Hacker News: hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hard_timesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:20:02 +0000<![CDATA[EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the Snapdragon X2 Elite]]>Article URL: https://github.com/Snapintosh/Snapintosh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207001

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:53:15 +0000https://github.com/Snapintosh/Snapintoshhard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207001<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"]]>> kind of like age old there used to be hackintosh for macs

Have you checked out the hackintosh community lately? They have a near fully functional port to Snapdragon now.

https://github.com/Snapintosh/Snapintosh

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:50:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206984hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206984https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206984<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"]]>adb runs in userspace Android. It's not a serial protocol/stack. Maybe fastboot.

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:48:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206965hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206965https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206965<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"]]>There's several PoCs showcasing Apple Maps loading just fine on X

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:46:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206947hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206947https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206947<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Docker is weird"]]>It's just an "almost" zero-cost abstraction layer for running complex service stacks and workloads on Linux. And damn, it's just so convenient and neat.

]]>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206918hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206918<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices"]]>https://chefkiss.dev/applehax/inferno/

]]>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:28:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198442hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198442<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"]]>I don't see how that is relevant here. And no, not "any idiot" can run a business.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:37:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802064hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802064<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"]]>I suppose it's not enough to break everything down into smaller pieces, your architecture also needs to be composable. That would address the issue of duplication. Think a plugin system.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:35:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802033hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802033https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802033<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"]]>Can't everything be broken down into smaller pieces? And isn't that actually a good principle in general?

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:33:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801034hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801034https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801034<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"]]>How come we cannot keep/define "specs" of how to manufacture such "mundane" objects such as a grill brush, everything from what raw materials are required, how should the assembly line(s) look like, which industrial robots or their human professional alternatives are required, etc. etc.

It just seems to me that fundamentally this is a knowledge organization problem.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:30:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800994hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800994<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip"]]>Excuse my ignorance, but why didn't you benchmark on a RAM disk for more accurate results?

]]>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:48:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775323hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775323https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775323<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js"]]>Yawn

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:41:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670684hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670684<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Libertix installs Linux with 3 mouse clicks for Windows users"]]>Also relevant: https://github.com/bin456789/reinstall

My go-to script to "re-image" a VPS with whatever image of Windows or Linux distribution. It supports:

* Windows to Linux * Linux to Windows * Linux to Linux * Windows to Windows

Also arbitrary .ISOs and disk images.

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:22:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510153hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510153<![CDATA[Treating Dockerfiles as shell scripts (2020)]]>Article URL: https://jakewharton.com/treating-dockerfiles-as-shell-scripts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401283

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:27:28 +0000https://jakewharton.com/treating-dockerfiles-as-shell-scripts/hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401283<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port"]]>Wow, TIL.

]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:09:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236642hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236642<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Software for One"]]>> You can redeploy with minimal effort every week

No thank you

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:29:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132353hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132353https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132353<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Software for One"]]>To me it just sounds like we need an even higher level language for these sort of 'software for one' apps. There is still tons of boilerplate. Declarative is king.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:25:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132335hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132335https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132335<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps"]]>Please stop calling it an 'OS'. It's just Android with a few custom components.

]]>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:15:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967972hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967972<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "What will be left for us to work on?"]]>If you automate the creation of software, you essentially can automate almost any white-collar job.

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:01:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903545hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903545<![CDATA[New comment by hard_times in "Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload"]]>Why mess with scrolling?

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:40:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571205hard_timeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571205