Hacker News: cstuder

New comment by cstuder in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

cstuder — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:24:47 +0000

Further essay on this topic: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/thoughts_and_observations...

New comment by cstuder in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

cstuder — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:07:36 +0000

https://www.existenz.ch

New comment by cstuder in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

cstuder — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:18:05 +0000

I still think ICQ was the greatest application name ever.

New comment by cstuder in "WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]"

cstuder — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:13:41 +0000

> A feature known as the Download Monitor plug-in created a webpage with the clear URL which provided a link to the live version, which bypassed the need for authentication. This rendered the protections on the ‘future’ function of WordPress redundant as it bypassed the required authentication needed to gain access to the pre-uploaded document.

WordPress is a nice piece of software, but the plugin situation is getting worse and worse. (Too many pending updates, premium features and constant upselling, selling of plugins to new sketchy owners...)

I Wrote Task Manager – 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew [video]

cstuder — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:53:41 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900192

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cstuder in "Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers"

cstuder — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:48:23 +0000

It feels like we're actually living in the Universal Paperclips universe.

New comment by cstuder in "Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch"

cstuder — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:40:58 +0000

FYI: A couple of the images down in the article are not loading (And later some seem to be incorrectly formatted). I'm especially looking forward to the exploded button.

New comment by cstuder in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

cstuder — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:06:46 +0000

If you want more than samples, he's compiled a lot of 1-2 hour genre specific mixes here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Ishkur/

Plus the one 15 hour mix across genres: https://www.mixcloud.com/Ishkur/the-longplay-15/

New comment by cstuder in "UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs"

cstuder — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:12:00 +0000

Yes, the previous company I worked at redirected the Oracle download pages to a custom page explaining the problem and offering alternatives. That was nice.

New comment by cstuder in "In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio"

cstuder — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:37:36 +0000

The german C64 magazine "64er" had an application which allowed "easy" entry of assembly applications by means of a hex encoding and used a checksum on each line to prevent bugs from typos. Still an incredible chore.

New comment by cstuder in "Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?"

cstuder — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:54:12 +0000

Private Slack, WhatsApp and Signal groups are the most valuable to me.

New comment by cstuder in "Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?"

cstuder — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:28:09 +0000

I'm still running a self-hosted Fever instance, it still didn't break down with newer PHP versions.

Using Reeder Classic as an RSS client. Also something threatened by unwanted updates.

New comment by cstuder in "David Lynch has died"

cstuder — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:59:53 +0000

My best Mullholland Drive experience: A couple of years ago a local arthouse cinema showed the movie again. It was brilliant, just like I remembered it.

After the showing, the projectionist came into the room and apologized for the confusing movie: "I must have mixed up the reels..."

She didn't.

New comment by cstuder in "Wait Until 8th"

cstuder — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:06:38 +0000

For non-americans: Apparently this corresponds to 13-14 years old.

New comment by cstuder in "Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs"

cstuder — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:29:34 +0000

I came from Instapaper after their price hike to Omnivore and went back to Instapaper. I felt that Omnivore was over-complicated with their "every folder is a filter" structure. Instapaper feels much more straightforward.

New comment by cstuder in "BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH"

cstuder — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:41:48 +0000

If you're looking for cheap online storage for your backups know this: A Microsoft 365 Single subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive space (Family subscriptions with 1 TB per person).

I've been using it with restic + rclone successfully for years. It's not very fast, but works.

New comment by cstuder in "Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps"

cstuder — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:10:41 +0000

The desktop version of Balsamiq with a one-time-payment is still available, but you have to hunt for it a little.

New comment by cstuder in "Kagi Assistant"

cstuder — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:37:07 +0000

Thanks for the hint, a usage based model looks way more attractive to me right now.

New comment by cstuder in "Kagi Assistant"

cstuder — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:15:50 +0000

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?

New comment by cstuder in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

cstuder — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:36:52 +0000

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.