Hacker News: smoyer

New comment by smoyer in "Music for Programming"

smoyer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:06:08 +0000

For real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.

New comment by smoyer in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

smoyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:52:40 +0000

If this site actually provided privacy-preserving recommendations, there are many of us in the U.S. who would (or should?) also be interested in these services. Sadly, this is SPAM.

New comment by smoyer in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

smoyer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:40:45 +0000

"At the time, MySQL existed ..."

You had to be careful with MySQL back then as constraints were syntactic sugar but not enforced. PostgreSQL was indeed much tougher to manage but more full-featured.

New comment by smoyer in "ARM to make processors for first time in their history"

smoyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:35:11 +0000

Too late ...

New comment by smoyer in "Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters"

smoyer — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:32:43 +0000

That is very close to a half-length shipping container.

New comment by smoyer in "SSH Secret Menu"

smoyer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:54:26 +0000

HN as a tabloid ... After all enquiring minds want to know!

A priest helped her see her drinking problem. Talks with Jesus kept her sober

smoyer — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/health/religion-addiction-recovery-wellness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217846

Points: 1

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New comment by smoyer in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

smoyer — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:41:43 +0000

I was part of Omaze and can definitely empathize with the amount of work charitable fund raising takes and the amount of heartache that come from seeing under needs. Thanks for your hard work!

New comment by smoyer in "STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter"

smoyer — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:12:28 +0000

Great article and it really takes me back to my past! I was fortunate enough to always have a VM700 or equivalent to assess the quality of my modulators but one low channel isn't it of reach. One quibble with:

> After realizing that broadcast television uses negative modulation ...

NTSC is actually vestigial side-band so while it's easy to notice the modulation below the carrier, the low frequencies which include the sync information are also present above the carrier with the effect of having twice the modulated power.

New comment by smoyer in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

smoyer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:04:07 +0000

Here's the one I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.

New comment by smoyer in "Vouch"

smoyer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:41:44 +0000

Look at ERC-8004

New comment by smoyer in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"

smoyer — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:22:43 +0000

My agents gave to run pre-commit before calling a coding tag done. In this case, it's just a robust set of checks.

New comment by smoyer in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

smoyer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:45:23 +0000

I designed a security dongle a long time ago ... Used properly, it did rotations and XORs like a CRC. You could definitely make it hard to defeat but it was still ultimately deterministic.

New comment by smoyer in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

smoyer — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:37:45 +0000

When I was in high school, we were not allowed to use calculator for most science classes ... And certainly not for math class. I'm ten years, will you want to hire a student who is coming out of college without considerable experience and practice with AI?

New comment by smoyer in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

smoyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:19:09 +0000

This is a pretty clear emergent pattern. An OSS alternative is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail.

New comment by smoyer in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

smoyer — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:33:33 +0000

You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.

New comment by smoyer in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

smoyer — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:30:22 +0000

When Zoom took the world by storm due to the pandemic, they're security was known to be horrible. They aquihired the keybase team who are crypto experts and this presumably had some measure of positive effect.

Ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math

smoyer — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/science/halafian-pottery-first-math-intl-scli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654657

Points: 5

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New comment by smoyer in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

smoyer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:06:01 +0000

I agree that this probably isn't in their own interests but "because I refuse to do business with a company that takes its customers for granted" should be heavily qualified. My power company is taking advantage of me but so far I haven't had the nerve to fire them.

New comment by smoyer in "Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak"

smoyer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:39:20 +0000

I wish a couple of those paragraphs were on the home page!