Hacker News: chickensong

New comment by chickensong in "My favorite keyboards"

chickensong — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:44:56 +0000

ZSA Voyager sticks to these pretty nicely: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMHT5LZ5

New comment by chickensong in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

chickensong — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:39:42 +0000

Yes really. Just because the initial rush ended in scam bros, doesn't mean there's no value in the underlying tech. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

New comment by chickensong in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

chickensong — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:53:18 +0000

The entire real estate industry is disgusting.

New comment by chickensong in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

chickensong — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:13:54 +0000

No research needed, just use the tool differently.

New comment by chickensong in "I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?"

chickensong — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:51:41 +0000

A reasonable suggestion, for any code signing system really. We need all the help we can get these days.

Have you measured the gains from your source-based approach? I was into Gentoo for tuning a long time ago when hardware wasn't as powerful, but I hadn't considered optimizing at that level with nix.

New comment by chickensong in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

chickensong — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:57:06 +0000

It probably depends on your use case. I have a nice setup for putting claude code in a sandbox for development, but that's likely quite different from running production workloads for customers at scale.

New comment by chickensong in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

chickensong — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:46 +0000

> We do not value things made by humans.

There are plenty of people who do. A minority perhaps, but your absolute statement is wrong.

> Hand-made anything tends to be a Veblen good, which means it's there to signal status, which means it's expensive.

Many people don't give a shit about status signaling, but do care about supporting people and their craft. Some folks have a a niche making something by hand, but far removed from the concept of Veblen goods.

The world isn't as flat as you're making it out to be.

New comment by chickensong in "I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?"

chickensong — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:56:38 +0000

> the risk of supply chain attack on the nix cache

Do you not trust hydra, the infra hosts, the people, all of it? What could be done to improve the cache's posture?

New comment by chickensong in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

chickensong — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:05:09 +0000

Their dark mode is busted if you don't have JS enabled.

New comment by chickensong in "The Coming Loop"

chickensong — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:38:38 +0000

Same experience. Totally bottle-necked by specs. I don't really see a way past it that isn't sketchy and consumes excessive resources. I guess I'm not ready.

New comment by chickensong in "Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology"

chickensong — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:35:22 +0000

A good book.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:43:58 +0000

This is the reason.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:51:50 +0000

Yes, those tools are to collect a real-time selfie and photo of your government-issued ID, store it insecurely, feed it into some other 3rd-party networks to profile you, and share with their trusted partners for reasons.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:41:30 +0000

Don't worry, they take security and privacy very seriously and have reviewed and updated their procedures to ensure your data is only shared with trusted partners.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:14:38 +0000

Why assume any responsibility when you can just outsource and shrug/blame the 3rd-party when they get breached.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:09:53 +0000

Because governments are notoriously inept and corrupt. I think it's bound to happen eventually (though probably not ZKP), but I'm not holding my breath.

New comment by chickensong in "Identity verification on Claude"

chickensong — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:44:46 +0000

Oh good, uploading your ID and selfie to the much-hated Persona. What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by chickensong in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chickensong — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:19:37 +0000

The Fixx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cit17Si-Vts

New comment by chickensong in "Using Code Maps"

chickensong — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:27:59 +0000

Some interesting stuff. Have you built much using the system?

You might be interested in Chad Fowler's Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/

New comment by chickensong in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

chickensong — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:37:46 +0000

Would love to hear more if you're interested in sharing.