Hacker News: daemoncoder

New comment by daemoncoder in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

daemoncoder — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:34:52 +0000

Or "fount" from older, non-American English.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

daemoncoder — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:27:20 +0000

Ability to handle email coming soon.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

daemoncoder — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:41:22 +0000

This is excellent clarity of thought.

New comment by daemoncoder in "The new science of “emergent misalignment”"

daemoncoder — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:27:40 +0000

It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

daemoncoder — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:38:12 +0000

First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?"

daemoncoder — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:54:09 +0000

So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat

New comment by daemoncoder in "History and effective use of Vim (2019)"

daemoncoder — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:15:07 +0000

There's an AutoHotkey script for that!

New comment by daemoncoder in "South Africa is running out of Marmite"

daemoncoder — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:51:38 +0000

But Pa won't.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)"

daemoncoder — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:19:25 +0000

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)

New comment by daemoncoder in "How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets"

daemoncoder — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:47:18 +0000

And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...

New comment by daemoncoder in "A read query can write to disk: a Postgres story"

daemoncoder — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:09:09 +0000

I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.

New comment by daemoncoder in "In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires"

daemoncoder — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:49:52 +0000

I have the opposite problem: colleagues who don't want to learn how to do anything new.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h"

daemoncoder — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:16:05 +0000

With the 'no drone left behind' policy, there will be drones to fetch injured drones.

New comment by daemoncoder in "Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models"

daemoncoder — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:53:38 +0000

TED Talk

https://youtu.be/-Lg7G8TMe_A

New comment by daemoncoder in "Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job?"

daemoncoder — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 06:35:09 +0000

Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Unix daemons to do my bidding - hence the handle ”daemoncoder” :-)

I often joke that I'm just writing a small script to replace myself with.

Currently I do a lot of data wrangling and analysis, mostly in Python, so still plenty of small programs to automate the boring stuff.

New comment by daemoncoder in "System Design Interview book review"

daemoncoder — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:04:29 +0000

”The Fine Article” that this discussion is about :-)

New comment by daemoncoder in "Ask HN: How do I become a shell god?"

daemoncoder — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:29:34 +0000

Unix Power Tools was a great help when I was learning shell scripting:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

New comment by daemoncoder in "Ditch high definition and new tech to fight climate change"

daemoncoder — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:23:53 +0000

digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air.

In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obsessively switching off the phone charger is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off, but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is."

https://www.withouthotair.com/download.html

New comment by daemoncoder in "Vimflowy"

daemoncoder — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:14:34 +0000

I've been using The Vim Outliner (TVO) for years now, haven't found anything else that works as well for my daily workflow.

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=517

New comment by daemoncoder in "RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub"

daemoncoder — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:36:21 +0000

Those two groups are not mutually exclusive :-)