Hacker News: nanoxide

New comment by nanoxide in "Show HN: QWERTY mini Pro – Why a 2-row, 16-key keyboard works better"

nanoxide — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:17:16 +0000

I really liked it and bought it a couple of weeks ago, however I've run into a deal-braking bug and with no possibility to report a bug (the website is extremely slow and barely loads most of the time), I kinda ignored it since then.

In Firefox on Android, I can't type a secondary character (e.g. "p") as first character into the address bar. Double tapping y/p results in "yp" instead of only "p". It works everywhere else, but not in this specific text box.

Also, somewhere in the docs it's mentioned that you can use one of the outer buttons as trigger for a secondary char (i.e. quickly tapping "o/y" should result in "p"). I couldn't get this to work even once.

New comment by nanoxide in "The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner"

nanoxide — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:32:19 +0000

It's also tagged "nonfiction" though

New comment by nanoxide in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

nanoxide — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:49:03 +0000

Calling this RE# (resharp), when there is a much more popular and established product already named R# (ReSharper, by JetBrains) in the. NET world will probably hurting your SEO and/or could potentially cause some legal grief.

New comment by nanoxide in "I fixed Windows native development"

nanoxide — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:36:44 +0000

When was the last time you actually used. NET? Because that's absolutely not how it is. The. NET runtime is shipped by default with Windows and updated via WU. Let alone that you're talking about .NET Framework which has been outdated for years.

New comment by nanoxide in "Home Office Is Sabotaging You"

nanoxide — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:49:04 +0000

Another similar one I found during Covid

https://www.window-swap.com/

New comment by nanoxide in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nanoxide — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:15:42 +0000

https://lennartb.dev

New comment by nanoxide in "Where Does Cloudflare Think I Am?"

nanoxide — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:27:02 +0000

Correct country (in the EU) but off by hundreds of kilometers. I find it rarely to be correct whenever I get a "new login from..." mail from Google or others.

New comment by nanoxide in "The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing"

nanoxide — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:14:23 +0000

Technikmuseum [0] has many different technology-related exhibitions. And the Spectrum (separate building) has a lot of physics- and science experiments you can actively try out. Loved it as a kid.

[0] https://technikmuseum.berlin/en/

New comment by nanoxide in "Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches as Gambling Cash-Grab"

nanoxide — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:34:15 +0000

The ad even appears on my Firefox Mobile, which has uBlock Origin installed and goes through a PiHole running on the network.

New comment by nanoxide in "Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock"

nanoxide — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:03:34 +0000

Nice to see the Mengenlehre clock in Berlin. Coincidentally, directly in the adjacent Europa-Center is also the clock of flowing time, which I found fascinating as a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_Flowing_Time

New comment by nanoxide in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

nanoxide — Sun, 18 May 2025 13:25:26 +0000

Used to use it in university (CS) for cramming before tests, mostly when there were lots of definitions to memorize. Also summarizing stuff and writing your own cards for it helps already with learning itself.

New comment by nanoxide in "Lazarus Release 4.0"

nanoxide — Sun, 11 May 2025 14:06:45 +0000

.NET can create self-contained executables pretty easily (via _dotnet publish_), both including the required framework assemblies and without them. But they'll still be comparatively large.

New comment by nanoxide in "Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust"

nanoxide — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:44:48 +0000

It's for streaming on platforms like YouTube or Twitch, usually when streaming games or doing art. Instead of using a webcam to show yourself (mostly in a small overlay in a corner), you show a PNG image of yourself or an avatar. To give these static images for variety, you can change them based on voice input (i.e. as if the PNG was talking), or emotions like laughing. Related: V-Tubers which use 3D models or more intricate methods like motion capturing to animate a virtual version of themselves.

New comment by nanoxide in "Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)"

nanoxide — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:41:06 +0000

I know nothing about diving. Why can't you pee in a dry suit (except that one might find it gross)? I assumed that you could just rinse the suit afterwards. Or is being underwater a factor, because it gets too cold or the pressure does something with it or...?

New comment by nanoxide in "F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025"

nanoxide — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:13:22 +0000

It's super annoying though, that installing an app from F-Droid sometimes appears as installed from Play Store as well. For example, I have VLC installed from F-Droid, but it also appears in the Play Store update list and _can't_ be updated from there.

New comment by nanoxide in "Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf]"

nanoxide — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:03:10 +0000

Pretty sure Windows comes by default with the Powershell ISE, although it's not developed further anymore. It also only comes with the .NET runtime, not the SDK. Installing VSCode and some extensions would get you pretty far though.

New comment by nanoxide in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

nanoxide — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:20:01 +0000

I have little interest in chess and no real knowledge in its current events beyond mainstream media coverage, but always enjoy lively writeups of the matches like this one.

New comment by nanoxide in "Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format"

nanoxide — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:59:45 +0000

Teletext is still very much alive in Germany, pretty much every channel offers it. In fact, I use it most days to quickly check if there are any interesting headlines to follow up online, or for sports results. It's funny that it is frequently faster and easier to navigate than most enshittified news websites.

New comment by nanoxide in "Stack Overflow Does Not Want to Help You"

nanoxide — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:18:30 +0000

Yes, asking for resources such as "the best framework" are off-topic on SO, but that's clearly written in the tour you're supposed to read before posting. I'm not sure what you expected, it's certainly not on the whim of the "moderators", because even I as a regular user can and will vote such questions to close.

New comment by nanoxide in "The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction"

nanoxide — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:12:45 +0000

He has obviously decades of experience, but the basics of debugging with windbg aren't actually that difficult to start with. I remember trying to look into some memory dumps we got from crashes of our application from internal users, and was able to get relevant information pretty quickly just from some basic built-in diagnostic commands I picked up from his and the old NTDebugging blog (which seems to be sadly gone).