Hacker News: zelly

New comment by zelly in "SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC"

zelly — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:44:48 +0000

Seems cool but mosh already exists

New comment by zelly in "Bing Chat is so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle"

zelly — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:52:01 +0000

Shortages lead to gluts. Get ready.

New comment by zelly in "Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator"

zelly — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:36:20 +0000

I remember celebrating when it died but looking back it wasn’t so bad. At least from a dev perspective, working with a batteries-included sdk from a single vendor is a lot nicer than this node_modules cancer.

New comment by zelly in "Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:21:29 +0000

LUKS doesn’t have this problem.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a matter of time before Windows runs on the Linux kernel. It’ll just be this big monoculture like Chromium with browsers. There really isn’t any reason to duplicate all this effort in maintaining an OS. Might as well have the whole world pitch in on one strong project.

New comment by zelly in "OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:19:36 +0000

You’re joking right

New comment by zelly in "OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:17:21 +0000

Dead wrong. GPT4 is scary good. I think it will replace frontend web dev.

New comment by zelly in "OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:15:35 +0000

You’re being rational and using logic. Unfortunately that’s not how markets and valuations work.

New comment by zelly in "ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:13:01 +0000

$10M to host a listing of pdfs. lol let me do it.

New comment by zelly in "Durable Coroutines for Go"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:09:32 +0000

This is the kind of thing you can only trust the compiler to do. And we already have goroutines.

New comment by zelly in "Implication for C++ [pdf]"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:59:25 +0000

No. Please no.

New comment by zelly in "Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:48:53 +0000

I wanted to make something like this, but using Bluetooth LE. Then I looked at the Bluetooth spec and implementations realized why Bluetooth applications are so unreliable (other than Apple device to Apple device). It’s really hard. Plus every OS has their own incompatible API, with some parts missing or inaccessible for some reason.

The practical solution to “share files in physical proximity” ends up being just use Apple everything.

New comment by zelly in "Ruvy: creating Wasm modules from Ruby code"

zelly — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:36:30 +0000

No. It’s dead, Jim. (That said, it’s better than Python by miles, but it suffers from the same curse as Lisp.)

New comment by zelly in "Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning"

zelly — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:09:32 +0000

So when do we get the worldwide 0-day caused by a malicious crates package?

New comment by zelly in "My next Mac might be the last"

zelly — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:51:20 +0000

It seems people still have not grasped free software. You could have full control over your computing experience, limited only by your abilities.

New comment by zelly in "Ask HN: Lisp and Artificial Intelligence"

zelly — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:05:50 +0000

AI in those days was completely academic, so they used the in vogue academic language. It was a tribal thing—the same way HN gets excited when they see Rust. AI in the 1980s was centered around MIT, where everyone knew Lisp (actually Scheme) from the famous SICP course.

New comment by zelly in "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform"

zelly — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:50:06 +0000

Correct. The best use case for Web Components is to ship a bloat-free, reusable widget that doesn't care whether a consumer uses it with React, Vue, vanilla JS, Angular, etc.

New comment by zelly in "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform"

zelly — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:41:34 +0000

If you're using a framework like lit-html as the author recommends, it will replace the string every update. Most people will prefer that way since it's more ergonomic and similar to React. You could do imperative DOM updates, but that'd be like going back in time to jQuery.

New comment by zelly in "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform"

zelly — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:37:50 +0000

RxJS aka the reason so many websites take 100MB of memory nowadays

Don't use it

New comment by zelly in "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform"

zelly — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:32:00 +0000

The problem with Web Components is it's slower than React or other vDOM implementations. Also everything is a string. To re-render, you have to manipulate the innerHTML--usually replacing the string every update. To pass a prop to a component in a modular way, you have to pass a string attribute (e.g. something like ). Even though v8 is extremely fast at string operations, it's just not a good practice and doesn't scale.

W3C standardized Web Components before React existed and took off, unfortunately. I expect the next standard to just be React itself (or a barebones version that the library can build on top of), patent licenses permitting. I'm pretty sure as a C++ precompile, it would be unstoppable and end the debate for good.

New comment by zelly in "XHTTP: An HTTP server library in a single C file"

zelly — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 04:09:32 +0000

This is neat but for convenience not performance. The bottleneck is in the kernel more than anything else. Probably it has the same latency as nginx, modulo safety checks. I would also recommend uWebSockets for an easy-to-embed web server.