Hacker News: mr_sturd

New comment by mr_sturd in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

mr_sturd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:16:51 +0000

Plus the built-in parsers for well known formats!

New comment by mr_sturd in "Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices"

mr_sturd — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:33:37 +0000

This is very interesting. I'm dying for a decent Linux-native, ARM-based laptop which can double as a tablet for casual use.

My eyes are currently on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3 as it seems to tick most boxes on PMOS' compatibility matrix.

New comment by mr_sturd in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

mr_sturd — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:22:14 +0000

I'm sure this was alluded to in NOCLIP's YouTube documentary on GOG[0].

It was said then that half of the battle was tracking down rights holders as IP had sometimes been absorbed through multiple acquisitions by the time they came to restore some games.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffngZOB1U2A

New comment by mr_sturd in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

mr_sturd — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:59:49 +0000

Looks nice. Shame it doesn't have OPDS support, but it's nice to see that it's a planned feature in their GitHub README!

New comment by mr_sturd in "Ask HN: What are you using your Raspberry Pi for?"

mr_sturd — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:10:54 +0000

My longest running Raspberry Pis are using HifiBerry HATs. Acting as SnapCast clients, forming a poor man's Sonos system throughout the house. The oldest running Pi is a 2.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

mr_sturd — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:14:12 +0000

What was the process for this? Does it involve manually modifying the sources.lists files, or is there a single command to instigate the upgrade?

New comment by mr_sturd in "1KB JavaScript Demoscene Challenge Just Launched"

mr_sturd — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:22:18 +0000

This is great! I remember taking part in the first JS1K competition. For some reason, I wrote most of the code semi "optimised" before running it through a "proper" optimiser. Good times!

https://js1k.com/2010-first/details/133

New comment by mr_sturd in "Mac Themes Garden"

mr_sturd — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:18:58 +0000

I remember trying to make my own on Windows XP. If I remember correctly, the theme files could be opened with an application which extracted resources from .exe and .dll files.

New comment by mr_sturd in "What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox"

mr_sturd — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:12:15 +0000

The problem with Chromium is that it's controlled by Google. Given they control the engine in the majority of browsers, they get to call the shots on the direction of the web as a whole.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction"

mr_sturd — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:51:16 +0000

I think the choice of Hero is based on a similar idea to this, too.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)"

mr_sturd — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:48:14 +0000

It's always nice to meet a fellow neverChrome.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Let's Write a Reverb (2021)"

mr_sturd — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:59:01 +0000

Thanks for this, Geraint! I've been trying to get a better understanding in programming for DSP, and blog posts like this are a big help with that.

I have subscribed to your blog.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Self-healing 'living skin' can make robots more humanlike"

mr_sturd — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:37:40 +0000

I only saw a few episodes of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, but I always loved the detail of what was, presumably, a 600 series terminator holding a group of them hostage in a house.

New comment by mr_sturd in "iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]"

mr_sturd — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:32:00 +0000

The specialised fixture for the board was impressive, too!

New comment by mr_sturd in "Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features"

mr_sturd — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:48:35 +0000

Still waiting for them to drop Magnum.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test"

mr_sturd — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 09:09:57 +0000

In the case of Perseverance, I think data has to be sent in batches to a relay satellite and the forwarded back to Earth. That time when the satellite has line-of-sight with the rover is short, before the signal is lost, and it has to wait before continuing.

It'll mean more data can be sent in these batches from what I understand.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Judge rules Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto"

mr_sturd — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:31:06 +0000

One simple way of proving that he is - by signing a message using the private key of one of the addresses to recieve Bitcoin close to the blockchain's genesis.

New comment by mr_sturd in "Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song"

mr_sturd — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:36:52 +0000

This is great. I used to play this sort of game with friends, with our phones on a Bluetooth speaker.

I was on my last go when the screenshot gave it away for me. There were two options available in the search, but it seems I guessed correctly!