Hacker News: nightfly

New comment by nightfly in "Quantum battery upends the rules of charging"

nightfly — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:44:52 +0000

> but where are you actually going to get enough power to charge it that fast?

The future of gas stations

New comment by nightfly in "Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker"

nightfly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:46:29 +0000

I have a silhouette cameo 4 I'm pretty happy with. Silhouette studio works, it doesn't handle svgs very well so when importing I tend to render svgs as a black bitmap and then trace that in silhouette studio. Being able to print registration marks and have the cutter align itself against those is invaluable. I've done clones of paper craft kits, perfectly cut out iron on transfers forct shirts, 3d trading card art, and trading card proxies on mine

New comment by nightfly in "GIMP Development Update"

nightfly — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:35:50 +0000

Calling people who are okay with different programs having different behavior _bootlickers_ is obnoxious

New comment by nightfly in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

nightfly — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:46:00 +0000

> so it took a few Amazon returns until I found the right one

This a pet peeve of mine. If you buy the wrong $2 part don't return it. If you don't eat the loss the seller will and the part will wind up in the landfill.

New comment by nightfly in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

nightfly — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:13:07 +0000

But it's always been at a faster pace and a higher quantity than whatever decade preceded it

New comment by nightfly in "Starring the Computer"

nightfly — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:10:24 +0000

> You can also visit our site on your mobile phone!

New comment by nightfly in "Package Managers need global hooks"

nightfly — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:28:43 +0000

> since it's the only package manager that I know of that allows for package authors to essentially run arbitrary post-install scripts silently package install

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure .deb and .rpm packages both allow that

New comment by nightfly in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

nightfly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:34:47 +0000

I want it to arrive at the hospital. Claude

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?