Hacker News: atheiste

New comment by atheiste in "Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

atheiste — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:46:44 +0000

Luckily, there are maps services that actually do keep the common local names: https://mapy.com/

New comment by atheiste in "Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor"

atheiste — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:02:49 +0000

Is there a possibility to export in a web-friendly format? I guess SVG would be it? If I ran quiver in localhost then sharing via a link is not an option.

New comment by atheiste in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

atheiste — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:18:29 +0000

You are right of course. There is still nginx taking care of everything. The point is that you need nothing but nginx/caddy/Apache.

Currently, I don't know any way how to initiate execution of scripts over http server so there is a systemd timer checking changes in files and recompiling the whole site. This has lot of downsides. The easiest would be if the static generator reacts on existence of a specific file - recompiles the site and removes the file afterwards.

New comment by atheiste in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

atheiste — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:29:09 +0000

Maybe check out the https://vlang.io. It might be similar to what you are doing and personally I admire the ideas and decisions the author made so far.

New comment by atheiste in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

atheiste — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:44:45 +0000

I am working on a blogging platform that does not need any backend (in terms of an app listening for http connections). The overall architecture is an web app that is talking to WebDAV and then pages get build by a static site generator. I use getpelican.com but you can use Hugo or Jekyll based on your preference.

Home servers are greener than cloud

atheiste — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.freedombone.net/freedombox-at-ten

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589000

Points: 14

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New comment by atheiste in "Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust"

atheiste — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:04:51 +0000

I see the author did the same search engine in Go a while ago. So I suppose the project being a side project to learn a new language. Or is there a different reason?

New comment by atheiste in "Homesteading on the Indie Web (2011)"

atheiste — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:20:37 +0000

I think there are multiple projects that Mark describes. One of the good looking one is https://yunohost.org/#/ for example. I wish the community could join forces, select one solution and make it production ready. Does anyone know about similar projects to yunohost that look promising?

New comment by atheiste in "Meshbird – distributed private networking"

atheiste — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:52:07 +0000

The quality seems a bit low. There is a similar project based on academic routing protocol Babel and implemented reliably by a professional called Re6st https://re6st.nexedi.com

Re6st indeed is more focused on connectivity than performance because it re-establish connection even when the Chinese great firewall kicks in.

New comment by atheiste in "Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your primary machine?"

atheiste — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:55:10 +0000

My company uses Chromebooks as primary computers with our own fork of ChromiumOS. Our build excludes Google keys thus hypothetically offers reinforced privacy.

Our fork is called NayuOS ( https://nayuos.nexedi.com ) and is a true system for hackers. It erases user folders on every restart and no extensions are allowed. It is very hard to track and since the Chromebooks are very cheap it is easy to exchange devices often.

It has to be run in Developer Mode thus you have writable /usr/. Chrome Brew is fully functional thanks to that but it is a security hazard.

My company moved everything to cloud so we access everything via browser. It was hard to get used to it but in the end it is a huge time saver. Google went the same direction.

New comment by atheiste in "Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped"

atheiste — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:53:41 +0000

I think there is a hope in free software companies. I am working at one nowadays and we are breaking the law almoust daily and get sued with similar frequency. Now we are installing Lye transmitters into any village which is interested communicating via satelite to bring the internet there. Becoming your own ISP solves the problem right? If we see increase in such behaviour the problem might disappear. Because the future is distributed

New comment by atheiste in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)"

atheiste — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:01:34 +0000

Location: Hong Kong

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Machine learning, Python, Tensorflow, Rust, C++, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Data Science, Software Engineer, Distributed Systems, Backend developer, Django, REST

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tpeterka

Email: prestizni at gmail

New comment by atheiste in "Nobody Cares (2011)"

atheiste — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:01:09 +0000

Where are you from? We are constantly told that there is no such thing as shadenfreude in the US.