Hacker News: hackerbrother

New comment by hackerbrother in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

hackerbrother — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:24:49 +0000

“Old school biker meth” - Hank Schrader

New comment by hackerbrother in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

hackerbrother — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:46:15 +0000

CAN you always avoid a bike lane? I don't think so. There's lots of shared bike lanes/right turn lanes, bike lanes that terminate unexpectedly, etc.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

hackerbrother — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:00:20 +0000

I don't think they're wildly different purposes. They're the same purpose (to set shell settings) with different scopes (all users, one user, interactive shells only, etc.).

New comment by hackerbrother in "MacBook Neo"

hackerbrother — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:52:57 +0000

Would definitely consider for my next laptop. What’s the best solution for “Mac Subsystem for Linux”?

New comment by hackerbrother in "Using go fix to modernize Go code"

hackerbrother — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:58:49 +0000

The "LLMs shouldn't be writing code" take is starting to feel like the new "we should all just use No-Code."

We’ve been trying to "build a better layer" for thirty years. From Dreamweaver to Scratch to Bubble, the goal was always the same: hide the syntax so the "logic" can shine. But it turns out, the syntax wasn't the enemy—the abstraction ceiling was.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Vim 9.2"

hackerbrother — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:30:26 +0000

Hey man, you’re not blocked. Read you loud and clear. Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?"

hackerbrother — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:27:54 +0000

I am from the North Pole. My name is Santa Claus.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

hackerbrother — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:57:18 +0000

Hey, Merry Christmas. Thanks for posting.

New comment by hackerbrother in "The reason GCC is not a library (2000)"

hackerbrother — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:17:35 +0000

Freedom through obscurutiy

New comment by hackerbrother in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

hackerbrother — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 01:02:06 +0000

Along these lines, Go eliminates many formatting decisions at the syntax level. E.g.,

  func main()
  {
          fmt.Println("HELLOWORLD")
  }

is not just non-standard formatting, but illegal Go syntax. Similarly, extra parentheses around if clauses are not allowed.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files"

hackerbrother — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:43:49 +0000

Ha, I use Deno just as a formatter also! It’s great for Markdown formatting.

New comment by hackerbrother in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

hackerbrother — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:03:30 +0000

I love RDP! It really is an impressive technology. I work in-office somewhere, and when I'm on campus, RDPing into my desk laptop from a conference room client has native performance, with audio even.

What is the best remote desktop server for Linux?

New comment by hackerbrother in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

hackerbrother — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:13:58 +0000

Yeah, but unlike bundle, uv locks in your Python version and downloads that Python version as needed. It’s like bundle and rbenv combined.

New comment by hackerbrother in "LINUX is obsolete (1992)"

hackerbrother — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:15:25 +0000

It’s always heralded as a great CS debate, but Tanenbaum’s position seems so obviously silly to me.

Tanenbaum: Microkernels are superior to monolithic kernels.

Torvalds: I agree— so go ahead and write a Production microkernel…

New comment by hackerbrother in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

hackerbrother — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:17:49 +0000

I think Gitea not being maintained via Gitea was reason enough to fork it— I am glad Forgejo did!

New comment by hackerbrother in "Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?"

hackerbrother — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:34:45 +0000

Ultimately, you have to store your backup codes somewhere. So the only solution besides using your password manager is using a second password manager. Or not using a password manager to save off your backup codes, which has its own disadvantages.

There's lots of cases where 2FA reduces to 1FA. E.g. logging into a website on your mobile phone, and getting your TOTP or SMS code on that same phone. In fact-- that case is so common I wonder if we should just get more used to the idea of 1FA, with smartphone passkeys/biometrics/SSO being the auth factor. As it stands, if you compromise someone's smartphone (and have their smartphone PIN), the odds are great you can autofill any password you like on their phone and pull up any needed 2FA tokens as well.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Ruby 3.4.0"

hackerbrother — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:59:55 +0000

(Removed)

New comment by hackerbrother in "Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad"

hackerbrother — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:29:29 +0000

They are probably effectively two builds of the same OS.

New comment by hackerbrother in "Show HN: Rust Web Framework"

hackerbrother — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:17:04 +0000

The dream. Someone posted this, which is designed along these lines, here not long ago. https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo

New comment by hackerbrother in "Caddy 2.8"

hackerbrother — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:29:43 +0000

Caddy is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is such a good reverse proxy and a paradigm-shifter for its auto-certificates and HTTP/3 support. It's a great example of how high quality Go software can be. (Thank you Matt Holt)