Hacker News: harvie

New comment by harvie in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

harvie — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:45:47 +0000

We've got GPU accelerated PostgreSQL sooner than GTA VI...

New comment by harvie in "Airport Simulator"

harvie — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:21:32 +0000

Imagine modified version of this game having local AI voice recognition and you would have to give instructions to the air traffic over "radio" using callsigns and everything. Just like the real tower.

New comment by harvie in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

harvie — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:40:53 +0000

GIMP.

How do you feel about it? i know people were sometimes quite critical, it has different workflow than PS, but it seems it gets the job done.

New comment by harvie in "CarPlay Is Additive"

harvie — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:47:25 +0000

All i want is car without infotainment of any kind. And a nice place to mount phone or tablet.

New comment by harvie in "Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator"

harvie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:06:13 +0000

"Based on Qemu 5, we built Unicorn2 from scratch"

What?

New comment by harvie in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

harvie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:48:46 +0000

Thanks for mentioning that, maybe that's where i can start: https://archlinux.org/donate/

New comment by harvie in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

harvie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:43:58 +0000

how comes gitlab shows custom messages to my plain old git client then?

for example when you rename gitlab repository, or push to new branch, gitlab injects custom text that you can see. Eg. with new URL or where you can create merge request on web, etc...

New comment by harvie in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

harvie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:47:44 +0000

> How would that even work?

Are you seriously asking how would sharing short text notes over internet work?

If you need to be 100% git-centric, you can have git repo for messages. Client will then remember last commit displayed to user and refuse to continue unless latest message was displayed.

BTW some AUR clients displayed ArchLinux RSS feed before... Too sad the issue is not even mentioned in the RSS feed...

New comment by harvie in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

harvie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:46:43 +0000

7+ hours into this and still no mention on archlinux.org webpage nor on aur.archlinux.org. Why??? AUR should have been blocked until user takes action to prove he knows about this.

Eg. change AUR API URL slightly so yay/yaourt users need to look up what is going on. New API should have infrastructure for informing users and making sure they've read the message before proceeding. Especially when they're not even sure that all malware was found.

Also there should be database of revoked/compromised AUR commits and there should be mechanism to warn user if they had it installed.

New comment by harvie in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

harvie — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:37:08 +0000

Can you watch what happens on a market just before the press conference and do the same?

New comment by harvie in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

harvie — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:53:21 +0000

or reimplement excel with sqlite as a backend :-D

BTW sqlite can run SQL queries on CSV files with relatively simple one-liner command...

New comment by harvie in "Clay PCB Tutorial"

harvie — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:29:30 +0000

Can you just lay pieces of copper wire in the slots and fire it again to melt them into the clay surface?

New comment by harvie in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

harvie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:32:00 +0000

i don't think phones are THAT watertight... they're not tested for long term submersion. usualy they don't even guarantee waterproof rating for more than first two years or when there are signs of wear. should work with some non-conductive oil or fluorintert tho...

New comment by harvie in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

harvie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:28:41 +0000

Why not old android phones? :-D

New comment by harvie in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

harvie — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:38:15 +0000

Can't wait to see GPL2 ZFS :-)

New comment by harvie in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

harvie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:17:25 +0000

No title text, No respect...

New comment by harvie in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

harvie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:05:39 +0000

i think it's called EERAM, however having proper closed loop control with hand position feedback would be preferable in my opinion...

New comment by harvie in "Termux"

harvie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:40:49 +0000

I beleive Android 16 now comes with termux-like Linux environment that can be enabled via developer settings menu.

New comment by harvie in "Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle"

harvie — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:25 +0000

What about using PI/2 ? Seems close enough :-D

New comment by harvie in "USB Gadget Mode in Raspberry Pi OS: SSH over USB"

harvie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:47:14 +0000

Gadget mode can do more things than just network. I beleive you can set up your raspberry pi zero to work as USB mass storage microsd card reader. That seems kinda lame, until you realize you can also run transparent encryption on the raspi and unlock your SD card using passphrase entered via USB serial (also possible in gadget mode).