Hacker News: heybales

New comment by heybales in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

heybales — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:44:15 +0000

IMHO an underrated comment. The CCP isn't going to break down my door in the middle of the night, but I'm sure I'm on lists at the FBI and ATF just for my political org memberships alone. I think a foreign actor is more likely to use compromised hardware to create service interruptions and general chaos in the event they are attacked by our government, not come put me in a gulag.

The only thing I'm missing right now that would be a nice to have is a wifi card so I can ditch my access point. My hardware isn't open source by any means, but my reliance on non-free networking code is minimal.

New comment by heybales in "A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release"

heybales — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:24:07 +0000

The Oracle business model is to rope you into a contract, set you up for failure, ignore you until you violate a license agreement, then sue you and rope you into another contract to avoid the lawsuit. If you're an Oracle customer, prepare to get sued... for something... anything really.

New comment by heybales in "Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI"

heybales — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:29:54 +0000

Honestly, this is the best thing that's come along on HN in a while. I was feeling kinda down, but this made my day. And it instantly recognized my m-audio keystation, a feat that Logic could not perform.

New comment by heybales in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

heybales — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:48:57 +0000

For terminal text editing I've switched everything over to helix, highly recommended. Basically no config other than I'll change the theme.

Unfortunately I'm still trying to figure out my AI workflow. Right now it's a mix of Cursor, Claude Code, and JetBrains Rider. I mainly use Cursor for the heavy AI lifting and then switch to Rider and Claude Code for tweaking and debugging. If Cursor didn't completely suck at .NET debug, I might just be able to use it alone.

New comment by heybales in "FSF announces Librephone project"

heybales — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:42:16 +0000

Congratulations, you just invented the open web circa 2006.

New comment by heybales in "Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike"

heybales — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:09:26 +0000

I grind up my 3d printing waste and sprinkle it out my window as I drive down the road, so I got you covered.

New comment by heybales in "Atlassian terminates 150 staff"

heybales — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:45:52 +0000

This is good news for customers though. I'm sure those savings will be passed on, right? Right?

New comment by heybales in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

heybales — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:30:13 +0000

This is so true. And in my experience Oracle's main business seems to be getting companies to sign complicated contracts, waiting a year or two, and then suing them for some infraction so that they can extort another contract from them. I haven't met an Oracle product yet that can't be done better by either free software or a less litigious company.

New comment by heybales in "Improving performance of rav1d video decoder"

heybales — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:03:19 +0000

New comment by heybales in "Improving performance of rav1d video decoder"

heybales — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:34:46 +0000

The thing I like most about this is that the discussion isn't just 14 pages of "I'm having this issue as well" and "Any updates on when this will be fixed?" As a web dev, GitHub issues kinda suck.