Hacker News: ahoef

New comment by ahoef in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

ahoef — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:57:31 +0000

So, it's essentially argument injection?

I dislike these tools so much, because you need to know all these corner-cases and I don't.

New comment by ahoef in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

ahoef — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:40:08 +0000

Wero is essentially iDeal. iDeal is great.

New comment by ahoef in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

ahoef — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:29:24 +0000

I understand this sentiment, but rest assured that they will find your projects anyway.

New comment by ahoef in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

ahoef — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:45:40 +0000

Free speech means that the government doesn't go after you. It doesn't shield you from consequences (which you may or may not agree with) from private parties.

New comment by ahoef in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

ahoef — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:43:00 +0000

Nobody says it is. I think they mean the EU law frameworks that constituent countries need to implement.

New comment by ahoef in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

ahoef — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:24:57 +0000

What she says isn't necessary untrue, now is it? She just skips a lot of steps most people have no clue about.

I had files in a cabinet, now they are digital. And most often also on a cloud drive, which is metaphysical in some sense. For most it is indistinguishable from magic.

New comment by ahoef in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

ahoef — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:34:41 +0000

No HDMI is really sad. This means there are probably closed source drivers. Linux is not mentioned as supported, so I suspect crapware.

New comment by ahoef in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

ahoef — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:28:06 +0000

While 80 characters is obviously quite short, my experience is that longer line lengths result in much less readable code. You have to try to be concise on shorter lines, with better phrasing.

New comment by ahoef in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

ahoef — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:21:01 +0000

I don't see conflict in those statements.

New comment by ahoef in "Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker"

ahoef — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:36:36 +0000

To be fair, this can all be achieved with other tools, while still rsyncing the Python to prod.

One advantage is being able to run the Docker anywhere with the same build. Two runs of the same build are not always the same, but the Docker image will be.

New comment by ahoef in "AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder"

ahoef — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:50:18 +0000

Claude also doesn't know, because Claude dreamt up changes that didn't work, then "fixed" them, "fixed" them again and in the process left swathes of code that isn't reached.

New comment by ahoef in "Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos"

ahoef — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:16:33 +0000

I detest QuickTime more than any other piece of software

New comment by ahoef in "I hacked my washing machine"

ahoef — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:24:20 +0000

This is my setup. I find this to be a reasonable balance for comfortable life. Except my printer, that gets no Internet so it cannot update to some crappy firmware that nags about supplies.

New comment by ahoef in "I hacked my washing machine"

ahoef — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:22:03 +0000

Shelly has power meters with clamps, so that the meter is not in-line. There are probably Zigbee variants out there.

New comment by ahoef in "The Pigeon River Is Perched, Which Is Geologically Bad News (2020)"

ahoef — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:47:19 +0000

I wonder if underground water tables can play a role in accelerating this last bit.

There are buildings on the last couple hundred meters. I also wonder if current-day maintenance and concrete-work helps.

Indeed, fascinating.

New comment by ahoef in "Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete"

ahoef — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:27:56 +0000

These are all over The Netherlands and widely used by animals.

New comment by ahoef in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ahoef — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:10:51 +0000

No need to be needlessly antagonizing or blaming.

New comment by ahoef in "What went wrong with wireless USB"

ahoef — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:59:18 +0000

How does it not solve the problem? The data shows up on the other end. The fact that you don't agree with the implementation is a different thing, but it does solve the case.

New comment by ahoef in "Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages"

ahoef — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:14:43 +0000

I do not get the feeling that using WhatsApp was the source of the disciplinary measures here, but rather the racist contents they shared there. So to be fair to GP, this could be much more prevalent.

New comment by ahoef in "CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration"

ahoef — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:38:58 +0000

Nothing wrong with that. This is my practice as well.

But you seem to have a short-sighted view on what sex can be.