Hacker News: wickrom

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

wickrom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:16:01 +0000

I'd love to hear what made you settle on ghostty. There is not dearth of terminal emulators out there, each claiming performance or batteries included.

New comment by wickrom in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

wickrom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:33:43 +0000

What would you say are a natural use case for Shuru or Lima vs say a full docker like environment? What does the sandbox allow you to do differently? There's additional overhead of the hypervisor. I'm mostly just trying to learn, as yourself.

New comment by wickrom in "Xous Operating System"

wickrom — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:53:38 +0000

What did you mean by a dynamic system ?

New comment by wickrom in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

wickrom — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:57:41 +0000

Is instacart a lowballer employer? levels.fyi suggests software engineers at L3 are getting 222k

New comment by wickrom in "Godfather of AI fears what he's buit"

wickrom — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:14:10 +0000

Huh, maybe he should go fund a prize instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize

New comment by wickrom in "M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein"

wickrom — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 04:20:35 +0000

Looks like Joi Ito saw this coming and pre-emptively put up that post where he claimed he didn't know of Epstein's wrongdoings while happily accepting his money. Well..cat's out of the bag now.

New comment by wickrom in "Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text"

wickrom — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:31:46 +0000

How does Facebook, hiring some of the best engineers in the industry with the biggest bucks ends up in such a mess

New comment by wickrom in "The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper"

wickrom — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 04:24:51 +0000

In many cases your surname/family name can give away your caste. There have been social movements in the country where groups have shunned the practice of using their family names that are used to identify caste.

New comment by wickrom in "Indian Jets Strike on Pakistani Side of Kashmir Line"

wickrom — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:53:38 +0000

I wonder why this news is worthy of being discussed on HN?

New comment by wickrom in "H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads"

wickrom — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 04:20:37 +0000

With the recent articles doing rounds about the feds Looking into Oracle paying minorities and women less, this seems part of the scheme to basically get lower wage workers under H1B who they know will work like minions for long hours because their visas are tied to the job. It's a pretty standard way of gaming the H1B. Oracle is no different.