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New comment by harel in "Tesla Roadster"

harel — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:39:19 +0000

It should have been a Delorean.... Still cool though

Noctalia Wayland Desktop Shell

harel — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://noctalia.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108934

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New comment by harel in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

harel — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:33:44 +0000

That's my experience as well

New comment by harel in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

harel — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:20:23 +0000

They were sending pages to the people on the kickstarter list, effectively crowd sourcing recipe testing. That was quite clever I thought. And their socials keep showing videos of the actual recipies etc. This is a legit book. It's just a shame that it carries that price tag. I could do with a less "beautiful" version if it was reasonably priced. Maybe a future edition.

New comment by harel in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

harel — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:17:20 +0000

Coincidentally this book which has been a labour of love of his creator is going into print this week: https://www.tableofgods.com

It's quite expensive though, but it does look amazing.

New comment by harel in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

harel — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:41:35 +0000

Ha! It took me a few more ms than it should have. Yes it seems they have digitised at least in part: https://www.2600.com/

New comment by harel in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

harel — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:10:46 +0000

This reminds me that I have a stack of 2600 magazines in the garage somewhere. I need to revisit them...

New comment by harel in "Fastpotify"

harel — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:48:11 +0000

This looks great, I'll give it a try. It seems like most of the comments focus on how this was created, whether it's vibe coded, agent engineered, LLM assisted or however you want to term this. On one hand, I am sad at the collapse of my craft. I love building things in code, figuring it out from the system design to the last compile. On the other hand, I love how productive I am now. How I can complete tasks faster. As someone mentioned, there is a very larger distance between "I vibed coded it and I don't know how it worked" to "I built it and I used LLMs to assist the process". It is possible to design a system, and instruct LLMs to write code for you. Task them the actual act of code writing, not feature development. It's not "build me a music player" but "I'm building a music player that works like so, and you will now write me the play button component that will behave like so and so, focusing on this or that, paying attention to x, y and z and avoiding a, b and c".

Although the scope is different but I imagine a similar debate when one didn't need to write machine code anymore...

New comment by harel in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

harel — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:38:06 +0000

We have a Ring door bell (well, 2 of them plus 2 cameras) and also 2 chimes. Those chimes do one thing: they ring inside the house, one on each floor, when the door bells ring. Seems expensive and over complicated and it is. But it works quite well and has been very useful on many occasions.

New comment by harel in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

harel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:24:18 +0000

I found out that people DO visualise about 10 years ago when that interview with Pixar's animation head came out. I had a bit of a shock at first, then disappointment, then a deeper understanding of why I am like I am. A few metaphorical minutes later I got on with life. I'm not sure how to take this "club" for the "mentally blind". On one hand, I applaud humanity's ability to monentise pretty much everything, and on the other hand, I'm not sure I want to talk about how I can't see in my mind with other people who can't see in their mind. It's a neat conversation piece when in a group of people or friends, but a club?... Jury's out... I did sign up though.... Took the "test"...

New comment by harel in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

harel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:17:26 +0000

Yes... Semantics and old age don't mix

New comment by harel in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

harel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:12:42 +0000

Is that fiber to the property or fiber to the cabinet? In the UK I get FTTC which means the last bit from the cabinet down the road to my house is copper wires. My speed is bottlenecked by that. New builds and flats get services for the building giving them full fiber. My fiber is only as fast as my copper wire to the cabinet allows

New comment by harel in "Show HN: New Parts for Old Computers"

harel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:52:23 +0000

This is pretty awesome! I've got 2 Amigas and 2 Spectrums. They are kitted up and upgraded but this never really ends. This will be useful!

New comment by harel in "Classic Amiga titles, free to download"

harel — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:53:37 +0000

which was it?

New comment by harel in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

harel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:36:38 +0000

Yeah and we all did that. Each and every one of us here that over the last 30+ years built part of that infrastructure, software, companies, culture etc. We all set out to build one thing and ended up building another in some weird switch-trick or something. Each of course in their own little micro cosmos within the macro, brick by brick, router by router.

New comment by harel in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

harel — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:32:51 +0000

I mostly agree, and I try not to argue on things that are either not that important or ok either way, or what I call "religious grounds" - things people will defend outside of logic or truth, only because it's to them tied to their identity/faith/being. The only time I would present an opposite case is if I know for a fact that the "other way" might not end well.

New comment by harel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

harel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:23:04 +0000

Yes we can support the people who fight it, and also at the same time admit that I, personally, cannot fight it. Some people are driven by the fight. I am not. And want or need, what is the difference? I'm there, I need or want X, I am also busy.

Also, as a company director, I'm required by law now to verify my identity plus my face.

New comment by harel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

harel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:35:09 +0000

Your pessimism is warranted. But there are places that are more welcoming still.

New comment by harel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

harel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:13:37 +0000

If I have no choice, and no alternative, what can I do? I will never use an OS that require it on the OS level, and nobody can mandate it, not to a Linux user as myself - there will always be "another distro". But as a company director I have a legal requirement to verify my identity with my face. That's one. Every CCTV camera I pass by London, I assume is likely to have some soft of potential face recognition. Every transfer type transaction I do with my bank app requires me to face-up. So fine, I will skip Facebook or Instagram, but where will I get my cat-video dopamine fix?

I don't see myself as admitting defeat here. I'm choosing my battles. The gov here will drive this through as we're stuck with them until 2029. I'm considering (with a heavy heart) to leave the UK and this is just one nail in a coffin full of nails.

New comment by harel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

harel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:06:35 +0000

If there is a substitute and I am not time constrained 100% i'm switching. But I've been in a situation already where a platform I'm using required me to face-up. I can't even remember which to be honest but I had no alternative or recourse to refuse. In addition, in the UK company directors are legaly required to face-up to Companies House and confirm their identity, so they have my face too. Ah, and so is every single CCTV camera around London. I don't know how to fight this particular battle.