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Re:SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, an...
on Saturday September 13, 2025 @09:08AM (#45231806)
I find every project of this nature so so beautiful and incredible. Congrats.
Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of ...
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @09:32AM (#44961805)
Checking out the initial request on github for this feature I wonder why is this necessary? What access to the local network does the browser provide, or need to provide, and why isn't this something developers are more concerned about? I had a feeling this was possible as I see lots of mdns requests when I connect to certain things running sockets.
Re:Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using ...
on Monday July 07, 2025 @09:24AM (#44490142)
This looks good for introductory theory. see also GNU Solfege
Re:Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:32AM (#44268889)
This is brilliant, thanks for making public and best wishes
Re:New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One P...
on Friday May 09, 2025 @05:43PM (#43941184)
If you came to represent... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages
Maintaining an AUR package can be great fun and an instructive glimpse into what FLOSS maintainers go through.
Re:Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
on Friday May 09, 2025 @11:58AM (#43938274)
There is a cool niche between classic timesharing boxes, message boards and social media that our new terminal technologies do seem so rife to fill. idk if SSH is the best protocol for getting this done but I love seeing this kind of stuff.
Study links microbiota to development of MS in mice
Re:SpacetimeDB
on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:53PM (#43634360)
Just put it all in stored procedures. What could go wrong?
Re:Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua
on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:38PM (#43614541)
Execution env is the achille's heel of scripting languages. Personally I don't use Neovim, but had a feeling its adoption would spur development in this area for Lua. Bryan Cantrill called Javascript "LISP in C's clothes". In some ways I feel like Lua is the opposite, and love it for those reasons (disclaimer: never had to use it at work).
Re:Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers
on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:08AM (#43542748)
Joining the "it isn't that bad" chorus.. Arch is great minimal distro, quick to get anything spun up, and of course one can setup their own repositories if they want to vet package upgrades. Arch's maintainers are great and the blog/distro status feed on archlinux.org is always timely if there is a problem with a package. I have never had an Arch system break without it being my fault. That being said, I would absolutely run BSD in prod..
Re:Show HN: I made live co-op Minesweeper games
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:29PM (#43406470)
Also, 2 APS is hardly competitive in this game.
Re:The Death of the Web (2024)
on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:07PM (#43041369)
Boiling take: Myspace doesn't get enough historical heat for walling the blogosphere while simultaneously Eternal-Septembering it.
Re:OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the b...
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:30AM (#43012497)
A lot of people who have apparently never stepped foot in a recording studio are replying to you. Pre-plugin era was exactly about this. Drive the DAC and manage writes to the disk without introducing (much) latency so tracking can get done. Perhaps no one who uses this will intend to setup more than one microphone.
Re:New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:51PM (#42856314)
> We disclosed SLAP to Apple on May 24, 2024, and FLOP on September 3, 2024
Re:Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @05:47PM (#42835020)
one sticking point for GNU users can be that BSD utils are more strict about positional order of e.g filename parameter and input options.
rm ~/foo -rf || rm -rf ~/foo
I was forced to get used to BSD syntax when I switched to MacOS but now I prefer it...
Re:Little Snitch feature nobody knows about
on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:54PM (#42816839)
Anecdote: This became a problem for me with several apps after installing Sequoia
Re:Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables
on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:39PM (#42806669)
A comment before the problematic line can specify options to shellcheck, (e.g)
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
which remain valid within that block.
Of course, disabling the linter should be done with deliberation...
Re:How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data
on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:15PM (#42603701)
Blogspam singularity is imminent. Also: this 'article' is from 2016.
Re:CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops
on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:36PM (#42497385)
echo "printf '\n'" >> ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_right_prompt.fish....
Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
on Saturday December 14, 2024 @07:59PM (#42420662)
Can't argue with you there, even Windows has a package manager now.
Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:17PM (#42418879)
Desktop linux has some market share in hollywood, I would think that market does matter to them as it did SGI etc.
Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:10PM (#42414089)
I understand why you're getting downvoted but I also am in some form of agreement with the sentiment/hope they don't lose sight that they are pretty much keeping the dream of the consumer UNIX vendor alive.
Re:FarPlay: Low latency rehearsal/screen share
on Sunday October 27, 2024 @12:19PM (#41963663)
Not my project. Curious as to how this is implemented...
FarPlay: Low latency rehearsal/screen share
Re:MP3 to EXE (1999)
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:32AM (#41848409)
Holy, this is the first place I downloaded the LAME encoder from when I was a pre-teen. Cheers
Re:The Brutalist Programming Manifesto
on Saturday October 05, 2024 @05:20PM (#41753003)
I find appropriations of the term "brutalist" strange in software contexts. In the architectural sense of brutalism wouldn't it mean limiting software construction to a single material (type,class,whatever) and leveraging that limitation to enhance other parts of the design (flow, modularity). In this way I think shell scripts are the most brutalist way of programming, ironically the author would probably agree.
Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:34PM (#41074143)
The desktop and iOS apps (and integration of e.g Doordash with the Maps API) are great
Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:48AM (#41068662)
I love Apple Maps and use it every day in NYC. Hope they will make it require a slightly longer press to drop a pin. I can't be the only user accidentally doing this ~a dozen times a week. Happened just now in the browser, trying to drag the view. Rooting for the product.
Re:Got tinnitus? A device that tickles the tongue helps this musician ...
on Monday April 15, 2024 @12:24PM (#40042607)
I still pray for some advancement that can actually repair the cause (damaged hearing) rather than the symptom (tinnitus).
[EDIT]: Ok... The cause in my personal case.