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New comment by tn1 in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"

tn1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:48:10 +0000

And don't forget the venerable .NET Forms with its kilobytes of __VIEWSTATE

New comment by tn1 in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

tn1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:58:35 +0000

A couple other people mentioned ClearCase which has something similar if you use their NFS based thing, you could see file or directory history and info by accessing something like `foo.c@@/versions/5` (which isn't ordinarily visible when listing its directory). Pretty nifty.

Your workspaces were also copy-on-write from the base file revisions you were using.

New comment by tn1 in "Chess in SQL"

tn1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:24:35 +0000

DuckDB and Microsoft Access (!) have a PIVOT keyword (possibly others too). The latter is of course limited but the former is pretty robust - I've been able to use it for all I've needed.

New comment by tn1 in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

tn1 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:05:00 +0000

While not talked about on HN as much, the big corps doing monorepo use something like Perforce which has "protects" tables allowing very granular access control

New comment by tn1 in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

tn1 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:31:05 +0000

WHMCS is probably the easiest batteries-included tool for the job, giving billing, management, and a customer support portal. These could be unbundled or reinvented but for your average hosting company there's no point in doing so.

New comment by tn1 in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

tn1 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 02:13:21 +0000

It's C++ programs in a Userscript format, which are compiled with a bundled instance of clang. Windhawk shows diffs of version changes, and most programs aren't much longer than a couple dozen lines, so pretty easy to visually verify

New comment by tn1 in "Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies"

tn1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:10:49 +0000

It happens to me on many sites too, I'm not sure what causes it. Seems to mostly happen in Firefox iOS

New comment by tn1 in "Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication"

tn1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:47:48 +0000

Schwab supports Symantec VIP but there's a python package to emulate it, which will give you a regular TOTP setup code.

New comment by tn1 in "Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers"

tn1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:23:54 +0000

And it's not even all of the government, plenty of counties and even their departments have random domains leaving you wondering if it's just an elaborate phishing attempt

New comment by tn1 in "LINQPad 8 for macOS"

tn1 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:57:46 +0000

I love LINQPad and happily pay for the license.

My hope is that once he figures out the CLR host for Mac that he'll also come out with a Linux version of LPRun, since I want to automate some of my scripts on a cheap Linux VPS instead of a local windows scheduled task on my PC

New comment by tn1 in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)"

tn1 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:39:41 +0000

Many older .NET applications saved programmers from this by providing "C# scripts". The framework includes the compiler and then it's trivial to use the compiled artifact. You can still do it by including the Roslyn libraries. I don't see it as much anymore, or it's some half-baked Python or Lua interface.

New comment by tn1 in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

tn1 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:02:39 +0000

Shortcuts is pretty hard to use but it is possible to POST. Here's one of my shortcuts https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/81229c80b3ec4c32bec866e2b8f...

New comment by tn1 in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

tn1 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:37:25 +0000

As a fellow 2012 Denon owner (AVR 3313) you can probably remove the RPi and just use HTTP. Just use devtools on your browser to do an action in the web UI and see what request it sends, then replicate it in shortcuts.

And there's a internet radio capability built in - you have to pay $20 or so a year for it but it should be easy enough to set up a competing service since it uses unencrypted HTTP - probably just a matter of reimplementing the protocol and then DNS redirect.

New comment by tn1 in "ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface"

tn1 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:53:12 +0000

I guess you could say this is the modern version of the TV Typewriter: https://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/tvtcb.pdf

New comment by tn1 in "Another Silicon Valley institution died spring of 2019: Halted/HSC"

tn1 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 05:26:13 +0000

I think the archaeology was part of the problem. Through its last days there was a lot of, well, garbage that absolutely nobody would be interested in. Like iPhone 3GS cases c.a. 2018 - who's gonna buy that?

New comment by tn1 in "My journey into personal computer software development in 1983"

tn1 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 05:16:04 +0000

It's still possible, even into places like WordPad. When it's rendered (i.e., when you're not currently editing the embedded item) it becomes a bitmap (at a usually not great resolution). So text in your spreadsheet isn't selectable

New comment by tn1 in "Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs"

tn1 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:18:06 +0000

In the keynote speech Jensen joked about selling a jacuzzi add-on

New comment by tn1 in "Webidx, a client-side search engine for static websites"

tn1 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:27:36 +0000

If your data is small and your needs simple, don't forget about the old school scripts like http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/jse/index.shtml

New comment by tn1 in "DJGPP"

tn1 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:57:26 +0000

The title should be all caps. From this page [1]:

> Note: DJGPP is spelled all upper case when it would normally be capitalized, and all lower case otherwise. It is never correct to spell it ``Djgpp''.

[1] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html

New comment by tn1 in ""Smartifying" my hi-fi system"

tn1 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 08:05:21 +0000

I'm not sure what hifi system OP has, but another way to do this is by emulating the iPod remote mode over USB. It saves a bunch of trouble with emulating files. Denon/Marantz products have supported (and i believe still do) for a very long time