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Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:04PM (#49687477)
abp in firefox doesn't really remove them. I've seen and reported multiple scummy popup-like looking ads like tfn and saw it again for weeks...
Re:Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:23AM (#49654702)
ive looked at your project before but forgot about it. I think mine is in a similar vein: https://github.com/mischief/clm

it grew out of annoyance of dependencies on js runtimes, probably similar to you. mine additionally works on solaris and esp32.

could be interesting to collaborate!

Re:Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:22AM (#49519774)
this is my favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Re:Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:11PM (#48973675)
i got annoyed by this especially the memory use and non portability aspect of bun so I had claude (lol) and kiro cook up my own agent. it runs on linux, openbsd and even on omnios and esp32. it's just a personal project so there are probably rough edges, but I am using it on my clockworkpi uconsole daily now. https://github.com/mischief/clm
Re:Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:48AM (#46991086)
08:46:37.125 [err] [fps] 4.0 (12 frames in 3.0s) 08:46:40.225 [err] [fps] 1.0 (3 frames in 3.1s) 08:46:41.224 FIRM | * ASSERTION FAILED: ASSERTN 08:46:41.443 [err] DEBUG post-reset: halted=0 stopped=1 R13=0x20002170 R15=0x080001b4 thumb=1 08:46:42.123 [err] clktree_recalc_output_freq: Clock PCLK1 output frequency (32000000 Hz) exceeds max frequency (30000000 Hz).

found an assertion just by clicking up/down. doesn't seem too stable.

Re:9front OS on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:26PM (#46820197)
it's modern art
Re:Zig builds are getting faster on Sunday October 05, 2025 @02:26AM (#45479273)
i know freebsd and macos have similar implementations, but it is just different enough that it is nontrivial to make work. i had started fixing it locally but didn't quite get it working, since i'm not really that familiar with zig, although i like the idea of the language.
Re:Zig builds are getting faster on Saturday October 04, 2025 @12:44AM (#45470574)
my only wish for ghostty is that there was openbsd support. some work needs to be done in the io layer to support openbsd kqueue to make it work.
Re:GNU Midnight Commander on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:44AM (#45272184)
my one gripe after using mc for a few years is no parallel transfer support. it slows down significantly when transferring small files compared to one large file.
Re:Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:28PM (#45134454)
it could be interesting to see what ispc does with similar code.
Re:An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:55AM (#44949299)
yes, very much so. libera.chat is alive and well.
Re:Cheating the Reaper in Go on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:23AM (#43759051)
> All parts of Go's simplicity push that seems to assume people don't need anything else other than Array Lists and hash maps.

you can see some of this in the work of the progenitors of Go.

quoth pike style, from rob pike:

Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.

      The following data structures are a complete list for almost all practical programs:
array linked list hash table binary tree

Of course, you must also be prepared to collect these into compound data structures. For instance, a symbol table might be implemented as a hash table containing linked lists of arrays of characters.

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle

Re:Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:49PM (#41430786)
I like that the author went very in depth reverse engineering the proprietary update program, but it boiled down to what amounts to a single or few ata commands that can be manually invoked on linux. it's a shame they don't just publish these commands for linux users, and let the windows users have the fancy bespoke tools.
Re:I Improved My Rust Compile Times by 75% on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:51AM (#39763482)
the answer i found is run gentoo and compile yocto projects.
Re:How to copy a file between devices? on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:31AM (#39379751)
for a long time I've actually really wanted the plumber [1] here but a more networked and cross platform protocol for it. I really just want to be able to plumb urls from my android phone to Linux desktop or vice versa and have it work according to the plumber rules.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber_(program)

Re:Making Rust binaries smaller by default on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @02:20AM (#39114553)
not a rust programmer. can someone explain why this is in the final binary and not in a shared library?
Re:An Easy to Build Real Homemade Computer: Z80-MBC2 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:04AM (#38923269)
as this runs cp/m, i have to wonder if the atmega itself could run cp/m faster than the z80?
Re:In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:30PM (#38500181)
i did not see a clear list of all firmware files read by the kernel in dmesg, so the find/atime trick worked well.
Re:In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:22AM (#38496423)
while it is unfortunate it requires a write, it is useful in some cases. for example, finding old objects in a cache, or today i used it to find out what firmware my kernel is loading by checking atime of /lib/firmware.
i have a lot of recent experience with yocto/bitbake but none with bazel. do they have overlap? could they be used for some of the same things?
Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:05AM (#36506686)
i have the aranet4. it can be used with HomeAssistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/aranet/) and can be tracked using ESPHome bluetooth proxy(https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html) if you don't have bluetooth on your HA machine. using this, i can view CO2, humidity, pressure and temperature in HA.
Re:Ask HN: What did Linux not do right? on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:42PM (#33060043)
> A more complicated example, inotifyd is very useful, how could I go about triggering a script every time a log file is written to under systemd?

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.pat...

Re:Eero Pro 6E and Eero 6 Review: Fast and Easy on Sunday April 10, 2022 @11:52PM (#30984439)
yes, that's right. i run OpenBSD on an ODROID-H2 which has rge(4) nics, and connect eeros directly to it and via a QNAP QSW-1105-5T switch. (disclaimer: i work at eero)
Re:.plan on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:46AM (#29249623)
worse is better.

it is a protocol for a specific purpose, and because it has that specific purpose, it was used for that, and desired for that. http can do it, but without the constraints, of course nobody will use it for reinventing finger.

i'm glad someone appreciates this.

some people at cat-v.org were interested in this and there happened to be a copy at stanford library where a roommate of mine was working at the time. he borrowed it on my behalf and i used the book scanner at noisebridge in san francisco (constructed from wood and two canon cameras and a python script) to image it, and uploaded it to archive.org.

Re:Ask HN: Are there any multiplayer terminal console ascii games? on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:09AM (#18661722)
try 0verkill, or the classic bsd game, 'hunt'.
Re:Ask HN: System uptime monitoring software? on Sunday September 30, 2018 @09:35PM (#18109424)
check out prometheus and grafana. it's all that a bag of chips.
why is it just a mobile app? why is there no web ui or a rest api?

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