Hacker News: vbernat

New comment by vbernat in "Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter"

vbernat — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:28:27 +0000

Mostly, they try to avoid it by allocating extents instead of blocks (so, they look for a contiguous space to store most files) and by delaying allocation to accommodate for a growing files.

New comment by vbernat in "The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators"

vbernat — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:07:45 +0000

The page from which the data is sourced allows this: http://pldb.info/lists/creators.

New comment by vbernat in "GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer"

vbernat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:15:57 +0000

This is not untrue, but I suppose that if you don't prevent bots from accessing your website, they won't try to use the more advanced scrapers running JS and won't trigger your analytics.

New comment by vbernat in "The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]"

vbernat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:51:43 +0000

The bug on Linux still exists today on this family (e100, e1000, e1000e). Maybe the root cause is different, but the solution is still to disable TCP segmentation offload and I suppose this is a firmware bug. At some point, Mellanox took over the "top" card segment for servers.

New comment by vbernat in "GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer"

vbernat — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:28:51 +0000

It is now mostly unusable for web analytics. So many scrapers are pretending to be browsers. On my site, there is a factor 10 with what I consider an honest view of human visitors.

New comment by vbernat in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

vbernat — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:16:20 +0000

In France, thanks to STIR/SHAKEN, this is not possible any more for the fixed phone numbering plans (and telemarketers have to register their phone numbers in a subset of this numbering plan). For mobile lines, this is still not 100% implemented due to the difficulty of handling roaming, but I think it is becoming efficient as I didn't have a telemarketer with a mobile number since a long time (they seem to hide their number now).

Sharding a routing table for lock-free reads in Go

vbernat — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:42:42 +0000

Article URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-akvorado-rib-sharding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253466

Points: 2

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New comment by vbernat in "Monitors for Work"

vbernat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:27:04 +0000

After 27" 4K OLED last year, I suppose 24" are next! I didn't have the patience to wait and I have migrated to 27" 4k OLED (Alienware).

EVPN: All Roads Lead to the Firewall

vbernat — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://telcokwaks.com/posts/all-roads-lead-to-the-firewall/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020233

Points: 2

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New comment by vbernat in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

vbernat — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:18:29 +0000

I have switched from FVWM to awesome because of Lua. Many years later, I have switched to i3 because it's not using a programming language for configuration. It's fine to have a configuration language if you have time to maintain, but your configuration can become quite complex and difficult to evolve. And it is also far more subject to breakage when upgrading.

I think I've found balance by using a Python daemon as a "companion" for my i3 configuration. It listens and react to event. It enhances the configuration, so when it's broken, it's not a big deal. And the interface exposed by i3 is smaller, so less risk of breakage. https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2021-i3-window-manager#i3-...

SatNOGS: A Ground Station for Under €100

vbernat — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:14:53 +0000

Article URL: https://telcokwaks.com/posts/satnogs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952385

Points: 3

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New comment by vbernat in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

vbernat — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:06:04 +0000

It's easy to disprove. This website is not behind CF. Also: https://backlinko.com/cloudflare-users.

New comment by vbernat in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

vbernat — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:13:52 +0000

I don't think CF is that much present, but yes, the situation is dire.

New comment by vbernat in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

vbernat — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:46:00 +0000

I have also restored the very first articles I wrote in the 90s when I was young <https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-old-web-articles>. At the time, they were not "great," but now I think they have some limited historical values. For example, one of them is about how the national phone operator was billing minutes. The information was easy to find in the past but is pretty scarce now.

I didn't use the wayback machine because it didn't archive everything I needed and because I still had the files on my hard drive, but if I didn't, I would have been happy to recover them.

New comment by vbernat in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

vbernat — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:43:02 +0000

I often run a linkchecker on my blog and substitute broken URL with links to the Wayback machine. Unfortunately, this is becoming quite difficult to detect broken URL as everybody is fighting bots. I am using linkchecker <https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/> and it respects robots.txt but many sites are now serving 503 or various other codes.

New comment by vbernat in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

vbernat — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:32:38 +0000

Biking is not meant to replace everything. More people biking means more room for people that cannot bike. Bike-heavy cities like Amsterdam show that most of your "facts" are incorrect (bikes can be used to transport goods, are usable when it rains, are used by a large part of the population). That's a trope common when bike displaces cars, but studies show the reverse (for example in Madrid: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02642...). Also, biking is good for health despite the risks (for example https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4521).

New comment by vbernat in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

vbernat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:16:45 +0000

It already does. With IPv6, you don't go through some CGNAT box, that could misbehave or just break (and since the biggest chunk of content is available through IPv6, this may not be a priority). Also, a shared IPv4 can be banned by various sites if one of the owner misbehaves. This issue is not present with IPv6.

More on this: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2024-why-ipv6

New comment by vbernat in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

vbernat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:14:10 +0000

6rd will soon get away to get native IPv6 instead. Also, 6rd is what allowed France to lead IPv6 deployment.

Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency

vbernat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:50:22 +0000

Article URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-kpi-goodhart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557183

Points: 3

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New comment by vbernat in "Leaving Mozilla"

vbernat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:04:00 +0000

But PulseAudio API is still the "standard".