Hacker News: gkhartman

New comment by gkhartman in "Podman v6.0.0"

gkhartman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:06:25 +0000

This except in production. Nothing helped. I actually stopped using containers for a bit after that.

New comment by gkhartman in "Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs"

gkhartman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:21:29 +0000

Reminds me of a NES that I overclocked when I was around 14 years old. It was the sort of silly thing a nerdy kid would do with too much free time on their hands, and didn't do much to improve the system. Most of the time it caused more issues than it fixed, but it was a good learning experience.

This is far more exciting, since it adds functionality to they system. Maybe I'll dust off my old hacked up NES and do this at some point. If only I had the free time these days.

Thx for sharing :)

New comment by gkhartman in "Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl"

gkhartman — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:38:06 +0000

I thought this law was just a joke, but after Manny years of development, I'm finding out it's very real.

It's also increasingly painful to make happen in today's email ecosystem.

New comment by gkhartman in "DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350"

gkhartman — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:53:33 +0000

What are the practical applications of this? The things that come to mind when I hear "ultrasound" are medical devices and wall scanners.

That said, it's a cool project, even if it doesn't have a practical use.

New comment by gkhartman in "Is my blue your blue?"

gkhartman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:36:32 +0000

How much does display calibration factor into this? I'm fairly confident it must impact the results, but unsure how much error it would introduce.

New comment by gkhartman in "An 'Intimacy Crisis' Is Driving the Dating Divide"

gkhartman — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:16:33 +0000

"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" ~Jake the Dog (Adventure Time)

I feel this doesn't get taught enough in school and it's a really important life lesson.

New comment by gkhartman in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

gkhartman — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:09:54 +0000

Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.

New comment by gkhartman in "Hello, World"

gkhartman — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:55:55 +0000

If we could send every politician as a prerequisite for the job, I think it would greatly benefit mankind. It would be far more difficult to make corrupt decisions after seeing our only inhabitable rock against that vast emptiness, or at least one would hope so.

I'm always blown away by these photos. I'm sure this is even more spectacular in person. Good idea on the desktop background ;)

New comment by gkhartman in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

gkhartman — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:09:51 +0000

Neat educational game. Would have liked to see Maple Mono in the line up, but I'm sure you've gotta draw the line somewhere or the game would be too tedious.

New comment by gkhartman in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

gkhartman — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:08:07 +0000

Same. Came down to Fira Code and PT Mono. I already use Fira Code, so I probably biased to what I'm used to. I do think that Fira Code is hard to beat when it comes to ambiguous characters.

New comment by gkhartman in "Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like"

gkhartman — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:13:25 +0000

I really thought we'd be using a Firefox powered by Servo by now, but instead we're getting a second UI rewrite. At least it's not becoming a chromium wrapper.

New comment by gkhartman in "A header-only C vector database library"

gkhartman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:44:09 +0000

Agreed, once you've spent hrs fighting with C build tools under a deadline, it becomes very easy to see why this is beneficial.

New comment by gkhartman in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

gkhartman — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:54:37 +0000

It's can a long time since I've heard those sound clips. Brings back a lot of great memories of playing WCIII as a teen. Didn't have the money at the time to play WoW, so I ended up playing Guild wars instead.

I never tried playing the WCIII reboot after hearing some pretty bad reviews.

New comment by gkhartman in "I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color"

gkhartman — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:30:31 +0000

You can pick a used one up for pretty cheap. Add a flash cartridge and you're done. I think the cheap android handhelds of the same form factor are a better option though.

I've still got my Gameboy collection, but rarely use it. It's just so much easier to fire up an emulator these days.

New comment by gkhartman in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

gkhartman — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:53:44 +0000

It's a shame they didn't add a photo with another object for reference. Without looking at the price and dimensions, it looks pretty unassuming.

New comment by gkhartman in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

gkhartman — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:24:32 +0000

This is great. Makes these tools much more discoverable. I can help but notice the drop in plugin ui quality one you click the foss filter checkbox. Something in me wants a foss plugin to come with a cool skin like the free ones do, but I know that's silly.

New comment by gkhartman in "Show HN: I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one"

gkhartman — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:36:26 +0000

I had a quick thought to do something like this a while back, but never got around to the experimental phase. I ended up buying a new controller instead (whilst grumbling about making an adapter). Thanks for making it happen, and being kind enough to open source it. Looking forward to giving it a try later.

New comment by gkhartman in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

gkhartman — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:44:49 +0000

Welp, I guess Firefox forks are gonna get a lot more users in the near future. Hopefully turning off the ai features will be an available option as mentioned, but hopefully they'll be off by default.

New comment by gkhartman in "VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO"

gkhartman — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:56:38 +0000

If you don't mind me asking, what did you end up buying, and what was lacking support? I'd expect full support from one of the "Linux first" suppliers like System76.

New comment by gkhartman in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

gkhartman — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:24:31 +0000

Good point. That seems like a good option as well if you don't need any other features.

I don't really use many of the smart features, but the ability to set up cleaning zones in valetudo has been really nice. Same goes for "do not clean" zones.