Hacker News: SomeHacker44

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

SomeHacker44 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:09:13 +0000

Curious about this. Usually I try to get an Apt source (I use Ubuntu). Why would I want to use brew on Linux? I stopped using Macs and brew around 2018 when Apple started closing down it's macOS for a few years and got sick of it. Thanks!

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

SomeHacker44 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:42:23 +0000

Thanks, very nice! Any way to use it with Antigravity CLI/Gemini please?

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

SomeHacker44 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:07:42 +0000

I believe Grace is an ARM designed core. Vera is the nVidia designed core.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses"

SomeHacker44 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:02:03 +0000

This exists. There was a frame with a slider on the nose bridge which refocuses circular lenses. I read about it a long (decade+?) time ago.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

SomeHacker44 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:45:26 +0000

1/16% is less than 0.001... A different number than being discussed, 1/16.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

SomeHacker44 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:23:44 +0000

The only thing with trump I like is a hand of bridge.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

SomeHacker44 — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:29:00 +0000

The article never defined CTF. Nor have the top comments here. Skip.

Basic rule: define every abbreviation when it is first used.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Ask HN: Does anyone know what a monad is?"

SomeHacker44 — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:00:17 +0000

Perhaps you can also explain what a box is, and what a flatMap is please? Fortunately I know what map is already. Also, what does it mean to combine boxes in order? Thanks!

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans"

SomeHacker44 — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:27:10 +0000

The blurb about this is repeated several times but it is unclear to me what it actually does.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET"

SomeHacker44 — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:25:08 +0000

Awesome! Has a MonoGame integration sample. Am curious to see if it will work with Godot or Unity. New weekend project...

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

SomeHacker44 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:09:43 +0000

I found this funny. I am not sure if it was intended that way!

> Monads are not some kind of obscure math-y thing that only the big brains think are necessary. No, instead monads are a fundamental abstract algebraic description of imperative programming as a computational context.

Yep, as a non-big-brainer, I definitely get it now. :)

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

SomeHacker44 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:08:02 +0000

Male babies can lactate due to the high concentration of hormones in mother's milk.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

SomeHacker44 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:13:45 +0000

As a pedestrian, I fear cyclists the most. Please do block the bike lane while I am getting in and out so cyclists won't hit me. I have been almost killed by cyclists many more times than cars. My office building hires someone with a sign to stand in the crosswalk in front of the building where cyclists almost never respect the crosswalk.

Cyclists here regularly ignore red lights and also go the wrong way on streets and even in bike lanes.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

SomeHacker44 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:33:37 +0000

Curious about the "no derivatives" license. Surely anything derivative would be of the original now public domain art and not this. I do not see how this could as a practical matter be enforced. IANAL though.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip"

SomeHacker44 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:00:09 +0000

Agree. This is why I do not use Passkeys, and I have 4 physical Yubikeys tied to every system I secure with them.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

SomeHacker44 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:10:34 +0000

I get literally sick after exercising. Like, nauseous and even on occasion vomit. I feel like crap afterwards, and need to almost immediately take a nap. I get zero immediate benefits from exercise (both weights and aerobics), and feel bad the rest of the day. If it is leg day, I drag while walking or taking stairs. I have never gotten a "runners high" or felt any same day benefits.

I do get benefits, mind you - my pinched nerve pains go away, I (sometimes) sleep better, my body looks better. But it is super hard to want to do it and gets done as minimally as possible to not have pain.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

SomeHacker44 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:11:28 +0000

What software/workflow do you use for this Linux to B2 backup please?

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

SomeHacker44 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:07:32 +0000

What Linux distro did you use? Any pointers? Thanks!

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

SomeHacker44 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:41:29 +0000

I have decided to put my GAS behind me and focus on truly learning one musical instrument, the MPC Live III. I aim to learn all the features and come up with several workflows at which I become fluent. The goal is to enable me to create songs without having to worry about constantly figuring out how to do something.

New comment by SomeHacker44 in "Ask HN: What do you dislike most about Linux and Windows?"

SomeHacker44 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:53:03 +0000

Windows (11 Pro): Bloat. Unusable Windows Content Search (on my 20T+ of data). Patches that cause reboots unexpectedly. Hard to configure full disk encryption that requires a password at boot time to unlock. Hard to figure out how to fix things that break, but Gemini helps. Hard to migrate to entirely new computer without a full reinstall. Touchy iSCSI support.

Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS): No good integration with OneDrive and Google Drive at the filesystem level like on Windows. Too many distributions to consider. SNAP on Ubuntu (uninstalled). Scary Ubuntu LTS upgrades. Have not figured out Wine for the few Windows apps I would like to use. (Would love just having a VM like in the old days, with window manager integration.) Audio drivers, latency and music software is very fiddly. Bluetooth is sketchy, especially for audio. Support for hardware lags Windows heavily (e.g. Strix Halo, nVidia). Poor support for business devices like some scanners etc. So many problems with Wayland, screen sharing, window positioning, etc.

But I am starting a migration to Linux slowly but surely. Windows keeps getting worse; Linux is improving. (Linux user since 1992.)