Hacker News: asqueella

New comment by asqueella in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

asqueella — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:03:42 +0000

https://software.codidact.com/ was created after one of the many SO dramas. It doesn't come up in searches though and I didn't have reason to use it...

New comment by asqueella in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

asqueella — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:56:30 +0000

Thanks for not deleting your question — I misunderstood the OP in the same way.

New comment by asqueella in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

asqueella — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:53:56 +0000

Surely the browser could enforce a limit on a domain, and make sure that the real page you came from (typically the search engine) is prominently displayed.

New comment by asqueella in "Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3"

asqueella — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:53:08 +0000

For those wondering about the language support, currently English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese are available (most in Base size = 58M params)

New comment by asqueella in "Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews"

asqueella — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:28:00 +0000

People outside US may be able to pay through App store, but not through whatever payment processor you use.

New comment by asqueella in "Why is the sky blue?"

asqueella — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:57:38 +0000

The explanation that made it click for me a while ago was by someone who implemented a shader https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/10/10/atmospheric-scatterin... — the explanations that don't end up producing an image all seemed to skip over one detail or another.

New comment by asqueella in "Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe"

asqueella — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:59:19 +0000

This is what an Apple engineer could write in the electron's github issue if they refused to fix it.

We're not discussing that, but that they have pushed an update without proper testing. You can see from the other comments that breakage is not limited to people using private methods.

New comment by asqueella in "Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe"

asqueella — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:39:50 +0000

No, for "pushing out updates that cause issues [with very common software]".

New comment by asqueella in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

asqueella — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:12:33 +0000

The site is awful, and I couldn't find the technical description easily. I assume it runs an exit node for other people's traffic?

New comment by asqueella in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

asqueella — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:08:14 +0000

Well, mimicking China's GFW is seemingly the objective of some governments. But they are also able to allow some light (text-based) ssh usage and still prevent proxying.

New comment by asqueella in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

asqueella — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:20:18 +0000

Advanced enough censors (who have DPI) do block or slow down ssh, e.g.: https://serverfault.com/questions/1122015/ssh-blockedfor-for...

New comment by asqueella in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

asqueella — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:20:19 +0000

Skilled in not falling for the kind of malware, that Defender is able to catch.

It’s not a very high bar: I have not seen it find anything in a long time, neither on my machines, nor on the ones I inspected after they had been owned.

New comment by asqueella in "Firefox tab groups are here"

asqueella — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:55:06 +0000

A perfect metaphor for Windows auto-update!

New comment by asqueella in "Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)"

asqueella — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:46:33 +0000

Cool, thanks for elaborating!

New comment by asqueella in "Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)"

asqueella — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:28:19 +0000

Accidentally stumbled on this and not sure what problem you're solving: not wanting to type the server name into the `mstsc.exe` window? Not having to re-type credentials across connections?

New comment by asqueella in "LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

asqueella — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:15:01 +0000

Given their download page[1] doesn't have any binaries, can you clarify if they still don't have Pivot tables, as Wikipedia claims?

[1] http://www.gnumeric.org/download.html

New comment by asqueella in "Researchers find an undocumented "backdoor" in Chinese made ESP32 microchip"

asqueella — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:08:12 +0000

Short version seems to be that no, your esp32-based devices aren’t remotely exploitable via radio, as some understood the original article to claim. The issue is that there are some undocumented commands that the “host” (code running on the esp chip) can send to the Bluetooth controller.

New comment by asqueella in "Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof"

asqueella — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:10:42 +0000

Surprisingly there’s no explanation here or in the TFA of what the problem actually is: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/2nHDIOfnBX

New comment by asqueella in "Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser"

asqueella — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:57:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure that built-in TTS on Mac and iPhone is local (and has been for ages).

New comment by asqueella in "Composable SQL"

asqueella — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:35:56 +0000

There's a need to do complex data processing (not sure if it falls under your "view, filter and aggregate data - nothing more"), and it's an open question whether "full fledged" languages (presumably with an API, like pandas, ibis or spark), improved SQL, or another language focused on data transformation will be a better fit for this task.