Hacker News: mahoro

New comment by mahoro in "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"

mahoro — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:25:30 +0000

Unexpected: reading the code was entertaining (no sarcasm): pixel fonts, png encoder.

New comment by mahoro in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

mahoro — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:57:23 +0000

Oh, that's unexpected idea. I hope I'll try it one day, thank you.

I use FireWire as well. Spent a month connecting it, that was a devastating part. It turned out, only IEE1394 cards with TI chips works with Sony cameras. And only some cables. But to me, result is worth it.

New comment by mahoro in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

mahoro — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:29:49 +0000

I film my kids with the same camera in 2026. I don't know how to explain it, but it feels completely different. When I film something on a phone I feel awkward but with this camera I could film everyone and it's much more comfortable to all (including adults I mean)

New comment by mahoro in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

mahoro — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:43:02 +0000

I love it

New comment by mahoro in "Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy"

mahoro — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:50:34 +0000

Neat article.

I would add `layout.css.font-visibility=1` to hide all non-default fonts (makes a canvas font rendering test less useful).

New comment by mahoro in "Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser"

mahoro — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:25:40 +0000

Thanks, eager to try :)

New comment by mahoro in "Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser"

mahoro — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:01:53 +0000

This is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?

New comment by mahoro in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

mahoro — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:17:21 +0000

I feel your pain. I have my own struggles with switching tasks and what helps to some degree is understanding that that kind of switching and adapting is a skill which could be trained by doing exactly this. At least I feel less like a victim and more like a person who improves himself :)

But it appears I'm in a better position because I don't have to work with clearly stupid GUIs and have no strong emotions to them.

New comment by mahoro in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

mahoro — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:49:34 +0000

> There is a concept called “Copilot Lag”. It refers to a state where after each action, an engineer pauses, waiting for something to prompt them what to do next.

I've been experiencing this for 10-15 years. I type something and then wait for IDE to complete function names, class methods etc. From this perspective, LLM won't hurt too much because I'm already dumb enough.

New comment by mahoro in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

mahoro — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Normally you would write a program that is a game of Doom when you run it (you create a program, then compile it and run). Dmitri created a program that does nothing and he don't even run it. But while it's compiling, it does a lot of tricky things to make typescript compiler to run Doom as a side effect.

It's extremely hacky because Typescript is not even a runtime, it's not meant to run any code at all. Typescript is a thing that takes .ts file and produces .js file (which you then run using different program - a javascript runtime).

New comment by mahoro in "SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface"

mahoro — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:07:30 +0000

I enabled "Offline mode", and it worked. But yes.

New comment by mahoro in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"

mahoro — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:09:35 +0000

So cool that with uv it becomes so easy to install such tools.

What's missing in the install routine is uv installing this tool ignoring the Python dependency. My box has 3.10 and isd won't work with it. Fixed with `-p 3.13` option. May be worth mention in the docs.

New comment by mahoro in "Russia is being set aflame by arson attacks"

mahoro — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:16:32 +0000

Phone scams are the problem in Russia: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/10/they-terrorized-him

(TL;DR: student commits suicide because of such scams).

New comment by mahoro in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

mahoro — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:05:04 +0000

This is an absolutely great project. I had a lot of fun tinkering with the ROM of my Philips smart clock.

It has a built-in DSL that looks like Rust (without memory management, though – so it's very lightweight), and with that, it's possible to visualize and extract structural data from binary streams. That's really fun and cool.

It also has a visual editor to make simple calculations with no code. It didn't feel polished at the time I tried it. Strangely, writing code in DSL was more intuitive and easier for me.

New comment by mahoro in "Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash"

mahoro — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:22:41 +0000

The very first "technique" is odd and based on a false assumption. Bash doesn't call /bin/[ binary when evaluating expressions. It uses its own builtin implementation instead.

New comment by mahoro in "Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?"

mahoro — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:40:45 +0000

As a teenager, I discovered disassemblers/debuggers and became very enthusiastic about hacking and patching things. I reset the trial period counter on a few shareware apps, and the next "victim" that caught my eyes was encrypted RAR SFX archive. I thought it would be the perfect target.

I spent ~20 hours trying to find a routine that compares the entered password with the correct one. That humbling moment I realised there was no such routine, and moreover, most of disassembled code is just garbage.

[*] this is an encrypted archive combined with extractor in one .exe file.

New comment by mahoro in "PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python"

mahoro — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:02:47 +0000

This is awesome, and client-side Python is magic :-)

New comment by mahoro in "Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens"

mahoro — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:56:25 +0000

ClickHouse is a separate company registered in US and some part of it is owned by US-based venture funds.

New comment by mahoro in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

mahoro — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:31:40 +0000

This is awesome! I like how it's built and I looks like it's open for integrations of any kind.

I'm also too impatient to manually enter all transactions but import from PDF statement form a bank looks like a doable task. The only transactions that would be required to enter manually is cash/crypto/etc but for them there are no other choice.

Contrats with the the release Anantha and I hope your project will gain attention it deserves!

New comment by mahoro in "Warteschlangensimulator – queueing systems simulator (free and open source)"

mahoro — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:00:26 +0000

I found it extremely useful when I need to estimate throughput of some system. Especially it has some elements non-linear or non-continuous characteristics like rate limits etc.