Hacker News: yxhuvud

New comment by yxhuvud in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

yxhuvud — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:31:31 +0000

Classic acquihire? They allow customers to run javascript in their end nodes, surely the competence is useful.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

yxhuvud — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:27:36 +0000

It doesn't need to be wrong - democratising violence mean people with boats are more likely to have weapons and ability to attack you. Or the ability to disrupt trade, for that matter.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

yxhuvud — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:00:35 +0000

Yes, where desktops differ is not so much the chips but rather the cooling capability. You have the space to have proper air flow and water cooling etc. So that do give quite a bit of performance.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Tokens Too Cheap to Meter"

yxhuvud — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:30:40 +0000

No. Prices will crash when supply side expands to meet the increased demand. Because demand won't go down to pre-bubble times any time soon. Unfortunately the supply side has been very slow in increasing production, partly because most steps of the production chain are all maxed out.

On a long enough scale you are right that prices will likely normalize to a better level, but before 2030? That would mean the factories are built quickly once they begin.

New comment by yxhuvud in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

yxhuvud — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:47:13 +0000

The real problem is all the managers pushing so hard for velocity instead of letting the employees pick up the tools at their convenience.

New comment by yxhuvud in "I said no and Apple said yes"

yxhuvud — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:16:50 +0000

It will be an impasse until (or unless) the Linux user base grow big enough that the gaming companies start to prioritize better solutions.

For me, it is no problem at all since the games I play have no issues. That includes the multiplayer games I play.

New comment by yxhuvud in "I said no and Apple said yes"

yxhuvud — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:11:15 +0000

Then build better interfaces. Don't ask stupid or nefarious questions.

New comment by yxhuvud in "I said no and Apple said yes"

yxhuvud — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:23:53 +0000

Isn't Apple pushing features or decisions for how things work down your throat regardless of if you want them part of the classic Apple value proposition? If you don't like that, why are you even using Apple in the first place? This is about how much you want the hardware maker to decide things for you, and Apple has always been maximalist with regards to that.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

yxhuvud — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:27:21 +0000

Europe (by which I assume you mean EU or possibly Euro area) has a fairly balanced balance of trade overall.

And a teeny-tiny country like Switzerland can't be usefully compared to something as big as China - the rest of the world can easily consume whatever the Swiss produce, but there are limits to how much Chinese can produce until consumption will have to shift to domestic consumption because the world doesn't have infinite ability to pay for its demand.

That said don't expect any big change anytime soon - there are very strong political incentives to keep the status quo with China focusing a bit too much on exports.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Jemalloc 5.4.0"

yxhuvud — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:31:34 +0000

Because unfortunately, the runtimes belonging to all or at least most of those languages perform a lot better with jemalloc than with the system default.

I wish that wasn't the case, but it is.

New comment by yxhuvud in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

yxhuvud — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:49:00 +0000

That approach fall down flat on nontrivial traffic amounts. Also it requires an actual hindrance in the middle to enforce compliance, and then bigger vehicles won't be able to turn left.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

yxhuvud — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:49:01 +0000

There is also the lowercase no, where you say you'd love to do things, but that it has to go through proper channels and get on the roadmap.

New comment by yxhuvud in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

yxhuvud — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:28:16 +0000

Are you not thinking about the wrong tank game? World of tanks has ancient tanks, not modern (game tank span basically end with the main battle tank making the game tank role division being made irrelevant).

New comment by yxhuvud in "Optimizing a Spin-Lock"

yxhuvud — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:23:25 +0000

Very different situation as stuff inside the kernel presumably cannot be preeempted at any time. Preemption does a number on spinlocks.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)"

yxhuvud — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:15:55 +0000

And uh, what happens if the active user permission changes?

New comment by yxhuvud in "Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)"

yxhuvud — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:47:34 +0000

Cyberpunk is turning into optimistic sci-fi. Competent corporations, mafia sells amazing biotech for cheap, and apartments are abundant and cheap.

New comment by yxhuvud in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

yxhuvud — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:11:44 +0000

Sorry, with movies from the sixties you just need to assume people have either seen it or just isn't gonna see it. The cat is out of the bag already.

Or perhaps box in your case, speaking of spoilers.

New comment by yxhuvud in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

yxhuvud — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:59:41 +0000

Most of the dimensions exist in the threaded world as well, only the dimensions wasn't as explored at that point so the choices are usually not what would have been chosen today.

New comment by yxhuvud in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

yxhuvud — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:54:10 +0000

Very much so and it can be argued that the difference between threads and ssync is just another dimension to compare on. For example, essentially everything that is involved in Structured Concurrency is as relevant to parallel scenarios as well.

New comment by yxhuvud in "How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread"

yxhuvud — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:04:23 +0000

Yes, but when done in industrial (or store) setting they use processes that go faster than what you use at home. Those processes needs the extra protein.