Hacker News: fhars

New comment by fhars in "Perlisisms (1982)"

fhars — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:12:43 +0000

The actual prescient LLM quote is "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

New comment by fhars in "Claude Fable 5"

fhars — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:53:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

New comment by fhars in "How liminalism became the defining aesthetic"

fhars — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:05:07 +0000

Yeah, even nostalgia is no longer what it used to be...

Welcome to old age :-).

New comment by fhars in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

fhars — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:47:12 +0000

On the other hand, I recently installed a system with debian 13, and it was really easy to distinguish between X11 and wayland sessions: if the session displays a plasma desktop, it's X11, if it crashes on login, it is wayland. YMMV if you try to switch to wayland.

New comment by fhars in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

fhars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:13:03 +0000

And if you ever run out of things to do in your copious free time, it looks like that PR #1744 was merged without the has_target_ctx assert two days after you uploaded your drafter quants. So you can now redo all your quants and rerun all your benchmarks ;-).

New comment by fhars in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

fhars — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:55:56 +0000

It means that the request to the API contains cryptographic proof that is was generated by a legitimate, reviewed app running on a unmodified and non-rooted mobile device controlled by Apple or Google.

New comment by fhars in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

fhars — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:52:19 +0000

No, because both positions boil down to "don't waste my time by refusing to think".

New comment by fhars in "Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

fhars — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:11:44 +0000

Nobody would be so weird as to put the "four" first when pronouncing "14".

:-)

New comment by fhars in "Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?"

fhars — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:45:27 +0000

Then it would fall under "symbolic or ritual use".

New comment by fhars in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

fhars — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:33:03 +0000

Before electric computers, the human mind was a steam engine: https://www.ezrabrand.com/p/releasing-the-pressure-a-dive-in...

New comment by fhars in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

fhars — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:04:22 +0000

> an opt out that you forgot to click when you signed up with them

This is the textbook legal definition of spam in any sensible jurisdiction, though.

New comment by fhars in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

fhars — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:39:38 +0000

Yes, you are likely confusing Oberon with Pascal. That is the Wirth language people usually have heard about. They may also have heard about Modula 2, but assuming that is stretching it. I was already interested in computers at the time, but I still only remember Oberon as that even bigger failure than Modula.

New comment by fhars in "One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie"

fhars — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:30:12 +0000

The only earthquake that happened in the region I am living during my lifetime was caused by a collapsing salt mine, though. (Small magnitude. I only heard about it because I was working at a particle accelerator lab at the time and the machine crew observed some beam instability caused by the ground vibrations, so they talked about it.)

New comment by fhars in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

fhars — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:12:59 +0000

You are arguing against the opposite of what the comment you answered to said.

New comment by fhars in "Bet on German Train Delays"

fhars — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:33:07 +0000

Watch the original, there you can select an English simultaneous translation: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...

New comment by fhars in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

fhars — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:13:34 +0000

That method wont work, that is a too large change that happens to seldom. What you want is a leap second every hour for five months to switch between standard and daylight savings time and back, with a month of constant time around each solstice. That gives you a smooth transition without perceptible discontinuities.

New comment by fhars in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

fhars — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:09:26 +0000

People have been wondering that for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304281

New comment by fhars in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

fhars — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:47:46 +0000

You only have to bundle about 110 ISDN channels to transfer that (four E1 or five T1 trunk lines).

New comment by fhars in "Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts"

fhars — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:10:50 +0000

Like the "Cancel subscription" dialog with options "Cancel" and "Cancel"...

UX Design is hard...

New comment by fhars in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

fhars — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:30:23 +0000

Like nightmode in Stellarium: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/