Hacker News: Croak

New comment by Croak in "Authentication issues related to API requests"

Croak — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:03:36 +0000

I just set up Forgejo on one of my machines. It works very well, have not had any problems yet.

New comment by Croak in "Do you even need a database?"

Croak — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:03:38 +0000

You remove a bit of complexity. Sure Postgres is not hard to set up sn to connect to, but Sqlite is just opening a file. It being a file makes it also very easy to test or debug you application.

New comment by Croak in "Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar"

Croak — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:58:38 +0000

That's correct, but I haven't set it up for my native language.

New comment by Croak in "Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar"

Croak — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:56:24 +0000

I write most of my stuff in vim so use a neither a spellchecker or grammar-checker. I have found that since I started doing that my spelling has greatly improved. My grammar can be janky sometimes, but I have doubt programs will help with that. If I want to be sure of my spelling I might find some textbox on some website and paste the text there.

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

Croak — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:42:41 +0000

There exist lists of email providers. Those you can whitelist, ie. they can't get on the blacklist. Even then they would only be blocked temporarily. There also exists postmaster@domain.com which should not filter at all. I am aware that you are able to abuse said system but if you monitor logs those issues would only be temporary.

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

Croak — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:26:04 +0000

One trick is having an tarpit email adress on your website. It is hidden using CSS so no real visitor sees it but it is visible in source. If your mail server recieves mail for that adress you can just block that IP for 24h.

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

Croak — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:20:03 +0000

My email provider allows me to send from + email addresses, just change the from header.

New comment by Croak in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

Croak — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:34:58 +0000

You can also just use proper HTTP cache headers. ETag and a very long Expires header.

New comment by Croak in "I was right about ATProto key management"

Croak — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:37:06 +0000

That is a really cool project, thanks for posting

New comment by Croak in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

Croak — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:22:44 +0000

Ai doesn't read it guesses.

New comment by Croak in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

Croak — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:16:48 +0000

For example camera based object detection. People have been using usb Dongel Google Tensors for that previously.

New comment by Croak in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

Croak — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:16:48 +0000

For example camera based object detection. People have been using usb Dongel Google Tensors for that previously

New comment by Croak in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

Croak — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:13:57 +0000

People have for quite some time been using Googles Tensor chip to accelerate AI workloads on the Pi. I doubt that anyone runs Llms on Pis but stuff like security cameras with object detection...

New comment by Croak in "Rust GCC backend: Why and how"

Croak — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:01:41 +0000

When gcc was built most compilers were proprietary. Stallman wanted a free compiler and to keep it free. The GPL license is more restrictive, but it's philosophy is clear. At the end of the day the code's writer can choose if and how people are allowed to use it. You don't have to use it, you can use something else or build you own. And maybe, just maybe Linux is thriving while Windows is dying because in the Linux ecosystem everybody works together and shares, while in Windows everybody helps together paying for Satya Nadellas next yacht.

New comment by Croak in "Nvidia uses the Rust game logo [video]"

Croak — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:35:40 +0000

Instead of the logo for the Rust programming video, Nvidia used the logo of the game called Rust. Second 10.

Nvidia uses the Rust game logo [video]

Croak — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5xYeluBRU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265511

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Croak in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

Croak — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:23:06 +0000

I don't believe they can keep this up forever. Take Google which is dependent on Google Search. That their search is becoming actively worse is common knowledge, reason being more searches equates to more ads shown. If a company which respects you as a user comes around people will jump the boat. We can see this with YouTube. YouTube shows so many ads, that people have been using TikTok instead. They say TikTok is also bad for them, but they rather use it than watch an ad every 30s.

Point being entshittification comes at a cost, and companies partaking in shitty activities can only keep this up for so long.

New comment by Croak in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

Croak — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:23:21 +0000

Thats a recent addition; hope consumer protection laws around the world become better.

Vim Macro Sudoku Solver

Croak — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:57:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciyGQYpQSag

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380362

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Croak in "Ask HN: A real life dating app"

Croak — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:44:59 +0000

That's just real life. No app needed.