Hacker News: chrissnell

Show HN: Crabby, open source web+API synthetic monitoring

chrissnell — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:07:10 +0000

Crabby monitors your websites and APIs and reports metrics to a variety of storage backends (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, InfluxDB, etc).

It gives you insight into timings like TTFB, DNS resolution, TLS negotiation, server processing, and content delivery. It also supports chromedp for automated gathering of browser metrics like page render timings.

It's very easy to configure and includes a Helm chart for deployment into K8S.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389369

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Show HN: Evan-proxy, better teenager phone management

chrissnell — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:01:15 +0000

I tried all of the prominent child web filtering solutions and they were all terrible and expensive.

None of them made it easy to disable my teen's Internet. They were unreliable and made it hard to see usage logs. They depended on MDM profiles from an opaque company and you have to trust them to not abuse your child's data.

I wanted:

* One-click enable/disable Internet on a per-child basis

* Per-child traffic logs

* Per-child restrictions (enforced by per-child DNS blocking)

The solution was to build my own proxy and MDM profile. evan-proxy makes it easy to manage your teen's internet access. It will run easily from the smallest cloud server or your home network (when exposed publicly). It's inexpensive to run: you can use a PiHole for DNS or a low-cost service like NextDNS, and the only mandatory service is the MDM manager (I use SimpleMDM).

It's written in Go and includes a Helm chart for quick deployment.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226518

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New comment by chrissnell in "Pitcairn Island Immigration"

chrissnell — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:19:09 +0000

> There are no school age children currently on Pitcairn.

Yeah, I'll pass. Can you imagine how hopeless it must feel for kids here?

New comment by chrissnell in "Show HN: I used an LLM to parse HN Who's Hiring comments to structured job data"

chrissnell — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:04:40 +0000

Can we get a "Kubernetes" added to the technologies filter?

New comment by chrissnell in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

chrissnell — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:01:25 +0000

You're 100% wrong about this. My mother is a mentally ill drug addict who has been homeless. We forced her into care when it was clear that she could no longer take care of herself. It took help from Adult Protective Services and lots of attempts before they were finally able to make it happen. She would hide from them when they showed up. Finally, she got kicked out of the place she was living and APS saw the conditions and committed her.

New comment by chrissnell in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

chrissnell — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:35:10 +0000

It's partisan but only because of the state of the parties. Democrat-run Austin Texas used to be heaven in the 1970s and 80s. Then radicals took over and somehow got elected and now you have a total sh*tshow.

New comment by chrissnell in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

chrissnell — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:32:03 +0000

Homelessness in the US is not a housing issue. Simply walk through a typical homeless encampment or walk through the Financial District of San Francisco and it will be clear as day: it is a drugs and mental illness issue, and ultimately, a family issue. Good families will take care of their mentally ill members and get them the care that they need. If you don't have a family, it's easy to end up out in the street on drugs. Nobody wants to talk about families, though.

New comment by chrissnell in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

chrissnell — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:26:54 +0000

I'm willing to bet that I've been to more cities, states, and countries in my time than you have but, whatever, keep it up with the ad hominem quips.

New comment by chrissnell in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

chrissnell — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:10:51 +0000

This became a "right" thing when the Democratic Party--or more succinctly, the people they put on the ballots in liberal cities--have moved so hard to the left that they are unrecognizable to normal classically liberal Americans like myself. When these folks are running in the general election, they say all the right things to keep the votes from normal traditional Democrats who appear to have no idea who they're actually voting for. Once they're in, they go completely radical and do so relentlessly. Some of these DAs appear to be the worst, most evil, least-caring public officials I've ever observed in my life.

A variable has been introduced that requires political consideration by users

chrissnell — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:20:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/issues/2159

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33868522

Points: 6

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New comment by chrissnell in "Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Experience"

chrissnell — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:27:18 +0000

The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and was temporarily deplatformed for it. The DC left called it a fabrication, as did "mainstream" media. Eventually, even the NY Times admitted it was real. Who is the reliable and respected newspaper here?

New comment by chrissnell in "Installing a payphone in my house"

chrissnell — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 03:06:39 +0000

I did this back in the early 2000s, when Asterisk first became really popular. My plan was to create an Asterisk PBX in my house and hook the payphone to that and be able to use it to receive and make VoIP calls. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground because I bought a phone 1) without any keys to the locks and 2) without the proper software and interface cables to be able to program it. I ended up selling it again on eBay for what I paid for it.

New comment by chrissnell in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

chrissnell — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 03:02:33 +0000

The bicycle industry is rapidly moving to factory stores. The big brands are buying out their more-successful dealers and turning them into branded stores, locking out any other brands that the dealer sold in the process. For example, Specialized will buy a store from a retiring dealer, get rid of the Cannondale inventory, and re-brand it as "Specialized Bikes". This strengthens their brand and creates consistency, while simultaneously shutting out their manufacturer competition from the market.

The smaller dealers in little towns are completely screwed. They'll probably perish and be replaced by the manufacturer's online presence. Perhaps local "mobile bike repair" outfits will pop up to do local assembly and support.

New comment by chrissnell in "Why is Tiny Dancer such a great song? [video]"

chrissnell — Sat, 28 May 2022 04:42:52 +0000

Imagine being able to play this and then just belting it out when you come across a piano at the mall or in a subway station.

I never learned to play piano; as a kid, I learned other instruments instead. This will always be a regret for me because I wish I could play. There's something so satisfying about playing and singing a song with such a strong chord progression right before the chorus. It makes you feel warm inside to play stuff like this. I have to substitute with acoustic guitar but piano would be so much better.

New comment by chrissnell in "The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem"

chrissnell — Sun, 15 May 2022 14:44:37 +0000

Tom Lehrer solved this one years ago:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

New comment by chrissnell in "Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work"

chrissnell — Sun, 08 May 2022 02:46:16 +0000

For any decent employee, those are refreshed annually with a new grant that has a new four-year runway. If you're a good employee, the grants grow in size.

New comment by chrissnell in "Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi"

chrissnell — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:57:21 +0000

Actually, it was the American left (Tipper Gore and friends) who led the censorship movement of the 80s and early 90s. I am in my late 40s and I was quite liberal in my youth and I don't remember any censorship from the right.

Federal Judge throws out mask mandate for public transport in the US

chrissnell — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:55:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-throws-out-federal-mask-mandate-for-public-transportation-11650306480

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31075637

Points: 10

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New comment by chrissnell in "Van life (cancer edition) finale"

chrissnell — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 02:50:41 +0000

Life is short for all of us. Don't put off living.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMp085x5-Q

New comment by chrissnell in "Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)"

chrissnell — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:29:49 +0000

Hahaha, I came to say the same thing. It's an obscure line ("I'll wrap your head in with a ratchet!") but anybody who ever heard it will instantly recall this Frank Rizzo classic. I wonder if the Nirvana guys got a chuckle or just read it quizzically.