Hacker News: reactormonk

New comment by reactormonk in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

reactormonk — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:46:23 +0000

And some hijacking of the old DotA forums to advertise LoL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439036

New comment by reactormonk in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

reactormonk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:16:53 +0000

I have bad news for you: https://old.reddit.com/r/RentnerfahreninDinge/comments/1qtsg...

New comment by reactormonk in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

reactormonk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:32:30 +0000

> They act like we’re going to war with them when we’re asking for parity and for their self reliance to increase.

Threatening to take over Greenland by force isn't considered "going to war" for you?

New comment by reactormonk in "Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD"

reactormonk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:38:21 +0000

That'll only support L3 DRM, so you'll only get horrible quality and are better off sailing the high seas.

New comment by reactormonk in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

reactormonk — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:48:07 +0000

Shoutout to https://localsend.org/ - it can even open a local webserver if needed.

New comment by reactormonk in "Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English"

reactormonk — Wed, 07 May 2025 05:39:04 +0000

Swiss-German accent doesn't seem to be on the list, so it guessed mostly Swedish.

New comment by reactormonk in "Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline"

reactormonk — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:57:28 +0000

Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.

New comment by reactormonk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)"

reactormonk — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:47:50 +0000

We're a startup building a device which gives seniors access to the digital world, with a card-based interface. We're looking for help with our main product, which is based on Android. Everything's built on Kotlin, rabbitmq & multiplatform compose for the companion app. Bonus points for experience with: BLE, IR, HDMI CEC, NFC, Swift (for the companion app), ansible, German.

If you're interested, send me an email at simon@family.cards

New comment by reactormonk in "America's commute to work is getting longer and longer"

reactormonk — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:45:04 +0000

Population density: - Germany: 239 people/km^2 - Switzerland: 563 people/km^2

Public funding per citizen per year: - Germany: ~200€ (2013, so 250€ with inflation) https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Pools/Forschungsdate... - Switzerland: ~750€ (2024) https://switzerlandtimes.ch/swiss-public-transport-revenues-...

So you have a third of the money, and about half the population density.

New comment by reactormonk in "Web Environment Integrity API Proposal"

reactormonk — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:09:43 +0000

tl;dr: DRM for websites

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

reactormonk — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:09:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305

Points: 639

# Comments: 447

New comment by reactormonk in "Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script"

reactormonk — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 07:35:14 +0000

Or a malicious server trying to detect if you're using `curl | sh` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032

New comment by reactormonk in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

reactormonk — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:18:17 +0000

We're working on a device to allow seniors to access the digital world with a haptic interface. We support video calls / photo sharing / content / telemedicine / exercises to bridge the generational gap in digital services.

https://family.cards

New comment by reactormonk in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

reactormonk — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:56:40 +0000

I'd also be interested in picking your brain. If you happen to have time, send me an email.

New comment by reactormonk in "IodéOS Is Open Source"

reactormonk — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:09:15 +0000

I installed iode onto my FP3, and I could relock the bootloader.

New comment by reactormonk in "Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages"

reactormonk — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:25:39 +0000

I formatted

  { foo = 3, bar = 4, baz = 5, verylongproperty = 6, dunnoneedsmoremore = 7, howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8 }

And it forces the comma at the beginning of the line, Haskell-style:

  { foo = 3
  , bar = 4
  , baz = 5
  , verylongproperty = 6
  , dunnoneedsmoremore = 7
  , howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8
  }

New comment by reactormonk in "Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages"

reactormonk — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:51:42 +0000

You can have trailing commas just fine: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/pull/956

However, `dhall format` is _very_ opinionated, and will remove it.

New comment by reactormonk in "Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages"

reactormonk — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:44:03 +0000

It's great if the system is built directly on top of it, e.g. spago. Not so much if you're trying to type yaml. Dhall is very opinionated, so trying to use it like TypeScript to type an untyped structure is... interesting.

E.g. for Kubernetes: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes

New comment by reactormonk in "Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers"

reactormonk — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:44:50 +0000

> Federal Job Guarantee

Job Guarantee isn't as good of an idea as you'd expect: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...