Hacker News: emmelaich

New comment by emmelaich in "Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system"

emmelaich — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:23:58 +0000

> Git can checkout only a set of files or directories

How do you do this? With submodules / subtrees?

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:13:25 +0000

Thanks very much for your reply.

New comment by emmelaich in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

emmelaich — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:05:56 +0000

The title of the page is "Charcuterie — A Visual Unicode Explorer" so a search would bring it up. [edit - tested in a incognito page]

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:03:41 +0000

Some targets are more valuable than others. A firewall product has obvious security value. The fact that it requires high privilege is another reason.

I have the same thoughts about other Mac apps. e.g. iTerm2 - cause they "see" so much sensitive data.

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:01:47 +0000

Just saying developers have been hacked. Underrated existence proof.

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:01:09 +0000

Their copy of the compiler. Just an example. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by emmelaich in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:30:12 +0000

Probably used logn not log2.

   >>> math.log(8_000_000_000)
   22.80270737862625

New comment by emmelaich in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:28:05 +0000

Yep, As fans of Larson's The Far Side, probably every American and Americo-phile computer geek and cypherpunk used 'dang'

Same goes for the rest of your list.

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:01:47 +0000

?! The same way every other developer that has been hacked. You surely cannot be suggesting you're un-hackable. That seems ludicrously hubristic.

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:00:19 +0000

They don't build their own machines or write their compilers or write their own crpyto code or ... so many other things.

New comment by emmelaich in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:54:55 +0000

It's partly for dramatic purposes, to slow the realisation of the audience that they are aliens talking about people.

And, ofc, in-drama logic; the beings (of silicon or whatever) are/were blending in with humans to study them.

New comment by emmelaich in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:51:27 +0000

Same, I thought the newberries were going to be some sort of intelligence enhancer.

New comment by emmelaich in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

emmelaich — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:17:06 +0000

Yep, I trust the obdev.at / Snitch guys.

I do wonder however, are they sufficiently careful about their processes and own machines to avoid a supply chain attack completely.

They must be a target for the various hacking groups out there.

New comment by emmelaich in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

emmelaich — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:16:35 +0000

Is this the vid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YL8pwF7Mnc

Rick Beato travels to NeuralDSP in Finland.

New comment by emmelaich in "Usenet Archives"

emmelaich — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:28:44 +0000

I found some of mine from 1992

New comment by emmelaich in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

emmelaich — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:44:23 +0000

Here you are. https://github.com/google/grumpy

Last commit was 9 years ago though, so targets Python 2.7.

New comment by emmelaich in "Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)"

emmelaich — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:42:51 +0000

Great game. I was hoping for a webgl/wasm version but oh well.

New comment by emmelaich in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

emmelaich — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:44:18 +0000

If your interests run bucolic you may be interested in the upcoming 3h documentary "The Valley".

https://thevalleyfilm.au/

New comment by emmelaich in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"

emmelaich — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:42:27 +0000

Is the slump test still commonly used? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_slump_test

New comment by emmelaich in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

emmelaich — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:27:57 +0000

I believe this is actually part of the intent.