Hacker News: nerflad

New comment by nerflad in "SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V"

nerflad — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:08:57 +0000

I find every project of this nature so so beautiful and incredible. Congrats.

New comment by nerflad in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

nerflad — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:32:37 +0000

Checking out the initial request on github for this feature I wonder why is this necessary? What access to the local network does the browser provide, or need to provide, and why isn't this something developers are more concerned about? I had a feeling this was possible as I see lots of mdns requests when I connect to certain things running sockets.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/4318

Dict(1)

nerflad — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cheusov/dictd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877994

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nerflad in "Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI"

nerflad — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:24:07 +0000

This looks good for introductory theory. see also GNU Solfege

https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

New comment by nerflad in "Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor"

nerflad — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:32:05 +0000

This is brilliant, thanks for making public and best wishes

New comment by nerflad in "New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place"

nerflad — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:43:24 +0000

If you came to represent... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

Maintaining an AUR package can be great fun and an instructive glimpse into what FLOSS maintainers go through.

Study links microbiota to development of MS in mice

nerflad — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419689122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786954

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nerflad in "SpacetimeDB"

nerflad — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:53:37 +0000

Just put it all in stored procedures. What could go wrong?

New comment by nerflad in "Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua"

nerflad — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:38:14 +0000

Execution env is the achille's heel of scripting languages. Personally I don't use Neovim, but had a feeling its adoption would spur development in this area for Lua. Bryan Cantrill called Javascript "LISP in C's clothes". In some ways I feel like Lua is the opposite, and love it for those reasons (disclaimer: never had to use it at work).

New comment by nerflad in "Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game"

nerflad — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:29:07 +0000

Also, 2 APS is hardly competitive in this game.

New comment by nerflad in "The Death of the Web (2024)"

nerflad — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:07:20 +0000

Boiling take: Myspace doesn't get enough historical heat for walling the blogosphere while simultaneously Eternal-Septembering it.

New comment by nerflad in "OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser"

nerflad — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:30:10 +0000

A lot of people who have apparently never stepped foot in a recording studio are replying to you. Pre-plugin era was exactly about this. Drive the DAC and manage writes to the disk without introducing (much) latency so tracking can get done. Perhaps no one who uses this will intend to setup more than one microphone.

New comment by nerflad in "New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs"

nerflad — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:51:49 +0000

> We disclosed SLAP to Apple on May 24, 2024, and FLOP on September 3, 2024

New comment by nerflad in "Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop"

nerflad — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:47:37 +0000

one sticking point for GNU users can be that BSD utils are more strict about positional order of e.g filename parameter and input options. rm ~/foo -rf || rm -rf ~/foo

I was forced to get used to BSD syntax when I switched to MacOS but now I prefer it...

New comment by nerflad in "Little Snitch feature nobody knows about"

nerflad — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:54:20 +0000

Anecdote: This became a problem for me with several apps after installing Sequoia

New comment by nerflad in "Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables"

nerflad — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:39:56 +0000

A comment before the problematic line can specify options to shellcheck, (e.g)

# shellcheck disable=SC2086

which remain valid within that block.

Of course, disabling the linter should be done with deliberation...

New comment by nerflad in "Ads chew through half of mobile data"

nerflad — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:15:56 +0000

Blogspam singularity is imminent. Also: this 'article' is from 2016.

New comment by nerflad in "CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops"

nerflad — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:36:51 +0000

echo "printf '\n'" >> ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_right_prompt.fish....

New comment by nerflad in "macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive"

nerflad — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:59:32 +0000

Can't argue with you there, even Windows has a package manager now.

New comment by nerflad in "macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive"

nerflad — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:17:59 +0000

Desktop linux has some market share in hollywood, I would think that market does matter to them as it did SGI etc.