Hacker News: manithree

New comment by manithree in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

manithree — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:37:59 +0000

This. I ran Linux at work until last year, when it was finally disallowed. I went with locked-down Mac over locked-down Windows.

New comment by manithree in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

manithree — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:14:49 +0000

LOL. In 2007, I did a side-by-side comparison of SVN, Mercurial and git with my codebase at work (~700k LOC). I know hg got faster eventually, but I still can't believe people say "hg should have won the DVCS war" with a straight face. It was orders of magnitude slower in my tests. Like, 20 minutes to commit large xml files (yeah, I know, but that's where we were). Not just a few ms slower, unbearably slow for several things.

I liked its features better, but chose git, and that was the correct decision.

New comment by manithree in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

manithree — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:44:44 +0000

I feel bad for people who reject Windows 11 on moral grounds. They'll likely fall behind, while also having to live in a world increasingly built around something they see as immoral.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-tha...

New comment by manithree in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

manithree — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:55:17 +0000

I remember sitting in a senior seminar class in 1989 full of CS students. We were solemnly informed by a very earnest IBM employee that we would regret having majored in computer science because IBM's CASE tools were going to kill job market. That aged like milk.

Will something come along some day that will actually drastically reduce the need for programmers/developers/software engineers? Maybe. Are we there yet? My LLM experience makes me seriously doubt it.

New comment by manithree in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

manithree — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:53:57 +0000

> Get money out of politics

If you also mean make it so Congress doesn't have a $4T slush fund to buy favors and influence every year, then I'm on board. If you think reducing the paltry sums spent on campaign contributions is going to take the money out of politics, you're bad at math.

New comment by manithree in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

manithree — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:11:51 +0000

I lost my "Clear Creek Bike Book" in the 1980's but eventually Sheldon made me not miss it at all.

It's not as comprehensive, and more corporate than Sheldon's site, but I currently love Park Tool's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@parktool). They shamelessly mention their tools, but they frequently give alternatives like, you can get this park tool for pushing your disc brake pads back into place, or you can just use a plastic tire tool.

New comment by manithree in "The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs"

manithree — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:17:35 +0000

Ever used the self-hosted BitBucket (formerly Stash) API?

New comment by manithree in "Federal Prison for Writing Code"

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:40:37 +0000

Which is debatable, but not illegal. SCOTUS has said so multiple times.

New comment by manithree in "Federal Prison for Writing Code"

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:11 +0000

Samourai wallet has been on HN several times, but this interview with the creator just before he goes to prison for writing open source code is very interesting.

Federal Prison for Writing Code

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:11 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/19/hes-serving-5-years-in-prison-for-bitcoin-privacy-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354699

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by manithree in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

manithree — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:57:55 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348

New comment by manithree in "The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market"

manithree — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:38:41 +0000

Yeah, I feel so much safer now that the state has protected me from the Y./s

New comment by manithree in "IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs"

manithree — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:21:07 +0000

Please, no. Emacs could use some interface/toolkit update, I don't deny that. And I like IDE features. I use tree-sitter, LSPs, copilot.el, copilot-chat.el, and others all day, every day.

But don't force me to turn off treemacs, and minimap like I have to do in VSCode all the time just because some useless, space-wasting eye-candy is trendy.

New comment by manithree in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

manithree — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:18:38 +0000

Which one do you have on your phone? Plus42 for Android has been mentioned. I like Droid 48 (also Android).

New comment by manithree in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

manithree — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:30:43 +0000

The Borland Turbos had a much bigger market impact, but I was blown away by the Zortech C++ IDE in 1988. I don't remember why any more, but I was very dismissive of other TUI IDEs of the day after using Zortech. Even in the early 1990's when I was professionally using PWB (Programmer's Waste Basket) I still felt Zortech's IDE was superior.

New comment by manithree in "The day my smart vacuum turned against me"

manithree — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:42:41 +0000

Unauthorized Bread

New comment by manithree in "As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried"

manithree — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:30:22 +0000

As long as any old apk can be installed over ADB, f-droid just needs to release a desktop app, and I'm gtg. Yeah, it's a little inconvenient, and hopefully just a stopgap until Linux phones are viable, but still better than Apple.

New comment by manithree in "The PC was never a true 'IBMer'"

manithree — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:55:04 +0000

Having lived through all this, I highly recommend "The Crazy Ones" blog from Gareth Edwards. https://every.to/the-crazy-ones

The blog on Don Estridge covers IBM's place in PC history in fascinating and extensive detail.

Mr. Edwards also reminded me what a debt Linux users owe to Rod Canion for making the gang of 9 and open hardware a reality.

New comment by manithree in "Passkeys and Modern Authentication"

manithree — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:57:31 +0000

Not just non-technical people, but a lot of Windows developers I've worked with over the years can't seem to grasp the asymmetric key concept enough to use it for git (and then complain about git over over https).

Being in charge of the strength and security of your private key is something most people don't want to do, so we get multiple identities made "easy" by walled gardens getting popular in passkeys.

New comment by manithree in "Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library"

manithree — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:34:28 +0000

Anybody find a license for their online catalogue? Searching for license found one "resultaten" that was a link that 404's, and no hits for "licentie."

Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2015/08/introducing-the-dememori...

will let you download full page images. and I think this: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/issues/209

Should work, also. I don't know Dutch law, but I would think books this old would have to be public domain.