Hacker News: mrpf1ster

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

mrpf1ster — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:38:32 +0000

Does this work well for non-coding documents as well? Say api docs or AI memory files?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM"

mrpf1ster — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:05:20 +0000

Does a docker image not also require drivers, an OS, and the Docker Engine?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant"

mrpf1ster — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:20:28 +0000

Yes

https://xdaforums.com/t/unlock-root-twrp-unbrick-amazon-echo...

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

mrpf1ster — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:58:28 +0000

Looks good - I like the TUI a lot. The only thing with that type of interface is that there is no chance my wife would use it via the terminal. It would be cool if there was a web UI as well - so other members of the household could access and use it.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Rust’s worst feature"

mrpf1ster — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:32:16 +0000

Why would re-using a buffer be bad? Assuming you write to it with the contents of the file/stream before it is read.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "STORM: Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic"

mrpf1ster — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:36:05 +0000

Probably just metadata about the request for the researchers at Stanford

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:49:00 +0000

I believe the game Celeste started as a PICO-8 prototype

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a "clean install" of Windows 11 and Edge"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:48:00 +0000

I run Windows 10 LTSC IoT edition on my gaming PC and it’s been pretty great. No crapware and no annoying update notifications. Should be the default windows version.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Show HN: Clutter-free, powerful Mac-native sample manager"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:24:11 +0000

Does this do any analysis of the sample files themselves or just auto tagging and searching based on the sample file name?

Is it using a local LLM or ChatGPT?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git"

mrpf1ster — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:00:02 +0000

It would be nice if we finally could have a database that we could use git on to track changes.

Dolt looks very promising in this area but only works with MySQL, would be nice to have a SQLite solution.

https://www.dolthub.com/

New comment by mrpf1ster in "AtomVM: Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:58:57 +0000

How does this differ from Nerves?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "SlowDownAndWasteMemory()"

mrpf1ster — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:23:12 +0000

Ah I was referring to the github specific terminology when sharing a link to a line inside a code file.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better"

mrpf1ster — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:20:38 +0000

Is this not just an iframe?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "SlowDownAndWasteMemory()"

mrpf1ster — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 21:07:14 +0000

I believe permalinks are removed when submitting

New comment by mrpf1ster in "An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:12:17 +0000

The Mac touchpad is great, but using an external mouse is awful feeling without this tool

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Why human societies developed so little during 300k years"

mrpf1ster — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:34:04 +0000

Are you referring to the headshot of Napolean Chagnon? He is not the author - he is the anthropologist the article talks about.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "It's time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say"

mrpf1ster — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:59:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?"

mrpf1ster — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:58:19 +0000

I worked at Argonne National Lab for two years as a web developer for a few projects (https://afleet.es.anl.gov/home/, https://energyjustice.egs.anl.gov/).

The people I worked with were super smart in their fields, but were pretty bad at writing code / handling data outside of Excel so they usually hired interns to help with code-related stuff. Some of the divisions had full-time software developer teams, but I was the only software developer in mine.

The pace was extremely relaxed, deadlines were not tight at all.

I worked remotely, but came in to the office a few times a month. The campus is beautiful, as it is right inside a nature preserve. Everyone there is doing scientific work, so it feels like a real scientific think tank atmosphere and I loved it.

New comment by mrpf1ster in "Tech execs who raise their kids tech-free or limit their screen time (2020)"

mrpf1ster — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:55:06 +0000

I credit my entire software engineering career to the my ability to effectively use a search engine and find resources on the internet.

Nowadays Google is filled with ads and fake sites, but maybe a subscription to something like Kagi (https://kagi.com/) would be worthwhile?

New comment by mrpf1ster in "MilkyTracker"

mrpf1ster — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:58:04 +0000

If anyone wants to dive into the history of trackers, I highly recommend this documentary (and all of his other ones) by Ahoy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw)