Hacker News: nan60

Show HN: Serra – A Magic: The Gathering life counter using DRM/KMS

nan60 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://git.sr.ht/~cmt/serra

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956840

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nan60 in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

nan60 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:31:46 +0000

This is both the best and worst comment I’ve ever read on HN.

New comment by nan60 in "Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS"

nan60 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:23:27 +0000

I did the same

New comment by nan60 in "Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB"

nan60 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:26:10 +0000

I understand, but this distro doesn't bill itself as an "arch but for noobs" or something of the like like EndeavorOS does. It puts performance first and foremost, and I'm also making the (dangerous) assumption that Arch was chosen as the base for its reputation of being fast, up to date, and light, and not for any other reason(s). See also: constantcrying's comment

New comment by nan60 in "Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB"

nan60 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:50:02 +0000

Based on benchmarks[1], CachyOS is slightly faster than other distros, only behind Clear Linux (RIP), but I would be extremely curious to see why this would warrant a whole who distro being created. These optimizations can (and probably will) be upstreamed into Arch Linux at some point in the future. Compiler optimizations are one thing, but enabling newer instruction sets doesn't improve performance sans some very specific workloads. This all seems like marketing hype to me with very little substance.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf

New comment by nan60 in "Pimping My Casio: Part Deux"

nan60 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:19:41 +0000

I have wanted this for forever. My dream watch is the F91-W, but with weather as well. I cannot wait to try this out.

'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

nan60 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/123456-password-exposed-chats-for-64-million-mcdonalds-job-applicants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537093

Points: 141

# Comments: 78

Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)

nan60 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:04:33 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114254/why-do-all-browsers-user-agents-start-with-mozilla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44349845

Points: 116

# Comments: 62

New comment by nan60 in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:34:29 +0000

This is really cool. Japanese addresses are longer and more complex than most North American/European ones, so this especially makes sense there.

New comment by nan60 in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:42:11 +0000

Ah, I didn't actually know this! I wasn't around for the early days of Linux so I don't know much about it.

New comment by nan60 in "Intel versus AMD is currently an emotional decision for me"

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:34:43 +0000

I understand it on ARM, since it's primarily targeted at mobile and other oddball devices, but using on desktop class chips just seems odd to me. I'd even understand doing so on laptop chips but desktop ones just seems like leaving extra performance on the table.

New comment by nan60 in "Google and Its Hypocrisy in Messaging"

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:10:35 +0000

Let's not get the point of the article twisted. I think the interoperability between the two is absolutely a positive. Google's RCS implementation is what I targeted in this article because I've repeatedly had several issues with it. It has nothing to do with interoperability between the two. Android-Android is affected the exact same way by the issues I mentioned.

New comment by nan60 in "Intel versus AMD is currently an emotional decision for me"

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:08:58 +0000

Intel's chips have become so absolutely awful in the last few years I also have no desire to buy one, even in laptops where power efficiency is so important. Maybe I'm just yelling at clouds but the whole P-core and E-core architecture seems off to me (and clearly Intel too), and having to implement new schedulers for virtually zero performance gain (just power efficiency) is really annoying. Especially as a Linux user where power efficiency isn't really the priority and battery life tends to suck anyway.

Google and Its Hypocrisy in Messaging

nan60 — Wed, 28 May 2025 05:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://thackston.dev/posts/google/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44113117

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Kagi Small Web

nan60 — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:36:06 +0000

Article URL: https://kagi.com/smallweb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076389

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by nan60 in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

nan60 — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:28:21 +0000

I've never understood why Red Hat never tried breaking into this space. People clearly don't mind paying for an OS and RHEL is pretty much as polished and well supported as you can get. A fork of RHEL geared towards home use would be fantastic. I know Fedora exists but it isn't backed by RH the way RHEL is.

New comment by nan60 in "Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)"

nan60 — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:40:39 +0000

This is especially a problem for devs/artists that post updates exclusively over Discord. It's even worse if they don't do so in a separate channel and you have to dig through everyone chatting to find what you're looking for. This as well and the absence of threads (yes Discord has threads but who uses those) makes searching for troubleshooting help awful. Thank god BBS's are still around.

New comment by nan60 in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

nan60 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:26:42 +0000

Guess it’s time for me to switch to Void…

New comment by nan60 in "Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]"

nan60 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:16:33 +0000

Amazing lecture. Really awesome to hear more about the nitty gritty of this whole debacle.

New comment by nan60 in "Is It Dry Yet?"

nan60 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:48:40 +0000

Mine does exactly this and it frustrates my family and I to no end. More often than not clothes are not dry and I’ll just end up putting them through a speed dry cycle because that one doesn’t turn off automatically (which completely defeats the purpose as I’m running through more cycles than needed)