<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hales</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hales</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:07:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hales" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Been having fun today trying to work this game out.<p>Questions:<p>1. How do I learn the magic/rune system?  I can inscribe them on weapons & armour.  Some are verbs and some are adjectives.  I am yet to see obvious effects (edit: except for 'arc'), so I wonder if they always do things or often do nothing unless specific combinations are used (like subject-verb-object requirements of a sentence or certain weapon/armour+spell combo validity)?<p>2. What does "magic" mean when I try to inscribe more than one rune on a thing?  Does this mean one rune is free but multiple require magic and are detrimental if you have none?<p>3. How do I interpret the weapon stats?  Eg "Current: 3-5 -> 2-4"<p>Notes:<p>1. The game is much easier if I set my gamma up (xgamma -gamma 1.5).  Most of the levels are very dark (10% of RGB values dark) so I easily miss items and routes to check otherwise.<p>2. There are a lot more keybinds than shown onscreen.  'x' to autoexplore, 'r' for a runes page I'm trying to work out.  Shift+Z to autorest/heal. '>' will fasttravel you to the stairs down if you have already found them.  Shift+direction will autowalk.<p>3. Don't press 'q'.  There is no confirmatin prompt.  There are no saves.  Aieee :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 04:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131231</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing.<p>Youtube does actually provide a <link> to these feeds, but _only_ if you press refresh in your browser after navigating to a channel's videos page. Their single-page-app breaks feeds and hitting refresh works around this by loading the correct page from scratch.<p>(To address the second point in this text: yes having an actual visible feed link or icon on the page itself should also be normalised)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:33:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035478</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I really want is an emoji explainer feature to help me read other people's emoji.  I currently copy+paste a lot of them into a search engine to find out what they're supposed to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962040</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Honeybee: Calling via XMPP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All of the linked XMPP-phonenetwork bridging services appear to be United States + Canada only, so I have no hope of trying or testing this software.<p>The best I have in my country (Australia) are SIP providers.  They generally only offer landline numbers; I think some might offer mobile numbers but I have not tried those services (they cost more and I suspect texting won't work anyway).<p>Nonetheless some simple self-hosted SIP-XMPP bridge software would be amazing.  We'd also need XMPP clients that understand this, however, otherwise using existing tel://xxx address books would be fiddly (you would have to manually retype them to be an XMPP address).<p>N.B. SIP clients on phones seem to be a bit slow and unreliable.  I use one daily nonetheless, along with Snikket (conversations), which also has its fair share of issues on different people's phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:42:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834533</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, thanks for the link, I had no idea:<p>> AMD has ported early AGESA features to the PSP, which now discovers, enables and trains DRAM. Unlike any other x86 device in coreboot, a Picasso system has DRAM online prior to the first instruction fetch.<p>Perhaps they saw badly trained RAM as a security flaw?  Or maybe doing it with the coprocessor helped them distribute the training code more easily (I heard a rumour once that RAM training algos are heavily patented?  Might have imagined it).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:08:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41817989</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41817989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41817989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This will not work if ISPs redirect DNS queries.  Only the methods CAP_NET_ADMIN mentioned will work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471612</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Raspberry Pi is now a public company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Chinese clones are the epitome of your “enshittification.”  They drive prices up for the real product and invade the market with garbage.<p>The opposite, having no clones makes it easier for a group (like RaspberryPi) to enshittify.<p>Enshittification is where a group first obtains a large market share with cheap/free services and then pivots to squeeze as much out as possible.  Having a competent clone is a strong preventative.<p>> This has most recently happened in the 3D printing world, with Prusa versus BambuLab. Who actually develops an open source slicer? Who allows 3rd-party firmware? Who contributes to the community? Who abides by open source licenses? Hint: It is not the Chinese company.<p>Bambu pisses me off too.<p>Unfortunately your parent is talking about patents, not open source vs closed source, or license violations.<p>> No, it would be terrible, as technology development is not free.<p>What about compatibility?  Wouldn't it be good for competitors to be able to provide compatible PIO interfaces, so customers can churn from one SBC to another SBC without needing to rewrite their code?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:53:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657559</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a recorded demo?  Reading about speech-to-text is different from hearing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 23:06:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506531</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also miss using both Seamonkey and themes :(  I wasn't a fan of LCARs, but Earlyblue was great.<p>> The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention.<p>I found it useful.  Firefox's inbuilt HTML editor features are worse, they don't have floating table editing.  Nowadays I use Thunderbird to write HTML whenever I don't want to do it by hand, almost the same thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083300</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><strike>How did you work out how to do this?</strike><p>EDIT: Doesn't seem to work, the pages ignores what I put there and doesn't change behaviour.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343661</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same problem occurs: "Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal."<p>EDIT: Same thing occurs in both Firefox and Chromium</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:16:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343654</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Completely useless for me:<p>> Wikipedia cannot determine your location. Please try again with a better signal.<p>I'm on a desktop.  Plugged into wired internet.   My "signal" is fine.<p>No way of manually specifying a location is provided.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 05:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298758</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends on the fuse time rating and the inrush current for the power supply (which can sometimes be more than 10A).  Some 1A fuses might occasionally blow when you turn the unit on.</p>
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<p>Yeah I don't trust the firmware they come with.  It's some customised variant of OpenWRT, but I replace it with vanilla immediately.  At least this is very easy (simply upload the new firmware in the web interface, no serial port or TFTP shenanigans necessary).<p>FWIW I don't trust the OEM firmware of any router.  They're all a mix of crap, some intentional, some not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:52:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922084</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "UniFi U7 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I gave up on their controller software and rolled out OpenWRT to the Unifi AP AC lites at my previous job.  I didn't try managing them centrally (there were only 5 of them) so I don't know if there are any good options for that.<p>The difference was night and day.  The guest networks actually worked.  They had uptimes of over a year without issue.<p>Sadly only _some_ Unifi AP models are supported by OpenWRT.  Check before you buy.  I use GL.inet stuff where possible now.</p>
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<p>> my router can only do one at a time, and there's no way I'm switching as needed<p>That's abysmal!  Every 5GHz Wifi AP I've ever come across lets you run both PHYs at the same time.<p>Please, on my behalf, sternly talk down to your router.<p>Even ignoring the massive issue of device compatibility: 5GHz and its protocols do not have anywhere the range and penetrating power of 2.4GHz.  When I walk outside my house I can keep watching videos, but my laptop does this by transitioning to the 2GHz radio link modes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:11:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430914</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Sopwith – a classic bi-plane shoot 'em up from 1984 in the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  it presents a kind of dystopian industrial void where life only exists for one purpose - to create airplanes to blow up each others buildings.<p>Fortress: the last day of war<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRapsbwhqE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRapsbwhqE</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:04:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418004</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "How to attach logic probes to tiny SMD components (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  In addition, extending the thermal pad far enough that you can easily hit it with a soldering iron often makes heat gun rework tremendously easier.<p>How do you do this?  The centre pad is surrounded by the smaller pins.  Are you snaking it out the diagonal corners?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38246653</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38246653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38246653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP email client"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last I checked Trojita was beautiful but cursed with the limitation of only supporting one email account.  It looks like it's still that way.<p>The whole point of me using an email client instead of a webmail interface is so that I can manage multiple email accounts.  I'm not sure what other advantages there could possible be, unless the web interface is particularly bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37964438</link><dc:creator>hales</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37964438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37964438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hales in "FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am I the only person here that has found FreeRDP to be really good?  I used to use it a lot in my previous job.  I never had a compat issue, the distro-packaged version worked fine, performance was perfect, it even had less bugs than the Windows RDP client (like weird tray balloon z-order stuff).<p>Perhaps you are all using some frontend to it and that adds issues?  Not sure.  I ran it on the commandline.<p>My only serious complaint is lack of printer passthrough.  That's it.</p>
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