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New comment by danscan in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

danscan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:34:11 +0000

The X3 stands out a bit more than the X4. The difference is small but mighty. I was at a restaurant in my small (not the forefront of tech) town, and had two people ask about it!

New comment by danscan in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

danscan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:31:41 +0000

I use [Crossink](https://crossink.dev) and I absolutely love it. Have it both the X4 Pro and the X3, and surprisingly (to me) I prefer the x3 for everything but reading in the dark

New comment by danscan in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

danscan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:36:27 +0000

There is no right way :)

SwiftUI is good, albeit not without issues, as long as you tolerate them. The same is true for any approach. My most recent app was built in SwiftUI because I have been using React Native in my professional work for so long I wanted a change of scenery.

Each approach has its issues, and it all boils down to a matter of preference and which tradeoffs are appropriate for the project.

New comment by danscan in "Superlogical"

danscan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:47:44 +0000

I think you may have meant to comment on another post :)

New comment by danscan in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

danscan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:10:42 +0000

How does the directive bound what it applies to? I imagine they could be in compliance by renaming the model

New comment by danscan in "Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library"

danscan — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:04:33 +0000

I think this is saying it's: 1) A JS chromium browser automation API targeting Bun (uses Bun.* or "bun:*" apis) 2) Engineered to interact with webpages in a way that evades bot detection

New comment by danscan in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"

danscan — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:58:14 +0000

> I've never even heard of Sacks until now

Bless your soul

New comment by danscan in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"

danscan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:17:07 +0000

Axios, like Express, is something I'm shocked to see used in any modern codebase. I loved both in the 2010s. In JS/TS-land there are much simpler and better options these days. Depending on Axios suggests the devs don't know how to use fetch. I can't think of another reason it would be a necessary dependency

New comment by danscan in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

danscan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:57:39 +0000

TIL nobody can spell phyzix

Show HN: GithubDownfall – Track GitHub incidents and downtime

danscan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:05:01 +0000

Hey HN,

I made a Github incident tracker in the style of Github's contribution graph.

We're all feeling Github's increasing issues lately, so I quickly threw this together today. It includes incidents since Jan 2025, trends, and current status.

Hosted on Fly, made with Astro, bun, bun:sqlite.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950356

Points: 4

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New comment by danscan in "Legitimizing Personal Software"

danscan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:00:42 +0000

It’s not about doing discovery _from_ personal apps, but the inverse: doing discovery _of_ personal apps.

For example, an app that uses an AI chat API can discover and route requests to your preferred provider (ollama, etc)

New comment by danscan in "Legitimizing Personal Software"

danscan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:56:18 +0000

Fair that this post lacks background.

I’d say I have the opposite of a narrow view of software one can write, having written everything from typical web/mobile apps to DBs, network protocols and VMs :)

My initial explorations were focused on the web, but the network-level scheme I landed on does indeed do discovery on the backend.

Appreciate this feedback. I’ve been in the weeds of this stuff for some time, so it helps to see the rubber meet the road so I know what I missed.

Legitimizing Personal Software

danscan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:23:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.selfref.com/personal-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116171

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:22:09 +0000

Ah, and just the subtle crypto API to generate keys? Or are you not generating them on the client?

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:49:47 +0000

Easy to imagine that haha. That’s part of the reason I’d lean on a standard like JOSE and make signing happen automatically for users who prefer to use an SDK

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:44:07 +0000

Fair. I assume you mean asymmetric key cryptography and not JWKs in particular? JOSE is a pretty good library if you need the latter and you’re already working in JS

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:41:59 +0000

IMO this is a tooling issue. You can make your SDK generate keys and even base64 encode them so they appear opaque to the uninitiated (like an API key)

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:17:55 +0000

Valid

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:41:01 +0000

Ah, yes I agree

New comment by danscan in "Self-Signed JWTs"

danscan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:40:03 +0000

It's interesting to imagine taking the pubkey as identity concept to its full extents in situations like this, for example if you could create a cloud account, spin up resources, and authorize payment for them all programmatically without having to enter payment details on a form (because your keypair can authorize payment with the whatever payment method you use)