Hacker News: torh

New comment by torh in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

torh — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:15:57 +0000

Same for me. Slackware (I guess 4.0) and E16 was my first proper Linux installation. Learned so much during that time.

New comment by torh in "A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck"

torh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:03:59 +0000

I remember playing GTA I with a 3DFX card. Man that was smooth. When I later played at a friends house, I was disappointed about how choppy it was.

New comment by torh in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

torh — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:37:41 +0000

I hope so. The other books have been great fun to read, with the detour of CP-SYSTEM as a nice surprise.

New comment by torh in "DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved"

torh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:40:26 +0000

> Without DNS, you'd need to memorize IP addresses for every website.

This used to be true until virtual hosting came along, allowing for several domains to point to the same IP address, but only for non-HTTPS traffic. Then a bit later we got SNI (Server Name Indication) that did the same thing for HTTPS.

I remember having web servers with 10-12 public IP adresses when I started working. The number of IPv4 addresses needed has been greatly reduced since.

New comment by torh in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

torh — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:55:28 +0000

Was on the frontpage yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759

New comment by torh in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

torh — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:01:14 +0000

I started using the Berluti knot last year, and it has never failed me. It takes a bit longer to tie, but it has never failed me. It is also easy to get undone without making another knot out of itself.

The Secure variant seems to be a slightly easier/quicker knot. I might give it a try. :)

New comment by torh in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

torh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:02:15 +0000

https://torh.net

I have a plan of making it a "proper" webpage with more sub-pages for hobbies and such. But right now its a 90's style page with some info and a lot of links.

New comment by torh in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

torh — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:54:00 +0000

I read this as an ownership issue, where Meta owns your content as long as you post on Facebook or Instagram, and has nothing to do with LLMs.

New comment by torh in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

torh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:27:41 +0000

I have a Roborock S5, and when I don't use the mop, I just remove the mop AND the water tank. And without the water tank it never gets stuck in doors.

New comment by torh in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

torh — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:33:52 +0000

I quit my 50% discount after realizing that if I don't watch it anyways.

Funny thing though. When I cancelled my subscription, they offered me 50% off for a month or something like that.

New comment by torh in "XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox"

torh — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:28:27 +0000

Still have the original Xbox, working like a charm. Not sure which version of XBMC it has, but the internal disk is full of old series and movies.

Still has a share on my computer mapped up, but the original Xbox can't keep up with the big files.

New comment by torh in "How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"

torh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:10:09 +0000

Or from the Seinfeld episode "The Pool Guy" (Aired November 1995) which had a fictional movie called "Chunnel" -- probably based on the very same channel tunnel.

New comment by torh in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

torh — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:35:00 +0000

The thing isn't done until the thing is done.

New comment by torh in "Sci-Hub has been blocked in India"

torh — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:50:07 +0000

This site is blocked at my workplace as well. A message from FortiGate says: "Category: Illegal or Unethical"

New comment by torh in "America by Design"

torh — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:39:51 +0000

If I had to make a list of global brands, Trump would not make it. I do not think about it as a brand. And when I hear the name I get a bad feeling.

New comment by torh in "My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?"

torh — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:21:03 +0000

I bought a Philips many years ago, and it was perfect until an update suddenly gave me a lot of crap (ads) on the home screen.

Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away.

It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.

New comment by torh in "Norway: Electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in 'historic milestone'"

torh — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:08:40 +0000

Norwegian here. While I do not have an electic car myself (yet), I would more or less agree that roughly half of the cars I see on the road (in my area) are electric.

There are a lot of Teslas (easy to spot), but also cars like Volkswagen Golf where you basically can't see the difference unless you either check the registration number (most of the electical cars have a plate that begins with EB, EC, EE, EV, ...) or notice that there is no air intake in the front grill.

New comment by torh in "My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage"

torh — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:06:13 +0000

Wonder how long Windows 7 will last for him. I have Windows 8.1 at home (not my daily driver, for that I use Linux), and Google Chrome is no longer updated. Nor is much else. But it works for my tasks, which is Lightroom (the last one that was not subscription I guess).

New comment by torh in "Poor Man's Web"

torh — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:15:52 +0000

1) Haven't really checked, but...

2) I have a fixed IPv4 address, and a dynamic IPv6. So far the latter also seems to be fairly stable, and I host my webpages on both IPv4 and IPv6 these days.

My server is a ThinkPad X240 with VMware ESXi which in turn host Ubuntu for SSH, Web, etc... And a Pi-hole VM just to block the "wost" of the internet.

New comment by torh in "Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C"

torh — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 15:41:45 +0000

I like the extensive way Antirez has commented the data structures (and the rest of the codebase), something that was missing in the ptext code.