Hacker News: davidpfarrell

New comment by davidpfarrell in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

davidpfarrell — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:09:15 +0000

Because I'm lazy, and forgetful, I went back to my comment from a previous time this was posted:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554715

Results: Roboto Mono !

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users"

davidpfarrell — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:34:13 +0000

Anyone else getting 404 when clicking the title[0] ?

[0]: https://yapi.run/blog/what-is-yapi

New comment by davidpfarrell in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:37:24 +0000

Can't wait for all the syncopated "Thou dost well to question that" responses!

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust"

davidpfarrell — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:13:34 +0000

Not to be confused with Run: Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers (weitten in Go)

https://github.com/TekWizely/run

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks"

davidpfarrell — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:45:08 +0000

Wow so couldn't said security co's establish their own registry that we could point to instead and packages would only get updated after they reviewed and approved them?

I mean I'd prolly be okay paying yearly fee for access to such a registry.

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Qwen3-Next"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:50:47 +0000

Hyped for the release, but bummed they fell for the ‘next’ naming convention.

What will the actual next advanced release be called:

* next-next

* next (2)

* actual-next-final

New comment by davidpfarrell in "The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024)"

davidpfarrell — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:14:55 +0000

I loved reading this, but I can't help but think that a "perfect scramble" would be one that can ONLY be solved in 20 moves, i.e no shortcuts can be applied to solve in less moves. I wonder how many of those exist?

New comment by davidpfarrell in "You Must Listen to RFC 2119"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:11:38 +0000

Having listened now, I see what you wanted was to have David Cross read it in (almost any) one of his characters.

We can probably arrange a Cameo to achieve this!

New comment by davidpfarrell in "A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly"

davidpfarrell — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:11:32 +0000

When you realize the fungus' primary intent was to convince the fly to land in amber ...

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Curved-Crease Sculpture"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:37:20 +0000

I don't know what I expected to see, but the site was full of ... Curved-Crease Sculptures ...

Beautiful just the same!

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:06:40 +0000

How did your site know my first/last name when I gave my email address to create an account and clicked the confirmation link you sent?

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:03:33 +0000

OP: A single giveaway just popped up on SteamGifts today:

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bloms/blue-prince

Is this you?

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:51:28 +0000

Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize the market for unethically sourced "spare" human bodies ...

New comment by davidpfarrell in "I basically announced Minecraft 2"

davidpfarrell — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 01:03:45 +0000

My god that post is a hot mess - I regret reading it

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'"

davidpfarrell — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:18:30 +0000

Roboto Mono for me - Off to see if its on NerdFonts ...

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Warp terminal – no more login required"

davidpfarrell — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:45:03 +0000

Can I (yet) just press tab and have it inspect my PATH variable for completable items?

That is literally the only reason I gave up on it.

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Pi Chess Board"

davidpfarrell — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:15:15 +0000

Love this!

Also for those interested in auto-moving chess boards, see the Go Chess project:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gochess-most-powerful-che...

It takes a different approach: 1-4 "robots" under the board moving pieces around - with the goal of being able to reset the board or setup a position super-quick!

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts"

davidpfarrell — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:48:01 +0000

Am I missing something or do you have to make a decision without being provided a single example of an upper-case character?

The idea is great, thanks for sharing! But att I don't feel it provides enough sample data to really make an informed decision.

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Winamp Legacy player source code"

davidpfarrell — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:43:44 +0000

The best thing we can do for the future of the project is to NOT engage with the project at this time ... Even just cloning the project into your private workspace to review / compile is giving more engagement than their current licensing stance warrants.

I'll check again when an HN post comes out stating they've changed their licensing stance - Until then, closing this tab and forgetting about it ...

New comment by davidpfarrell in "Passive damping – Bathroom scales"

davidpfarrell — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:01:06 +0000

So my morning routine is:

* Pee

* Weigh (naked)

* Perform morning routine

* Pee

* Weigh (naked)

My old scale had 0.2 lb granularity and certainly repeated the previous value if you stepped in it again within some certain time.

My new scale (Etekcity) is 0.1 granularity and often comes in at 0.1 or 0.2 lbs less on the 2nd weight in.