Hacker News: myaccountonhn

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

myaccountonhn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:25:55 +0000

No, just cleaner energy is not enough.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

myaccountonhn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:27:52 +0000

It's interesting there's no remote attestation the other way around, making sure the server is not doing something to your data that you didn't approve of.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

myaccountonhn — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:32:13 +0000

There also isn't nearly as much choice for wms. My favorite WM is cwm, but the closest alternative on Wayland is Hikari which is abandoned.

I noticed it's far far more work to build a wm for Wayland than it is for Xorg.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"

myaccountonhn — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:10:42 +0000

I find doing more focused searches with bang patterns work well for me, I.E searching wikipedia, manpages, mdn etc directly. Sometimes coupled with LLM to more quickly understand the syntax because docs tend to be sparse with examples.

I still miss something for quickly finding random facts like "how long to boil an egg" but for programming the above works quite well.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

myaccountonhn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:27:16 +0000

I set up a separate user that I ssh into for development. Not perfect but its something.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

myaccountonhn — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:34:03 +0000

Why?

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

myaccountonhn — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:50:24 +0000

Every company should be responsible for the lifecycle of their product, big or small. You can't just point fingers at others.

How much of it is even recyclable?

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?"

myaccountonhn — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:02:03 +0000

I got hired through one of these by getting to know the owner. I think connections might be the way to go here unless you have a stellar CV.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

myaccountonhn — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:22:04 +0000

I agree, but it also feels like it would be so difficult. It requires a ton of training, the UIs are not flashy so people are going to feel repulsed (I unironically found looks to be a big blocker when adopting open source tech) and finally Microsoft is going to lobby incredibly hard against it. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to actively sabotage any adoption.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

myaccountonhn — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:47:17 +0000

For me its how easy it is to extend. Kakoune makes it so easy to integrate with the rest of my system. I can often create any kind of integration I need with just 1-10 lines of code. In vscode I need to just hope that someone else built the integration I need as a plugin, because writing plugins is really painful.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

myaccountonhn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:58:44 +0000

There's a lot of astroturfing happening, including on HN, so it's not all that surprising.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

myaccountonhn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:06:40 +0000

There are a lot of lectures/speeches by the creator of elm and Richard Feldman that talk about how to think "functionally"

Here is one about how to structure a project (roughly)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XpDsk374LDE

I also think looking at the source code for elm and its website, as well as the elm real world example help a lot.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

myaccountonhn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:57:37 +0000

Ocaml community is chill and helpful, and dune works great with really good compilation speeds.

Its a really nice language

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

myaccountonhn — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:37:26 +0000

That's the beauty of email-based approaches. You can just clone, do your changes and `git send-email`. Done.

I think it would've been far easier to build a decent GUI around that flow, with some email integration + a patch preview tool, rather than adding activitypub, but oh well.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

myaccountonhn — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:46:22 +0000

> In an October letter to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommended that the US add 100 gigawatts in energy capacity every year.

> Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said.

And people think the climate concerns of AI are overblown. Currently US has ~1300 GW of energy capacity. That's a huge increase each year.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "It’s been a very hard year"

myaccountonhn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:47:29 +0000

Look at his work? I had a look at the studio portfolio and it's damn solid.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "A Love Letter to FreeBSD"

myaccountonhn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:17:09 +0000

IME the integration with FreeBSD and ZFS just works better than BTRFS and linux distors, and I've read far too many reports about data loss with BTRFS to trust it.

But I definitely believe that everything you can do on FreeBSD, you can also do on Linux. For me it's the complete package though that comes with FreeBSD, and everything being documented in the man pages and the handbook.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "A Love Letter to FreeBSD"

myaccountonhn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:13:59 +0000

Lenovo T480s works great with FreeBSD.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

myaccountonhn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:32:41 +0000

sourcehut is a product that feels like it was just built for me and what I care about, I absolutely love the design. But it's tough to use for a team that isn't building open source software. Your teammates will probably be perplexed by the UI because it's so different. The tooling for sending and receiving patches is quite poor, there is no decent GUI email client with patch support. There's also no organization support or ability to apply principle of least access like with a codeowners file.

New comment by myaccountonhn in "Landlock-Ing Linux"

myaccountonhn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:37:23 +0000

Its a way for legitimate apps to add an extra protection layer to protect the system from bad inputs or compromised dependencies, and it's very easy to use (see https://github.com/landlock-lsm/go-landlock). As an app developer it's so easy to add landlock to your app.

Another benefit is that it makes it easier for fine-grain control of resources in the application lifecycle. Maybe on initialization the app needs credentials to fetch some data and later on the all doesnt need them. Landlock allows the app to remove its own access to those credentials.