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New comment by hoherd in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

hoherd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:21:20 +0000

I worked at Gateway during this era and always saw that in the light of me quitting when XP came out and drove me crazy. FCKGW indeed.

New comment by hoherd in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."

hoherd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:43:55 +0000

My company recently gave us a day off for wellbeing. My initial plan was to spend the day in the forest, but it was cold and rainy. So instead, I did as you described. I took an old warn paperback that I had long ago picked up at a Little Free Library and have been struggling to finish, went to a family owned diner, got some comfort food, and sat for an hour and read my book (and did not use my phone). It was wonderful.

New comment by hoherd in "The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep"

hoherd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:50:14 +0000

alias rg="rg -iuu"

New comment by hoherd in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

hoherd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:40:02 +0000

Pair that with Poe's album Haunted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_%28Poe_album%29

> Haunted is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Poe, released in 2000 after a five-year hiatus from her debut album Hello in 1995. The self-produced album was created as a tribute to her father, and counterpart to her brother Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves.

That book is definitely something you have to see in print.

New comment by hoherd in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

hoherd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:45:18 +0000

Speaking of relevant games, there's also a Roblox game that my son has been into called Backrooms With Guns, and now I understand it a lot more.

https://en.namu.wiki/w/The%20Backrooms%20With%20Guns

I see others have mentioned Superliminal too, which was great.

New comment by hoherd in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

hoherd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:37:17 +0000

I think maybe we're not living in the same world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487584 "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037365 "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861 "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

GH notification search doesn't search the title or description of the notifications. https://docs.github.com/en/subscriptions-and-notifications/r...

GH cannot search code that exists in non-default branches. Have fun responding to the next supply chain compromise in any org that has repos with multiple supported branches.

New comment by hoherd in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

hoherd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:52:54 +0000

You're right. Those are completely separate millions of dollars to be made. Best not let them overlap at all, even if some of us intuitively touch our laptop screens to scroll a window now and then, especially when carrying it around.

New comment by hoherd in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

hoherd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:47:57 +0000

Nothing has made me want to read classic literature more than AI. For the first time in probably over a decade I even went to my local used bookstore with a list of books to buy, but sadly none of them were in stock. I have had a bit of luck at little free libraries though.

New comment by hoherd in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

hoherd — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:47:59 +0000

While drinking Brawndo.

New comment by hoherd in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

hoherd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:57:40 +0000

Let's not kid ourselves, the lethality isn't even that precise.

New comment by hoherd in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

hoherd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:55:35 +0000

Certificate expiration notifications are a checkbox in uptime-kuma, which is itself incredibly easy to install and configure. We're not talking a week, we're talking a matter of minutes to go from zero to receiving notifications 21 days in advance of certificate or domain expiration.

New comment by hoherd in "Your phone is an entire computer"

hoherd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:52:05 +0000

> On the MacBook Neo, I can even opt to not use MacOS at all and instead install Asahi Linux if I so choose

Wait, does Asahi even run in this thing, or is that unfounded speculation?

New comment by hoherd in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

hoherd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:59:25 +0000

Minecraft terrain generation produces invalid states, such as empty spaces within water, where once you interact with it the boundary collapses into a valid state. I don't think Mojang planned to have those invalid states.

New comment by hoherd in "Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK"

hoherd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:48:48 +0000

In a similar vein, imagine the step parents aren't married, they're just platonic friends. They would probably be overjoyed if their children connected romantically.

Also, I can just see the industry changing from "stepbrother" to "my mom's boyfriend's son." Suddenly if the parents aren't married then it's not illegal. What about if the parents are divorced? Does ex-step-sibling count? The whole thing seems absurd. These are works of fiction that have not "graduated", as Preet Bharara would say.

New comment by hoherd in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

hoherd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:07:26 +0000

I was also going to point out how awesome the Steam Deck multi-user experience is:

    1. Turn on Steam Deck
    2. Open Steam on your phone
    3. Scan QR code
    4. Choose whether or not to stay signed in on the Steam Deck

It is such a great UX that makes using the hardware very easy for any random Steam user who picks it up.

I'm sure the security angle would be something a lot of people would bring up, but if iPad had this feature, they could make great use of Apple's Data Protection Classes[1] to ensure that all per-user data is encrypted when that specific user is not logged in and actively using the device.

1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-cla...

New comment by hoherd in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

hoherd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:34:05 +0000

If you compare them side by side, you actually can see how slow some of them are. The way I compare is to open them all up tiled on my display joined to the same tmux session, then try doing heavy redraw operations, like maybe cmatrix. You can clearly see how some of them are quick at redrawing, and some are not.

Some people do not care about the difference, but it is definitely there.

New comment by hoherd in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

hoherd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:28:58 +0000

In my experience, AI is really good at creating bloatware, which makes it doubly frustrating that it is eating up all the RAM.

New comment by hoherd in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

hoherd — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:12:59 +0000

Well, the app description does say "modern". No modern app should be using rsa keys. ssh-rsa was deprecated in OpenSSH in 2020 https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-8.2

New comment by hoherd in "Why vampires live forever"

hoherd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:54:42 +0000

The only question I have is "how far are you willing to go, Machiel?"

New comment by hoherd in "How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?"

hoherd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:51:50 +0000

AI training data is valuable. They're not going to just throw it away.