Hacker News: computerfriend

New comment by computerfriend in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

computerfriend — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:52:39 +0000

Why would people outside the US care more or less than people inside?

New comment by computerfriend in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

computerfriend — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:05:38 +0000

I wouldn't think so, but Go also has a data race detector: https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector.

New comment by computerfriend in "Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases"

computerfriend — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:52:07 +0000

Multiple hardware devices can have the same key.

New comment by computerfriend in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

computerfriend — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:02:19 +0000

Will the app also be free/open-source?

New comment by computerfriend in "Zed DeltaDB"

computerfriend — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:32:19 +0000

I don't think so.

New comment by computerfriend in "The Productivity Mirage"

computerfriend — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:56:14 +0000

> Now im building cool stuff that I never would have built (but also slowly destroying what little skill I had and not knowing much about the underlying code).

Are you building it if the LLM does it? I'd say the negative reaction comes from this.

New comment by computerfriend in "Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included"

computerfriend — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:38:49 +0000

> it's getting harder to keep using [Firefox] on the web

I've heard this said for the past ten years or so and so far haven't found it to be true.

New comment by computerfriend in "Firefox Containers Preview"

computerfriend — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:30:41 +0000

It's not open source.

New comment by computerfriend in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

computerfriend — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:42:05 +0000

If my measured productivity decreases but my ability to find joy in what I do increases, it's probably worth it. Not to mention the second-order productivity boost that comes along with enjoying one's work.

New comment by computerfriend in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

computerfriend — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:35:34 +0000

The website is really nicely designed, and the dithering on the images is quite beautiful.

New comment by computerfriend in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

computerfriend — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:06:51 +0000

Do you have a link? Would play.

New comment by computerfriend in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

computerfriend — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:21:03 +0000

I have an Arch server that has been online for ten years (yikes), never had any issues with it.

New comment by computerfriend in "How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability"

computerfriend — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:31:16 +0000

In the article they explain that some of their services use it.

New comment by computerfriend in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

computerfriend — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:33:27 +0000

Civilians get arrested for incompetence all the time.

New comment by computerfriend in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

computerfriend — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:53:34 +0000

No need to hunt it down, there's a URL in the PR / commit message that links to the full diff.

New comment by computerfriend in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

computerfriend — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:07:04 +0000

> "Normal" people never use YYYY-MM-DD format.

My point was that this isn't true.

New comment by computerfriend in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

computerfriend — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:03:57 +0000

It's normal in Asia.

New comment by computerfriend in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

computerfriend — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:35:47 +0000

Interesting that the author, Callum Locke, seems to be a real person with a real reputation to damage. Previously this would have been a trust signal to me, I figured real developers would be less likely to go rogue given the consequences.

New comment by computerfriend in "SSH Secret Menu"

computerfriend — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:17:35 +0000

The drawback is that if you think your session is hanging and want to bail with ~., you have to press enter, which might actually make it to the server and execute something.

New comment by computerfriend in "A decade of Docker containers"

computerfriend — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:41:09 +0000

I'm not sure if I was just holding it wrong, but I couldn't create images reproducibly using Docker. (I could get this working with Podman/buildah however.)