Hacker News: emilfihlman

New comment by emilfihlman in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

emilfihlman — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:54:44 +0000

It's so sad that node refuses to add websocket server support.

Adding websocket would simplify stuff tremendously, as well as make deployments much, much more secure.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History"

emilfihlman — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:57:56 +0000

I very much don't think this blog post passes any sniff test for anything to be taken seriously or given much thought, it's just political agenda posting.

However, there is an interesting question on how presidential physical and mental fitness is evaluated. Does anyone have insight into what rules and regulations govern this and do they have any (preferably supreme court validated) backing?

New comment by emilfihlman in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

emilfihlman — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:13:25 +0000

Rust is a passing faux, safe C will just overtake it.

New comment by emilfihlman in "A Tour of Oodi"

emilfihlman — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:21:52 +0000

It's awful as a library, mediocre as an event space and not really good as a hacker space.

It's beautiful, though, but that's about it.

t. a Finn

New comment by emilfihlman in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

emilfihlman — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:46:48 +0000

As a Finn this data allowance is pretty funny to me (though of course not unknown). Here most subscriptions are unlimited.

New comment by emilfihlman in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

emilfihlman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:07:02 +0000

Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

emilfihlman — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:33:26 +0000

This is just plain wrong.

An extremely simple scheme is allowing voters to enter an identifier of their choosing and displaying that with the votes publicly. This is both verifiable and anonymous.

Any issues you can come up with this scheme are also iirc pretty easily solvable.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

emilfihlman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:41:10 +0000

This is huge and amazing!

New comment by emilfihlman in "Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser"

emilfihlman — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:22:38 +0000

E: Nevermind, it's my university Fortiguard bullshit.

Anyone else getting certificate issue?

...Certificate issue was here

New comment by emilfihlman in "Building a TUI is easy now"

emilfihlman — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:53:35 +0000

I also use Termux daily!

It's really a superb tool.

I only wish we could have that same experience without requiring a native app.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Building a TUI is easy now"

emilfihlman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:10:36 +0000

Termux is seriously amazing (with its quirks, of course)!

Have you tried porting your test app to a web page? I'd really like to have a good TUI experience on the web.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Building a TUI is easy now"

emilfihlman — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:29:39 +0000

Sure it is. I, and millions of others, use it all the time with for example Termux.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Building a TUI is easy now"

emilfihlman — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:52:16 +0000

The thing with TUIs is that, using mobile native virtual keyboards, it's apparently quite impossible to make them behave in a sane way in browsers!

I think the only reasonable option seems to be reimplementing one yourself, which is massively stupid.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Best Gas Masks"

emilfihlman — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:46:50 +0000

Why is this low effort article on top here? It's absolutely not a "Best" list and lacks professionalism.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Xfce is great"

emilfihlman — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:56:31 +0000

I used to use XFCE a lot, but since then, even though it sucks in its own ways quite a lot, Gnome defaults to a nicer environment nowadays and doesn't seem so resource intensive anymore.

New comment by emilfihlman in "‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words"

emilfihlman — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:44:24 +0000

Yeah the reason Google and OpenAI etc are silent is because their services do the same but they "aren't the bad guys" so if they shut up the crisis will pass.

This of course implies that the crisis itself and persecution of Musk/Grok is politically motivated, or just based on stupidity.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973"

emilfihlman — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:41:10 +0000

The source has

ttybuf[2] =& ~010;

Which is another bug.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

emilfihlman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:42:47 +0000

Time to protect citizens from EU human right and political abuses, too.

New comment by emilfihlman in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

emilfihlman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:38:53 +0000

I think the important thing here is that governments shouldn't have the right to make life hard for ordinary people with punishments like taking away access to banks and finance system etc.

As for the US slapping European politicians etc, it's high time the people on high horses in Europe feel the shit they push on ordinary people.

New comment by emilfihlman in "High Performance SSH/SCP"

emilfihlman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:22:32 +0000

lose*