Hacker News: dchest

New comment by dchest in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

dchest — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:08:12 +0000

Colin, if I remember correctly, you first ran Tarsnap servers on Ubuntu before you made FreeBSD work on EC2. At what point were you confident enough to switch to FreeBSD?

New comment by dchest in "OpenRouter Raises $120M at a $1.3B Valuation"

dchest — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:45:05 +0000

They are a marketplace for model providers, which is quite a nice business model.

New comment by dchest in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

dchest — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:38:49 +0000

https://webmachinelearning.github.io/prompt-api/

Already in Chrome as an origin trial: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

Show HN: ThreePointTwo – Utility-first inline attributes for the World Wide Web

dchest — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://dchest.github.io/threepointtwo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599795

Points: 2

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New comment by dchest in "ace.me is your new website, email and cloud. Simple. Fast. Secure."

dchest — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:23:42 +0000

> Traffic encryption with 2048-bit TLS, the successor to SSL

With 65537 exponent, the successor to 3.

New comment by dchest in "LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances"

dchest — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:22:40 +0000

I just downloaded the ODS version and it comes with .pdf extension, had to rename it. It also uses Aptos Narrow font (from MS Office), which gets substituted.

New comment by dchest in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

dchest — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:43:47 +0000

Note that this isn't a study of actual workplaces, it's based on cognitive tests, so "bad at their jobs" may be a stretch. For example, "overconfidence in one's intellectual and analytic abilities" may be good for business, e.g. when dealing with US government contracts in 2026.

New comment by dchest in "MacBook Neo"

dchest — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:28:53 +0000

Yes, it can -- to all questions.

New comment by dchest in "MacBook Neo"

dchest — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:02:19 +0000

8 GB M1 MacBook Air does support Apple Intelligence.

New comment by dchest in "Httpx closing down issues and discussions due to "skewed gender representation""

dchest — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:17:25 +0000

Why can nearly every big tech take care of their supply chain? :)

Clearly, the maintainer doesn't want to do this job anymore, and it's not a requirement when releasing your code to also do stuff unrelated to programming.

New comment by dchest in "Httpx closing down issues and discussions due to "skewed gender representation""

dchest — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:51:58 +0000

How is _your_ supply chain a concern of this open source developer?

New comment by dchest in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

dchest — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:58:46 +0000

Nothing in this post is specific to passkeys; it reads like advice to not encrypt data. There’s no way to prevent some users from losing their encryption key anyway. Whatever warnings you include, even when software doesn't connect to the internet and just encrypts local files, someone will write to support that they forgot their password and ask you to "reset" it.

Good advice at the end, though.

New comment by dchest in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

dchest — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:02:08 +0000

It's under the Live tab of Wolfram's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@WolframResearch/streams

Sessions are called Live CEOing, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0KH0sfHI8

New comment by dchest in "Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module"

dchest — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:21:22 +0000

https://bellard.org/ts_zip/

New comment by dchest in "I made my own Git"

dchest — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:40:17 +0000

While Fossil uses SQLite for underlying storage (instead of the filesystem directly) and various support infrastructure, its actual format is not based on SQLite: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fileformat.wiki

It's basically plaintext. Even deltas are plaintext for text files.

Reason: "The global state of a fossil repository is kept simple so that it can endure in useful form for decades or centuries. A fossil repository is intended to be readable, searchable, and extensible by people not yet born."

New comment by dchest in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

dchest — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:22:22 +0000

If you paste the comment it replies to into ChatGPT, it generates almost exact same answer as that comment. Also, "Finally, ..." and "it's not A, it's B" is a good tell.

New comment by dchest in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

dchest — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:30:53 +0000

No, it's literally just compressing small files without training zstd dict or plugging external dictionaries (not counting the built-in one that brotli has). Especially for English text, brotli at the same speed as zstd gives better results for small data (in kilobyte to a few of megabyte range).

New comment by dchest in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

dchest — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:07:13 +0000

Not with small files.

New comment by dchest in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

dchest — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:47:13 +0000

That's what I mean: if you reimplement it, you need client-side JS to support keyboard navigation.

New comment by dchest in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

dchest — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:35:54 +0000

How do you implement this keyboard navigation with SSR (if you use buttons)?

https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/components/radio-gr...