Hacker News: Voklen

New comment by Voklen in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

Voklen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:01:08 +0000

It's unclear, but it seems like this was someone testing to see if this exploit would really work. From the article: > The severity was debated - Endor Labs characterised the payload as closer to a proof-of-concept than a weaponised attack - but the mechanism is what matters. The next payload will not be a proof-of-concept.

But it does seem odd not to use an actual payload right away.

New comment by Voklen in "An ode to houseplant programming (2025)"

Voklen — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:25:35 +0000

I love this, although I tend to use the “Home-cooked meal” analogy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423

New comment by Voklen in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

Voklen — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:37:45 +0000

I'm in the process of doing something similar but just planning on throwing them on my Immich instance once they're ready (and that lets me share them with other people as well with the Immich account management).

New comment by Voklen in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

Voklen — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:43:55 +0000

I was under the impression that Ubuntu Touch worked just fine with the Fairphone 5 which is very much not a "7-year-old out-of-production device". I'm currently writing this from a Fairphone 4 (with CalyxOS, not Ubuntu Touch though).

New comment by Voklen in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

Voklen — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:31:01 +0000

Maybe I'm just missing it somewhere but does anyone see what the licence for this map is?

New comment by Voklen in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Voklen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:27:25 +0000

Great idea! https://paste.voklen.com/wiki/Main_Page If people start using it I'll get a proper domain name for it.

New comment by Voklen in "Thin desires are eating life"

Voklen — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:56:12 +0000

I quite like that this is a more unique writing style and in fact would encourage people to write "unusually".

RecipeMD

Voklen — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://recipemd.org/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150934

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Voklen in "I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it"

Voklen — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:38:47 +0000

You seem like a good person, wishing you all the best!

New comment by Voklen in "Typst's Math Mode Problem"

Voklen — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:49:37 +0000

I love well-reasoned, thorough articles like this with all the tradeoffs considered. It makes me confident in Typst’s future.

New comment by Voklen in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

Voklen — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:42:11 +0000

I use Helix and Zellij and it has been amazing, requiring very minimal configuration and maintenance.

New comment by Voklen in "How to make sense of any mess"

Voklen — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:12:25 +0000

Ohhh I did think this was some interesting poetry...

How Many Iconic Computing Numbers Can You Recognize?

Voklen — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://numbers.arhan.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066822

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Voklen in "After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More"

Voklen — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:34:21 +0000

I have quite a decent collection of these and only cancelled my subscription about a year ago. I just didn't read them as much as I once did and couldn't justify the cost. I did love them when I did read them though.

New comment by Voklen in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

Voklen — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:59:52 +0000

At St Andrews University we have the concept of an “Academic hour” where every class and lecture begins at 5 past and ends at 5 to the hour. So your 10:00-11:00 lecture is actually 10:05-10:55. I believe this is mainly to give people time to get between their classes across town and to standardise how much time one has to set up between lectures.

New comment by Voklen in "PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc"

Voklen — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:38:39 +0000

Can anyone explain why chroot requires root privileges in the first place? Because from my understanding it seems like it should only restrict what you can do rather than grant any new abilities.

New comment by Voklen in "PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc"

Voklen — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:36:14 +0000

nixos.wiki was the primary wiki before NixOS really had an official one. Now there is the official wiki.nixos.org and the NixOS foundation asked the nixos.wiki maintainer to cooperate on the new wiki but they refused. Now there are multiple problems[1] with nixos.wiki and the maintainer in unresponsive so although unfortunately it's ranked higher in search results, in my experience you'll get better information on the official wiki.

[1] https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_there_a_new_wiki?_Wha...?

New comment by Voklen in "A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily"

Voklen — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:57:21 +0000

Just made it, enjoy :) https://api.isprimeapi.xyz/api/isprime/7

New comment by Voklen in "Leaving Neovim for Zed"

Voklen — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 23:20:38 +0000

For me this feels similar to why I use Helix[1]. I used to use VSCodium and had tried to switch to Vim or Neovim multiple times but didn't manage because of all the plugin configuration to be able to program. Then I saw an HN post about Helix, started it up and it just worked and so haven't used anything else since.

I find the Helix keybindings easier to learn because you see what text will be affected by any operation before you do it. And by using Helix I've found I've been able to pick up Vim keybindings as well so can use it on a server.

I think it would help if it didn't have such a jarring default colour scheme though.

[1] https://helix-editor.com/

New comment by Voklen in "The Linux audio stack demystified"

Voklen — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:43:14 +0000

Very nice article, I love posts that go right from the basics and build up to answer the question. And I certainly have a better understanding of DACs as a bonus!