Hacker News: nloomans

New comment by nloomans in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

nloomans — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:56:00 +0000

Website redirects to the regional homepage instead of showing the actual article. I don't get why this is still a thing.

New comment by nloomans in "What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?"

nloomans — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:32:10 +0000

Interesting read! I find the idea to use SQL queries to get only the relevant data quite convincing. I do wonder how this would work in practice though. Any changes the user makes would have to be inserted with SQL to allow for the new data to be included in SQL queries, but users also expect to be able to make changes and then not save them (or save them into a different file).

Should one make a massive transaction that is only committed when saving? It is possible to commit such a transaction to a different file when using Save As?

Or maybe for editing one would need to copy the file to a separate temporary location, constantly commit to that file, and when saving move the temporary file over the original file (this way we aren't losing the resilience against corruption SQLite offers).

Or is there a better way to do this? I don't like storing pending changes into the original file since it kinda goes against how users expect files to work (and could cause them to accidentally leak data).

New comment by nloomans in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

nloomans — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:17:35 +0000

Website got hugged to death: https://archive.is/plsp9

New comment by nloomans in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

nloomans — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:24:48 +0000

These example commits seem like pretty bad commit messages to me. They are just a summery of the changes (something a motivated reader can rediscover by reading the diff), while leaving out the why, which will be lost to history if not documented.

New comment by nloomans in "argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go"

nloomans — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:00:28 +0000

No I did mean flag values. Allowing user-controlled short flags is horrifying.

New comment by nloomans in "argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go"

nloomans — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:15:33 +0000

I disagree with it being a minor issue. If I write a shell script around a program that accepts GNU-style arguments, I expect the following to be correct:

    ./cmd -a"$USER_CONTROLLED_DATA"

A program using this package would break that assumption, introducing a bug where this user-controlled data cannot start with an '='.

New comment by nloomans in "Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code"

nloomans — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:37:46 +0000

I think because Claude said so and the author just copied it without checking. You can see it in the first screenshot of Claude's output:

> After examining the provided code, I've determined that this appears to be a CLI application for Claude code-related functionality, built as a CommonJS TypeScript application that has been compiled with webpack.

Although, looking at the minified code, it seems to be using module.createRequire for CommonJS compatibility, so maybe it isn't completely wrong: https://nodejs.org/api/module.html#modulecreaterequirefilena...

New comment by nloomans in "In Defense of Text Labels"

nloomans — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:20:46 +0000

Only if you don't care about accessibility. You still want labels for screenreaders and other assistive technologies.

New comment by nloomans in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"

nloomans — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:32:24 +0000

Have you tried it? They use a proprietary integration with Authy that prevents you from using anything else. No QR code is ever provided.

New comment by nloomans in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

nloomans — Mon, 13 May 2024 09:47:46 +0000

I tested the example using the TalkBack screenreader on Android. With Firefox I was able to select and click on the link, but it did not announce the email address. With Chromium it completely ignored the existence of the SVG email. I was unable to select it and it was like the email wasn't there at all.

So yeah, I wouldn't call this accessible.

New comment by nloomans in "Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released"

nloomans — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:27:14 +0000

Release notes can be found here: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

New comment by nloomans in "My NixOS Desktop Flow"

nloomans — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 07:46:09 +0000

I agree! Showing a bit of the markdown in the rendered text really gives the page a nice hacky feel. I'm doing something similar on my website[1] but this blog looks a lot nicer then mine!

The biggest problem on my version I think is that links aren't obvious enough in dark mode, but I like the links used here so I'll look into that.

[1]: https://noahloomans.com/tutorials/makefile/ (The contents of this page is intended for the other students at my college and probably doesn't make a lot of sense standalone)

New comment by nloomans in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)"

nloomans — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:49:43 +0000

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++ (preferably C), Go, Docker, Linux, JavaScript, React, Vue, ASP.NET, Microsoft Azure

Résumé/CV: https://noahloomans.com/resume-hn.pdf

Email: hn@noahloomans.com

Looking for a fixed-term full-time 6 month junior position.

New comment by nloomans in "A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it"

nloomans — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:58:44 +0000

This isn't true. Take the @valvesoftware twitter account for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118232351/https:/twitter.co...

The account was already verified right from the start.

New comment by nloomans in "“How do you talk to 'I have nothing to hide' people?”"

nloomans — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:59:58 +0000

It's called Direct Debit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit

New comment by nloomans in "“How do you talk to 'I have nothing to hide' people?”"

nloomans — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:57:19 +0000

At least with the bank I use (bunq) I get notifications for such transfers and I need to manually approve them for the transfers to take place. If it's a recurring payment I can set it up so it automatically allows transfers up to a specified amount monthly.

The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work

nloomans — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/21/Stress-and-happiness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107425

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nloomans in "Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression"

nloomans — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:25:37 +0000

I just woke up to this and was surprised the title was eddied as well. I looked up the guidelines and it looks like I violated the "If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link." guideline.

Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

nloomans — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958585

Points: 271

# Comments: 153

New comment by nloomans in "Warp, Cloudflare's Free VPN, Is Now Publicly Available for iOS and Android"

nloomans — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:34:16 +0000

The app has a permanent notification stating 'Your Internet is now private.' while using warp. That seems very misleading to the end user in my opinion.