Hacker News: dddddaviddddd

The Economics of Proof of Concept

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://deploy95.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-poc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765503

Points: 3

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New comment by dddddaviddddd in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:27:47 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

dddddaviddddd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:35:05 +0000

> Meaningful contribution is easy: these groups always benefit from more participants.

Same for probably all small dance communities! While it seems like a different kind of 'contribution' than the OP is looking for, it's very meaningful personally to share music and creativity with people. (Personally, I dance lots of Balboa -- a swing dance with a local scene of probably less than 100 active participants.)

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

dddddaviddddd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:42:33 +0000

I believe the author's idea is to do dev work from a Github account that only has access to the fork, but not to the main repo. Then, as a contributor, you'd open PRs from your fork to the main repo. I think this would only work if your Github account doesn't have write access to the main repo, though. I know you can use 'deployment keys' to give read-access to a single repo using an SSH key, but not sure if you can otherwise restrict access to a single repo with write access. Essentially, though, you'd want to find a way to give the remote host the most limited possible privileges to your Github account.

Find the latest tag for Docker images

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:13:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schlachter.xyz/projects/find-the-latest-tag-for-docker-images

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676639

Points: 1

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New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

dddddaviddddd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:03:04 +0000

Hence

> that almost certainly will break in the next OS release

My scanner has drivers available for download that date from 2015 with no updates since then.

Navigating the POC Valley

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://deploy95.substack.com/p/navigating-the-poc-valley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592335

Points: 1

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New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

dddddaviddddd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:06:13 +0000

When I had a similar issue on FreeBSD, I wrote some automatic pre- and post-suspend scripts (audio interface could cause full system crash going into suspend unless correctly managed beforehand). I’m sure you could do something similar on Linux.

Surviving the POC Valley

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:25:39 +0000

Article URL: https://deploy95.substack.com/p/surviving-the-poc-valley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414870

Points: 2

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New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Tons of new LLM bot accounts here"

dddddaviddddd — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:10:18 +0000

Long-term, I think AI bots will destroy text-based online communities like this one. I'll be sad to see it disappear.

The POC Valley

dddddaviddddd — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://deploy95.substack.com/p/introducing-the-poc-valley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390756

Points: 1

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'Web Kit' vs. 'WebKit' (2006)

dddddaviddddd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:22:18 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2006/05/web_kit_vs_webkit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346044

Points: 7

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New comment by dddddaviddddd in "FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing"

dddddaviddddd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:55:09 +0000

And without Javascript enabled, the page refreshes in a loop!

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

dddddaviddddd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:46:28 +0000

It would be nice if the homepage loaded more gracefully with Javascript disabled -- as it is, it's completely blank without JS.

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Bet on German Train Delays"

dddddaviddddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:06:43 +0000

Odds are better in Canada where 70% of trains arrive late. https://media.viarail.ca/en/press-releases/2025/q1-2025-time...

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

dddddaviddddd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:33:30 +0000

> I've seen arguments about kids going to school in the darkness being thrown around a lot

I’m sure there’s some correlation with the time zone, but it feels like a “think of the children!” argument that ignores much more significant factors (e.g. traffic speed and volume).

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation"

dddddaviddddd — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:38:29 +0000

More interesting than the fact that ChatGPT was used, was seeing all the specific examples of the types of work that this individual was doing.

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

dddddaviddddd — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:41:53 +0000

> Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.

Any sufficiently trusted (online) community will find many attempts to exploit its trust for profit.

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

dddddaviddddd — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:15:40 +0000

Anki uses a SQLite database for all its data, so it's already an open format.

New comment by dddddaviddddd in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

dddddaviddddd — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:15:53 +0000

I host immich inside a Linux VM on FreeBSD, with 6 GB of RAM. Fourth generation Intel processor. The initial jobs to parse metadata took a day or two, but now it’s perfectly snappy and useable.