Hacker News: hakkoru

New comment by hakkoru in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

hakkoru — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:08:30 +0000

I always enjoyed using the power brick to warm up

New comment by hakkoru in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

hakkoru — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:35:42 +0000

Same, still use my pocket knife that I bought off Massdrop 12 years ago.

New comment by hakkoru in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

hakkoru — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:00:10 +0000

I think from a purely technical viewpoint, cheaters will always have the advantage since they control the machine the game and anti-cheat is running on. Anti-cheat just has to keep the barrier high enough so regular players don't think the game is infested with cheaters.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?"

hakkoru — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:40:50 +0000

Baba is You! Really fun and unique puzzle game

New comment by hakkoru in "A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)"

hakkoru — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:22:32 +0000

Heh, a group of friends and I also visited the Hoover Dam while we were in Vegas for DEF CON one year. Was a really cool experience for sure.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: What's your dock setup for your work laptop?"

hakkoru — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:08:09 +0000

I've got a CalDigit TS4 that I connect to my Macbook Pro. Connects to a 4K 120Hz monitor, mouse, keyboard, wired ethernet, hard drive reader (not always connected), external blu-ray drive, and DAC. Works perfectly.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?"

hakkoru — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:09:02 +0000

I used to post on a forum that did this, as well as showing the OS and browser you were posting from. Some users would be funny and modified their user agent so that it said they posted from a Wii.

New comment by hakkoru in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

hakkoru — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:12:22 +0000

My university offered a Linux Kernel elective one semester. I really wanted to take it but it was scheduled during one of my TA shifts

New comment by hakkoru in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

hakkoru — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:52:11 +0000

Heh, in 2014 I remember taking a taxi that only accepted card using an imprinter, which was unfortunate because I had just gotten a new card and the numbers weren't embossed. He had to drive me to a gas station to get cash from an ATM.

New comment by hakkoru in "No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others"

hakkoru — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:06:47 +0000

I've never experienced it but I've been told that if an emergency responder needs to enter an area where classified information is stored you let them in, escort them, and security will debrief them and have them sign an NDA after the fact if they saw any classified information.

New comment by hakkoru in "Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game"

hakkoru — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:54:25 +0000

This video (on top of stuff like YouTube Poops) did an insane amount of damage to my sense of humor growing up.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: Where are the Mac ergonomic keyboards?"

hakkoru — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:52:25 +0000

I've not used their ergonomic keyboards, but Keychron seems to make them and includes Mac keycaps + compatibility.

New comment by hakkoru in "Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet"

hakkoru — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:18:50 +0000

>The downside is that I can't shut it down remotely without knowing when exactly to also turn off the plug. I could create some automation, but it takes about 2 seconds being off before turning on again.

Huh, I would have expected the BIOS to not do that if it detected a graceful shutdown (or at least have a longer grace period).

New comment by hakkoru in "Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet"

hakkoru — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:44:33 +0000

I just recently converted my gaming PC to a game streaming system. I considered getting a PiKVM for power/resolving issues remotely but I ended up going with Wake-on-LAN. Though setting it up was a hassle.

If you just need power control and your motherboard supports it, I've seen that some people use smart plugs and enable a setting in their BIOS that turns on the computer whenever it detects power.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: Custom domain name for personal email?"

hakkoru — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:36:06 +0000

I was able to get ".com" so I'm using that. Though obviously it might be taken if you have a common full name.

>Bonus points if I can share the domain with family members for their use too.

Maybe "thefamily.com"? Or something similar.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: How do you organize work and personal computers at your home office?"

hakkoru — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:28:03 +0000

I put a second desk in my office. One for my work laptop, the other for my personal desktop. I roll my chair between the two if I need a quick non-work browsing break.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: How do you like to be shown appreciation at work?"

hakkoru — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:12:51 +0000

At my job we can either get paid hours worked overtime or "bank" those hours to use as PTO later in the year. Unused banked time at the end of the year gets paid out. I've (thankfully) never had to work overtime but it's a pretty awesome perk that more companies should do.

New comment by hakkoru in "Contiki – OS for networked, memory-constrained systems"

hakkoru — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:37:21 +0000

In my networking class in college, our final project was to create a location sensing mesh network of devices running Contiki. The devices would receive a ping from a beaconing device and we had to locate it. We only had to worry about two axes, but the walls still made things difficult. It was a pretty fun project! It made me really interested in networking stuff.

I wish I still had the course material and code but unfortunately I lost the laptop it was on.

New comment by hakkoru in "Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?"

hakkoru — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:29:51 +0000

No, a company or organization must sponsor your clearance. You cannot start the process on your own.

New comment by hakkoru in "Micron picks Syracuse for computer chip plant that would bring up to 9k jobs"

hakkoru — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:30:37 +0000

My favorite is near where I grew up - Versailles, Kentucky. Pronounced ver-SAILS.