Hacker News: hoherd

New comment by hoherd in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

hoherd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:25 +0000

That is not a "userspace package manager" though. That still requires root.

New comment by hoherd in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

hoherd — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:43:43 +0000

Allow list is the best approach. Soon TVs will randomize their MAC just like our phones do.

New comment by hoherd in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

hoherd — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:03:17 +0000

Have you tried syncthing? A few years ago I replaced Dropbox with that on all my computers and it's been great. It works a lot like old school Dropbox, except without the cloud-hosted storage parts. It does p2p sync of directories between computers.

New comment by hoherd in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

hoherd — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:28:33 +0000

I'm sure lots of cyclists have anecdata about that hatred. My personal favorite was somebody in a Santa Clara neighborhood a block from the DMV shouting at me to "get off the f***ing road!" Clearly they didn't read the part of the DMV manual that mentions that bicycles must "not ride on the sidewalk"[1], and missed that cyclists are allowed full use of the lane.

I now live in rural suburban Michigan, and even on these rural backroads I have jerks in trucks yelling at me on my e-bike going 20+ mph to "get out of the f***ing way".

Maybe those people do not represent the majority, but it feels like they do, and those actions feel threatening when coming from a multi-ton vehicle directed at a 75 pound vehicle. (Fat-bike ebikes are heavy.) It's also odd to experience this on a rural road on a lake shoreline because isn't the countryside supposed to be slow paced?

1. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-han...

New comment by hoherd in "Flipper One – we need your help"

hoherd — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:56:05 +0000

What would Jon Lech Johansen do?

New comment by hoherd in "Flipper One – we need your help"

hoherd — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:43:35 +0000

Imagine you check into a hotel, and want to use the in-room TV as your display. There is probably a set top box there with an HDMI port going to the TV. You would be able to unplug that and plug it into your Flipper One because it has a full-sized HDMI port.

Go to any store, and look at what cable they use to connect their POS computer to the display. It's probably HDMI.

For better or worse, HDMI is extremely ubiquitous.

New comment by hoherd in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

hoherd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:21:43 +0000

Just today Claude admitted to me that it may have hallucinated a detail in a response when I asked about it. Do you want that possibility in your medical record?

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.