Hacker News: zmodem

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

zmodem — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:22:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hanshq.net/big-endian-qemu.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553267

Points: 2

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New comment by zmodem in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"

zmodem — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:01:18 +0000

Not a Linux distro, but FreeBSD uses Clang.

And Android uses Clang for its Linux kernel.

-fbounds-safety is not yet available in upstream Clang though:

> NOTE: This is a design document and the feature is not available for users yet.

New comment by zmodem in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"

zmodem — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:53:28 +0000

The extension is for hardening legacy C code without breaking ABI.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek steps down

zmodem — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-30/daniel-ek-letter-evolving-how-we-lead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424300

Points: 4

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Reading bits in far too many ways (part 1)

zmodem — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/reading-bits-in-far-too-many-ways-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302270

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zmodem in "Understanding Deflate"

zmodem — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:38:50 +0000

> Though the encoder deciding to repeat those Ts doesn't make much sense, shouldn't this be compressed to literal("TOBEORNOT") copy(6,9) copy(9,15)?

IIRC zlib won't consider matches at offset 0: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/5a82f71ed1dfc0bec044d970...

Carbon Copy No.8: Classes Part II

zmodem — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:23:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/6090

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Access Logging in 2025

zmodem — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:19:25 +0000

Article URL: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/09/access-log.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273581

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zmodem in "The provenance memory model for C"

zmodem — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:55:22 +0000

> Looks like a code block didn't get closed properly

This seems to have been fixed now.

Kaleidoscopico

zmodem — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://linusakesson.net/scene/kaleidoscopico/index.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797909

Points: 4

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New comment by zmodem in "How University Students Use Claude"

zmodem — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:25:30 +0000

I think that was Shopify: https://x.com/tobi/status/1909231499448401946

LLVM 20.1.0 Released

zmodem — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:20:03 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-20-1-0-released/85122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334823

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Interview with Chris Lattner

zmodem — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://pldb.io/blog/chrisLattner.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877210

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zmodem in "Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make"

zmodem — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:07:07 +0000

> Is there a way to just download an Android SDK?

Yes, you can just grab the zip files. For example like this: https://www.hanshq.net/command-line-android.html#sdk

New comment by zmodem in "Compiling to Assembly from Scratch"

zmodem — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:04:18 +0000

Here's an example for x86: https://www.hanshq.net/ones-and-zeros.html

LLVM 19.1.0 Released

zmodem — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-19-1-0-released/81285

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567626

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

42 Years of Programming – The Amiga

zmodem — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:19:36 +0000

Article URL: https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37970

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667538

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

So you want to build a browser engine

zmodem — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 09:11:07 +0000

Article URL: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623048

Points: 225

# Comments: 129

42 Years of Programming – PCs

zmodem — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37724

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606180

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

zmodem — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:22:53 +0000

Article URL: https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560768

Points: 823

# Comments: 262