Hacker News: vzaliva

New comment by vzaliva in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

vzaliva — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:45:01 +0000

Comcast + Netflix. My personal experience few years ago: switched to 8.8.8.8 DNS at home and my Netflix streaming become extrelemly slow.

New comment by vzaliva in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

vzaliva — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:27:00 +0000

unfortunately many DNS resolvers are integrated with CDNs. I do want privacy of an independent non-tracking DNS but I also want my video streaming work fast. :(

New comment by vzaliva in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

vzaliva — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:05 +0000

what languages it support? They only mention "language-agnostic".

New comment by vzaliva in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

vzaliva — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:41:14 +0000

2:463/80

New comment by vzaliva in "The quadratic sandwich"

vzaliva — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:47:51 +0000

Kudos for beatiful formulae rendering.

New comment by vzaliva in "Starship V3"

vzaliva — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:42:55 +0000

Reading reports of people objecting datacenters build in their states I wonder how Florida residents feel about the Spaceport ? It will certainly be more distruptive than datacenters.

New comment by vzaliva in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

vzaliva — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:24:30 +0000

We may be entering the age of "disposable software" (some people politely call it "on-demand software"). Until recently, coding was a highly specialised skill and was relatively expensive. So writing custom code for personal whimsy was a luxury only software developers could afford. Not anymore.

New comment by vzaliva in "Nobody Reviews Compiler Output"

vzaliva — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:13:46 +0000

There are formally compilers (e.g. CompCert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompCert ) which are formally proven correct. I think eventually all production compilers will be formally verified.

New comment by vzaliva in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

vzaliva — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:50:53 +0000

He should publish a "bring Tesla to small court" kit, with all documents other people in the similar situation can use to sue them.

New comment by vzaliva in "SFO Gate Explorer"

vzaliva — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:41:54 +0000

It should be a benefit of TSA Precheck program that TSA Pre members would not need an extra step of applying for Gate Explorer.

New comment by vzaliva in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

vzaliva — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:37:13 +0000

I do not use KDE and wanted just command-line version of it without any Qt dependencies, so I've burned some tokens and produced just that:

https://github.com/vzaliva/whatcable-linux-cli

New comment by vzaliva in "Kefir C17/C23 Compiler"

vzaliva — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:43:00 +0000

I think it is fantastic to have more compiler implementations. It was probably also a fun project to code. What I find lacking in web pages is a motivation. What makes it different from popular compilers? Where is this project heading? What would be potential benefits/use-cases for using this compiler vs others, lessons learned, etc.?

New comment by vzaliva in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

vzaliva — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:43:45 +0000

Hardware-supported capability-based architectures like CHERI are great. I am lilttle skeptical about adpotion prospects of software-only implementation of fat pointers for languages like C and C++.

New comment by vzaliva in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

vzaliva — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:02:38 +0000

This is yet another variant of the "fat pointers" technique, which has been implemented and rejected many times due to either insufficient security guarantees, inability to cross non-fat ABI boundaries, or the overhead it introduces.

New comment by vzaliva in "Reading Is Magic"

vzaliva — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:56:46 +0000

> Russians are essentially the only truly literate people left. The vast majority of Russians read regularly, more than anywhere else in the world.

Not really.

According to Nielsen, 59% of Russians read at least weekly. High, but not the highest in the world, and behind China:

https://nielseniq.com/global/en/insights/commentary/2017/maj...

Several European countries have a very strong reading rates, some exceeding 70% of adults reading books annually:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

New comment by vzaliva in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

vzaliva — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:24:41 +0000

What would it show? If he logged in to Santoshi's email account and sent an email to his personal account, the metadata would be in order, and we would learn little from it.

New comment by vzaliva in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

vzaliva — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:34:51 +0000

I've installed from snap store

New comment by vzaliva in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

vzaliva — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:33:39 +0000

So, I started it and was doing something but there is no obvious way to exit. I tried Q,q, Ecc, :q. I tried `man lnav` in separate terminal - but no man page is provided. `ps` shows 3 processes which would not die with SIGTERM, have to `kill -9`. But nice web site :)

New comment by vzaliva in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

vzaliva — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:33:03 +0000

I've tried to type in non-ASCII (Ukrainian) and preview shows it correctly. Does it guarantee it would print it properly?

New comment by vzaliva in "I love my dumb watches"

vzaliva — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:49:14 +0000

There's a non-obvious fact that people with good sight might not realise. You need decent eyesight (or spectacles) to actually use smartwatch functions beyond just telling the time. As I've got older, I need reading glasses for small print, which I don't always have on when I'm away from my computer or not reading. That's killed smartwatches for me.