Hacker News: Ghoelian

New comment by Ghoelian in "macOS Container Machines"

Ghoelian — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:16:05 +0000

It's free for personal use, and for a company 96/year is absolutely nothing, I'd hope.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

Ghoelian — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:51:17 +0000

The agent is instructed to execute this Python script: https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So looks like it's mainly looking for FIXME/TODO etc comments, deep nesting, large files, broad catches, stuff like that.

New comment by Ghoelian in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

Ghoelian — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:58:32 +0000

I don't think that's the case. I have the Earth View extension installed which shows a random google earth image.

I have this set as my homepage in Firefox as moz-extension:///index.html, and this has not changed since installing the extension. The page still works.

New comment by Ghoelian in "A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet"

Ghoelian — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:16:33 +0000

According to the article, they did have a human verify the images before sending the alert. Apparently they and the school still think they made the right call.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

Ghoelian — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:42:45 +0000

> A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats.

I didn't know this, and this explanation isn't really helping. (I did know there's a difference between typeface and font, but no idea what).

Why would this be basic knowledge when all most people ever have to deal with is the font options in Word?

New comment by Ghoelian in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

Ghoelian — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:05:19 +0000

What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room.

Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

Ghoelian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:04:46 +0000

I just want to be able to save the image to a folder and copy it to my clipboard when taking a screenshot. iirc in KDE Plasma's Spectacle, these options are checkboxes, you can enable as many at once as you like.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs"

Ghoelian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:07:32 +0000

The convention at every company I've worked at was to use DTO's. So yes, JSON payloads are in fact validated, usually with proper type validation as well (though unfortunately that part is technically optional since we work in php).

Usually it's not super strict, as in it won't fail if a new field suddenly appears (but will if one that's specified disappears), but that's a configuration thing we explicitly decided to set this way.

New comment by Ghoelian in "OS Malevich – how we made a system that embodies the idea of simplicity (2017)"

Ghoelian — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:36:21 +0000

> This is a key difference between RTOS and Linux, where operations wait in an execution queue. And this is one of the reasons why Linux isn’t used in professional security systems.

Linux also has a realtime kernel available. It would have been nice to know why they didn't go with that, but it wasn't even mentioned.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

Ghoelian — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:27:33 +0000

I had the same feeling. It looks like a super cool product, and I'd love to do something with it. I just have no idea what.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

Ghoelian — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:41:24 +0000

I've also worked with payment processors a lot. The ones I've used have test environments where you can fake payments, and some of them (Adyen does this) even give you actual test debit and credit cards, with real IBAN's and stuff like that.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

Ghoelian — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:59:11 +0000

By default, the archive just extracts when you try to open it. I don't think MacOS has an archive explorer by default.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Band of Holes"

Ghoelian — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:18:52 +0000

There's also some better pictures in one of the article's sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewsk...

New comment by Ghoelian in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

Ghoelian — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:30:14 +0000

I don't recognise the 5g battery life issues personally. I do 100% agree the GPS thing is such a bad decision. It just becomes noise that no one pays attention to anymore.

I ended up using my public ip address in combination with a list of known ips for home and work and such, and building my HA automations around that. I wanted to do it with wifi SSID's, but that also requires the location permission and triggers the indicator (which is understandable, just wish I could still read SSID's with location services disabled entirely) (or, just let me disable the gps antenna and leave everything else).

New comment by Ghoelian in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

Ghoelian — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:24:56 +0000

Organic Maps has a flatpak, though oddly they don't refer to a desktop app on their website anywhere so idk how trustworthy this is.

Unfortunately CoMaps doesn't seem to have desktop client builds at all yet.

New comment by Ghoelian in "V8 Garbage Collector"

Ghoelian — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:33:23 +0000

Yeah, 1 FTE just equals 40 work-hours.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

Ghoelian — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:19:17 +0000

Probably yes, it's still at 2130

New comment by Ghoelian in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

Ghoelian — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:55:45 +0000

My keyboard doesn't even have an insert key.

New comment by Ghoelian in "The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology"

Ghoelian — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:51:20 +0000

I also used to run my own mail server for a good while. I did have some issues with Google rejecting me at first, but they had some admin panel somewhere I had to register my domain, and after that I never had issues again.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?"

Ghoelian — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:03:29 +0000

Why would you need Claude for that?