Hacker News: dan15

New comment by dan15 in "Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search"

dan15 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:57:24 +0000

Do Linux users actually use Homebrew day to day? My impression of it was that it's mostly for MacOS users that want to keep doing things the same way instead of learning the Linux way (using the OS package manager).

New comment by dan15 in "What Claude Code chooses"

dan15 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:56:39 +0000

A lot of the sites that use shadcn's default styling are AI-generated. The people that use it in hand-written code usually customize the appearance at least a little bit.

New comment by dan15 in "What Claude Code chooses"

dan15 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:16:16 +0000

It uses shadcn so often, to the point where seeing shadcn components with default styling often means the site was built by AI. It's like Bootstrap 10 years ago - so many sites used it with default styling that it was instantly recognizable.

New comment by dan15 in "What Claude Code chooses"

dan15 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:10:33 +0000

Fewer people view their site (since their questions can be answered by LLMs) which means their paid services (Tailwind Plus and links to sponsors) get fewer views and thus fewer purchases.

New comment by dan15 in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

dan15 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:23:22 +0000

"from scratch"? No way. It's using Next.js test suites and the AI is almost certainly using Next.js code as part of the output.

New comment by dan15 in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

dan15 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:29:06 +0000

This doesn't really matter if you disable password authentication.

New comment by dan15 in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

dan15 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:27:06 +0000

There's many providers that have similar pricing, sometimes as their normal day-to-day pricing, and sometimes as sale pricing just for events like Black Friday. I've been happy with HostHatch, GreenCloudVPS ("Budget KVM" like), and RackNerd. RackNerd always have a sale running. GreenCloudVPS often have stock for their cheap ones (starting at $15/year). HostHatch has decent regular pricing (they're trying to compete with Hetzner), but their sale pricing is especially good.

New comment by dan15 in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

dan15 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:22:28 +0000

You need to keep an eye on the configurator page, or monitor it some other way. AFAIK they don't have many servers in the USA, so their US VPSes are available sporadically when people cancel theirs.

You have to order through the OVHcloud US site to see the US locations. If you use their "global" / Canadian site, you'll only see the Canada location.

New comment by dan15 in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"

dan15 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:24:08 +0000

The majority of internet users are either unwilling or unable to pay for content, and so far advertising has been the best business model to allow these users to access content without paying. Do you have a better suggestion?

New comment by dan15 in "Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers"

dan15 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:20:16 +0000

> which database is more common.

SQLite is #1 by far, with MySQL a distant second.

New comment by dan15 in "No one cares about open-source, until"

dan15 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:02:14 +0000

I'm still wondering why Diaspora didn't take off but Mastodon did...

New comment by dan15 in "Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD"

dan15 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:00:44 +0000

I used one of their 20% off coupons for a Simplehuman bin a while back (one of the ones with recycling on the left and trash on the right).

Having said that, I don't think they actually take coupons any more. It stopped when all the physical stores closed. The offer here is a cash back offer, where you pay the full price then another company (like TopCashback, Rakuten, apparently Microsoft too) gives you 10% cash back.

New comment by dan15 in "Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record"

dan15 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:58:11 +0000

I'm surprised 192.168.1.0 is still there 2.5 hours later https://dnstools.ws/lookup/microsoft.com/A/

New comment by dan15 in "1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023"

dan15 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:10:33 +0000

In a way they're lucky DNSSEC took it down, otherwise they may have not noticed the issue of using stale data for much longer.

New comment by dan15 in "Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node"

dan15 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:23:37 +0000

> I was shopping around for an alternative after mullvad blocked port forwarding

AirVPN let you forward several ports (up to 20, if I remember correctly) and you can pick the port numbers.

New comment by dan15 in "Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart"

dan15 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:24:46 +0000

Yeah, that's pretty common. If you get a large amount of traffic, they take the domain from you and try to sell it back to you as as "premium" domain at a hugely inflated price.

You don't have any rights to free domains. Freenom are the 'official' owner of the domain and can do whatever they want with it.

New comment by dan15 in "Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart"

dan15 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:22:09 +0000

That's right. The 'official' NIC URL for .tk is http://www.dot.tk/, but this is ran by Freenom. Similarly, the official URL for .gq is http://www.dominio.gq, which initially looks different, but it has a "powered by Freenom" logo at the bottom right.

New comment by dan15 in "Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart"

dan15 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:19:09 +0000

Freenom own the TLD so you don't really have a choice. Every other registrar that offers the TLD is just going via Freenom anyways, and any major issues that affect Freenom will affect the entire TLD.

New comment by dan15 in "IPv6 Internet is broken"

dan15 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:20:54 +0000

This article is from 2021 so I'm not sure why it's being posted again

    Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 04:23:25 GMT

New comment by dan15 in "Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees"

dan15 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:29:55 +0000

Note that you can't use a free Cloudflare account just for things like images, video and other binary files, as they'll suspend the account. It must be used primarily for a website, not content hosting. If you only want to use Cloudflare for files, you need a paid account.