Hacker News: TheSmoke

New comment by TheSmoke in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

TheSmoke — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:54:51 +0000

I do not have a horse in this race. I am the exact opposite of what you have in mind. I simply suggest that instead of being hypocrites or cry babies, you guys maybe choose not sponsor a civil war that ends up displacing millions of people. If you take one step into it someone is going to pull the other leg which is what happened.

I do not think it's bad or evil that people want to protect what they have or protect even the idea of what they used to have. It's just that you need to have some level of intellectual honesty. That's hard, as you can see from your reaction.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Clojure MCP"

TheSmoke — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:41:30 +0000

flappy bird demo but for clojure mcp!

New comment by TheSmoke in "F# for Fun and Profit"

TheSmoke — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:03:51 +0000

Thank you! Just saved it on OReilly.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

TheSmoke — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:59:24 +0000

oh, I was being subtle since everyone was asking for a feature request.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

TheSmoke — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:15:41 +0000

every week I search at least once “which week is it” — kudos :)

New comment by TheSmoke in "One year after switching from Java to Go"

TheSmoke — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:28:02 +0000

I wonder how a migration to for example Micronaut from Spring would look like in their case. It is optimised for startup time, performs the dependency injection and annotation processing in compile time as well.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

TheSmoke — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:23:13 +0000

The gray palette would make a good Emacs colorscheme. By the way, great web site! [0]. Been quite a while since I thought that.

[0] https://webb.page

New comment by TheSmoke in "Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X"

TheSmoke — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:03:56 +0000

I so miss this look and feel.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Ghostty 1.0"

TheSmoke — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:20:36 +0000

fyi, I have just tried Unifont and worked perfectly.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Ruby 3.4.0"

TheSmoke — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:51:08 +0000

I definitely suggest using vite and the vite ruby gem. Create your Rails app, Create your TS + React app with vite, add the vite gem and done. It does not get better than that. Super fantastic.

New comment by TheSmoke in "I hate Stripe, so I'm going to build my own payment processor"

TheSmoke — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:19:41 +0000

In case they need to figure out what exactly they need to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650828

New comment by TheSmoke in "Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago"

TheSmoke — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:03:26 +0000

so it's the year 2000, right. you got home from school, you're at 6th grade. saw your sweetheart and got fired up all day. summer's around the corner, it's been a pretty good day. a friend at school told you about napster, you download it and install it. you are amazed. you login to icq and wait for her to come online. in the meanwhile you search for some metallica and limp bizkit. it's insane! everything you search is there. you just have to be patient. you download nothing else matters, start playing it. she logs in and says hi, already missed you. and nothing else matters..

New comment by TheSmoke in "Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator"

TheSmoke — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:36:22 +0000

same here. it's been around 2 years since I moved to wezterm. pretty happy with it.

New comment by TheSmoke in "XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.""

TheSmoke — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:20:48 +0000

doordassh :)

New comment by TheSmoke in "Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people"

TheSmoke — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:36:24 +0000

Klarna can't operate without compliance. Care to elaborate?

New comment by TheSmoke in "Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0"

TheSmoke — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:32:48 +0000

sure, take some scala 2 library and make it work with scala 3 / dotty with an effort similar to this one. or java 1.8 and 17. we'll wait.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015"

TheSmoke — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:50:29 +0000

this reminded me of the /KLINEs on the IRC servers. you'd first /KILL someone then you'd KLINE their username if they didn't behave, then you'd KLINE their IP. then there's /GLINE which would effectively do the same thing but for the entire network.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty"

TheSmoke — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:00:06 +0000

i loved midtown madness because i was able to drive around san francisco. ten years later when i first visited, i was able to recognize many of the landmarks because of the game.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?"

TheSmoke — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:21:24 +0000

I visited San Francisco in June 2013 and worked at an office for a month. I had a habit of browsing HN and Twitter during the working hours and from the work computer. I was also very productive. Always got things done. Days go by and I observe people working. I realized that many people would spend time on social media only when they were having lunch and were extremely productive the rest of the day. I thought to myself “If I am working then what these people are doing and if they are working then what is it that I am doing?”

I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.

New comment by TheSmoke in "Online Payment Processing"

TheSmoke — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:08:05 +0000

You need a couple of generic stuff:

- A non-sanctioned country

- Partnering up with existing banks so you can actually process payments and manage fees

- Regulatory license for payment processing - if applicable

- PCIDSS compliance if you will process cards (can come later on, card schemes will knock your door)

- A really secure infrastructure and application (or you are in trouble)

- Some of the founding people actually knowing the domain

- Well-thought API

If you get past the first one then the rest is actually all about the investment.