Hacker News: cimnine

Savearoundtrip: Publish an HTTPS DNS record, skip a round trip

cimnine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:37:58 +0000

Article URL: https://savearoundtrip.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553624

Points: 2

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Cloudflare buys VoidZero (team behind Vite)

cimnine — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2026/Cloudflare-Acquires-VoidZero-to-Build-the-Future-of-the-AI-Native-Web/default.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398207

Points: 5

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New comment by cimnine in "Cold Start DNS"

cimnine — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:26:06 +0000

Takeaway from this:

If you operate your own DNS, choose an NS within the same TLD als the domain you resolve: `example.COM` -> `ns.example.COM`, `example.NET` -> `ns.example.NET`, `example.ORG` -> `ns.example.ORG`

It'd be great if a CDN like Cloudflare handed out matching NS records for their most popular TLDs. This would probably speed up DNS resolution time (a little).

So e.g. `*.ns.cloudflare.com` for COM, `*.ns.cloudflare.net` for NET, `*.ns.cloudflare.org` for ORG, etc.

At least for Cloudflare, I believe they have these domains (`cloudflare.TLD`) for most of the important TLDs anyway. And the actual resolvers could be the same servers/IPs, afaict. It's mostly _just_ the (glue) records.

(I know, nothing is _just_ done on a CDN scale. Like, they'd need to also add the logic for handing out the correct NS names for the respective TLDs, which NS.TLD to fall back on for TLDs that they don't operate their own NS in, how to handle this for their bring-your-own-* customers, etc.)

Artemis 2 Live Stream [video]

cimnine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:06:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598168

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cimnine in "Ubisoft Delays Earnings and Requests Share Trading Halt"

cimnine — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:49:11 +0000

https://archive.is/5ShUf

Ubisoft Delays Earnings and Requests Share Trading Halt

cimnine — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/ubisoft-delays-earnings-and-requests-share-trading-halt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924790

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by cimnine in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

cimnine — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:18:19 +0000

I'm thinking similarly, but not via PCIe, but via USB: There are plenty of USB->VGA and USB->HDMI adapters that contain a dumb graphics card. So, embedd one of these and grab the video signal internally.

Thereby, plugging in just a single USB cable would deliver the power needed, keyboard, video and mouse. And bonus for an emulated USB-Stick/DVD drive.

What I don't know if these USB video cards are initialized during early boot and usable during the UEFI/BIOS phase. Is that why they grab the HDMI?

New comment by cimnine in "Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD"

cimnine — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:42:32 +0000

The OS of PS4 and PS5 is apparently based on FreeBSD. Netflix uses FreeBSD for its CDN servers. pfSense and OPNsense are popular firewalls that are based on FreeBSD.

Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs

cimnine — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:10:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45102652

Points: 6

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New comment by cimnine in "ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol"

cimnine — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:44:32 +0000

Talk to https://www.codey.ch/.

Railway Life

cimnine — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:00:08 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868520/Railway_Life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42617078

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cimnine in "How I configure my Git identities"

cimnine — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:34:00 +0000

I've written a short blogpost about how to link SSH Keys to Git identities: https://brainfood.xyz/post/20241030-use-a-specific-ssh-key-i...

Use Work or Private Git SSH Key Based on Repository

cimnine — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 13:44:53 +0000

Article URL: https://brainfood.xyz/post/20241030-use-a-specific-ssh-key-in-a-git-repo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086776

Points: 3

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New comment by cimnine in "IP.network: Check IP Address"

cimnine — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:35:33 +0000

I still prefer ifconfig.co, which is open-source (BSD-3), supports IPv6 as well and has a nice JSON response as well.

OpenTofu 1.8.0 Is Out

cimnine — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-1-8-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107323

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cimnine in "Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management"

cimnine — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:45:07 +0000

I think it's good advice to not pass secrets through environment variables. Env vars leak a lot. Think php_info, Sentry, java vm dumps, etc. Also, env vars leak into sub-processes if you don't pay extra attention. Instead, read secrets from a vault or from a file-system from _inside_ your process. See also [1] (or [2] which discusses [1]). Dotnet does this pretty good with user secrets [3].

[1] https://blog.diogomonica.com/2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-use... [2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/197784/is-it-un... [3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/app-s...

New comment by cimnine in "You'll regret using natural keys"

cimnine — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:36:05 +0000

Nope.

New comment by cimnine in "You'll regret using natural keys"

cimnine — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:10:32 +0000

Yes, and I like to combine two established concepts instead of rolling my own: URI and UUIDv7. So my IDs become `uri:customer_shortname:product_or_project_name:entity_type:uuid`. An example ID could be `uri:cust:super_duper_erp:invoice:018fe87b-b1fc-7b6f-a09c-74b9ef7f4196`. It's even possible to cascade such IDs, for example: `uri:cust:super_duper_erp:invoice:018fe87b-b1fc-7b6f-a09c-74b9ef7f4196:line_item:018fe882-43b2-77bb-8050-a1139303bb65`.

It's immediately clear, when I see an ID in a log somewhere or when a customer sends me an ID to debug something, to which customer, system and entity such an ID belongs.

UUIDv7 is monotonic, so it's nice for the database. Those IDs are not as 'human-readable' for the average Joe, but for me as an engineer it's a bliss.

Often I also encode ID's I retrieve from external systems this way: `uri:3rd_party_vendor:system_name:entity_type:external_id` (e.g. `uri:ycombinator:hackernews:item:40580549:comment:40582365` might refer to this comment).

New comment by cimnine in "Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web"

cimnine — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:57:14 +0000

> And another one! I actually used this regularly on my PC to remember places I'd gone to on trips, or back in time.

Me too. High-noon to engage Google Takeout [1] – so that I at least have a copy of all that data.

Off-topic: TIL, that Google Takeout can do regular backups automatically for up to one year when you link it to some cloud storage account (GDrive, Dropbox, One Drive, Box).

[1] https://takeout.google.com

New comment by cimnine in "AdFlush"

cimnine — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:34:26 +0000

So, this begs the question when we'll see ML put in place to avoid AdBlocker detection. Or ads as we know them just disappear from the web and are replaced with other kinds of ML-enabled ads. I imagine deep-fake models used for interchangeable product placement in videos or pictures or so.