Hacker News: wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wasting_timeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:42:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad"]]>"Elegant weapons for a more civilized age."

https://xkcd.com/297/

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:59:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646237wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646237<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""]]>https://archive.is/ZSvop

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:03:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636296wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636296https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636296<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"]]>"Meet hot local singles in Moon Orbit today!"

https://xkcd.com/713/

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:59:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624553wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624553<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"]]>Care to elaborate?

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:56:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496818wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496818https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496818<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Why I love NixOS"]]>You can just install Nix on Fedora and grab it from there.

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:56:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485357wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485357https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485357<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Why I love NixOS"]]>The key point is that all such tweaks to the system is managed in a one configuration file. While installing Hyprland may be a one-liner, configuring it and all other services from a single entry point is incredibly liberating.

Reverting changes are guaranteed to not leave behind any cruft, and you don't have to remember what you changed to make X or Y work: it's all visible in the (usually version controlled) system configuration.

Got a new computer? Just copy the configuration and enjoy a bit-identical system in seconds. Have an LLM tweak it and see the changes in the form of git diffs.

Sure, you can do the same with Silverblue and writing Ansible for everything, but it's not free of side effects (unlike Nix).

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:46:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485299wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485299https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485299<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Why I love NixOS"]]>> it's the only game in town

Hey now, LLMs are pretty good at Guix, too.

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:38:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484465wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484465<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Why I love NixOS"]]>No. To gain that level of control you need a declarative distro.

Immutability and rollbacks are merely nice side effects of the Nix model.

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:14:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484284wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484284<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records"]]>If anything, the POSIX passwd specification should be updated to include age instead of introducing yet another dependency on systemd for something that affects the entire ecosystem.

]]>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:06:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471360wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471360https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471360<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"]]>I install from F-Droid when possible. It has less noise, and all apps are free as in software.

There are some true gems such as:

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:37:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446591wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446591https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446591<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Have a fucking website"]]>The VPS should just be their home router, and then have the ISP provide the domain name.

Uploading the web site could be a discovered Samba or NFS share.

Hopefully IPv6 can make self hosting viable again.

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:08:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424681wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424681<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"]]>Which things do not "just work"?

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415239wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415239<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Returning to Rails in 2026"]]>Likely a typo of State Of The Art.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:42:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348860wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348860<![CDATA[Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks]]>Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-filesystems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287032

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:24:39 +0000https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-filesystemswasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287032https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287032<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "MacBook Air with M5"]]>I wonder how many more sales Apple would get if they published enough specs to make Asahi et.al. first-class.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:04:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235359wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235359<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"]]>I thought Celeste was a solo project of Maddy Thorson [0] before reading this piece.

0: https://maddymakesgames.com/

Fans of Celeste will almost certainly enjoy the local multiplayer game Towerfall by the same developers.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:58:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219639wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219639<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"]]>MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System".

Things only went downhill from there.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:42:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217858wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217858<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"]]>With the enormous budgets we allocate in the name of "national security", this is exactly the kind of work I expect TLAs to do.

Instead we have come to expect them to cowardly sit on exploits, or actively introduce them, rather than working to secure the general public from adversaries.

What a mess.

]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:30:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170864wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170864https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170864<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine"]]>Why?

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:51:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128615wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128615https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128615<![CDATA[New comment by wasting_time in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"]]>For servers you might want to try 'guix deploy':

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:19:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837962wasting_timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837962