Hacker News: BigTuna

New comment by BigTuna in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

BigTuna — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:09:41 +0000

In addition to Eurosky there's also Blacksky, Northsky, and Anisota. Plus dozens of other non-microblogging apps. AT is growing pretty quickly now.

New comment by BigTuna in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

BigTuna — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:13 +0000

An unfortunate step backwards. I'm cheering for Eurosky and open networks.

New comment by BigTuna in "Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein"

BigTuna — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:52:47 +0000

Great job! 14 is misleading though - while the context is one day, the animation depicts axial precession which takes place over ~26,000 years

New comment by BigTuna in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

BigTuna — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:49:12 +0000

I reverse proxy everything through a Caddy instance running on the same machine so I avoid the firewall dance entirely by just prefixing all my port assignments in the compose file with the loopback IP (eg. 127.0.0.1:3000:3000). Nftables denies all but 80 and 443 and I don't have to worry about restarts/flushes breaking things.

New comment by BigTuna in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

BigTuna — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:28:52 +0000

1980s even. It takes a while to siphon off all the value built up by multiple generations.

New comment by BigTuna in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

BigTuna — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:37:03 +0000

Welcome to late stage capitalism

New comment by BigTuna in "Open Social"

BigTuna — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:07:46 +0000

There are already working alternate implementations of every protocol component.

New comment by BigTuna in "The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign"

BigTuna — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:59:32 +0000

And fwiw Bluesky DIDs are currently still centralized in plc.directory but work is being done to decentralize them.

New comment by BigTuna in "Why does FM sound better than AM?"

BigTuna — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:58:08 +0000

>We WANT to know that there's a collision in transmission so that we know we need to retransmit

Digital trunked public safety systems solved this problem decades ago. If you key up when the frequency is in use you get a distinct rejected tone. I'd think prevention is far preferable to sorting it out once everyone's finished walking on each other.

New comment by BigTuna in "Ask HN: Node vs. .NET Core (2024 edition)"

BigTuna — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:21:16 +0000

This is an absurd generalization

New comment by BigTuna in "Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?"

BigTuna — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:42:43 +0000

I was too poor, but I did belatedly donate to the maker of Trumpet Winsock thanks to this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

New comment by BigTuna in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

BigTuna — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:24:28 +0000

>just not for their own workers

The shoemaker's children always go barefoot

New comment by BigTuna in "Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies"

BigTuna — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:37:35 +0000

Just think of the billions of planets out there that have never heard Black Sabbath

New comment by BigTuna in "My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy"

BigTuna — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:07:20 +0000

If pixelfed and mastodon are federated with each other, you should be able to view users and posts from both sites on either site - no need to sign up for both.

New comment by BigTuna in "Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite"

BigTuna — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:38:14 +0000

It's all your posts and replies as a user. While they currently host the only* PDS themselves, the end goal is for every end user to have their own PDS. Inrupt/SOLID calls this concept a "pod".

*(actually they just onboarded a second production PDS yesterday.. progress!)

New comment by BigTuna in "Build your own BitTorrent"

BigTuna — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:30:42 +0000

I think it's breaking some other things as well

[stage-1] Expected "\"orange\"\n" as stdout, got: "Hello World 2!\n"

New comment by BigTuna in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

BigTuna — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:34:43 +0000

This was probably 20 years ago now but I don't think it was a formal paper

New comment by BigTuna in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

BigTuna — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:11:55 +0000

A long time *ago I read re: Feynman's divorce that false accusations of abuse were common back then because no-fault divorce didn't exist. Couples that wanted a divorce would have to concoct a story in order to get a judge to sign off. I don't have strong feelings either way because it's impossible to know what really happened between them, but I found it an interesting counterpoint.

New comment by BigTuna in "A Love Letter to Geocities Sites"

BigTuna — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:46:09 +0000

Any old heads remember using HoTMetaL to write HTML? It was literally just a glorified text editor that inserted tags for you. I eventually learned HTML well enough from it that it became faster to just write pages in Notepad.

New comment by BigTuna in "Vintage radio broadcasting equipment"

BigTuna — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:12:02 +0000

I'm currently working on getting a retired Broadcast Electronics 2100C cart machine from my old college radio station and as I expected the parts appear to be very hard to come by. If anyone has a suggestion/lead I'd be grateful.