Hacker News: codefined

New comment by codefined in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

codefined — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:36:24 +0000

We use Docker to deploy, do you know of any public forks that do Docker builds?

New comment by codefined in "Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files"

codefined — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Looks fantastic! As someone who has done it before, if this gets popular you'll run into some abusive users that you'll want to deal with. Microsoft will often give out free access to it's PhotoDNA service for detection of explicit images of minors. VirusTotal will often do the same for malware in exchange for samples. You'll also want to have a structured retention process, e.g. size is inversely proportional to storage time.

Good luck, get in contact (see my profile) if you run into any issues.

New comment by codefined in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

codefined — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:32:58 +0000

> I only shared the solution and technique with one other server operator I fully trusted based in the UK

I think that was us! We ended up combining it with other fingerprinting indicators, but the whole 'use VGUI' was a surprisingly effective way at handling this. I believe they removed the web browser in ~2018, which was disappointing. Being able to have custom skill trees / fun integrations with servers was really powerful!

New comment by codefined in "HN-Index"

codefined — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:16:04 +0000

The table name has been changed to "hackernews", although it also hasn't been updated for 7 months.

New comment by codefined in "Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them"

codefined — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:39:41 +0000

One of the original devs here. The map is just html with position offsets!

New comment by codefined in "Debugging a Failing Hotkey"

codefined — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:38:18 +0000

It feels like having a predefined list of keys that are ignored is a "hack". Would a better solution be to simply wait until none of the _trigger_ keys were pressed?

E.g. if the sequence was "Ctrl" + "F8" then it would just ensure that neither Ctrl nor F8 were pressed.

New comment by codefined in "Typing fast is about latency, not throughput"

codefined — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:06:11 +0000

Yeah! Whilst usually a side show to real events there's a bunch of virtual and in person events.

Two years there was an event in the UK dedicated to typing. Last year the US. Virtual tournaments happen frequently throughout the year. The most famous one is likely the yearly event hosted by Keymash[0].

Octahedron is also a famous player in the scene. He hosts a Discord server for proficient typists and regularly puts on events.

[0] https://keymash.io/

New comment by codefined in "Typing fast is about latency, not throughput"

codefined — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:48:47 +0000

Most people typically speak in the 130 - 180 word per minute range, although this can vastly change based on context. Preprepared speeches, arguments and monologues generally have a higher pace than a usual conversation between two people.

New comment by codefined in "Typing fast is about latency, not throughput"

codefined — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:43:39 +0000

> It’s difficult to type and think at the same time, so any time spent writing is a pause in thoughts, which can derail the flow.

I'm a competitive typist. I'm also a programmer. The main positive that I see is that typing no longer requires thought. I think of the code I want to write and it's transcripted onto the computer.

I would say that it's more advantageous to type _accurately_ than quickly. Typing competitions generally require 100% accuracy, which gives me a great amount of belief that what I'm typing is correct, without having to look at it / check it over and get side tracked from the code itself.

New comment by codefined in "Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games"

codefined — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:50:29 +0000

I made a very minimal[0] phone only score board. Scores are increased by scrolling, or holding to set it to a specific value.

Pressing the 'settings' tab enables modes for games like 'Whist' that involve betting, as well as configuring the number of players.

[0] https://score.feud.today/

New comment by codefined in "Show HN: A typing game inspired by Piano Tiles"

codefined — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:34:40 +0000

This was really enjoyable, although I found it difficult to read all the letters when it got a little faster! Ended up scoring 170 after a couple of attempts. I looked at the code and it is fairly clean. I'd probably recommend using 'requestAnimationFrame' over the 'setTimeout' you currently use for the loop. I'd also make it clearer that bad accuracy lowers your score!

New comment by codefined in "Should you use Jest as a testing library? (2022)"

codefined — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:43:16 +0000

Vitest[0] is a drop in replacement to Jest that we've had exceptional success with. Faster test runs, more reliable, default TS and ESM support, etc.

[0] https://vitest.dev/

New comment by codefined in "What number comes next? The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences knows"

codefined — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:50:05 +0000

This was incredible feedback, thanks so much for taking the time to write it out. I've implemented 2, 3 and 4. You can now directly link to pages[0] and it'll auto-expand all boxes. The icons are intended to show whether the sequence has a code submission attached. There's now a popover attached to them to explain this.

1 will take some design work, and I've only got an hour or so to work on it now. I definitely agree however that a 'submit' button on a search is essential.

[0] https://oeis.femto.dev/A000045

New comment by codefined in "What number comes next? The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences knows"

codefined — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:04:58 +0000

Source code is available here[0]. Permissively licensed under MIT.

[0] https://github.com/popey456963/pretty-oeis

New comment by codefined in "What number comes next? The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences knows"

codefined — Wed, 24 May 2023 01:03:25 +0000

I keep on meaning to finish a redesign of the oeis site that I started a few months ago[0]. I've only spent a day on it so far, but I'm hoping it makes the site far more approachable to new comers.

[0] https://oeis.femto.dev/

New comment by codefined in "Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea"

codefined — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:19:05 +0000

Gitea is self-hosted, so Blender will be running their own instance.

New comment by codefined in "TimeMyMeeting"

codefined — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:05:25 +0000

I think it defaults to GMT + 0, aka Senegal / Guinea / United Kingdom.

New comment by codefined in "Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session"

codefined — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:33:19 +0000

`/dev/urandom` isn't a real file / stream. It's part of the 'everything is a a file' *nix mantra. Even if two users are reading from /dev/urandom simultaneously, they'll each get unique values. The CSPRNG keeps track of a sequence number and so you'll end up with something like [process 0 requests sequence 0, process 1 requests sequence 1, process 1 requests sequence 2, proceess 0 requests sequence 3...].

New comment by codefined in "BugMeNot Is Gone?"

codefined — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:27:05 +0000

It seems only the 'https' site is gone, the 'http' site is still around[0].

[0] http://bugmenot.com/view/news.ycombinator.com

New comment by codefined in "PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules"

codefined — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:10:21 +0000

Actually looks to be tabled for TypeScript 5.0, release date of 'March 14th' next year.