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New comment by derhuerst in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

derhuerst — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:02:24 +0000

In case you are in (or IP-geolocated to) the EU: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/115068-000-A/nuclear-putin-s-d...

New comment by derhuerst in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

derhuerst — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:13:11 +0000

to give a example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Jammu_and_...

i'm not sure if in this case "only" the 4G network was shut off, but IMO it still serves as a good reminder of when such an event might happen again.

also: https://ooni.org/reports/

New comment by derhuerst in "Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops"

derhuerst — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:10:39 +0000

blog post with the background story why this was created: https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/#is-this...

New comment by derhuerst in "WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops"

derhuerst — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:22:22 +0000

remotely related:

libinput (handles touchpad input in most Linux distributions) now supports three-finger dragging [0].

[0] https://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/02/libinput-and-3-finger-dra...

New comment by derhuerst in "Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript"

derhuerst — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:58:00 +0000

remotely related: When I used nearley.js [0], it had a very good learning curve. Tooling also looks quite nice.

[0] https://nearley.js.org/

New comment by derhuerst in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

derhuerst — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:49:20 +0000

This [0] seems to be the closest to your parent's statement:

> The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping to spread a multi-language code base. I absolutely support using Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

[0] https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de/

New comment by derhuerst in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

derhuerst — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:57:14 +0000

similar project: https://www.trainconnections.com/

New comment by derhuerst in "Phased Array Microphone (2023)"

derhuerst — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:58:07 +0000

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/speakersafetyd

New comment by derhuerst in "Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)"

derhuerst — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:13:07 +0000

for Node.js, consider retry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/retry

New comment by derhuerst in "Hetzner Object Storage"

derhuerst — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:45:13 +0000

It looks like you have to manually add a 10G uplink to dedicated boxes: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-...

New comment by derhuerst in "Show HN: tu – Convert natural language date/time to UTC"

derhuerst — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:55:48 +0000

I built a JavaScript library for my needs: https://github.com/derhuerst/parse-human-relative-time

New comment by derhuerst in "Show HN: Open-source, browser-local data exploration using DuckDB-WASM and PRQL"

derhuerst — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:03:45 +0000

I think it would be great to be able to embed the workflow in the URL, so that I can share pre-made workflows with people who can then apply it to their data.

New comment by derhuerst in "Berlin TYPE: The official type for the city of Berlin (2020)"

derhuerst — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:16:58 +0000

A while ago I made this: https://derhuerst.github.io/berlin-subway-guide/

It is based on someone's enormous body of CC-licensed photos of cities in Europe, especially their public transportation systems. [1] – I re-use the photos by assigning them to the station IDs in Berlin's official transit dataset. [2]

[1] https://flickr.com/photos/ingolfbln/albums/ [2] https://github.com/derhuerst/vbb-station-photos

New comment by derhuerst in "What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner"

derhuerst — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:38:42 +0000

I do the same, but because it became tedious to insert the query & query plan manually, I wrote pev2-cli [1].

[1] https://github.com/derhuerst/pev2-cli

New comment by derhuerst in "Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)"

derhuerst — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:34:02 +0000

PRQL [1] is a compile-to-SQL relational querying language that puts FROM first.

[1] https://prql-lang.org

New comment by derhuerst in "Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency"

derhuerst — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:45:38 +0000

AFAIK mininet [0] can help you with this. It allows configuring latency and/or jitter dynamically using Python [1].

[0] https://mininet.org [1] https://mininet.org/api/classmininet_1_1link_1_1TCIntf.html#...

New comment by derhuerst in "Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor"

derhuerst — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:06:19 +0000

apparently the author is responding to questions in a sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666139

New comment by derhuerst in "The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol"

derhuerst — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:34:10 +0000

This has been discussed recently [1] in another post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815705 (4 days ago, 202 points, 32 comments)

New comment by derhuerst in "Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified"

derhuerst — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:16:49 +0000

some past HN discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27525031 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419944

New comment by derhuerst in "Godot 4.0 Released"

derhuerst — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:18:09 +0000