Hacker News: henry_flower

Left Behind: A BeOS and Be Incorporated Post-Mortem (2024)

henry_flower — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://macfolkloreradio.com/be/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873168

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henry_flower in "I canceled my book deal"

henry_flower — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:58:48 +0000

That was super interesting!

I think you should self-publish. With your existing audience, you'd sell plenty of copies, and nobody would push "AI" into your work.

Obfuscating Image Links

henry_flower — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:36:30 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/12/07/qYkza8.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181954

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax

henry_flower — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:29:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/10/07/3t8acq.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798746

Points: 47

# Comments: 11

Comparing Compression (2024)

henry_flower — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:50:40 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2024/01/29/PYWKXg.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326049

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

SourceForge Sunsets Developer Web Hosting

henry_flower — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sunsetting-developer-web-user-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203821

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years

henry_flower — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:03:30 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/08/25/zw6z4E.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012931

Points: 190

# Comments: 137

Escape Sequences in File Names

henry_flower — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/03/30/B8povK.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524761

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by henry_flower in "Ask HN: How do you use local LLMs?"

henry_flower — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:12:31 +0000

not exactly daily, but I use llama3.2-vision (via ollama) to generate a .txt file alongside every photo I take, containing a description of the photo. then I can just grep for, say, "selfie":

    $ alias omglol='find -name \*txt | xargs -n50 grep -li'
    $ omglol selfie
    ./10/IMG_20241019_204444.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082108.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082118.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154559.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154554.txt

or to do a slide show:

    $ omglol selfie | sed s/txt/jpg/ | xargs feh

Microsoft is paywalling AI features in Notepad and Paint

henry_flower — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:02:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125549

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

henry_flower — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108091

Points: 425

# Comments: 148

Doug McIlroy on 'use case' and 'concatenate'

henry_flower — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:43:17 +0000

Article URL: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-09/msg00040.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442841

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Exploring pre-1990 versions of wc(1) (2023)

henry_flower — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:16:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2023/07/10/yqh6fX.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41574700

Points: 58

# Comments: 25

The Cheapest NAS

henry_flower — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:45:01 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2024/07/01/the-cheapest-nas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40867709

Points: 342

# Comments: 297

New comment by henry_flower in "Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners"

henry_flower — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:29:30 +0000

it is

New comment by henry_flower in "The History of CP/M (1980)"

henry_flower — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:32:03 +0000

His autobiography in the epub format: https://gitlab.com/sigwait/computer_connections

New comment by henry_flower in "Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset"

henry_flower — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:00:17 +0000

heh, I recently "ported" a Linux app to Windows and wrote a simple installer using wix 5 (it was horrible)

to even obtain wix v5: first, using scoop, I installed "dotnet-sdk"; second, using the "dotnet" command, I got the wix.exe executable via

> dotnet tool install --prerelease --global wix

Shell Postcards

henry_flower — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:04:09 +0000

Article URL: https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2024/01/01/FHjc1s.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949637

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henry_flower in "Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "Python for Programmers" course"

henry_flower — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:40:51 +0000

> you have to start at the beginning for now

add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status

New comment by henry_flower in "Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 2023?"

henry_flower — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:51:16 +0000

You can always create an EPUB. If you enjoy tinkering with HTML, here is a short book on how to create a custom toolchain (disclaimer: I am the author):

https://sigwait.org/~alex/p/pg2e/