Hacker News: hazebooth

New comment by hazebooth in "Creating the Aetheryte Radio"

hazebooth — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:59:10 +0000

Thanks! I've fixed the radio. MariaDB for Azuracast doesn't tear down gracefully and some log file is always left around that prevents a restart from happening. I'll figure it out eventually.

New comment by hazebooth in "Creating the Aetheryte Radio"

hazebooth — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:54:29 +0000

My dad always wanted me to create a VST but I'm not close enough to production to find it interesting, especially when there are already so many out there that are so versatile. This isn't my introduction, I've done a lot of exploratory work with hardware accelerated FFTs in the past for BPM algorithms and visualizers. I've also worked extensively with codecs and file formats. I wasn't happy with the performance of taglib and wrote my own to parse my ~600GB music library.

New comment by hazebooth in "Creating the Aetheryte Radio"

hazebooth — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:29:02 +0000

> I went to the site and listened to the track. Sounds nice!

Thanks! I played a lot of FFXIV and idled a bit in between dungeons and often sat at the Aetherytes (teleport / fast travel locations). The ambiance was nice enough that I didn't feel the need to mute the game when tabbed out.

> What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?

Most of the audio I keep playing (either music or ambiance) is usually unobtrusive. I appreciate less demanding audio because I can focus cognition towards the task at hand, usually work or games. This means I gravitate towards genres without vocals, like EDM, jungle, IDM, etc. I actually used to use a tool to loop music without gaps because the clip would annoy me[1].

For the aetheryte ambiance in particular, it was just low and novel enough to be relaxing, without constantly drawing my attention to it.

> I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.

You could also try recreating my project on a new platform! I've actually recreated this tool as an iOS app because background play on iOS is toxic and changed between iOS versions. [2]

Even if you don't have an earworm it's fun to explore new APIs. I really liked CoreAudio and Web Audio.

[1]: https://github.com/NolanNicholson/Looper [2]: https://github.com/haze/Aetheryte.app

New comment by hazebooth in "Creating the Aetheryte Radio"

hazebooth — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:15:58 +0000

Hi! I'm the author of this. Please let me know if you have any additional questions!

Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test

hazebooth — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:49:40 +0000

Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467700

Points: 26

# Comments: 3

New comment by hazebooth in "Show HN: KayZeer – Vimium-style keyboard navigation for macOS"

hazebooth — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:07:04 +0000

How does this compare to Shortcat? https://shortcat.app/

New comment by hazebooth in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

hazebooth — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:31:00 +0000

you can assign a shortcut to do just that?

New comment by hazebooth in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

hazebooth — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:07:08 +0000

seems like they have pretty clear goals in mind. if they were changing distributions haphazardly id otherwise agree, but to me it reads that they're refining their taste.

New comment by hazebooth in "Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good"

hazebooth — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:55:18 +0000

what is preventing you from using eglot on android?

Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

hazebooth — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505713

Points: 75

# Comments: 2

Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID

hazebooth — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:19:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nullpt.rs/reversing-botid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422356

Points: 109

# Comments: 18

Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

hazebooth — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nullpt.rs/breaking-the-4chan-captcha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276865

Points: 580

# Comments: 349

New comment by hazebooth in "Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin"

hazebooth — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:29:19 +0000

Without reading the article: I've used Nix on macOS without nix-darwin or home-manager for some time now. I define my packages in a flake.nix that exports an environment and I use install using `nix profile`.

New comment by hazebooth in "Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game"

hazebooth — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:56:04 +0000

Congratulations on the launch!

Ghostty Devlog 006 – Speed focus

hazebooth — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39347795

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by hazebooth in "I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals"

hazebooth — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:19:28 +0000

this 10,000,000,000%!! (dr stone ref.) I love modal editing and vim a ton, but I couldn't stand the half baked solutions terminal editors gave me. We have an entire rich graphical platform, why not use it?

New comment by hazebooth in "I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously"

hazebooth — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:37:38 +0000

i love the picture of your cat on the home page :)

Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques

hazebooth — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nullpt.rs/hacking-gta-servers-using-web-exploitation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311975

Points: 137

# Comments: 35

New comment by hazebooth in "TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers"

hazebooth — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:20:02 +0000

I could be wrong, but can't Common Lisp do this?

Compiling a Custom Browser to Bypass Anti-Bot Measures

hazebooth — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:42:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nullpt.rs/compiling-browser-to-bypass-antibot-measures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37092288

Points: 13

# Comments: 0