Hacker News: nightfly

New comment by nightfly in "Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire"

nightfly — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:30:06 +0000

vira28: It looks like nearly all of your responses to comments/questions here are flagged/dead. Probably because they all look AI written. Are you actually responding or do you have an agent answering questions for you?

New comment by nightfly in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

nightfly — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:17:06 +0000

I'd love to do this for Mario Golf 64 but would run out of steam in like a week T_T

New comment by nightfly in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

nightfly — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:26:03 +0000

People seem to think it tries and do too much. As a sysadmin I love systemd, especially way more than the init scripts it replaced

New comment by nightfly in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

nightfly — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:23:24 +0000

> From what I understand from Vovk, they were intending to be “super considerate” of distributions and people not using systemd, which I take to mean we’d eventually end up in a situation very similar to systemd-logind, which was extracted from systemd into a separate daemon, elogind, so that distributions using other init systems could still make use of desktop environments depending on systemd-logind

New comment by nightfly in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

nightfly — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:13:32 +0000

> The question is...why do you care that much?

Not the OP, but I support Ubuntu as desktop and server OS for an engineering collage and have for 10ish years. Some LTS upgrades don't require many changes (mostly minor package name changes) and some take months of work to get rolled out (mostly for workstations, the server upgrades are usually quick.). Not everything gets upgraded every new OS release. If we had to upgrade everything every 6-12 months it would eat up a significant amount of time for our small team.

New comment by nightfly in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

nightfly — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:36:29 +0000

Most people have no safety net and if the money stops rolling in their life is effectively ruined for several years

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