Hacker News: 0pteron

New comment by 0pteron in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

0pteron — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:21:47 +0000

Uh what? Google maps API keys have always been separate and they have always adviced to lock it down to your domain such that others can abuse it.

New comment by 0pteron in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

0pteron — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:17:51 +0000

I don't even know how to make a — my keyboard just has a -

New comment by 0pteron in "Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway"

0pteron — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:32:23 +0000

I've always wanted a watch whose face colors can be changed to fit my outfit. It seems this is doable albeit at the cost of battery but I havent seen any software that allows it

New comment by 0pteron in "Exe.dev"

0pteron — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:04:02 +0000

Why do you think that? the VMs are more like containers so yeah you can run 20 at once but they will all share 2 cpu

New comment by 0pteron in "Exe.dev"

0pteron — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:28:49 +0000

Tried both librewolf and edge and couldn't create a new VM via browser. https://exe.dev/create-vm returns a 303 see other, but then no VM is displayed

New comment by 0pteron in "Nano Banana Pro"

0pteron — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:09:53 +0000

I get this all the time on LibreWolf use Edge/Chrome and make sure not to have any privacy blocking addons.

New comment by 0pteron in "Perkeep – Personal storage system for life"

0pteron — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:26:54 +0000

The logo reminded me of https://github.com/upspin/upspin which is an archived project that is similar in some ways

New comment by 0pteron in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

0pteron — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:23:09 +0000

My senior mother needs this. She doesn't use a computer, but does have a TV a firestick. I've tried showing her how to use the search of youtube but she is too use to how tv use to work and wants to channels to find something.

If this could be made into a firestick app or something and come with a recommendation system, allow some customization using topics instead of channel names and have them be editable and customized to different youtube interests - I would buy it

New comment by 0pteron in "Cloudflare took down our website"

0pteron — Sun, 26 May 2024 23:49:43 +0000

I've done 7TB/mo for many months in a row on the free tier, no issues so far.

New comment by 0pteron in "Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting"

0pteron — Sun, 19 May 2024 18:13:05 +0000

If leaky bucket means "manages burst sizes and burst intervals" then yeah, they are similar in that regard but they do it differently. GCRA is more analogous to a traffic light where its solely time-based and there is no overhead needed to remove/add tokens so you are storing 1 less state object. For all purposes its probably a micro-optimization but being aware how GCRA works can yield less code but perhaps at the expense of obscurity of a lesser known algo.

I think you understand the differences but I think its improper to consider it a variant of leaky bucket as various resources refute

New comment by 0pteron in "Automated integer hash function discovery"

0pteron — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:35:27 +0000

just FYI there are better techniques for finding "minimal perfect hash functions". This is an easy one to implement: https://cmph.sourceforge.net/chd.html

New comment by 0pteron in "Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website"

0pteron — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:19:27 +0000

When I signed up for ad companies they initially showed normal, ad-looking ads. Somewhere down the line it became "Click here" red buttons that used transparent backgrounds so it looked like a button on my site.

It could be the case that the website doesn't know their ad company is allowing these ads.

New comment by 0pteron in "Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards"

0pteron — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:47:17 +0000

Is there not a privacy-respecting font-host besides google? A lot of privacy/ad focused extensions will block these.

New comment by 0pteron in "Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts"

0pteron — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:29:36 +0000

This is surprisingly useful. I was trying to find a very specific podcast about a type of data algorithm and google podcast search just recommended me the wrong type of podcast or couldn't find any. Tried this and it found 9 podcasts that matched what I was after.

Edit: OK they were all articles and not podcasts, so it's possible no one has a podcast about it, but this is still useful

New comment by 0pteron in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

0pteron — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:00:14 +0000

This is tough, one could argue life's work deserved to be backed up but there was a reasonable expectation that the cloud wouldn't lose the data and that Google would be more fair when it wasn't cost effective anymore. Also, the cost of keeping 200TB on the cloud is quite a bill to maintain for rest of your life, buying the HDD space yourself is more attractive.

New comment by 0pteron in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

0pteron — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:49:58 +0000

What the heck, I signed up for an account at the advice of the article just so someone else can't register and looks like they automatically signed me up for a digital checking account. I never wanted this

New comment by 0pteron in "Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers"

0pteron — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:39:55 +0000

Does webmin use no resources when not in use? Couldn't find anything about it on the site

New comment by 0pteron in "Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7"

0pteron — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:12:39 +0000

Is it not the case that having 128 bit primary keys take up 4 times as much memory as 32 bit integers when keeping the indices in RAM? I guess if you need the index to be clustered by time and also need a unique identifier in most queries then UUIDv7 fits your use-case but I still think having integer for the primary key will fit most use cases and be more efficient

New comment by 0pteron in "Tech Independence"

0pteron — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:56:21 +0000

All good until Vultr or any of the services you rely on have to do maintenance (guaranteed to happen at least once in my 10+ years of VPS hosting) or even worse, one of the services loses data (Never happened to me, but I've seen it).

I just want to throw out buyvm.net as a block storage alternative. Not as big as vultr but super reliable and affordable, they have a discord and the owner is great