Hacker News: doakes

New comment by doakes in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

doakes — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:42:49 +0000

"After you checkout, we’ll email you a private download link that includes everything you need."

New comment by doakes in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

doakes — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:04:44 +0000

This is my exact experience! I really tried for 6 months and I just couldn't avoid fumbling around. For example, the experience of going in/out of fullscreen is jarring.

What's funny is that when someone first learns about Alt+Tab it's like the best cheat-code for any desktop navigation, but after switching to Niri, Alt+Tab seems like a silly way to layout your windows.

New comment by doakes in "As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer"

doakes — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:25:46 +0000

Ironically, this year has been particularly good for salmon fishing in south-central Alaska, where the large majority of the population lives. But who knows for how long.

New comment by doakes in "4-7-8 Breathing"

doakes — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:53:23 +0000

Same thing happened to me

New comment by doakes in "Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures"

doakes — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:58:44 +0000

Very cool! I like the different modes. I've always been fascinated with this space and products like Leap Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXghYjh6Gro

New comment by doakes in "2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities"

doakes — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:03:42 +0000

I work in this space of measuring (mostly coastal) water levels and it's pretty amazing how many different vertical datums there are. When people say something has a height of X, you don't always consider what it's relative to. Is it sea level? High tide or low tide? Maybe it's relative to one of the many geodetic ellipsoids. Maybe a nearby physical benchmark put into the ground by a surveyor. Many cases (like this article) just care about the relative changes locally, but even for that you have to be careful of places like Southeast Alaska where glacial melt causes the land to rise and give the appearance of sea levels dropping.

New comment by doakes in "Wait Until 8th"

doakes — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:22:38 +0000

In my area it's becoming very popular for schools (middle and high) to restrict phones. They put them in the pouch things. I'm a bit surprised how much the parents support it. Talking to a local journalist he said he couldn't find parents with good arguments against it. One of them was "my son runs an online business and needs access to his phone for it".

I couldn't get a cell until I had a driver's license, which I think made sense at the time. Today, a kid might be alienated without a phone.

New comment by doakes in "Typing lists and tuples in Elixir"

doakes — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:45:46 +0000

Shouldn't be a hard sell to developers. According to this year's StackOverflow survey, Phoenix is by far the most admired web framework (10% above the second most popular). Elixir is the second most admired language, behind Rust.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#2-web-framew...

New comment by doakes in "Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark"

doakes — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:03:12 +0000

If people didn't notice, this was built by a 13 year old. This is a fun space to be building stuff in. Neat little project and I hope you keep it up!

New comment by doakes in "Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing"

doakes — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:03:56 +0000

I don't understand the answers to your "what is a legitimate website with a malicious owner" question, but I kinda see this as the same concern as downloading a phone app that requests an OAuth login via a native webview. You can't always see the true URL of that login page. But it comes back to what I think is your main point -- you've already downloaded something malicious from the get-go. But I guess there's some damage control if you can spot a fake login page and remove the install.

New comment by doakes in "Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather"

doakes — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:39:21 +0000

I never realized just how thin these displays are. Very cool!

New comment by doakes in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

doakes — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:56:39 +0000

Misinformation is a security risk that comes both from deliberate sabotage as well as monetary incentives. If it bleeds, it leads. I'm not in favor of censorship like this or social medias tagging things as "fake news" but how else do we prevent people from believing everything they see on these platforms?

New comment by doakes in "Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists"

doakes — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:52:17 +0000

Val town has a cool idea of making gists runnable: https://www.val.town/

New comment by doakes in "Meta Llama 3"

doakes — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:06:49 +0000

That was fast! I've really been enjoying Double, thanks for your work.

New comment by doakes in "Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]"

doakes — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:56:43 +0000

Thanks for clarifying

New comment by doakes in "Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]"

doakes — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:18:32 +0000

Interesting! I wonder how long ago (if ever) eclipses weren't even possible

New comment by doakes in "Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]"

doakes — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:03:40 +0000

Is it just coincidence that from our point of view the moon looks like it's the exact same size as the sun? Or is there something else going on?

New comment by doakes in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

doakes — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:13:48 +0000

What's your source for the IP addresses?

New comment by doakes in "Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor"

doakes — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:16:34 +0000

Are you saying POCs are pointless unless a script kiddie can use it?

New comment by doakes in "Teler: Real-Time HTTP Intrusion Detection"

doakes — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:49:03 +0000

"The development of teler IDS is currently on hold. However, we're thrilled to inform you that we've decided to take a bold step by embarking on a complete refactor, starting from scratch to enhance the overall development process."