Hacker News: swills

New comment by swills in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

swills — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:24:21 +0000

As read by Leonard Nimoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqjSP7kOO4

New comment by swills in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

swills — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:08:49 +0000

I'm going to be the contrarian here. I have looked at the code. I suspect quite a few nil deref panics in their future.

New comment by swills in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

swills — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:00:29 +0000

In a row?

New comment by swills in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

swills — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:10:52 +0000

Same and also I consider it more accurate to sweep, but that's just me I guess, you hardly see it these days.

New comment by swills in "Shut Up: Comment Blocker"

swills — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:03:47 +0000

I've used it for years. It's nice, works well. When I do want to read comments, I just click the button in the tool bar to turn them back on, which is simple and convenient.

PlayStation contributes Distributed ThinLTO to lld

swills — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://maskray.me/blog/2026-02-01-lld-22-elf-changes#distributed-thinlto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886109

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Stop using low DNS TTLs

swills — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:12:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2019/11/12/stop-using-ridiculously-low-dns-ttls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825302

Points: 66

# Comments: 45

New comment by swills in "RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD"

swills — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:32:28 +0000

"work-around" tends to imply you get to keep using things. By your logic, turning the computer off would be a work-around too.

New comment by swills in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

swills — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:18:51 +0000

Yes, indeed, I do.

New comment by swills in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

swills — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:11:34 +0000

I happily and reliably cross build Go code that uses CGO and generate static binaries on amd64 for arm64.

New comment by swills in "Go is portable, until it isn't"

swills — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:08:47 +0000

You can definitely use CGO and still build statically, but you do need to set ldflags to include -static.

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database

swills — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:28:02 +0000

Article URL: https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458

Points: 622

# Comments: 190

The Versity S3 Gateway: A High-Performance S3 Translation Service

swills — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/versity/versitygw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673212

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by swills in "Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features"

swills — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:53:16 +0000

Am I the only one who remembers the old tab groups that were removed before these new tab groups were added?

Edit: Ah, it seems Mozilla remembers: https://web.archive.org/web/20151112023150/https://support.m... (linking archive.org in case they take it down, this is the first copy I can find)

New comment by swills in "ADS-B Exposed"

swills — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:14:31 +0000

Highlighting an area, I see in the sidebar: Time: 2022-02-01 00:09:20.136 — 2023-12-07 22:46:41.480. Would be nice if it had newer data.

New comment by swills in "Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did"

swills — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:52:39 +0000

I really do not know what to think of someone facing up to 75 years in prison getting 3 years of probation.

New comment by swills in "Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot"

swills — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:39:52 +0000

Might I suggest that instead of linking to the article at theatlantic.com you instead link to the archive.org archive of it? I couldn't visit it due to Cloudflare thinking IPv6 is the devil and then still couldn't read it due to the paywall. Here's the archive.org link that sorta works for me, until their JavaScript removes the majority of the page content shortly after loading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250527052607/https://www.theat...

New comment by swills in "FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs"

swills — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:53:30 +0000

Hmm, I think Granite Rapids is all P-Cores and goes up to 86 cores (172 threads):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Rapids

Saudi Aramco Joins the Open Group as Platinum Member

swills — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opengroup.org/Saudi-Aramco-Joins-The-Open-Group-as-Platinum-Member

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44043514

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by swills in "Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting"

swills — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:03:47 +0000

Thanks, you inspired me to make something similar:

https://github.com/swills/onair