Hacker News: nightfly

New comment by nightfly in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

nightfly — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:40:25 +0000

I think you're massively misreading the tone of the comment you're relying to

New comment by nightfly in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"

nightfly — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:37:37 +0000

> The medium is freer than Free Software

$$$$$ for supplies, you could probably take up oil painting for cheaper.

New comment by nightfly in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

nightfly — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:15:49 +0000

It "only" doubles performance so the overheads aren't that heavy

New comment by nightfly in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

nightfly — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:42:30 +0000

windows update just doing a normal write causing the active chunk of flash memory being used to hold something in the boot loader to a different failed/failing section

New comment by nightfly in "Python numbers every programmer should know"

nightfly — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:31:17 +0000

PSU (Oregon) uses C++ as just "c with classes" and ignores the rest of C++ for intro to programming courses. It frustrates people who already use C++ but otherwise works pretty well.

New comment by nightfly in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

nightfly — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:55:45 +0000

What issues on Linux would this actually solve?

New comment by nightfly in "FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users"

nightfly — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:05:18 +0000

If you bought something from a physical store and lose it doesn't entitle you to go get another one for free...

New comment by nightfly in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

nightfly — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:20:30 +0000

I wonder if we'll ever get truly round objects in my lifetime though

New comment by nightfly in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

nightfly — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:20:35 +0000

The (a?) problem is that only the largest / most profitable players can afford to implement these systems. So while well intentioned they just shut out any company/service without loads of extra cash

New comment by nightfly in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

nightfly — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:06:02 +0000

I work in an org with 8ish FTEs, a handful of student workers, and like 200 volunteers. Almost every service wants $5 or more per user per month, that's $1,140 per month per service. We selfhost open source solutions for everything we can and sometimes have to write something in-house to meet our needs.

New comment by nightfly in "How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch"

nightfly — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:02:43 +0000

"re"-writable

New comment by nightfly in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

nightfly — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:05:24 +0000

Why?

New comment by nightfly in "WiFi signals can measure heart rate"

nightfly — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:28:02 +0000

You get a lot more detailed information out of a CT scan

New comment by nightfly in "T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree"

nightfly — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:16:28 +0000

More like selling when and where you got on and off the bus

New comment by nightfly in "Dumb Pipe"

nightfly — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:27:38 +0000

Wireguard doesn't do most of those either

New comment by nightfly in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

nightfly — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:07:35 +0000

The banners themselves are ugly and can fill almost half the screen

Even website makers who don't use predatory tracking end up including them as a CYA tactic

New comment by nightfly in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

nightfly — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:06:33 +0000

> Page loads, immediately when I start scrolling and reading a popup trying to get tracking consent

It was with the best of intentions but cookie banners have done more to hurt web browsing than anything else in the last decade

New comment by nightfly in "Shutting Down Clear Linux OS"

nightfly — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:24:57 +0000

Mass firings

New comment by nightfly in "USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)"

nightfly — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:00:58 +0000

> In other news, I do think desk makers should start incorporating the USB dock inside the top board of a desk. People go through a lot of money and bullshit to keep their setup clean, especially those who swap computers

Will be obsolete in 5 years every time

New comment by nightfly in "When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery"

nightfly — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:44:12 +0000

Sort of by definition it is normal