Hacker News: strunz

New comment by strunz in "FracturedJson"

strunz — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:20:13 +0000

Generally much larger for the same date and not readable unless using something that indents. Even then, I'd argue it's still less legible.

New comment by strunz in "Go away Python"

strunz — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:24:54 +0000

I swear the only the people who care about Python types are on Hacker News comments. I've never actually worked with or met someone who cared so much about it, and the ones that care at all seem just fine with type hints.

New comment by strunz in "iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency"

strunz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:25:33 +0000

There's been a "reduce transparency" toggle under Accessibility settings forever and it's exactly what you want.

New comment by strunz in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

strunz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:13:55 +0000

The article wasn't about the outage happening, it was about the amount of time it took to even discover what the problem was. Seems logical to assume that could be because there aren't many people left who know how all the systems connect.

New comment by strunz in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

strunz — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:41:39 +0000

Have you tried copying the files to the local disk before importing?

New comment by strunz in "Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?"

strunz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:34:08 +0000

That's not the definition of insanity.

New comment by strunz in "Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes"

strunz — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:25:37 +0000

That defeats the whole point of this issue. These uses are fair use, they shouldn't have to license anything. You can't teach music without playing it, Youtube is just allowing rights holders to make claims without any evidence or punishment for being wrong.

New comment by strunz in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

strunz — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:31:33 +0000

Bummer you can't host it yourself

New comment by strunz in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

strunz — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 01:58:59 +0000

Have to agree. I've tried multiple times to replace my. edison FiOS router with different Edgerouters and none of them have been able to compare to the Gigabit speeds I get with the Verizon router. I'm not even using wifi, just want a simple router with a firewall and port forwarding that can compare to my $12/mo one from Verizon. I troubleshooted each for a eeek tweaking hardware acceleration and other knobs, but they couldn't keep up. I think people don't compare and test and just assume it's just as good, but it isn't.

New comment by strunz in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

strunz — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:31:03 +0000

Site is down, mirror - https://archive.is/Mxfcp

Project's Github - https://github.com/nexo-tech/localwave

New comment by strunz in "Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table"

strunz — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:37:52 +0000

Love this idea, wish I could pipe a CSV right to the tool though!

New comment by strunz in "I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)"

strunz — Tue, 13 May 2025 02:20:40 +0000

Eh, part of assessing the vulnerability is how deep it goes. Showing that there were no gates or roadblocks to accessing all the data is a valid thing to research, otherwise they can later say "oh we hade rate limiting in place" or "we had network vulnerability scanners which would've prevented a wholesale leak".

New comment by strunz in "New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place"

strunz — Sat, 10 May 2025 03:45:27 +0000

Would be worth adding this as an FAQ on the page. Great job btw.

EDIT: Would also be really cool to define what each field means, if you're gonna reimplement everything anyways, why not make it as user friendly as possible.

New comment by strunz in "Nevermind, an album on major chords"

strunz — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:28:50 +0000

Yes, Kurt falls into the "obviously knows music theory without knowing what things are called". He played by ear and had a gift for melody and chord tones. Rick Beato has great videos about Nirvana and Kurt's very sophisticated ear - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0&pp=ygUNYmVhdG8gbml...

New comment by strunz in "Regex Isn't Hard (2023)"

strunz — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:03:23 +0000

Agreed, I wanted to write the whole article off after that suggestion. That is such a terrible anti pattern that would confuse everyone who looked at it, even people with decades of experience.

New comment by strunz in "The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith""

strunz — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:38:07 +0000

We really couldn't get the name of the person whose face has been accidentally in a movie that's part of one of the great pieces of pop culture on modern history? Was really more interested to know who it was, what exactly he was doing, and what he thinks about it.

New comment by strunz in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

strunz — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:57:13 +0000

The fact that the data showed only 6% of Metal songs having power chords should've told him to throw the data out the window. UG has terrible tabs/charts.

New comment by strunz in "That's a Lot of YAML"

strunz — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:51:52 +0000

That's a really odd reason to prefer something used as a configuration language where readability is important.

New comment by strunz in "Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course"

strunz — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:49:37 +0000

Yeah this is an ad

New comment by strunz in "XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal"

strunz — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:30:13 +0000

Yep, been using csvkit for years and it's so great. There's nothing I haven't been able to do, is there some reason to use Xan instead?