Hacker News: cocoto

New comment by cocoto in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

cocoto — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:52:02 +0000

It can be way more than 2 hours depending on the project.

New comment by cocoto in "Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different"

cocoto — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:04:28 +0000

In your example, idempotency means same request + same state = same response. State becomes part of the request, that’s why it is hard.

New comment by cocoto in "Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible"

cocoto — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:04:43 +0000

Yes but LED lights need to be connected to some electricity source, which is inconvenient in some scenarios.

New comment by cocoto in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

cocoto — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:45:38 +0000

Replace your material content with lorem ipsum or garbage LLM content and upload it to Canvas to test the accessibility of your documents if required.

New comment by cocoto in "Self-updating screenshots"

cocoto — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:57:24 +0000

Wouldn’t a real live render approach work in this case? Have a live preview of your tool inside a rectangle. If the tool is light it should be optimal visually: it will respect browser rendering settings like accessibility parameters or custom addons.

New comment by cocoto in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

cocoto — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:56:24 +0000

Pc hardware stores often have some keyboards available to try (mostly cheap cherry mx stuff).

New comment by cocoto in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

cocoto — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:33:35 +0000

I’m sure Android and iOS could add some AI feature to let some specific noises in the headset when needed (baby cries when enabled, smoke detector alarms, bike/car bells, etc). Simply stop the music for the duration of the specific noise and replay it. That would be a cool use of AI.

New comment by cocoto in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

cocoto — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:12:52 +0000

Simple, provide a simple API, let the community build the clients for the machines they have.

New comment by cocoto in "Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas"

cocoto — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:53:14 +0000

But I guess using the density distribution of floating points is rarely useful in a problem. Your actual distribution will almost surely be way different. Imo, the tool presented here should provide a way to manually provide a custom density function (with some common presets like uniform and normal distributions).

New comment by cocoto in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

cocoto — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:31:28 +0000

Prepend your command with a space and now your command is not saved in the history.

New comment by cocoto in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

cocoto — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:11:12 +0000

Yes but the number of 4chan passes would skyrocket to be able to post with a VPN.

New comment by cocoto in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

cocoto — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:49:59 +0000

Good luck If I burnt the one time pad.

New comment by cocoto in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

cocoto — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:04:46 +0000

I can give you a piece of paper with a one time pad encoded secret, where the one time is physically destroyed. You can take all the time you want but you will not crack anything…

New comment by cocoto in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

cocoto — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:01:07 +0000

Yes and also keep in mind that low-income in US is high income in most of the world!

New comment by cocoto in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

cocoto — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:34:49 +0000

The new naming of iPhones makes sense for a yearly update, not so much for the Neo.

New comment by cocoto in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

cocoto — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:03:30 +0000

I personally don’t use VPN’s except for work but I have multiple clients installed on my devices “just in case”.

New comment by cocoto in "MacBook Neo"

cocoto — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:03:38 +0000

Tons of programming tasks requires at least 32gb to be somewhat comfortable, think of having running databases, running tests in background, running simultaneously multiple docker images, virtual machines, have one or more code projects open in an IDE with LSP (whole code database needs to be in cache), one browser with 20 tabs, and maybe one or more heavy electron apps (Teams/Spotify). You really quickly reach 32gb when doing real development.

New comment by cocoto in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

cocoto — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:59:23 +0000

Personally I would just love Apple to be forced by governments to open up their hardware by releasing complete documentation of their hardware and allowing to install another os or dual boot. iPhones hardware is really good and would love booting Linux on theses. And then force every services company to provide an API to their services so we have an alternative to their app. I guess Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS will not change anything in this space because contactless payments and some apps will not work and fundamentally because the sales will be way below mainstream brands like Apple/Samsung. Governments need to step up here.

New comment by cocoto in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

cocoto — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:43:10 +0000

The features are all already here.

New comment by cocoto in "Cache Monet"

cocoto — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:29:42 +0000

Works almost like stereograms (with duplicated object)!