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Re:Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:41PM (#46695079)
vhci-hcd for USB has been so useful for usb development. Especially for testing usb driver code in CI.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:13PM (#46626002)
Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:51AM (#46485901)
I live in the USA and my ISP doesn't support ipv6
Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:36AM (#46478584)
I've spent the past 8 years going back and forth between Linux and Windows. When I switched back to Linux last year I was shocked how well steam/proton/wine worked compared to a few years prior. Valve is truly making incredible progress.
Re:Loneliness at 19, How to Cope?
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:55AM (#46430011)
There's a loneliness epidemic in our generation. I'm 20 and share the same situation. I've heard scattered bits of advice from older people:
- travel as much as you possibly can
- get out of the house and as much as you can
- talk to strangers more
Re:Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?
on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:07PM (#46387334)
IMO Zulip is better than matrix in every way. But I haven't used matrix in a few years now.
Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:04AM (#46362862)
Windows market share drops below 90% (On steam)
The great recession of 2026/2027 (AI bubble pop)
Sam Altman arrested
OpenAI sold or split up in some way
Bitcoin drops under $50k
Ukraine war 'ends'
Half Life 3 announcement
GTA6 delayed again
Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gaming on Arm)
on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:45PM (#46141888)
Leaks disproved this in 2023. HLX is a single player non-vr PC game.
Re:Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
on Monday December 01, 2025 @10:17PM (#46117053)
IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world
Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
on Friday November 28, 2025 @01:24PM (#46081286)
I can't even imagine doing development in Windows without WSL anymore. I think Microsoft even requires it for some of their stuff.
Re:Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?
on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:01AM (#46001941)
AI for daily life stuff. I don't want AI to summarize anything for me, write my emails, or talk to me.
Re:Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?
on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:55AM (#46001911)
Visual Studio Code. I don't have a rational explanation but I feel like there's something deeply immoral about writing assembly in a text editor running inside a web browser.
Re:Ask HN: Comments in Code. Yay or Nay?
on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:52AM (#46001900)
I can't stand people who say that all code comments are bad.
Re:The Death of Arduino?
on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:28PM (#45985475)
Rockchip does the same thing with some of their closed source binaries
Re:WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:19PM (#45521735)
Bad advice. Counterpoint: Wine works really well (especially for old applications) and there's nothing wrong with using it. If people restrict themselves to arbitrary rules then many won't be able to use Linux.
Re:Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application
on Friday September 26, 2025 @01:41AM (#45383069)
Not related to UI translation but I've been using Sumatra PDF on Linux through wine and it's worked really well. Using it to read and search through 50k page TRMs and it's very fast.
Re:Show HN: Brief introduction to C2PA and using Exify to view Content...
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:28PM (#45367201)
If you don't want C2PA metadata in your images, there are also tools to remove it, such as https://noc2pa.com/
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:16PM (#45202330)
Prayers for Charlie and his family, violence is never the answer
Re:CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux
on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:12PM (#44492464)
This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
Re:I write type-safe generic data structures in C
on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @02:42AM (#44431233)
The real answer: it's more fun this way.
Magic Lantern Firmware Add-on for Canon Cameras Is Back
Re:AOSP project is coming to an end
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:45AM (#44254846)
Why do pixel device trees have to be updated through different Android versions? If so the differences would be minor, right?
Re:How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025
on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:59PM (#44219753)
Some of the compilers they use (msvc) are not open source and are not allowed to run in wasm.
And porting entire compiler toolchains to wasm would be a gargantuan task.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @06:59PM (#44092061)
I've been working on a Virtual DOM in C. Basically like dear imgui but it uses a retained-mode toolkit like GTK instead of rendering manually.
Re:XTool โ Cross-platform Xcode replacement
on Saturday May 17, 2025 @12:58AM (#44012137)
People have been doing hackintoshes and macos VMs for years... And apple hasn't really done anything. So I doubt this tool will provoke them.
Show HN: Native Immediate-Mode UI Library
https://github.com/petabyt/rim
For the past few months I've been working on Rim, an immediate-mode UI library that renders down to native retained-mode toolkit widgets.I've always preferred using native desktop toolkits for my projects, but it's always such a pain to use a retained-mode approach and maintain state in two different places.This, and my jealousy of how easy people in the ImGui world have it (it's so much...
Re:Ask HN: What site do you use to sell your used stuff?
on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:06AM (#43689830)
In order of preference:
- nextdoor
- facebook marketplace
- mercari
- offerup
- Craigslist
Re:Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:00AM (#43543321)
I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages
Re:Show HN: Dragondrop โ a drag and drop visual UI editor for developers
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:24PM (#43223821)
Unrelated, but me and a bunch of very young friends from scratch.mit.edu
tried to make a website builder called dragondrop: https://github.com/dragon-drop-scratch
We were really young I think, aged maybe 11-14, no idea what we were doing