Hacker News: chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chaz6Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:10:08 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"]]>Have you considered Unified Attestation [1] which is an alternative to Google's?

[1] https://uattest.net/

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:45:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648388chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648388<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>Since you mentioned 4.4mm, thought I would chime in and mention pentaconn (the trade name) which is a TRRRS connection (which does include a ground connection as well as L+/L-/R+/R-. I still do not understand the purpose of the ground connection in these plugs since there's nothing to ground on the other end.

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:59:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375768chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375768https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375768<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them"]]>These are nice, but there is a risk if multiple units are plugged into an extension strip with a cord that is not large enough for the current.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:36:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355951chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355951<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"]]>When I open a new query window, the AI tab is selected by default which is annoying. I just want to write SQL without having to switch tabs like I could before. Not only has it ruined my muscle memory, it's also more inefficient.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:42:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351258chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351258<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG"]]>Thanks for sharing! I am happy to see open-source BNG projects taking off in the last few months. These are a couple of others to look at:-

https://github.com/codelaboratoryltd/bng-edge-infra

https://github.com/veesix-networks/osvbng

]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:20:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343004chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343004<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"]]>When I got the update I looked through the settings and there appears to be no way to disable it. I do not want AI anywhere near my database. I only use it for testing/staging at least so I should hopefully not have to worry about it wrecking production.

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:21:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323679chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323679https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323679<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"]]>I am happy with this. Users should be under no allusion that their messages are secret. It just gives a false sense of security. If you don't want people reading your messages you should be using one-time pads. Of course this cannot prevent discovery of your messaging network.

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:04:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268483chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268483https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268483<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"]]>Great, thank you!

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:15:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067179chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067179https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067179<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"]]>Is it possible to create an ACME account without requesting a certificate? AFAICT is is not so you cannot use this method unless you have first requested a certificate with some other method. I hope I am wrong!

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:00:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066303chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066303<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"]]>In the UK we are taught that you should not signal until you are ready to manoeuvre. If you follow the rules exactly this can put you in the unfortunate position of being penned in behind shower traffic.

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:06:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963027chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963027https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963027<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop"]]>Are there any passkey hardware tokens the private key is effectively irretrievable? That is why up to now FIDO U2F has been my preferred additional factor. The down side is that you have to register multiple tokens for each authentication service in case one is lost or damaged. I miss the days of openid when I could use my own idp with any service, but the walls quickly went up when the big players wanted to control the ecosystem.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:15:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944420chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944420<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG"]]>Yes, exactly. BRAS is functionally the same as BNG.

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:37:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738279chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738279https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738279<![CDATA[Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG]]>Article URL: https://markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/ebpf-bng/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735179

Points: 94

# Comments: 26

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:29:53 +0000https://markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/ebpf-bng/chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735179https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735179<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s"]]>I think this will be bad for the cybersecurity industry. I cut my teeth by hanging around on IRC networks back in the day. That said, I doubt these will end up being regulated due to their popularity and antiquity.

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:37:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692908chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692908https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692908<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"]]>Is there any option to self-host in an air-gapped environment?

]]>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:30:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676792chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676792<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"]]>I would really like some kind of agnostic backup protocol, so I can simply configure my backup endpoint using an environment variable (e.g. `-e BACKUP_ENDPOINT=https://backup.example.com/backup -e BACKUP_IDENTIFIER=xxxxx`), then the application can push a backup on a regular schedule. If I need to restore a backup, I log onto the backup app, select a backup file and generate a one time code which I can enter into the application to retrieve the data. To set up a new application for backups, you would enter a friendly name into the backup application and it would generate a key for use in the application.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:39:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581169chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581169https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581169<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML"]]>If I enter the following:-
Should the second

be nested or not?

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:00:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574939chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574939https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574939<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users"]]>Page currently shows

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]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:32:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368537chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368537https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368537<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: Mephisto – A RAM-only, ad-free disposable email PWA built with React"]]>That makes sense, thanks!

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:55:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315248chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315248<![CDATA[New comment by chaz6 in "RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD"]]>Having a shell script in the code path that processes router advertisements seems sub-optimal.

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:43:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311508chaz6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311508