Hacker News: notnmeyer

New comment by notnmeyer in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

notnmeyer — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:22:21 +0000

i mean, then you say it like that…

New comment by notnmeyer in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

notnmeyer — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:01:36 +0000

haha, this is so much better

New comment by notnmeyer in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

notnmeyer — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:51:17 +0000

glad i’m not the only one. i’m more or less baffled reading that.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

notnmeyer — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:27:47 +0000

the fact that this could easily pass as real says a lot about the state of things.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

notnmeyer — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:48:50 +0000

i hope i’m wrong, but probably as long as gabe does.

New comment by notnmeyer in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

notnmeyer — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:12:54 +0000

i think discovery is the real thing all these “back in my day…” blog posts are about. they want the quirk delivered to them, but they’re fallen out of the zeitgeist and conclude that the old days are completely gone.

New comment by notnmeyer in "The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

notnmeyer — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:10:31 +0000

i don’t think it has to be like this. make dumb or silly stuff, share it.

it feels like the folks who lament about the good ole days grew up, got a corporate job, and forgot how to have fun.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

notnmeyer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:06:09 +0000

prs not being visible because search is down, various ui elements not loading, pushes failing, merges failing, gha runs that fail with random errors or take forever to schedule

i literally do not recall the last day that passed without someone on my team noticing that some portion of gh was degraded.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Mise-En-Place"

notnmeyer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:07:46 +0000

i think mise does too much. the deeper you go into its features the more rough edges you’ll find. i predominantly use nix on macos for managing app-level tool and package deps, but mise does a better job for this when you’re a part of a team (and can’t be overly prescriptive).

mise tasks gets gross pretty fast in my experience.

New comment by notnmeyer in "CSS is DOOMed"

notnmeyer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:34:26 +0000

at this point i’m more interested in what _can’t_ run doom.

New comment by notnmeyer in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

notnmeyer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:57:15 +0000

> The name Pies (pronounced "p-yes")

oh come on

New comment by notnmeyer in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

notnmeyer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:42:07 +0000

i’d love for this to be required by law. i’m probably not thinking of some great reason why that might be a bad idea, but it seems like an effective way to reduce e-waste.

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:19:25 +0000

different strokes dude

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:58:37 +0000

a framework desktop and omarchy is conceptually 98% of what the c100 purports to be.

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:57:27 +0000

ehhhh, i disagree partially. a less cynical take would be to call it “opinionated”.

any computer can be for “experts”, but that’s not the same as delivering something preconfigured and opinionated.

nobody has actually seen this thing in action yet, but in my head it’s hardware + some opinionated linux distro (i imagine something like omarchy) + support.

certainly not what everybody would want, but if there are people that enjoy configuring their systems then there’s people that don’t.

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:50:54 +0000

i’ve been following this for a while and still find it completely wild that you can preorder but there’s effectively no details.

theres a couple completely unimpressive videos (like 15s long) from employees on linkedin where they show off… tiling window management.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

notnmeyer — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:31:13 +0000

taking inspiration from a game doesn’t mean “gamified”.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Code like a surgeon"

notnmeyer — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:46:56 +0000

> My current goal with AI coding tools is to spend 100% of my time doing stuff that matters. (As a UI prototyper, that mostly means tinkering with design concepts.)

this struck me as weird. both in terms of “tinkering” being the most important thing to be doing, and then also describing “working like a surgeon” to be tinkering.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

notnmeyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:45:25 +0000

charging by pedaling is just for range extension. obviously you aren’t breaking the laws of thermodynamics on an e-bike.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

notnmeyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:42:53 +0000

an emtb with the assist off feels like you’re pedaling out of a black hole.