Hacker News: BorisMelnik

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

BorisMelnik — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:32:46 +0000

agree and also not sure if they are saying claude the app/ide or claude the model

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

BorisMelnik — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:32:02 +0000

if there is 8 hours of downtime (even before AI) I take that opportunity to do other codebase maintenance, debugging, file organization, renaming all the things I said I'd rename or take a break.

pre AI if my IDE was down for whatever reason I wouldn't switch IDE's, I would do something else.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:50:18 +0000

I am just like you except for the netbsd source part, and I have my own private cloud/nas with virtualization. I also at one point just started using AWS S3 as my personal dropbox on chrome for sharing files with myself, since I backup encrypted snapshots there from my cloud anyway.

but I think there are many people out there that love a gui for storing files in the cloud. i know my parents/parents friends' all use it.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: WYSIWYG markdown editor for any GitHub repo"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:24:21 +0000

nice! this is really cool. I hate writing markdown and although I write javascript, html, css, and all sorts of json/regex/xml I can't for the life of me remember markdown (other than bold/links) etc haha.

either way my 1 change would be show the toolbar by default, upon loading my repo for the first time it was a bit un-intuitive but once that appeared it was great. gh should have this built in or switch to html for readmes.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:15:08 +0000

you can scan your site with cloudflares tool https://isitagentready.com/ for all that new agent / web mcp type of goodness. love your service btw. I think im going to make the swap. there is one domain that I rely on for ddns and the service I use, while reliable, just really sucks for reasons you have already outlined

New comment by BorisMelnik in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:42:32 +0000

for me the answer is libraries: most of these other languages don't have the libraries that Javascript has. it would not be an efficient use of my time, tokens , etc to rewrite in rust et al

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes"

BorisMelnik — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:03:54 +0000

this is great. Google has a vendetta against small personal blogs and is one of the original reasons why I fell in love with Google was because I got to discover all these indie publishers. as much as I love sub stack and Reddit these platforms along with all the garbage and slop is pushing us down.

I'm hoping one day the entire internet forks

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Claude Design"

BorisMelnik — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:26:51 +0000

you are absolutely right, standards are so important in web design esp when you take into consideration ppl with ADA needs, elderly people having a familiar env etc

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

BorisMelnik — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:22:23 +0000

to be fair a lot of ppl still run this way and just have really good backups, or have an offline / truly on-prep server where they can flip the dns switch in case of true outage.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"

BorisMelnik — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:21:31 +0000

I agree with you, even for the servers I am responsible for I always make decisions like putting db on supabase instead of local, hosting files on s3 with versioning/multi region etc. then of course come up with a backup and snapshot system.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:38:32 +0000

I haven't heard minix in so long!

New comment by BorisMelnik in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

BorisMelnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:36:24 +0000

why does Microsoft just not listen to its people

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Blackholing My Email"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:32:34 +0000

my theory is that if rcs keeps advancing we might see "texting" kind of merge with email at some point.

at this point RCS and email are pretty similar on paper.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

BorisMelnik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:28:19 +0000

I already do this with next cloud and s3, I've never once had an issue in many years

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

BorisMelnik — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:49:13 +0000

it really varies, you are correct most modern ones search the byte string for @ characters but there are probably hundreds of different methods out there in black hat marketing circles to scrape emails.

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

BorisMelnik — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:47:06 +0000

you know what's funny is that llms are also good at detecting spam as they are generating it. I've got an automation that scores incoming emails and it's getting better and better each day (also more expensive haha)

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: I built a free CharacterAI that runs locally"

BorisMelnik — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:46:44 +0000

also I'm not a hardware hacker - are there any ESP32 kits with the speaker / led / button / amp already wired or in a kit at least? (that you recommend for this)

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Show HN: I built a free CharacterAI that runs locally"

BorisMelnik — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:37:25 +0000

wow really cool, I browsed the repo but couldnt find what you used for the case on the ESP?

New comment by BorisMelnik in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

BorisMelnik — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:42:45 +0000

its really wild at all the AC to DC changes. for those non electric engineers / hardware hackers (like myself) one of the biggest "examples" I've seen of this has been ceiling fans.

Installing a ceiling fan used to be treacherous and so heavy. Also loud and buzzy after installed. Now the fans in these things are so lightweight and easy.

seeing the same in many more areas (lighting, etc)

New comment by BorisMelnik in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

BorisMelnik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:18:41 +0000

I never said they didn't sponsor them, it just isnt enough, not even close.

and I know the teams love ffmpeg, there are some great folks at meta just not a lot in the c suite