Hacker News: eiginn

New comment by eiginn in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

eiginn — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:21:56 +0000

One time after locking my keys in my '87 Toyota pickup, I just used a swiss army knife in desperation. Opened instantly

New comment by eiginn in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

eiginn — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:06:43 +0000

A very good friend, who is not a brain surgeon, but designs and plans brain surgeries for clinical trials with the very brain surgeons doing the surgeries. So yes they do think it through and even do entire dry runs through every step.

New comment by eiginn in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

eiginn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:28:05 +0000

Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output.

Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.

New comment by eiginn in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

eiginn — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:11:18 +0000

Praise be to projects that use xdg paths before posting it to hn.

New comment by eiginn in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

eiginn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:07:33 +0000

This mirrors my experience as well of multiple instances over my life of repressing childhood trauma and some event or conversation suddenly bringing it back to the surface.

New comment by eiginn in "Ubiquiti SFP Wizard"

eiginn — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:54:28 +0000

Now if only the fiberstore SFP programmer didn't require an app that is basically malware as far as I'm concerned.

New comment by eiginn in "Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT"

eiginn — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:29:01 +0000

I miss Wave a lot, very quirky in a good way imo. We ran a few D&D games over it. RIP

New comment by eiginn in "Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends"

eiginn — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:42:05 +0000

Two other projects in the same vein:

https://github.com/YutaroHayakawa/ipftrace2

https://github.com/cilium/pwru

New comment by eiginn in "The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat"

eiginn — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:29:16 +0000

O by Cirque du Soleil has underwater lifts not sure about other shows

New comment by eiginn in "0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years"

eiginn — Sat, 27 May 2023 13:47:24 +0000

Loved Dark Reign, I have the discs still, somewhere.

New comment by eiginn in "The first planetarium projector was unveiled 100 years ago"

eiginn — Mon, 08 May 2023 01:38:32 +0000

I'll just leave this here for the interested https://web.archive.org/web/20230408013446/https://www.plane... (archive link to not hug it to death)

New comment by eiginn in "The case of the mysterious --help directory (2020)"

eiginn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:19:11 +0000

In Zsh setting '-x' on an interactive shell will also show you what is executed for prompts, completion, and any hooks (probably other things too)

New comment by eiginn in "Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust"

eiginn — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:42:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing those, I had kind of written off Nix for personal laptop after first glance, going to play around again.