Hacker News: dd_xplore

New comment by dd_xplore in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

dd_xplore — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:27:24 +0000

The wallet doesn't allow you to keep more than ₹2000

New comment by dd_xplore in "Googlebook"

dd_xplore — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:37:31 +0000

Horrible computer

New comment by dd_xplore in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

dd_xplore — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:48:22 +0000

In some setups UPI doesn't even internet! Just an SMS is sufficient

New comment by dd_xplore in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

dd_xplore — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:10:18 +0000

Or Better use only iperf (or known as version 2), it has multi threading support

New comment by dd_xplore in "Free Gotenberg.dev Instance for You"

dd_xplore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:57:34 +0000

Docs: https://gotenberg.dev/docs/getting-started/introduction

Free Gotenberg.dev Instance for You

dd_xplore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://pdf.freestuffsthat.work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878155

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dd_xplore in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

dd_xplore — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:48:46 +0000

Oracle too

New comment by dd_xplore in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

dd_xplore — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:09:14 +0000

Not using NVMe is not a difference. It's not a different architecture. It's just simple circuit/space optimization, and has been done in other platforms as well. The controller, instead of being on the ssd module; it's present onboard the device.

New comment by dd_xplore in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

dd_xplore — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:42:47 +0000

I bought a NanoPi R6C in the past in the hope that it's going to be a nice mini pc to run all my containers with super low power usage or router. But the software was bad, really bad. I found https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/ , it was godsend but still had some shortcomings. after 2 years, it's bit stable but I just keep it around as a backup route to access my homelab incase the main machines go down.

New comment by dd_xplore in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

dd_xplore — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:22:03 +0000

I don't think they'd or any other space mission will take that much risk anymore. Atleast without the pressure/tension of cold war space race.

New comment by dd_xplore in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

dd_xplore — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:55:52 +0000

Why does Apple need to make the drivers in a walled garden? Atleast they should support major device categories with official drivers.

New comment by dd_xplore in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

dd_xplore — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:03:08 +0000

I just loved road rash, I had the demo version initially, I used to call it demo rash. Once in a race I accidentally jumped on a building, it was first open world experience for me!

New comment by dd_xplore in "Push events into a running session with channels"

dd_xplore — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:01:53 +0000

I thought this was sarcastic

New comment by dd_xplore in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

dd_xplore — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:01:54 +0000

I remember back in 2006 I used to browse overclock forums to overclock my pentium 4, I tons of fun consuming lots of instructions, I learned the bios, changed PLL clocks, mem clocks etc.

New comment by dd_xplore in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

dd_xplore — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:53:17 +0000

Linux apps today dont have that feel of apps that we had in 98/2000 era or even XP era. Windows platform had really good apps.

New comment by dd_xplore in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

dd_xplore — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:36:16 +0000

The major issue is these days most software is electron based or a webapp. I miss the days of 98/XP, where you'd find tons of desktop software. A PC actually felt something that had a purpose. Even if you spin up a XP/98(especially 98/2000 VM) now, you'd see the entire OS feels something that you can spend some time on. Nowadays most PCs feel like a random terminal where I open the browser and do some basic work(except for gaming ofcourse). I really hate the UX of win 11 , even 10 isn't much better compared to XP. I really hope we go back to that old era.

New comment by dd_xplore in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

dd_xplore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:44:51 +0000

That's a bad implementation and seems like a bad afterthought

New comment by dd_xplore in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

dd_xplore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:01:47 +0000

I have been self hosting since couple of years, yes I got very very interested in self hosting my apps, away from the cloud overlords, but the major issue is the network.

You'll need business internet plans with redundancy and based on locations that might be prohibitively expensive. Some startups might even require their own AS numbers.

Also the connectivity to the data centers or cloud infra like WAF , CDNs etc will be definitely worse compared to cloud instances. Then comes firewalls, their configuration and their redundancy.

These things will matter if you're serious about your SaaS.You could definitely co-locate, but that's another cost, then comes the redundancy of everything, from servers, to disks to network (routers and switches etc).

I personally believe that modern hardware is pretty reliable and doesn't need redundancy in every layer, but most people won't agree with and when startups have enough money, this doesn't matter to them.

I think the only reason the common public is unable to start SaaS is handling and managing these problems. Redundancy costs a lot. And many startups don't want to deal with it even if it'll help them in long run. They just gather enough cash and throw at the overlords.

I do hope that the general infra should improve so that can properly host their own.

Nevertheless I'm still trying to start something in SaaS space and self host from my home...

New comment by dd_xplore in "TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan"

dd_xplore — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:34:31 +0000

But why should the world depend on a single country or entity? Everything should be diversified.

New comment by dd_xplore in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

dd_xplore — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:40:41 +0000

NPM is pretty painless