Hacker News: siteshwar

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

siteshwar — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/28/gcc-16-improved-error-messages-sarif-output

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188302

Points: 143

# Comments: 22

OpenScanHub, Fedora and Packit

siteshwar — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 05:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://situ.im/posts/openscanhub-fedora-and-packit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168166

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

OpenScanHub – Static and Dynamic Analysis as a Service

siteshwar — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:28:34 +0000

Article URL: http://situ.im/posts/openscanhub

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090555

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by siteshwar in "I’m 22 and I’ve failed"

siteshwar — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 11:33:28 +0000

You may find this talk[1] interesting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLt_yDvdeLQ&ab_channel=TEDxT...

CentOS Stream – Sync2git

siteshwar — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:20:11 +0000

Article URL: http://situ.im/posts/sync2git

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848678

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by siteshwar in "Apple Edge Cache"

siteshwar — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:48:49 +0000

Doesn't it break net neutrality ?

New comment by siteshwar in "KornShell 2020 – Impossible Happens"

siteshwar — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:07:02 +0000

Discipline functions, floating point arithmetic, compound data types etc. Original KornShell is still more powerful programming langauge than bash.

KornShell 2020 – Impossible Happens

siteshwar — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:43:14 +0000

Article URL: http://situ.im/posts/kornshell-2020-impossible-happens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214334

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

Traf-O-Data

siteshwar — Mon, 06 May 2019 15:02:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19840056

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by siteshwar in "Ksh-2020.0.0-alpha1 is now available"

siteshwar — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:37:36 +0000

Link[1] to announcement on mailing list.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/korn-shell/7VAqQg1N5D8/XniWn...

Ksh-2020.0.0-alpha1 is now available

siteshwar — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/att/ast/releases/tag/2020.0.0-alpha1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680282

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by siteshwar in "Fuchsia OS Introduction"

siteshwar — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:53:57 +0000

> Which "millions of lines of code" are compatible with POSIX without having any Linux or macOS specific code?

Those layers would have to be reimplemented to retain compatibility.

> I think you're hugely overstating the importance of POSIX.

People generally understate importance of POSIX, just because it's old. It's impossible to get APIs perfect and you are throwing away decades of work in the name of getting APIs "right". No one is going to rewrite everything from scratch, just because the new APIs look shiny. For reference read about Unix wars[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars

New comment by siteshwar in "Fuchsia OS Introduction"

siteshwar — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:29:58 +0000

It's not and eventually they will have to find ways to provide POSIX compatibility, it can happen through a separate compatiblity layer or a library. You don't want to break compatibility with millions of lines of already written code if you want widespread adoption. No one is going to rewrite everything from scratch, just because Google says so.

New comment by siteshwar in "On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python"

siteshwar — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:23:50 +0000

> Rust is developed by a community, and was started by Mozilla. Go development seems to be de facto controlled by Google, who originated the language. I'd rather bet my non-work future on a language that isn't controlled by a huge corporation, especially one of the main players in today's surveillance economy.

Anyone else agree with this view ? Programming languages should be choosen based on technical merits, rather than who is behind it. Is there a lesson from history that I am missing ?

Squeezing Water from Stone – KornShell in 2019

siteshwar — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 12:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kornshell

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184139

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bash 5.0 released

siteshwar — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 02:19:46 +0000

Article URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852523

Points: 534

# Comments: 296

Ask HN: Which mailing list provider to use?

siteshwar — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:40:55 +0000

Recently mailing lists hosted by AT&T research have stopped working. These lists were used by ksh developers and users, so I am looking for an alternative[1]. Since the issue I opened on GitHub did not generate much public interest, I would like to ask this question to HN crowd. Which mailing list providers do you use and why?

[1] https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1013

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18565608

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by siteshwar in "The Unleashed Operating System"

siteshwar — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:27:36 +0000

> Unleashed is an operating system fork of illumos,

Can someone explain why it was forked ?

New comment by siteshwar in "I fear Google's control of the web"

siteshwar — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:18:04 +0000

> How does this even make sense ?

Google is highly influential in how information is consumed and distributed. People use chrome to browse web, google search for searching information etc. If they have major control over how information is distributed, they have major control over the web. Ofcourse there are other similar services that are not provided by Google, but they are very less influential due to lack of users.

> You should be scared of walled gardens displacing the web.

What if web becomes a walled garden ? Look at what Google did with DRM[1], even Mozilla had to give up their efforts to fight against it[2]. How could that be possible without having a major influence over the web ?

[1] https://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optio... [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...

New comment by siteshwar in "Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car"

siteshwar — Thu, 24 May 2018 00:29:47 +0000

I suspect they will end up in the same situation as they did with Motorola more than a decade ago, until someone reminds them that the people who are serious about software should make their own hardware.