Hacker News: kokey

New comment by kokey in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

kokey — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:25:03 +0000

I am a bit surprised that I had to look hard for someone to mention Ghostty in the comments.

New comment by kokey in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

kokey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:06:59 +0000

Every time, over the years, that there has been some kind of headline saying renewables have overtaken fossil fuels, when you look at it a bit more closely there is always a big 'but'. For example, it was compared to coal (not taking into account electricity from gas), or it was for one day, or it was a percentage of new installations, or it excludes winter, includes nuclear etc.

This time, however, it looks like it's actually true and that's just for wind and solar. This is incredible, and done through slowly compounding gains that didn't cause massive economic hardships along the way.

New comment by kokey in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

kokey — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:46:17 +0000

The only medication I know about that some people on the spectrum take are antipsychotics and that's for specific situations, but maybe if you're in that situation life seems even more like a dystopian text based adventure game.

New comment by kokey in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

kokey — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:41:36 +0000

I love it, I have been meaning to put together a similar simulation to demonstrate the effects of interruptions and context switches on developers.

Something like the following:

- a game or puzzle which requires working memory, like matching pairs or some puzzles that need a lot of working memory and/or flipping between screens

- this gets interrupted by fullscreen interruptions of someone's face, and text asking questions, or announcing something, and you have to pick an answer or a reaction (multiple choice)

- it could start with questions like 'hi, are you busy?' or 'can I ask you a question?'

- answers which tries to end the conversation quickly could lead to even more demanding reactions or questions

- interruptions stating there is an emergency can lead to a lot of questions and answers which then leads you to discover than it is in fact not an emergency

- once one of these engagements finish you can return to the game and try to complete it

- you'll get multiple interruptions like this

- other interruptions can also flash up, like a notification that a meeting is due in x minutes

- it could then have a short simulated meeting, perhaps just a line by line scroll of dialogue between others, where you need to say nothing

- however, at some point someone will ask you directly about one of the items discussed, and you will be given a set of fairly ambiguous multiple choice answers which you will have to try out until you get to the 'correct' one

- at the end of the meeting you return to the working memory task/game

- this gets interrupted by someone then asking you about the action points in the meeting

- return to the game

- get notifications about the end of your work day coming up

- more interruptions, etc.

New comment by kokey in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

kokey — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:47:13 +0000

Fortunately it mentions early on in the article that this is related to an Olympus camera so I'm guessing this has something to do with the OM system's flavor of Olympus's proprietary ORF format.

New comment by kokey in "Linux connection tracking and (Slow) DNS"

kokey — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:09:57 +0000

The fun part is that in some cases just listing the iptables rules with an iptables -L will cause it to load the conntrack module and the default max for this is very low for anything that is a DNS server or perform a lot of DNS lookups. That's why it's a good idea to always set the sysctl nf_conntrack_max value quite high even if you aren't using conntrack. The actual sysctl key for nf_conntrack is different depending on the version of the kernel, it's net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max nowadays.

New comment by kokey in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

kokey — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:46:13 +0000

I think there's probably a case for some regulation to force at least a minimum set of open standards, because that would make it possible to e.g. switch between systems based on intermittent renewable generation etc.

New comment by kokey in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

kokey — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:41:23 +0000

When our Fujitsu aircon was installed the installer said it's worth a lot of money to be able to make it wifi controllable. When I looked into what the components cost to make it do that, I saw what he meant. Fortunately I was able to use an ESP32 on the same bus as the wired remote and some code from https://github.com/FujiHeatPump/esphome-fujitsu to create my own remote interface. As a bonus it also told me what temperature the unit thought my room was at, which was always around two degrees more than reality, which allowed me to set a target temperature that worked more reliably.

New comment by kokey in "Culdesac: Car-Free Community in Arizona"

kokey — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:20:49 +0000

The thumbnail of the video looked very much like a several decades old apartment building in Spain that I stayed in not that long ago. The whole development really just looks like some European neighbourhoods, which is a bit strange but also not a bad thing. I think infrastructure for cars is one of the good things about the USA, but I also think combining it with this style of dense development especially in urban areas in warmer states will complement it really well.

New comment by kokey in "It’s time to let the five stages of grief die (2019)"

kokey — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:08:07 +0000

The version I got never portrayed it as something that's sequential and never 'ends' at acceptance and also not specifically applicable to grieving and it's also not scientific. The way I understood it is that's it's more a repetition of 5 different emotions in random order and over time some of the emotions re-occur less than the others. I think it's useful to help you observe the ways your mind tries to come to terms with things that are emotionally difficult to process, whether it's a car accident, natural disaster, an illness or even losing a loved one.

That said, I certainly do imagine some psychotherapists out there taking the order literally and explaining it like that to their patients.

New comment by kokey in "Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination"

kokey — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:27:18 +0000

I would love to see some social networks silently implementing something that rewrites comments in a more diplomatic manner when displayed to everyone else.

New comment by kokey in "“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels"

kokey — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:17:52 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised about this when it comes to panic disorder. Just knowing you have some emergency fast acting anti anxiety medication nearby, just in case you need it, can reduce the number of panic attacks. There's probably all kinds of psychological feedback loops when people have anxiety about anxiety and then it escalates because they're anxious about it escalating. I am guessing that medication can help mitigate some components of that feedback loop for some people.

New comment by kokey in "Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story"

kokey — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 09:49:18 +0000

I did the same thing with an alice bot on IRC. It also joined channels and only responded to private messages. It was remarkable how long some people persisted in talking to it when they thought it was a potential mating partner.

New comment by kokey in "Gitlab Critical Security Release"

kokey — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:48:16 +0000

When I used to maintain a GitLab server I used to do exactly this by upgrading almost a month behind their schedule.

New comment by kokey in "Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration"

kokey — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:21:24 +0000

Serverless was always around and always had a place. It used to be a shell and sftp account on a shared Linux server where you could upload your html and cgi scripts or php files into your own Apache virtual host and get billed per hit on your web site or bandwidth usage. It now just has a lot of tooling around it with a big learning curve and vendor lock in, but at least you get your hits and bandwidth for cheaper than you used to.

New comment by kokey in "Apple announces Self Service Repair"

kokey — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:17:42 +0000

>By designing products for durability, longevity, and increased repairability They had to set Sarcasm Generator all the way to 11 to write this.

I have found iPhones to be the most repairable compared to the other smartphone brands I've repaired. Macbooks are a different story, but I see Macs and Macbooks as a different type of product compared to a PC which is modular by nature since the first IBM PC clone.

Some non-Apple parts for iPhones are terrible, so it's nice to have the option of genuine parts though it's not going to be useful if it's very expensive.

New comment by kokey in "E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi"

kokey — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 21:32:10 +0000

I'm delighted to see the e-ink displays prices coming down, even though it's coming down a bit slowly.

New comment by kokey in "Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale"

kokey — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:15:08 +0000

I think what changed their mind was that the market changed. Mailchimp was run like a company that wanted to prevail in the market and not just grow and sell. That affected their strategy in a good way since it allowed them to spend time improving their services long term, but most importantly it prevented them from trying to grow aggressively for the sake of growing, which is a very very bad idea when it comes to sending bulk email.

In the end what changed is that e-mail based marketing was on the decline, with other mediums taking over. There's a point where an industry that stops growing fast eventually consolidates and it tends to get absorbed by groups that has other revenue streams.

New comment by kokey in "After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high"

kokey — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:22:26 +0000

I think people who fly tiny whoop quadcopters would find the description of a 1.8kg copter as 'tiny' quite amusing. I'm guessing the primary driver for the weight is the power to lift this in the thin atmosphere, secondary to that the weight of the strong materials used to make it durable.

New comment by kokey in "SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI"

kokey — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:08:08 +0000

I somehow like this a lot. This looks kind of what Windows NT would have been if NT 4.0 never happened, or if OS/2 survived, or if MacOS or Windows went to a Unix kernel in the early 90s. It's a bit like the Nissan Figaro of desktop operating systems. That said, going back to an alternative past can be useful beyond an art project, it could evolve into helping along the vision for better lightweight desktop operating systems of the future. For example this might work very well as a remote desktop living on virtual infrastructure, or work well as the base for a remote desktop client.