Hacker News: fastily

New comment by fastily in "Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)"

fastily — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:56:27 +0000

Yup the readme reeks of llm generated fluff. Lately I find myself getting more and more suspicious whenever I see lots of emojis in markdown headers..

New comment by fastily in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

fastily — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:24:12 +0000

Source? Been googling for this but I don’t see any relevant info

New comment by fastily in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

fastily — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:52:41 +0000

Ive installed the gtar formula and aliased it to tar. Cant be bothered to memorize the differences between macOS tar and unix tar, especially when the latter is considered to be the de facto standard

New comment by fastily in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

fastily — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:54:50 +0000

Would you happen to have a link to this? For science of course :)

New comment by fastily in "New VSCode Default Themes"

fastily — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:25:03 +0000

It’s already getting hate:

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/304953

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79914612/how-can-i-resto...

New comment by fastily in "Why I forked httpx"

fastily — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:43:34 +0000

This has been ongoing for some time. I’ve raised valid issues in several encode projects and received rude/dismissive comments from this individual. I’ve reviewed their recent interactions with others on GitHub and it’s obvious that Mia (tom?) is super toxic/drama seeking

PvZ-Portable: A cross-platform reimplementation of Plants vs. Zombies

fastily — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wszqkzqk/PvZ-Portable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419816

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fastily in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

fastily — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:15:24 +0000

If component prices keep going up and the respective monopoly/duopoly/triopoly for each component colludes to keep prices high/supply constrained, then eventually devices will become too expensive for the average consumer. So what’s the game plan here? Are companies planning to let users lease a device from them? Worth noting that Sony already lets you do this with a ps5. Sounds like we’re headed towards a “you will own nothing and be happy” type situation

New comment by fastily in "Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor"

fastily — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:21:37 +0000

Yup that’s why I suggested it. The vsdx schema is notably complex and I don’t see a lot of code examples in the wild. I seriously doubt an llm would be able to output working code for it. Docx is a common use case and a quick google search yields multiple popular libraries that understand the format. Anyways, cool that an llm was able to output a functional docx editor, but that’s certainly not impressive or a groundbreaking feat by any means

New comment by fastily in "Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor"

fastily — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:31:59 +0000

Would be more impressive if this was done for something obscure like Microsoft Visio. Theres countless oss ms word editors/libs Claude probably ripped off

New comment by fastily in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

fastily — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:48:30 +0000

Citation needed. I know folks using the free plan that have gotten ddos’d and cloudflare kept them online. Can you point me to an article where cloudflare disconnected someone for getting attacked

New comment by fastily in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

fastily — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:41:41 +0000

I do something similar. I bootstrap all my new installs with brew cask https://github.com/fastily/autobots/tree/master/macOS/setup

Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?

fastily — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:54:09 +0000

Asking about productivity software and not video games. I’m curious about any niches that are underserved and/or have no real alternatives

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854703

Points: 9

# Comments: 21

New comment by fastily in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

fastily — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:20:21 +0000

> They know that with enough reports in a short period of time they can get the content removed for a while

This can be accomplished with bogus dmca notices too. Since google gets such a high volume of notices the default action is just to shoot first and ask questions later. Alarmingly, there are 0 consequences (financial or legal) for sending bogus dmca notices

New comment by fastily in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

fastily — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:37:26 +0000

There’s also hummingbird: https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird

New comment by fastily in "Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience"

fastily — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:36:38 +0000

Personally I gave up a long time ago and just installed Debian Linux. But it’s wild to me that the average non-technical/casual windows user has to put up with so much bs… it’s an atrocious ux

New comment by fastily in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

fastily — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:14:32 +0000

I’m using steam on Ubuntu 24.04 with 9y old hardware (which was mid-tier when new), playing mostly 2d platformer games and older resident evil titles. Never had any issues, this setup runs like a champ

New comment by fastily in "Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser"

fastily — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:21:35 +0000

There’s already a free self-hosted version of this that’s significantly more capable: https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX. Not sure what your path to profitability is here but you may want to rethink your approach

New comment by fastily in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

fastily — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:57:51 +0000

It’s just another tool in the downsizing toolbox. Also traditional layoffs and RTO “layoffs” don’t have to be mutually exclusive, both can easily occur at the same time

Swift-sh: like uv scripts for Python, but for Swift

fastily — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mxcl/swift-sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858408

Points: 2

# Comments: 1