Hacker News: davidcollantes

New comment by davidcollantes in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

davidcollantes — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:52:22 +0000

Our family uses credit cards for everything. We don’t pay fees, the merchants do. We get the benefit of being able to settle disputes easily, getting cash backs, having extra insurance on certain goods, and not having to carry any easy-to-lose cash. We don’t spend more than we can afford, and we pay in full at the end of the billing cycle.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS"

davidcollantes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:29:10 +0000

Do you know where is their repository?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang"

davidcollantes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:03:49 +0000

How do we know it is Golang? Is there a repository with the code available? Without it I find "in Golang" rather superfluous; it should have better been "I made a private self-destructing image hosting site".

New comment by davidcollantes in "A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS"

davidcollantes — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:03:34 +0000

I ran a FirstClass BBS server in 1992, fully connected to other FC hobbyists. I remember that mail transfers happened at a scheduled time, and mine used to fail because my father was a Ham radio and, when he used his transceiver, the radio signals would drop the modem connection.

A tiny shared Linux system

davidcollantes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:07:25 +0000

Article URL: https://mbox.blue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652140

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Eyeball"

davidcollantes — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:57:23 +0000

I was 0.06% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes.

This is fun!

New comment by davidcollantes in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

davidcollantes — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:07:54 +0000

I have noticed that not one of them is compatible with the other. I generated shares using `ssss` (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/ssss-split....), and couldn't combine them on any of the three sites linked. That is a downside, isn't it? Do you know of a way to bypass that hurdle, other than packing resources together with the shares?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo"

davidcollantes — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:17:33 +0000

Not to nickpick, but it seems GitHub centric. Is there a way it could be used simply with git (running on a VPS, on the user space, that is, accessed via SSH)?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser"

davidcollantes — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:32:44 +0000

Is there a client that needs to be used to be able to receive files this way? I tried the dedicated QR reader on my iPhone, and the Camera app, and couldn’t get it to assemble the chunks. It will show the encodings one after the other, but nothing else.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Cisco workforce reductions"

davidcollantes — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:53:02 +0000

> Today we announced our Q3 FY26 earnings with record revenue of $15.8 billion, up 12 percent year over year, and double-digit top and bottom-line growth. The ELT and I could not be prouder of the growth you have all delivered for Cisco.

Great! A successful company, right? Ah, but then:

> we are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs, representing less than 5 percent of our total employee base.

I wouldn't have put those two together so close, nor in the same announcement.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Taphouse – A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew"

davidcollantes — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:08:06 +0000

Thank you! I searched various permutations and failed. It’s a telling about the sad state of search engines.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Taphouse – A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew"

davidcollantes — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:42:21 +0000

What is that (Apptide)? Have a link?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Write some software, give it away for free"

davidcollantes — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:26:13 +0000

> Debian-based Linux (Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Neon, Pop_OS, etc. - not Ubuntu)

Why not Ubuntu?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Bhatti – Self-hostable Firecracker orchestrator with auto pause/wake"

davidcollantes — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:33:41 +0000

Bhatti is easy to use, so powerful, and handy! Thank you for being so fast at fixing issues, and keeping up with bhatti’s development.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

davidcollantes — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:10:13 +0000

Where would Prodigy, CompuServ, eWorld, MSN, and the like would fit in? Together with AOL?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base"

davidcollantes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:45:06 +0000

What's the other one? I cannot find it.

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

davidcollantes — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:23:41 +0000

Wow, that’s quite nice! I see that’s at VM time, any plans to add the ability to add them after the fact? I am really enjoying bhatti!

Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator

davidcollantes — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:47:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sahil-shubham/bhatti

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819407

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidcollantes in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

davidcollantes — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:37:02 +0000

Is there a way to store configuration/data of applications running on a Bhatti VM on the host, ala Docker volumes?

New comment by davidcollantes in "Iran Unable to Find Mines in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says"

davidcollantes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:42:04 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/iran-mines-st...