Hacker News: electricant

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

electricant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896276

Points: 4

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SUSE Developer Working to Reimplement SSH Using the Zig Programming Language

electricant — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-SSH-In-Zig-Language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966903

Points: 6

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New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: What are you using your Raspberry Pi for?"

electricant — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:05:33 +0000

It mostly is a cool way to waste some time. But why not? You'll have millisecond-accurate timing throughout your network

New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: What are you using your Raspberry Pi for?"

electricant — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:59:16 +0000

I have a pi 3 B+ running as an LTE to WiFi gateway. I'm not using the native WiFi but the ethernet is connected to an openwrt router.

Since I had ram to spare it also does:

- dhcp

- caching DNS + filtering

- Mqtt server

- GPS-based NTP server

- Openvpn server to my nas (at a different location) and vps

New comment by electricant in "The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom"

electricant — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:48:30 +0000

Author here. Having read the comments let me clarify that I'm not advocating for a world devoid of cars. I'd like that cars could be an option not a must. I totally see that cars are here to stay especially where really needed. But who decides when they are really needed? The owner of course! However, I think that we could perhaps shape our lives for walking/cycling and incentivize public transport whenever possible.

New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: Suggestions for a document with passwords etc. in case sth happens to me"

electricant — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:41:33 +0000

Consider storing all your passwords in a password manager. I can recommend pass synchronized with git on PC and smartphone but many other services are available. Then, write your master password (or encryption key password) somewhere your family knows where to find in case of need. This way you do not have to store the full password database in plaintext but only the main password. If you add/delete a password you do not have to print anything again.

The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom

electricant — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.scaramuzza.me/articles/the_car_is_not_the_future.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45094351

Points: 71

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New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: What crypto payments options should I offer for my VPN?"

electricant — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 07:00:18 +0000

Mullvad accepts cash payments where you send the amount due via mail. They also offer a choice of Cryptos. See: https://mullvad.net/en/pricing

New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: What are some Linux tools to diagnose a system which keeps hanging?"

electricant — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:12:46 +0000

Happened to me on what, if I recall correctly, was a thinkpad t61. In the end it was due to outdated BIOS. Updating it stopped the PC from hanging up.

Perhaps check that your BIOS is the latest version first.

And by the way run also a scan of the RAM with memtest.

Ask HN: What do you do with your list of articles links?

electricant — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:05:56 +0000

Over the years I hoarded a fair bit of articles and links I found on the web. I found them interesting or maybe useful in the future. I also compiled a markdown file where I try to keep them organized. But the truth is, I never reference them again. If I read this list now I still think they are interesting so I'm reluctant to just throw this stuff away. Some of them could be combined into an essay of some sort, but is it worth it?

So the question is. What do you do with your lists of links? Are they actually a waste or time or what?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539719

Points: 4

# Comments: 10

Our progress on CalyxOS after the release of Android 16

electricant — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:35:59 +0000

Article URL: https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/26/community-update-android-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404616

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation

electricant — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254541

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Training AI on Torrented 82TB Dataset with Pirated Books

electricant — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:45:35 +0000

Article URL: https://hothardware.com/news/lawsuit-meta-training-ai-millions-of-pirated-books

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43010829

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by electricant in "Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost"

electricant — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:55:14 +0000

Not only alpine linux but also X.Org and freedesktop.org

New comment by electricant in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

electricant — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:07:44 +0000

Let me disagree. IMHO cursive is faster than print once you get the hang of it.

However my point is valid for print too I guess.

Regarding time saved and the fact that they are two different systems, I don't get it. Time saved for what? They are not so different, cursive is built on top of print, just optimized for not lifting the pen from the paper too often (hence it is supposedly faster to write).

New comment by electricant in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

electricant — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:20:26 +0000

Today I learned that in the us children are not taught cursive handwriting. This is rather absurd to me. How are they supposed to write?

New comment by electricant in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

electricant — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:05:23 +0000

Syncthing to my home NAS. Bakup is triggered automatically when the phone is connected to the wifi and charging (which happens every night).

New comment by electricant in "What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)"

electricant — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:40:46 +0000

The reference to the Monty Python spam sketch is gold :D

New comment by electricant in "Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs"

electricant — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:38:43 +0000

What 'gotchas' exactly?

Ask HN: What would you do with a 130 ton locomotive?

electricant — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:26:44 +0000

Caltrain (rail service provider for the San Francisco Peninsula) is selling their old 135 ton gasoline locomotives: https://www.caltrainstore.com/special-items/p/caltrain-emd-f40ph-2-locomotive-used

According to the website, the engine is disabled and you have to pick them up yourself.

I was wondering what you colud do with one of those beasts and why they are selling them. What would you buy one for? A fancy restaurant / cafe perhaps? This of course supposing that the pavement could handle such weight.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671643

Points: 25

# Comments: 47