Hacker News: wmf

New comment by wmf in "Nvidia N1 laptop motherboard picture shows 128GB of LPDDR5x"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:56:37 +0000

It takes 4-6 years to design a CPU so yes. Keep in mind 128 GB is the maximum; most laptops will ship with 16-32 GB.

New comment by wmf in "Ask HN: Negotiating Intern Pay"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:53:45 +0000

It sounds like they are already doing you a favor so I wouldn't ask for higher pay on top of that.

New comment by wmf in "Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:34:30 +0000

What's the deal with Antirez and PHK refusing to add TLS support?

New comment by wmf in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:42:45 +0000

Cost and complexity tradeoffs. IMO the relay/appview is the current bottleneck.

New comment by wmf in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:28:16 +0000

PDSes should be sharded not replicated. Your posts live on your PDS which lives in one place (although it can move).

New comment by wmf in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

wmf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:12:53 +0000

Not the original poster but I do have some ideas. Official Bluesky clients could randomly/round-robin access 3-4 different appview servers run by different organizations instead of one centralized server. Likewise there could be 3-4 relays instead of one. Upgrades could roll across the servers so they don't all get hit by bugs immediately.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:13:52 +0000

They're property which is also illegal to steal.

New comment by wmf in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:25:34 +0000

Those people aren't the ones doing the work though.

New comment by wmf in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:15:01 +0000

you could call native APIs from JavaScript or Java say, then in your world that's a "native" application because it uses the APIs the platform provides

Yes, this is what we want.

an application could be implemented with Objective-C and/or Swift but not use Cacoa/AppKit/SwiftUI APIs, then that's not an native application

Correct. The toolkit matters, not the language. Native toolkits have very rich and subtle behavior that cannot be properly emulated. They also have a lot of features (someone mentioned input methods and accessibility) that wrappers or wannabe toolkits often lack. To get somewhat back on topic I notice and appreciate that Xilem mentions accessibility.

games written with Vulkan/OpenGL aren't "as native"...

Games are usually fullscreen and look nothing like desktop apps anyway so it doesn't matter what API they use.

New comment by wmf in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:56:23 +0000

My point in mentioning pricing is that the Indian and Chinese middle class can have IPv4 addresses; the rest can't.

New comment by wmf in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:51:21 +0000

Zuck has a lot more experience being summoned before Congress than you.

New comment by wmf in "Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:50:50 +0000

This may be too large to run locally anyway. Maybe they will distill down some smaller open versions later.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:50:31 +0000

Coinbase would definitely go into buy-only mode during a major crash but that just means people would scream while they watch futures/perps go to zero.

"If you're first out the door, that's not called panicking."

New comment by wmf in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:46:55 +0000

The last demo I saw just had a button so the chess app shows a lot of progress.

New comment by wmf in "Why IPv6 is the only way forward"

wmf — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:09:52 +0000

DHCPv6 now exists and every OS except Android supports it.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

wmf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:08:04 +0000

Miners enforce the consensus rules but they can't change them. If miners try to change the rules, exchanges have no obligation to follow.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and Quantum Computing"

wmf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:44:09 +0000

The chain wouldn't halt because mining won't be affected by quantum. If you see hacks happening you could race to move your coins into a PQ wallet before the hackers do. I'm assuming that PQ software will be available before the hacks. I agree that this is a very bad scenario.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

wmf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:38:20 +0000

Yes, if you read the fine print on the ETFs they tell you what they will do in case of a fork. Usually their custodian picks the "winning" chain at their discretion. There's a similar (although reversed) situation with stablecoins.

New comment by wmf in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

wmf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:30:08 +0000

I was addressing the narrow claim that you cannot distinguish ASCII from UTF-7. You can distinguish IPv4 from IPv6 by looking at the version field (and I forgot to mention the L2 protocol field is out of band from IP's perspective). Obviously if the receiver doesn't support UTF-7 or IPv6 then it won't be understood. Forward compatibility isn't possible in this case.

New comment by wmf in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

wmf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:25:34 +0000

You might be surprised how many crypto hackers have been arrested and convicted. Usually they want to spend the money in civilization.