Hacker News: rookderby

New comment by rookderby in "The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?"

rookderby — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:32:26 +0000

Reddit is one of the domains I block using StepenBlack's hosts list [0].

Here is some background info on the act from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fakes_Act.

[0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/readme.md

New comment by rookderby in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

rookderby — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:24:41 +0000

I'm still schlepping around with various used thinkpads. Maybe we get another HP Dev One that sells well this time.

New comment by rookderby in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

rookderby — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:34:44 +0000

I've installed two KDE+Tumbleweed machines in the past two days. One for a friend into retro gaming and the other time for older family into solitaire/youtube. KDE is an easy drop-in for Windows. If you have a better recommendation than Tumbleweed for new people, I'm open to looking into it, but so far it's been easy and I'll probably be the one to support it.

New comment by rookderby in "KDE launches its own distribution"

rookderby — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:43:00 +0000

Flatpak works pretty well. I try to prioritize my distribution's repositories but some software is not packaged. I've taken the easy way out and installed the flatpak. I guess I could go and package them, but I've been too lazy so far.

New comment by rookderby in "Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure"

rookderby — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:25:43 +0000

Beautiful visuals. I'd like something to dock with.

New comment by rookderby in "F-35s Deploying to Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions with Venezuela"

rookderby — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:23:37 +0000

F-35s are probable the wrong tool. A-10s, send more A-10s.

New comment by rookderby in "Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist"

rookderby — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:09:06 +0000

I like this tool a lot and think it's superior to my own automation tools to generate giant host file blocklists. So, I'll be looking into switching to sinkzone. That said, my understanding is that applications can still make direct connections where an application connects using an IP address (without looking it up via DNS). I guess I use firewalls for that but haven't gotten around to adjusting anything from the defaults. Also could use a reverse proxy but haven't taken the time to set one of those up yet either. Does anyone have recommendations for a 'second step' on the network security path? Setup a PF router?

New comment by rookderby in "Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]"

rookderby — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:16:08 +0000

I'm in favor of spending more resources on research projects like building a probe to intercept one of these interstellar objects. It would be worth the investment to go and see, and it looks like the Vera Rubin will give us several targets.

New comment by rookderby in "2025 ARRL Field Day"

rookderby — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:04:04 +0000

Today/tonight is the 2025 ARRL Field day. Come find a ham to talk to.

2025 ARRL Field Day

rookderby — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:04:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arrl.org/field-day

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407245

Points: 131

# Comments: 38

New comment by rookderby in "How many supernova explode every year?"

rookderby — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:57:10 +0000

First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN2050aaaaaah'!

New comment by rookderby in "Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity"

rookderby — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:07:53 +0000

TFA lists C at number 3 per the Tiobe ranking and the linked Tiobe report has Ruby at #24. I tried to find a different list for comparison as I dont think that is true for projects at large. This project [1] for instance tracks github repositories with Ruby at #8 and C at #9 which is closer to what I expected (both in the top-fifteen, neither in the top-three). At least it confirms my bias, and maybe we learn more about who is being surveyed.

[1] https://madnight.github.io/githut/

New comment by rookderby in "Crystal 1.16.0"

rookderby — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:19:14 +0000

What was the library?

New comment by rookderby in "Crystal 1.16.0"

rookderby — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:09:01 +0000

May be time to dust off that raylib + crystal project and go try a game jam. I think I'll use this wrapper https://github.com/sol-vin/raylib-cr

New comment by rookderby in "A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system"

rookderby — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:28:56 +0000

Please call your representatives and senators. https://5calls.org/ offers some scripts if you're unsure of what to say.

New comment by rookderby in "National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce"

rookderby — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:25:22 +0000

Please call your representatives and senators. https://5calls.org/ offers some scripts if you're unsure of what to say.

New comment by rookderby in "America's Dangerous Movement Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy"

rookderby — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:30:27 +0000

Watch this [0] interview with a former USAID diector. He states you dont blow up the organization and attack the non-political civil servants, you install a director that works with you on your policies. Also their IG was investigating starlink, which may be related and is certainly a conflict of interest [1].

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/former-usaid-administrator...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...

New comment by rookderby in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

rookderby — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:51:10 +0000

A couple days late, but its still 2024. Here's mine, I'll go back and check in a year. I'll try and do at least 10 predictions for future laughs. In 2025, we will:

* Extract more crude oil than in any year in history.

* Produce more steel than in any year in history.

* Not produce more cement than in any year in history.

* Install more solar capacity than in any year in history.

* See a US federal government funded by CRs (no budget will be passed).

* Experience power outages worldwide from a CME.

* See the US officially declare war on more than one country to export immigrants.

* See the AMOC measurably weaken and cause flooding on the Eastern coast of the US.

* See me sell my first game or application.

* See an end to the war in the Ukraine, with Russia gaining the Donbas region.

* Go crazy with the Steam Deck 2.

* Observe that a keyboard left unattended next to my 5 year old will result in key mashing. * [o[p 8.ikomt,j8mhykufvgvjlrdl,kersrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkjkkkjkjjkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk777777777777771111111111111111110000000000000000333333333333333123456789012356789w23536376376276217111111111111111654321`1234567890-z/.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,;GFV

New comment by rookderby in "Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler"

rookderby — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:08:23 +0000

Alex is doing some great work.

New comment by rookderby in "Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer"

rookderby — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:03:00 +0000

Hackaday also has an article up talking about how Prusa Core has dropped its' open hardware hardware licensing seen in other Prusa products.

[0]: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/with-core-one-prusas-open-so...