Hacker News: harha_

New comment by harha_ in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

harha_ — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:37:02 +0000

I can't believe this is what hackernews has become. This kind of stuff is at the top.

New comment by harha_ in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

harha_ — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:53:43 +0000

I recall having to maintain an integration to some obscure SOAP API that ate and spit out XML with strict schemas and while I can't remember much about it, I think the integration broke quite easily if the other end changed their API somehow.

New comment by harha_ in "Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation"

harha_ — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:22:26 +0000

Blood tests can't measure concentrations in other tissues.

New comment by harha_ in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

harha_ — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:27:12 +0000

It's just an API that utilizes DNS, not that interesting imo.

New comment by harha_ in "Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge"

harha_ — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:44:53 +0000

I'd like to have high speed railways in my country, not some decades long political conversion project. If we need railways that can go across the borders of our neighboring countries, build new ones instead of upgrading existing ones.

New comment by harha_ in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

harha_ — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:28:20 +0000

You can run multiple linux distros on linux just fine via KVM/QEMU, there is nothing special WSL offers except that it is a must if you're doomed to use windows.

New comment by harha_ in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

harha_ — Sat, 10 May 2025 10:25:46 +0000

I think CMake is the perfect balance. You need to write few lines and think about few things before adding a dependency, but usually nothing too crazy. It might not work the first try but that's okay.

New comment by harha_ in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

harha_ — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:00:35 +0000

Sure, there are various dependencies, but it's nothing like "cargo install crate-name". Cargo makes it so effortless to joink the dumbest dependency for the simplest thing.

New comment by harha_ in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

harha_ — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:55:16 +0000

Regardless of language, really? I highly doubt that, you don't generally see such problems with C or even C++ because dependencies are more cumbersome to add, especially in a way that's cross-platform.

New comment by harha_ in "docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable"

harha_ — Wed, 07 May 2025 05:04:24 +0000

Yeah, it feels like nothing but a little trick. Why would anyone want to actually use this? The exe simply calls docker, it can embed an image into the exe but even then it first calls docker to load the embedded image.

New comment by harha_ in "I'd rather read the prompt"

harha_ — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:15:08 +0000

I'm so tired of generative AI. I can't take anyone who uses them seriously anymore.

New comment by harha_ in "Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux"

harha_ — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:45:17 +0000

Cool, I love that there are ways to utilize RAM and VRAM as filesystems. Sometimes you just don't need all that pure RAM/VRAM.

New comment by harha_ in "Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch"

harha_ — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:22:18 +0000

The beginning of the article answers to your question.

New comment by harha_ in "I fear for the unauthenticated web"

harha_ — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:40:20 +0000

Screw cloudflare, I rather host my own proxies.

New comment by harha_ in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

harha_ — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:55:29 +0000

I can't really understand the desire to be completely anonymous. Isn't GDPR protection or some paid privacy protection enough?

New comment by harha_ in "The DuckDB Local UI"

harha_ — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:02:29 +0000

Yet another web application.

New comment by harha_ in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

harha_ — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:50:07 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but do you mean VOR instead of VAR? Or what does VAR stand for in your example?

New comment by harha_ in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

harha_ — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:26:34 +0000

Russia is like a kid playing with matches. I'm a noob when it comes to aviation, but AFAIK RNAV GPS approaches are quite common? Disrupting that is dangerous.

New comment by harha_ in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

harha_ — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:11:37 +0000

People who downvote me clearly lack any sense of humour.

New comment by harha_ in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

harha_ — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:48:49 +0000

These typescript fanatics never fail to make me feel disgusted by what they've done...