Hacker News: alanpearce

New comment by alanpearce in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

alanpearce — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:45:59 +0000

We have free instant payments in the Eurozone, UK has had them for about a decade and I'd say PayPal is doing fine (unfortunately). So what's the concern?

New comment by alanpearce in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

alanpearce — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:38:52 +0000

I used to work on for a company on a product that did exactly this, but the company stopped working on that product since it didn't go anywhere (API docs seem to still be online though :D https://docs.satoshipay.io/api/). Some small publishers liked it, big ones wanted to force their customers to subscribe (whilst recording their data at the same time).

I really like the general idea though and hope it does make a comeback. I think it would be good for review/test sites especially.

New comment by alanpearce in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

alanpearce — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:24:36 +0000

This can be enabled or disabled under the System Settings > Battery > Options > Wake for network access (Always / Power adapter / Never). Or possibly the phone registers it as connected for a while after it sends its last packet?

New comment by alanpearce in "Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol"

alanpearce — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:23:01 +0000

Hurricane Electric support a hidden primary as part of their free DNS nameserver service (do you actually want to expose your primary when someone else can handle the traffic?)

https://dns.he.net

New comment by alanpearce in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

alanpearce — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:41:34 +0000

I for one found the technical difference interesting

New comment by alanpearce in "Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management"

alanpearce — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:34:28 +0000

Funny, this sounds like a good idea, but I'm quite happy with the exact opposite: I use rcmd[1]. I hold down the right command key and press the first letter of the window name to switch to it. I can override this dynamic mapping by pressing right command + option + , so I have an IM client on I, for example. It means I never have to remember/guess how command+tab works (although I had fewer issues with alt+tab on Windows)

[1]: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/

New comment by alanpearce in "A year of funded FreeBSD development"

alanpearce — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:19:40 +0000

40 hours/month. Not week.

New comment by alanpearce in "OpenAI Acquires Multi"

alanpearce — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:27:17 +0000

It might be somewhat different in that it's only for programming, but Zed is a "multiplayer code editor" with channels, notes, video chat, screen sharing etc.

https://zed.dev/

New comment by alanpearce in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

alanpearce — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:01:15 +0000

This sounds fascinating. Do you have some articles describing your setup?

New comment by alanpearce in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

alanpearce — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:56:19 +0000

Not any more? https://unternehmen.bvg.de/pressemitteilung/grossprojekt-erf...

Summary: since 2024-05-06, users of all networks also get LTE in the U-Bahn thanks to a project between BVG and Teléfonica (not surprising that Teléfonica deployed the infra because they had the best U-Bahn LTE coverage beforehand)

New comment by alanpearce in "Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD"

alanpearce — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:55:09 +0000

> It’s ok for jargon and acronyms to be confusing to people who are not at all in the field.

On the site itself, sure. Here, where not everyone "uses USD as part of their work", spelling it out in the title would have avoided this whole stub

New comment by alanpearce in "Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs"

alanpearce — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:31:19 +0000

Seems like my blog was not even included in the console output, but it has been part of the thread for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022

I know I don’t have enough karma, but it seems like the log output should have logged something for that. I also wonder if you’d consider account age as an alternative to karma for anti-spam, as I’m a bit of a hardcore lurker here and I highly doubt that I’m the only one.

New comment by alanpearce in "Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs"

alanpearce — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:20:07 +0000

There are quite common and they're usually called planet , which might help to find useful resources or software

New comment by alanpearce in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

alanpearce — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:56:19 +0000

https://alanpearce.eu

I really want to write more often, I'm not sure if it's that I don't know what to write about or that the idea of blogging doesn't come to mind easily when I'm doing things that I could blog about.

New comment by alanpearce in "The quest for a simple smartwatch"

alanpearce — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:16:49 +0000

I used to have a Garmin running the Simply Late[0] watch face to achieve a similar goal. I wish there was something better on a more everyday-looking watch.

[0]: https://sl8.ch/

New comment by alanpearce in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

alanpearce — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:27:18 +0000

If you set

    alias firefox="open -a Firefox"

This will work

New comment by alanpearce in "ChatGPT: Fear Litany"

alanpearce — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:15:02 +0000

> ChatGPT will replace the concept of googling things

FastGPT[0] is some way towards that: it uses the web to provide answers

[0]: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt

New comment by alanpearce in "Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite"

alanpearce — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:53:24 +0000

Works fine for me so far. From memory (like 7 years ago) gmail’s filtering rules are more powerful, but iCloud has the basics at least

New comment by alanpearce in "Show HN: Prestige, a text based HTTP client, for working with HTTP APIs"

alanpearce — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 14:21:40 +0000

A very similar project for Emacs users: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

New comment by alanpearce in "Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins"

alanpearce — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 12:30:02 +0000

This is about extensions, not plugins. The latter would include Widevine, H264 and previously Flash.