Hacker News: eahm

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

eahm — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:18:57 +0000

I always end up with Consolas, Ubuntu Sans Mono and Hack.

New comment by eahm in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"

eahm — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:23:41 +0000

I don't want to hijack the thread but isn't BentoPDF open source and does all that and more for free? https://www.bentopdf.com

New comment by eahm in "Ask HN: FileZilla/WinSCP Speed Comparison"

eahm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:59:18 +0000

Awesome, FileZilla 3.70.0 RC3: 60-62MB/s

Ask HN: FileZilla/WinSCP Speed Comparison

eahm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:14:18 +0000

I've noticed this in the RC1 changelog:

Changes in version 3.70.0 RC1 (2026-03-17):

SFTP support is now based on the fzssh library

..so I wanted to do some testing, I logged in to a VPS and downloaded one single 10GB file, here are the results (all the tests are made with pageant, pageant-openssh-mode and directly with the key, all same speeds):

FileZilla 3.70.0 RC1: 4.5MB/s

FileZilla 3.69.6: 60MB/s

WinSCP (SFTP): 19-20MB/s

WinSCP (SCP): 60MB/s

Wth is going on? Anyone noticed any difference/can test?

Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456719

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by eahm in "The MacBook Neo"

eahm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:45:24 +0000

Use PSREF: https://psref.lenovo.com

New comment by eahm in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

eahm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:49:05 +0000

1 too: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=i1IlL0Oo

IMO Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Sans Mono are two of the best fonts ever made, comparable to Consolas, which I think it's still the best monospace font... talking about monospace fonts.

Funny enough I think Reddit Mono is a very good monospace font too https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Reddit+Mono?preview.text=i...

And Hack: https://dafont.com/hack.font?text=i1IlL0Oo

For monospace fonts only:

https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=i1IlL0Oo&categoryFilt...

https://dafont.com/theme.php?cat=503&text=i1IlL0Oo

New comment by eahm in "DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music"

eahm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:40:58 +0000

Agree, lazy is the last thing that comes to mind when I think about id Software, I don't like the title either.

New comment by eahm in "The history of Casio watches"

eahm — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:40:27 +0000

I used to have the W-520U and it was the best watch I've ever owned ...also the only watch/thing I ever lost in my life, I left it at the gym class in school and the next day boom, gone.

http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/casio-w-520u

My favorite series since 10-20+ years ago is the ProTrek, which I guess it's part of G-Shock but I don't see them in the site. (I guess the PRT-1GPJ is there at 1999).

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/protrek

https://www.casio.com/europe/watches/protrek/brand/collectio...

https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/protrek/30th/history

New comment by eahm in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

eahm — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:49:30 +0000

Sharing my configs, hopefully they'll be helpful to someone. I don't even use Firefox but I keep the settings updated (prefs.js can be modified by Mozilla/Firefox, user.js does not change).

NOTE: Some settings might block too much, edit and use as you please.

https://rentry.co/browserconfigs / https://rentry.org/browserconfigs

New comment by eahm in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

eahm — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:50:22 +0000

I recently rediscovered this website that might help: https://vpspricetracker.com

Too cool to not share, most of the providers listed there have dedicated servers too.

New comment by eahm in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

eahm — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:18:57 +0000

Ah, I can see how it looks, it's just a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg and he's a trusted dev especially in the foobar2000 community. I've been using his sw on and off for 10+ years together with yt-dlp but again, I get your point.

New comment by eahm in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

eahm — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:25:50 +0000

>The best YouTube downloaders for Windows (and beyond)

Didn't even mention https://3dyd.com

New comment by eahm in "Sudo-rs is now default for Ubuntu Questing Quokka"

eahm — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:23:51 +0000

I don't use Ubuntu particularly but I test the flavors sometimes and I keep the server ISO just in case, anyway, this code doesn't work with sudo-rs:

echo '# Disable ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful file

Defaults !admin_flag' | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/disable_admin_file_in_home

so until I find a "fix" for me it's going to be: "apt install -y sudo sudo-rs-"

New comment by eahm in "Internet Relay Chat"

eahm — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:17:13 +0000

Just saw it in the suggestions a few hours ago and it brought back so many memories, I thought I’d share it. The channel has so many other good videos, first time clicking it but it’s bookmarked now.

Internet Relay Chat

eahm — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082936

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by eahm in "Why English doesn't use accents"

eahm — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:14:25 +0000

Yeah, from near Urbino but moved to USA ~20 years ago.

New comment by eahm in "Why English doesn't use accents"

eahm — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:32:35 +0000

Funny also I moved to USA ~20 years ago and you lose the Italian, you don't remember words etc. but you'll never lose your dialect, it just comes natural because that's how you grew up instead of what you learned growing up and from school, Tuscan people have it easier because the language comes from their dialect, Dante etc.

And to add, I wouldn't click that link if you paid me lol, I hate the Barese... ok I clicked, funny stuff.

New comment by eahm in "Why English doesn't use accents"

eahm — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:57:41 +0000

Oh geez, for example in Italian to say here you say "qui", where I grew up I say "mchi" but my brothers say "mqui" or "mque", where I used to go to school they say "meque" with the weirdest sound.

To say what are you doing in Italian is "cosa fai" but I say "co fei" and my brothers "sa fei" and where I used to go to school they say "che fe".

These are just simple simple things but almost everything changes here and there and I can't put the sound with the words here, they actually sound different, and change where the actual accents are.

New comment by eahm in "Why English doesn't use accents"

eahm — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:44:03 +0000

French.. you people have no idea how Italy is.

I speak differently than my brothers because I grew up at my grandparents 3 MILES! away and if I go to my family restaurant 2 MILES the other direction there is a different accent again, and I mean different words too not just the sound. Where I used to go to school 10 miles away they don't understand if I speak my dialect because it's a different region.

The whole Italy is like that, a different dialect every 2-3 miles, every family, town, city, province, county and region has different accents and ways to make food and recipes. My town is 3200 years old, older than the Romans, they used to fight, then ally then fight again with them etc., this dialect thing is very old, cultures, traditions and families.

Of course we have the Italian language in common and the main dialects are separated by the main city of the region then by the region itself but yep, that's how it is.

New comment by eahm in "A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)"

eahm — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:43:54 +0000

30+ years of computer and I had no idea you could do this. These are the kind of things I get excited about!