Hacker News: nullbyte808

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

nullbyte808 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:32:21 +0000

Did not even consider encrypted IRC as an alternative to Matrix or Signal. Or even running my own search engine. Good writeup! Very much for the 1%ers in tech skills.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

nullbyte808 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:01:36 +0000

I know, considering anyone can download music from youtube for free at any time. The same can not be said of books, before AA.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

nullbyte808 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:53:45 +0000

May as well just used pencil and paper. They would have to learn to improve their penmanship too.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

nullbyte808 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:23:26 +0000

"In the United States, if you’re lucky enough to have fiber, you might get 1 Gigabit. But often it’s shared with your neighbors."

Hey this can be good for privacy in a way at least. Your traffic can be from any of your neighbors. I wonder if you can sniff packets from other households?

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

nullbyte808 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:10:12 +0000

Adorable! Maybe a personality that speaks in emojis?

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

nullbyte808 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:56:16 +0000

I would bet in Avalonia UI. It's like WPF but cross-platform. https://avaloniaui.net/

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

nullbyte808 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:41:36 +0000

Is it possible to get the reverse of this working? (Waydroid with play services on Linux phones, such as postmarketOS)

New comment by nullbyte808 in "George Goble has died"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:58:32 +0000

"A striking example of his forward-thinking occurred years ago on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where George-sitting on the sand with a laptop connected via his cell phone-became one of the first people to read email over a mobile connection to a computer at Purdue. As a friend noted, "This was a real bit of history… At the time Apple had a whole engineering team trying to do this and here's George on the beach making it happen.""

Amazing. RIP.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:17:21 +0000

Dear god how do I get these jobs? I'm 35 yo and would work with you and accept your work, not jam crap code into things. I'm open minded and realize when someone's idea or code is better than mine.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:06:02 +0000

Hypothetically what would happen if China took over Tawain and TSMC?

New comment by nullbyte808 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:03:47 +0000

I wonder if the vale of Pixel phones that run GrapheneOS will rise dramatically?

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Doom entirely from DNS records"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:13:40 +0000

Malware could still use DNS records for storage and access to bootstrapped payloads correct?

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Simple Inversion to Defeat Systemd DOB Function"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:02:28 +0000

Does this work?

Simple Inversion to Defeat Systemd DOB Function

nullbyte808 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:02:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/718c63de4d3dc181fa088183af157faae72688ab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534322

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Why I love NixOS"

nullbyte808 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:36:45 +0000

I almost switched back to Fedora Bazzite to get a working gamescope, but realized I can get HDR in sway and its actually more stable than Valve's mess of gamescope. Even though I have to use "--unsupported-gpu" flag, my Nvidia card works wonders in Sway, where as gamescope gives me a blinking cursor and segfaults.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Why I love NixOS"

nullbyte808 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:31:44 +0000

Some things are not that simple and nix options come in handy automating other packages and services needed.

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Why I love NixOS"

nullbyte808 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:30:15 +0000

also the AI hallucinating nix options. I have to constantly check https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Why I love NixOS"

nullbyte808 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:28:39 +0000

I recently fixed the pipewire audio stutters by just giving gemini my flake and asking how to fix it. It suggested a few fixes and low and behold they were gone! Here's my flake with impermanence + yubikey login: https://github.com/leonewt0n/nixos

Never Before Seen Spider Looks Like a Leaf

nullbyte808 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spiders-leaves-china-camouflage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296596

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nullbyte808 in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

nullbyte808 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:38:14 +0000

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.