Hacker News: ab71e5

New comment by ab71e5 in "The vi family"

ab71e5 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:32:21 +0000

Why cscope and not an LSP?

New comment by ab71e5 in "Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting"

ab71e5 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:15:19 +0000

Why would you say GUI based workflows are better (ignoring LLMs for now)? I would maybe give you debugging with breakpoints but for anything else I love my neovim with tmux setup

New comment by ab71e5 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

ab71e5 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:29:32 +0000

> AI is every conversation with everyone

Wow that sounds horrible.

New comment by ab71e5 in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

ab71e5 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:04:06 +0000

Yeah losing is maybe a bad example. What about a software update bricking the device, or a hardware problem?

New comment by ab71e5 in "Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop"

ab71e5 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:39:29 +0000

Kinda like how I have it set up in linux except the system partition is the uki and the user password is LUKS2 passphrase

New comment by ab71e5 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

ab71e5 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:39:27 +0000

What devices are you expecting driver issues with? Even NVidia is not much of a problem these days

New comment by ab71e5 in "FPGAs Need a New Future"

ab71e5 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:36:40 +0000

I knew someone who created a mandelbrot set viewer that would display over an VGA port, you had a game controller to move around and zoom into it. Something like that?

New comment by ab71e5 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ab71e5 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:02:41 +0000

An RTOS compared to bare metal just means it is some nice abstractions that you would expect from an OS : tasks, mutexes rtc.

An RTOS compared to an OS like linux basically just means it is deterministic, you can guarantee some interrupt is handled within a certain time. Not necessarily faster

New comment by ab71e5 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

ab71e5 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:57:16 +0000

Calling them and asking for what exactly?

New comment by ab71e5 in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

ab71e5 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:58:34 +0000

I have recently learned that in a pinch the band of a condom will do as well.

New comment by ab71e5 in "Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand"

ab71e5 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:40:24 +0000

What are you looking for? Yocto experience? Experience writing drivers? C/Rust/C++? Hardware / FPGA experience as well?

New comment by ab71e5 in "More random home lab things I've recently learned"

ab71e5 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:24:41 +0000

You can manage containers with proxmox. The idea with proxmox is also to use something that you might encounter at work to practice with at home.

New comment by ab71e5 in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

ab71e5 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:30:10 +0000

I mean I feel for you but cycling in the rain is not that big of a deal, greetings from the Netherlands

New comment by ab71e5 in "The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux]"

ab71e5 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:41:52 +0000

Pro tip: Use a read only rootfs and use overlayfs to write any changes to ram instead of the SD. Then you just gotta put your state on a USB drive, network etc.

New comment by ab71e5 in "GitHub was having issues"

ab71e5 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:19:28 +0000

Ah was wondering why pull requests did not show up

New comment by ab71e5 in "Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?"

ab71e5 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:41:32 +0000

Not OP but I have the same problem. I've found some things just work better for me, like using (neo)vim (or emacs I guess) instead of something like vscode helps me stay in the zone more.

New comment by ab71e5 in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

ab71e5 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:36:37 +0000

This is hacker news, of course there is a need

New comment by ab71e5 in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

ab71e5 — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:47:13 +0000

Wow, was it actually 90 minutes of standing?

New comment by ab71e5 in "Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions"

ab71e5 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 01:51:47 +0000

Beer is about 5%, so 14 times 20 = 280ml of beer, pretty standard beer glass size

New comment by ab71e5 in "The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three"

ab71e5 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:14:23 +0000

That assumes booting is a synchronous action instead of asynchronous, giving time to fetch a cup of coffee