Hacker News: f30e3dfed1c9

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:22:34 +0000

Typeface too hard to read. Color scheme makes it worse. Sorry, ain't reading that.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:45:30 +0000

My take: (1) I've had passwords handled pretty well for a long time now: same password manager for something like 15 years; (2) companies are pushing pretty hard to get me to use passkeys instead.

From (2) I assume that the companies see benefits to themselves. I don't care about benefits to them. I don't see much in the way of benefits to me, so I'm not changing anything if I don't have to.

I'll admit to not having looked into passkeys all that much. Someday, I might. But for the time being, I don't see much point. I imagine that eventually I'll be more or less forced to deal with passkeys in at least some contexts. Will leave that for later.

For now, it's all a big "no thanks" from me.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:25:41 +0000

You make this too hard to read. Constant scrolling for tiny little chunks of text. Sorry, ain't putting up with that.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "How to Host Your Own Email Server"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:23:32 +0000

The author seems to be setting up a send-only server. Mox is not a good fit.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:34:00 +0000

That's a successful small business, not a claim to "greatness."

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:54:25 +0000

> He might be a great software/business leader

There is little to no evidence of him as a great business leader. How many people does his company employ? I don't think it's as many as a hundred. This is the scale of, say, a single car dealership.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:21:35 +0000

If all you ever read is what you can read for free, you're condemning yourself to reading nothing but slop forever.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Is anyone still using Emacs?"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:15:39 +0000

oh you bet they are

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in Encyclical"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:21:06 +0000

A shot at the Tolkien-obsessed SV dipshits who think they understand theology better than anyone else?

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "BBEdit 16"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:58:39 +0000

Honestly, I would have preferred the ability to search within PDF files.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "BBEdit 16"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:03:31 +0000

"Added a command to the View menu: 'Gather Untitled Documents'. This will collect all untitled (never saved) documents into the active window, removing them from other windows (and possibly closing those windows in the process)."

Honestly, this alone might be worth the upgrade price. I use BBEdit all day every day, and untitled docs tend to proliferate. I use the scratchpad a lot but still end up with lots of untitled docs.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Do LLMs hold the opinions they give you?"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:29:11 +0000

The question doesn't make sense. LLMs don't "hold opinions."

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Native all the way, until you need text"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:01:08 +0000

This app is a good idea but the help refers to a "Help > Install Command Line Tool" menu item that does not appear to exist.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:03:05 +0000

Been constructing a lot of infrastructure servers recently, almost all of them FreeBSD VMs running under bhyve on FreeBSD physical hosts. It's a very simple, clean, pleasant environment to work in. And they all run tarsnap. ;-)

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Oasis Linux"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:05:24 +0000

This is an interesting project.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:30:32 +0000

I like it. Simple, fast, easy to use. Much better than most of the web these days, although honestly, that's a regrettably low bar. Most of the web these days is horrible and has been for a while.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:35:25 +0000

"Fuck me"?

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:19:53 +0000

Not sure how that's relevant. Still think the statement is false.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:03:22 +0000

I think DFW is wrong and the statement "Everybody worships" is false. I don't worship anything I can think of in any meaningful sense of the word.

New comment by f30e3dfed1c9 in "Ask HN: Which is better–macOS/Windows/Linux?"

f30e3dfed1c9 — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:58:34 +0000

Question as posed is unanswerable. There is no "best" in general. There are only horses for courses.