Hacker News: sufficientsoup

New comment by sufficientsoup in "I'm Done with Mullvad"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:11:46 +0000

Now hold on, there's plenty of reasons to not buy Bud Light.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:39:40 +0000

Why take what he said at face value after "Calm down; this is just an experiment... but actually I'm gonna merge this huge thing in a week"?

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

sufficientsoup — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:45:49 +0000

I think some people just get an irrational block about learning particular things. Like maybe you struggle with a music class in school and just identify as being incapable of learning an instrument, for example, even if they're a skilled learner otherwise. Can't speak for OP, obviously.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Never Give Them Your Face"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:43:20 +0000

My issue with it is that it's a vendor. The need for identification is fair, and I'm not worried about the govt having it. I'm worried about _id.me_ having it.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Never Give Them Your Face"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:40:55 +0000

Just went through this myself. I gave in and made the account, only to then find out I was too late to give them my direct deposit info anyway. (If it's any peace of mind, I did eventually get that check.)

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:39:46 +0000

> I sense a hegemonic power growing behind rust

Can you elaborate on this?

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Pre-2022 Books"

sufficientsoup — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:57:36 +0000

Similarly, when all of this started happening I went and bought some history books for anything that seemed like it would be useful later.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

sufficientsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:28:34 +0000

What incentive does a dealer have to know or care why a sale fell through? Bizarre question

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Never talk to the police"

sufficientsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:10:26 +0000

Leave without announcing your departure

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:30:41 +0000

If I'm understanding that they're waiting this 5 minutes when they try to launch the game, there's a setting (go to Downloads, scroll down) to do the shader compilation in the background

New comment by sufficientsoup in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

sufficientsoup — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:47:45 +0000

Doesn't even seem like various reasons.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

sufficientsoup — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:06:14 +0000

> That creates the expectation, rightly or not, that the Arch User Repository provides some degree of protections for Arch Users against the build sources hosted there being compromised.

The main page of the AUR website says, in bold, "DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk."

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

sufficientsoup — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:19:38 +0000

I similarly used it to finally facilitate a switch to Arch to a couple months ago. Not technically a tool, but it was very convenient to take the Arch wiki, and personalize it by saying "My hardware is X and my use case is Y, can you filter out the 90% of things from here that aren't relevant to me?"

New comment by sufficientsoup in "What color is your function? (2015)"

sufficientsoup — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:51:52 +0000

What are your thoughts on the Io situation? Has your work been with the Io plans in mind from the beginning?

New comment by sufficientsoup in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

sufficientsoup — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:06:37 +0000

You mean dylanmtaylor? I didn't know he was an MSFT employee but I guess I wouldn't be surprised.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

sufficientsoup — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:40:12 +0000

I don't think Codeberg wants to be a GitHub alternative. In particular, I don't think they want to support the use cases of someone hosting a bunch of private repos, or someone hosting commercialized code.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

sufficientsoup — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:27:15 +0000

Yeah, a "seit Jahren" flashed through my mind as I read it.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

sufficientsoup — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:55:24 +0000

It doesn't even need to be random. What if you send an instance of a proprietary file format? Is the company required to share the spec and toolchain so that the govt can verify it (probably) isn't an encrypted message?

New comment by sufficientsoup in "How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)"

sufficientsoup — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:07:42 +0000

I've been having fun trying out Zig recently; would recommend. FYI that they released a big batch of API changes in April (version 0.16.0) so be mindful of learning from old resources.

New comment by sufficientsoup in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

sufficientsoup — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:44:55 +0000

Wouldn’t call myself an expert in either, but I think 2 things stand out far more than anything else: 1. Rust is effectively as strict as can be in terms of ownership. In Zig you can just allocate some memory and then start slinging pointers (or slices) all over. If you’re doing this then you’re presumably doing it for mutability and you don’t strictly know where that pointer ends up once you’ve passed it on. 2. Rust’s metaprogramming is split among a couple different things (e.g. traits, macros), whereas Zig’s is unified (comptime). comptime is (at least advertised as) “just normal Zig code” and Rust macros are a great example of “this doesn’t work at all like the base language”.

#1 boils down to “can the LLM solve the pointer aliasing here?” and #2 is translating between metaprogramming paradigms. Could work but a line-by-line translation is a pipe dream.