Hacker News: aj_hackman

New comment by aj_hackman in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

aj_hackman — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:42:33 +0000

The anti-master position also willfully disregards synonymy. Just because I have mastered the English language does not mean it belongs to me. Master Splinter does not own the Ninja Turtles.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

aj_hackman — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:09:43 +0000

Is the market so bad that non-exec-level new hires are making the news?

New comment by aj_hackman in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

aj_hackman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:29:02 +0000

`sudo cpupower frequency-set -g conservative` might help a bit with battery life.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Can you slim macOS down?"

aj_hackman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:24:46 +0000

> I've recently heard that using Linux is an excuse to spend the day tinkering and ricing and do no productive work.

This is why, despite 20 years of using Linux with many successful Arch and Gentoo installs behind me, I just use Fedora or Mint. I can get a development environment set up in 15 minutes, and when everything inevitably explodes and a system update deletes glibc I haven't invested much.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast"

aj_hackman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:38:23 +0000

It was a dream relative to anything else on the market (until 2001, when the Xbox and GameCube were released), made even easier for some titles due to the optional Windows CE SDK. You still needed to do a fair bit of SuperH assembly programming to get reasonable graphics performance, but it was nothing like the nightmarish complexity of the PS2, despite having half the RAM. It's still one of the more popular homebrew targets.

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

aj_hackman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:42:07 +0000

It's almost as if we desire each other.

New comment by aj_hackman in "No Graphics API"

aj_hackman — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:24:23 +0000

What happens when you want to do something very new, or very specific?

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

aj_hackman — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:23:54 +0000

As bearish as I am on AI, outside of the agent deciding it only wants to play "Semi Charmed Life" and nothing else, I fail to see how this is a nightmarish hellscape in and of itself.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)"

aj_hackman — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:35:18 +0000

What motivated you to move from Mercurial? I'm still using HG for personal projects because it's so easy to self-host on a Raspberry Pi. Just `hg serve -p 8001` or whatever and I'm able to use TortoiseHG from any machine to easily stage commits.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C"

aj_hackman — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:47:01 +0000

Who allocates the allocator?

New comment by aj_hackman in "PHP 8.5"

aj_hackman — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:36:19 +0000

Python has been massive since the 2000s. When AI rolled around, it was already there, a bunch of people knew it, and it was Good Enough (tm).

New comment by aj_hackman in "OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing"

aj_hackman — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:12:53 +0000

In times of old, people wrote COBOL and BASIC.

New comment by aj_hackman in "FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices"

aj_hackman — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:17:00 +0000

They make CrossOver, which is a productized version of Wine that lets you run Windows software on MacOS. They also work closely with Valve, who have just announced Steam Frame (a device that runs SteamOS on ARM).

New comment by aj_hackman in "Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150"

aj_hackman — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:26:36 +0000

I bought the Geekom Air12 Lite, and the build quality has impressed me.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries"

aj_hackman — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:30:38 +0000

God is all-powerful, eternal, exists outside of space and time, and created us for a purpose - but he's too busy to be bothered by our prayers?

New comment by aj_hackman in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"

aj_hackman — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:43:35 +0000

The glee I see in many people over this possibility is quite chilling.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

aj_hackman — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:18:11 +0000

Thank you for the recs, Masters of Doom really lit a fire inside of me as a young programmer. I'd also recommend "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

aj_hackman — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:34:05 +0000

Thank you! Because of this, "The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985–1993" by Jordan Mechner is on its way to my house.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Ratatui – App Showcase"

aj_hackman — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:25:34 +0000

We gave up X11 for the unfulfilled promise of something greater. A tech tale as old as time.

New comment by aj_hackman in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

aj_hackman — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:18:49 +0000

I'm sure they meant "you". שלום־עליכם