GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

Post by lanstin » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC

floxy wrote: post #91

panick21_ wrote: post #65

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Yes, you want to do more IPC, its basically linear with the increase in performance. So the amount of overhead stays the same basically. At least in IPC benchmarks and those tend to be important. Making that fast is fundamental to any OS.

So for an I/O heavy program like a web browser, what percentage of CPU time is spent in syscalls? Someone must have that data for Firefox. 1%? 10%? And then that moves to 1.1% (or 11%)? And then every other program is even less affected? Curious if anyone is in the know.

Post by a34729t » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

podocarp wrote: post #135

happyweasel wrote: post #131

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100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu The initial filesystem was minix The kernel was Linux. So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit. But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just…

> imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios. Like templeOS I guess

Post by floxy » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC

lanstin wrote: post #150

pjmlp wrote: post #115

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The same people are perfectly fine with Electron crap all over the place, they don't really care about overhead.

Not true in a data center - 20% less work for same CPU is like 25% more cores needed for any applications where the scaling is driven by CPU utilization. That is $ - and people have made things so far from efficient many medium size companies have 100k cores to pay for.

Post by snovymgodym » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC

kunai wrote: post #154

inigyou wrote: post #16

Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.

I wish that there was one day where I could log in and just feel like I was on the HN that existed when I first got my account. A day with a moratorium on all posting about LLMs, LLM startups, generative AI, just actual Hacker News, i.e. news which is interesting to hackers, and not a compendium of every terrible antisocial Bay Area echo chamber idea being sold as humanity's savior by narcissists with God complexes.

Post by drcxd » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #102

inigyou wrote: post #16

Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.

This entire site is a propaganda piece for one of the largest incubators in tech. Just because it has “hacker” in the name doesn’t mean it represents tech. Like, the point is tech making money. You’re in the wrong place if you’re looking for something other than that.