Hacker News: paxcoder

New comment by paxcoder in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

paxcoder — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:34:13 +0000

Modifiability does not imply insecurity (though if it did, the user should still be given a choice).

A software author has the right to set terms for use of their software, including requiring that manufacturers provide end users certain freedoms.

New comment by paxcoder in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

paxcoder — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:58:57 +0000

Unfortunately, Torvalds supported tivoization: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/289

New comment by paxcoder in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

paxcoder — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:38:59 +0000

They are also used to exclude control speech and exclude certain people https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...

New comment by paxcoder in "Unison 1.0"

paxcoder — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:29:10 +0000

Hi. I don't know if you'll see this (I'm banned, so someone will have to upvote me if you have showdead off), but I would like to know what languages you personally like the most, or which ideas do you think a perfect language should have?

New comment by paxcoder in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

paxcoder — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:17:31 +0000

From the article:

>Another important note - some binary blobs and other non-free software components are used today in PebbleOS and the Pebble mobile app (ex: the heart rate sensor on PT2 , Memfault library, and others). Optional non-free web services, like Wispr-flow API speech recognizer, are also used. These non-free software components are not required - you can compile and run Pebble watch software without them. This will always be the case. More non-free software components may appear in our software in the future. The core Pebble watch software stack (everything you need to use your Pebble watch) will always be open source.

100% should mean 100%

New comment by paxcoder in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

paxcoder — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:11:43 +0000

So not 100% open source. Thanks for the info

New comment by paxcoder in ".NET 10"

paxcoder — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:25:42 +0000

I can confirm that (several years ago at least) free PDF libraries were lacking, and Telerik was always non-free.

However, aren't Moq, Avalonia and MassTransit free software?

As for Automapper and MediatR, their owner changed from a free software license to only an open source one (Reciprocal Public License), but these are probably the simplest libraries of the ones you mentioned and have either been forked (MagicMapper) or have alternatives.

New comment by paxcoder in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

paxcoder — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:01:22 +0000

Have you heard about Safing's "SPN"? Could you comment on that?

New comment by paxcoder in "Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease"

paxcoder — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:44:48 +0000

But this is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619241

New comment by paxcoder in "Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows"

paxcoder — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:06:25 +0000

Touched upon here: https://forums.swift.org/t/xtool-cross-platform-xcode-replac...

We need to get EU on this case.

New comment by paxcoder in "Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits"

paxcoder — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:30:13 +0000

While I appreciate criticizing bloat (why are we packing Chromium in every app again?), I would like to warn against watching every "pound". Images, for example, "weigh" a lot more than code but that doesn't mean they don't serve a purpose and add value.

That being said, the fact that quick maths can give you a 6 orders of magnitude difference between functional code and the package is probably reason for concern.

New comment by paxcoder in "Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp"

paxcoder — Mon, 26 May 2025 20:15:51 +0000

Yay

New comment by paxcoder in "Project Operation Whitecoat (2010)"

paxcoder — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:10:08 +0000

Christianity opposes abortion in accord with the prohibition of murder, what with science informing us that human life begins at conception and our consciences, and God's moral law recorded in good book that murder i wrong.

I notice you use the word choice and classify the pro-life position s "anti-choice" which makes it seem like a bad thing. However the "choice we are talking about here is directly and intentionlly causing death to an innocent human being. I think it is very important to understnd that.

To borrow an atheist trope, you and I agree that murder is evil and immoral in most cases. I just think it's wrong in one more case, when the victims are yet unborn too (I reckon murder is intrinsically evil and immoral)

New comment by paxcoder in "Show HN: FlakeUI"

paxcoder — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:01:54 +0000

I think it would be pretty nice to be able to use the keyboard to navigate the UI (left/right arrow keys to "orbit the content", up/down to "zoom").

Using a pointer, I'd prefer to just be able to click on the oval to zoom into, maybe double-click to zoom back out a level, use the back button to go to the place I came from.

New comment by paxcoder in "Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024"

paxcoder — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:44:59 +0000

Jai has been in development for a decade. I would appreciate if it were finally open-sourced.

New comment by paxcoder in "The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++"

paxcoder — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:25:45 +0000

I can't find `timegm` neither in the C99 standard draft nor in POSIX.1-2024.

The first sentence of your link reads:

>The C/Unix time- and date-handling API is a confusing jungle full of the corpses of failed experiments and various other traps for the unwary, many of them resulting from design decisions that may have been defensible when the originals were written but appear at best puzzling today.

New comment by paxcoder in "Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia"

paxcoder — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:33:08 +0000

While the situation with tracking in the West is awful, there's a huge difference between having a choice, however impractical, and being spied on in secret.

New comment by paxcoder in "Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS"

paxcoder — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:46:19 +0000

Title makes it seem as if you writr typesafe SQL, but you really use a builder which generates SQL for you.

I was expecting something more like sqlx, which I believe provides compile-time checking for SQL queries without a DSL, but for Rust

New comment by paxcoder in "The ambiguous witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014)"

paxcoder — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:20:35 +0000

The Catholic Church teaches that we cannot do evil so that good may come out of it. It cannot be the means as in abortion. It could only be tolerated as an undesirable consequence of a good act such as self-defense. But unless one is in immediate danger from the agressor, I do not see how one can use deadly force. Whether the partisan action is legitimate self-defense I cannot say, I didn't actually look into this, but the disposition of treating whst you believe is a sin as a good essentially, and hoping for forgiveness without repentance, that is evil.

New comment by paxcoder in "Sanding UI"

paxcoder — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:44:13 +0000

Might be a good idea to record clicks that have no associated action. If you could display all of such clicks visually, the problem might become obvious.