Hacker News: darknavi

New comment by darknavi in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

darknavi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:06:00 +0000

Value is in the eye of the beholder.

I open source my vibing projects because someone might find them useful. I don't shop them around, I just work in the open because I find it fun and interesting.

New comment by darknavi in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

darknavi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:16:37 +0000

I personally find the barrier of starting new (FOSS) projects much lower now days.

New comment by darknavi in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

darknavi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:40:30 +0000

The guy car-jacked a teenager and managed to hit ~7 cars by plowing through a red light.

He was clearly off his meds or something. Preaching about "people following him", that he "was a man of god", and that we needed to believe him.

The cops then dragged him off the car (as per one of the videos!).

New comment by darknavi in "C++: The Documentary"

darknavi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:27:25 +0000

FASTBuild has been a game changer for our team recently if you have extra hardware sitting around.

https://www.fastbuild.org/docs/home.html

New comment by darknavi in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

darknavi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:22:00 +0000

I agree, the default change logging using something like semantic-release would result in this, which feels way off:

# Bug Fixes

- foo bar'ing

New comment by darknavi in "The dead economy theory"

darknavi — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:34:51 +0000

> that keeps users in the platform

Alright but if it'd just let me open a damn web link without smashing the link four times just to open an in-app browser frame I'd really appreciate it.

New comment by darknavi in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

darknavi — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:32:36 +0000

Beyond the environment

New comment by darknavi in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

darknavi — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:48:12 +0000

To each their own, I really enjoy my 2018 Model 3 glass roof. Although a stress fracture from no where would really annoy me.

For what its worth I've had a crazed man preach from on top of my Model 3 roof and it still looks brand new :)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sbne4ATVZgD74Hon7

New comment by darknavi in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

darknavi — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:34:31 +0000

> monopsony

I had to look it up as well. I assumed it was a play on words about Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony (the three big video game console players).

New comment by darknavi in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

darknavi — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:05:48 +0000

So this is who I get to "blame" for LLMs constantly saying "I want to use `rg` but I see that it's not installed on this system...".

New comment by darknavi in "The real cost of owning a home"

darknavi — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:07:43 +0000

> House maintenance and projects have taken up most of every single weekend of mine for the past few years.

Mine come and go but it's no where near every weekend since I've purchased in 2019. What sort of things occupy this much time?

New comment by darknavi in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

darknavi — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:30:10 +0000

I guess it depends on the EV. We one-shot Seattle to Portland because it's only ~180 miles. I can't imagine spending 2-3 hours charging on that trip.

We'll spend ~20-30 minutes charging on the way home but that's it.

Now if we're talking about the traffic in Tacoma or around JBLM that's a different story!

New comment by darknavi in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

darknavi — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:18 +0000

Definitely different than raod tripping in an ICE. We road trip in our Model Y and end up stopping often regardless of charging for snacking, stretching, walking the dogs, etc.

I remember talking to a coworker would couldn't accept taking 10 hours to drive somewhere instead of the 8.5 hours you can make it in an ICE. But then again we are definitely people who puts on road trips.

New comment by darknavi in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

darknavi — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:56:45 +0000

Cold soaked batteries are definitely less ideal but if you can plug in at home, planning your charge times and pre-conditioning the car while plugged in significantly reduces the range effects (and preheats the cabin for you!)

New comment by darknavi in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

darknavi — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:46:23 +0000

Just waiting for the Gavin Belson edition box.

New comment by darknavi in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

darknavi — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:25:28 +0000

I normally change mine to `project.svg` but that's just my preference.

New comment by darknavi in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

darknavi — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:24:28 +0000

It allows the user to change the default from drawning.svg, but that is still the default out of the box.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7801

New comment by darknavi in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

darknavi — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:22:23 +0000

I have my first contribution to Inkscape in this release I think. It's quite a minor feature though, so I don't see it in the changelog. It allows the user to set their default saved file name. I was tired of drawing.svg :)

New comment by darknavi in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

darknavi — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:29:01 +0000

I love old MMO server reverse-engineering. MapleStory custom servers helped get me into programming in middle school/high school.

I still have an inkling to get back into MapleStory custom servers (or other MMOs) but to be honest something about the vast open world that is empty of players is really creepy/sad/liminal to me. I'd want to take a spin at adding some "life" to the servers, even if it is just extra player-ish NPCs.

New comment by darknavi in "Write some software, give it away for free"

darknavi — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:05:52 +0000

Fwiw I assume most people feel this way.

I am a 90s kid and I watch things like Stranger Things and feel nostalgia for a simpler time even though I wasn't even alive in the 80s.