Hacker News: phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phmxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:56:46 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Creepy Crawlies"]]>I guess GitHub is in a similar bunch of sources, it should be also more efficient to crawl by cloning. Anyway, isn’t it the whole sales pitch that it generates tailored solutions fast?

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:14:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499421phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499421<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"]]>The Metals documentation includes instructions for setting it up with Emacs. I followed them, and everything works, including worksheets.

https://scalameta.org/metals/docs/editors/emacs

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:34:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018499phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018499<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"]]>The code we've shipped throughout our careers certainly wasn't reviewed only by us. It was reviewed by programmers with more expertise in the relevant area. That's a healthy and efficient division of labor, expertise, and responsibility.

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:38:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904699phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904699<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Forestiere Underground Gardens"]]>This reminds of a moisture farm from the Star Wars — https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lars_homestead

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:45:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746687phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746687https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746687<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"]]>On a tangential point, one thing that should definitely not be possible for apps these days is determining whether you enabled a VPN. AFAIK, it’s possible indirectly in iOS by enumerating network interfaces with specific/telling names.

]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:21:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620716phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620716<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"]]>Looks similar to the halting problem to me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem)

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:52:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791256phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791256<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"]]>> Polynomials are for people who think AGI is "decades away."

Je suis un polynôme

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:32:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974742phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974742<![CDATA[Docker 4.58 CPU spiking to high values by running lsof]]>Article URL: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7839

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807646

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:15:40 +0000https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7839phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807646<![CDATA[Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua]]>Article URL: https://xmake.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753037

Points: 87

# Comments: 38

]]>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:12:47 +0000https://xmake.io/phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753037https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753037<![CDATA[When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug]]>Article URL: https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/ruby-ffi-gc-bug-hash-becomes-string/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810223

Points: 137

# Comments: 62

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:36:49 +0000https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/ruby-ffi-gc-bug-hash-becomes-string/phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810223<![CDATA[Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine]]>Article URL: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951620

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:57:59 +0000https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseractphmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951620<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"]]>And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottainai I guess

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 07:51:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316388phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316388<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "DuckDB as the New jq"]]>There is also a way to import a table from the STDIN (see also https://duckdb.org/docs/data/json/overview)

cat my.json | duckdb -c "CREATE TABLE mytbl AS SELECT * FROM read_json_auto('/dev/stdin'); SELECT ... FROM mytbl"

]]>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:28:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788845phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788845https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788845<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)"]]>There's been a writeup on this topic by the Fly team -- https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

]]>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:54:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34969280phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34969280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34969280<![CDATA[New comment by phmx in "Roskomvoboda's statement on disabling services for Russian citizens [pdf]"]]>English translation starting from page 7.

]]>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:36:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613025phmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613025<![CDATA[Roskomvoboda's statement on disabling services for Russian citizens [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://roskomsvoboda.org/uploads/documents/statement_of_roskomsvoboda_team.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613024

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

]]>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:36:46 +0000https://roskomsvoboda.org/uploads/documents/statement_of_roskomsvoboda_team.pdfphmxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613024