures I had to use, they usually didn't schema validate.

New comment by silon42 in "Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports"

silon42 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:01:15 +0000

Blame the browsers for making it hard to download/store/view offline.

New comment by silon42 in "JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation"

silon42 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:56:53 +0000

I wish JVM could at least recover the memory after some time and drop at runtime what quarkus / AOT drops at build time.