Hacker News: xuhu

New comment by xuhu in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

xuhu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:08:45 +0000

Online stores don't remove 1-star reviews of their products from their store. Do they ?

New comment by xuhu in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

xuhu — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:14:01 +0000

I hope Photoshop runs in the Linux VM introduced with Android 16, so I can stop carrying a laptop to edit photos and bring just a 0.5kg monitor instead.

New comment by xuhu in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

xuhu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:47:19 +0000

It's not sweets and it's not an addiction, not everything on TV is for mindless consumption. The viewer is not who's at fault here. The right mindset is not "accept their terms or give up", it's "make your voice heard and try to make the manufacturers change their practices".

New comment by xuhu in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

xuhu — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:37:05 +0000

You can get banned from TikTok ? That's horrible, how ? Can you provide detailed instructions please?

New comment by xuhu in "The GNU C Library version 2.43 released"

xuhu — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:07:51 +0000

Are there any bugs that an app can carry over just due to being compiled with old glibc headers for compatibility with older distros ?

New comment by xuhu in "Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags"

xuhu — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:44:58 +0000

Oh god, this is what they'll implement eventually. Each passenger will have to put their bag 15 rows down from their seat.

New comment by xuhu in "Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi"

xuhu — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:05:29 +0000

Why are the Shift and Caps Lock keys shaped like that ? Is it because those wide keys cannot be pressed from the ends ?

New comment by xuhu in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

xuhu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:45:01 +0000

He worked on: Go, the Sawzall language for processing logs, and distributed systems. Go and Sawzall are usable and used outside Google.

Are those distributed systems valuable primarily to Google, or are they related to Kubernetes et cetera ?

New comment by xuhu in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

xuhu — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:16:45 +0000

How much time does it add when running e.g. "shittp user@lan-host uname" ?

New comment by xuhu in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

xuhu — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:40:00 +0000

Thank God for lucrative work higher up the stack. Maybe programmers will stop being the only scapegoats for rising home prices and the high cost of living.

New comment by xuhu in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

xuhu — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:19:50 +0000

It's as useful as brute forcing one of your neighbor's 100 online passwords every day and writing it on the door of a random supermarket.

New comment by xuhu in "Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997"

xuhu — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:13:04 +0000

I wonder if Visopsys, Windows 3.11 and others could work as a daily driver running in qemu, started from a Linux initrd that has just a browser and qemu. "Opening" the browser in Visopsys actually switches to the browser running on the host, and Alt-Tab switches back to Visopsys.

New comment by xuhu in "Mini smartphones from Japan [video]"

xuhu — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:48:12 +0000

I wonder why the youtuber went for the ultra close-up framing. It does kind of make sense since faces look even smaller on a credit card sized phone.

New comment by xuhu in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

xuhu — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:31:09 +0000

Why don't they just transport the blades standing up ?

New comment by xuhu in "A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool"

xuhu — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:43:12 +0000

This can trace all processes on the host while strace traces one PID and its descendants. And bpf tracing does not stop processes at each syscall, so they run without slowdowns.

New comment by xuhu in "In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip"

xuhu — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:05:06 +0000

Were you the ghost writer for the Headhunters (2011) film ?

New comment by xuhu in "I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer"

xuhu — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:22:44 +0000

Is there a tool that records the timestamp of each executed command during a build, and when you rebuild, it tells you how much time is left instead of "building obj 35 out of 1023" ?

Or (for cmake or ninja) use a CSV that says how long each object takes to build and use it to estimate how much is left ?

New comment by xuhu in "A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules"

xuhu — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:47:47 +0000

Is it possible to create a tixy QR code that contains a link to itself ?

New comment by xuhu in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

xuhu — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:38:16 +0000

That creeps me out, and probably everyone who realizes it. But, and it's not a tongue in cheek question, why not try to use it to your advantage ?

New comment by xuhu in "Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences"

xuhu — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:29:54 +0000

Would I sound better on Zoom if I took out one wireless earbud and spoke into it ?