Hacker News: Touche

New comment by Touche in "The case for physical media ownership"

Touche — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:53:28 +0000

I had a FreeNAS I bought around ~2010 and didn't use it for a couple of years at one point and when I went to use it again I could no longer update it, which meant I was on an ancient version of FreeBSD and none of the modern software ran on. So this literally happened to me already.

New comment by Touche in "The case for physical media ownership"

Touche — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:10:23 +0000

Then you need a NAS, a backup process (backing up large collections of movies to S3 is actually pretty expensive). You need to keep your NAS up to date. You need to install / configure Plex, oops that's closed source now, uninstall that and get Jellyfin. Eventually your NAS hardware will be outdated and you'll have to get a new one and migrate your files over.

Even for technical people this is a pain over time. Nothing like just having a disc that can last 50+ years if properly stored.

New comment by Touche in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

Touche — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:55:18 +0000

Why would "right mouse click" be part of a protocol?

New comment by Touche in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

Touche — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:12:28 +0000

I'll go a step further, you probably don't need zsh at all. Once you install Starship there's not much difference if you just use bash.

New comment by Touche in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

Touche — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:06:16 +0000

I don't know why people are down-voting it. You might not like it, you may not think it's good. But this is absolutely happening and there's a lot of data out there about it.

New comment by Touche in "Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph"

Touche — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:55:06 +0000

Why is that preferable to just pivoting?

New comment by Touche in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

Touche — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:45:36 +0000

I've read this but I don't get it. Why can't those parts just be 3D printed on demand?

New comment by Touche in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

Touche — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:43:28 +0000

CDs skip very easily so they're not good for portability. So that limits their use to in the house, and they're you're competing with vinyl. Cassette fill a niche in the nostalgia world being something you can more easily use on the go.

New comment by Touche in "Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph"

Touche — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:20:58 +0000

I don't understand how people use these tools without a subscription. Unless you are using it very infrequently paying per token gets costly very fast.

New comment by Touche in "Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph"

Touche — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:19:17 +0000

So the point of this is to clean the cap table, right? Current investors aren't getting a stake in the new company?

New comment by Touche in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

Touche — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:00:29 +0000

One great thing about Forejo is that you can have a FreeBSD builder and on GH you cannot, have to spin up a slow VM.

New comment by Touche in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

Touche — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:56:06 +0000

Also framework laptops work (mostly): https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework

Even if true, not having great support for laptops doesn't mean "no one uses FreeBSD". Obviously it's supported by essentially all server hardware and is used there, as well as many routers and the Playstation.

New comment by Touche in "The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]"

Touche — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:23:53 +0000

I feel like the existence of LuaJIT made is seemed like standard Lua was slow, but that's far from the case.

New comment by Touche in "Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say"

Touche — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:33:52 +0000

The fact that you're familiar with the Coke controversy proves the point. Before they were rare and memorable. Now it happens ever other week. Bots are intentionally driving division.

New comment by Touche in "Serverless Horrors"

Touche — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:30:34 +0000

Why would they need to delete storage, they could just not accept past the cap.

New comment by Touche in "Serverless Horrors"

Touche — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:30:07 +0000

Everything on AWS can deny a request no matter what the API happens to be

New comment by Touche in "Serverless Horrors"

Touche — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:28:40 +0000

Everyone who makes this argument always assumes that every website on the internet is a for-profit business when in reality the vast majority of websites are not trying to make any profit at all, they are not businesses. In those cases yes absolutely they want them to be brought down.

New comment by Touche in "Serverless Horrors"

Touche — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:26:06 +0000

The difference is this actually happens, a lot, unlike your straw man. It happens enough that there's a website dedicated to it.

New comment by Touche in "Show HN: I built a service to run Claude Code in the Cloud"

Touche — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:34:56 +0000

It's not "exactly" that.

New comment by Touche in "Cursor CLI"

Touche — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:37:26 +0000

I use lazygit for that. But any diff tool you like will work.