Hacker News: phelm

New comment by phelm in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"

phelm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:52:48 +0000

A demo https://codepen.io/editor/phelm/pen/019e87f5-dfec-7372-9849-...

New comment by phelm in "Can I run AI locally?"

phelm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:13:52 +0000

This is awesome, it would be great to cross reference some intelligence benchmarks so that I can understand the trade off between RAM consumption, token rate and how good the model is

New comment by phelm in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

phelm — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:03:50 +0000

could you just add "!.gitkeep" to .gitignore?

New comment by phelm in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

phelm — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:35:45 +0000

Heres the chat https://chatgpt.com/share/696ac45b-70d8-8003-9ca4-320151e081...

New comment by phelm in "Code and Let Live"

phelm — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:39:21 +0000

This looks great, i've been wanting a dev sandbox that doesn't run the risk of costing a lot if I forget to turn it off.

I had a few issues

1. manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

suspect this is due to it inheriting locale from my local machine? easy to get around with some updates to .bashrc

2. the $SHELL environment in my sprite is `/opt/homebrew/bin/fish` I use fish on my local (mac + homebrew) machine and it seems to have inherited from my local machine, its nice to be using fish in the sprite, but seems weird that $SHELL in the sprite points to non-existent path. Slightly concerning that a local env var is being transferred to a remote machine without my explicit permission, I have some sensitive env vars locally.

New comment by phelm in "RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js"

phelm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:56:51 +0000

More detail in the React Blog post here https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab...

New comment by phelm in "An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting"

phelm — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:59:14 +0000

New comment by phelm in "PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting"

phelm — Sat, 10 May 2025 09:24:56 +0000

I love this, could you add a licence for the cli code?

New comment by phelm in "Intentionally Blank Page"

phelm — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:53:08 +0000

Wikipedia's blank page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage

New comment by phelm in "Apple Vision Pro review"

phelm — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:29:34 +0000

Seems fun that most of the huge engineering effort seems to have gone into making the device feel as if its not there, Passthrough, Persona, EyeSight, and most of the downsides in the review comes from the fact that the device is still there.

The device is a simulation of the dream device that can overlay UI on top of your vision without you looking any different to those around you, I wonder how far away that is.

New comment by phelm in "Games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen (2022)"

phelm — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:36:27 +0000

>How did they do it? As it turns out, crime. Unable to reverse engineer the chip, Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip, claiming it was necessary for a lawsuit. With the code in hand, Tengen could make their own clone with ease. And Tengen was going to sue Nintendo for antitrust violations, so they probably figured they could get away with it.

Brilliant

New comment by phelm in "A clever “perpetual motion” device [video]"

phelm — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:12:38 +0000

I thought it was going to be a railgun

New comment by phelm in "The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions"

phelm — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:27:27 +0000

Should read “The richest 10 percent”

New comment by phelm in "Negative developer comments about Agile and Scrum on social media"

phelm — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:03:38 +0000

I dont see many suggestions of a better way to do things. We can always find the flaws in the way things are but that doesnt mean they’re not optimal. When I learned this the first time it was just either agile or waterfall, if agile is so bad are we saying that waterfall would be better for all these situations?

My opinion is that agile needs to be agile, in that we have to adapt ways of working based on the team’s situation, what were working on, how well resourced we are … and have agility to change how we do things to optimise our work based on those constraints.

There is no such thing as a healthy ultra-processed product (2011)

phelm — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wphna.org/htdocs/2011_aug_wn4_cam9.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682257

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by phelm in "Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981)"

phelm — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:16:33 +0000

Real nice nostalgia flicking through this

New comment by phelm in "North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies"

phelm — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:00:11 +0000

there are quite a lot of accounts from people who have left

New comment by phelm in "Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]"

phelm — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:17:40 +0000

Interesting that the copper wires stuck around, UK's fibre optic rollout still ongoing not to be completed til 2026 or later

New comment by phelm in "Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?"

phelm — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:13:42 +0000

Dan Abramov - Hot Reloading with Time Travel https://youtu.be/xsSnOQynTHs

New comment by phelm in "Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words"

phelm — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:29:39 +0000

Didn't someone once set the PETA website to #BEEEEF