Hacker News: dschep

New comment by dschep in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

dschep — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:07:11 +0000

> "theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro"

SUSE is a German company, so probably nothing to even develop.

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)"

dschep — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:57:41 +0000

Seeing as several are in entirely the wrong city, one is in the Tidal Basin in DC, another on the National Mall.. they clearly don't.

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)"

dschep — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:56:54 +0000

The geocoding needs some work. There are 4 companies indicated as being located in Richmond, Virginia. At least two of them are clearly in Richmond, California. I suspect all of them are in CA.

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app"

dschep — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:32:07 +0000

Why did you build this with a server? Since you suggest folks introspect the script anyway, you could simply generate it in the browser and have the user download it. Then you could run this at zero-cost.

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps"

dschep — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:26:00 +0000

without a means to update the map, this isn't a breakthrough. I'd rather use protomaps[0](which has regular builds, from a better-known source) with caddy.

[0] https://protomaps.com/

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: My website, with a MacOS-like interface"

dschep — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:37:04 +0000

Brings back memories. I made Mac OS X knockoff UI(back when it was 'stripey' for a website when I was about 16 as well. Nicely done OP.

New comment by dschep in "NN-SVG"

dschep — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:13:17 +0000

Yeah, the github repo is a much better link for this, as it explains what it is. https://github.com/alexlenail/NN-SVG

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: Detoxer – Neutralize Addictive Content Without Blocking"

dschep — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:39:23 +0000

You can actually setup ublock0 to do this for you too. At one point I'd used it to blur distracting sites, but like you, I found fully blocking the content(which the blurring effectively did) led to me disabling the block. I'll try this technique out, it's a good idea.

Here's how you can do it with ublock:

  www.reddit.com##img:style(filter: blur(10px);)
  www.reddit.com##body:style(filter: grayscale(1);)

New comment by dschep in "How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet"

dschep — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:52:59 +0000

You can kinda get that from microblog.pub. It federates via ActivityPub and is a single-user customizable micro¯o blog. https://docs.microblog.pub/user_guide.html#customization

New comment by dschep in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

dschep — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:57:41 +0000

But the ad networks also serve fraudulent ads and even worse, malware. How is that an improvement?

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: Carousel Hero"

dschep — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:12:09 +0000

My first thought upon seeing this: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner"

dschep — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:17:06 +0000

I had exactly the same idea regarding ```python fences. I filed an issue if you wanna give it a thumbs up: https://github.com/joerdav/xc/issues/42

New comment by dschep in "CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions"

dschep — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:46:57 +0000

You should add a child and adult for scale. So many cars are just dangerously large these days.

New comment by dschep in "I help seniors with technology issues"

dschep — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:23:38 +0000

easy: the market is far from infallible.

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: npm install actual-malware"

dschep — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:18:08 +0000

I suspect OP conflated "I am reporting malware in a package on npmjs.com" with "I have discovered a bug or vulnerability in a package on npmjs.com." The later shows what they report[0] whereas the former does allow for a report to be made.

[0] https://imgur.com/VSZbZ0Q

New comment by dschep in "I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move"

dschep — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:40:49 +0000

> won't find your AirTag if they have Android which kind of defeats the purpose

While they're alone in a car, sure. But as soon as they're around folks with iPhones, they're tracked just fine and will never get the notifications the husband in the article got.

New comment by dschep in "IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)"

dschep — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:34:40 +0000

it does https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-meth...

New comment by dschep in "IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)"

dschep — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:32:07 +0000

Doubtful given that GraphQL doesn't prescribe a transport layer. [0]

[0] https://graphql.org/faq/#does-graphql-use-http

New comment by dschep in "Twitter confirms Twitter Blue"

dschep — Fri, 28 May 2021 16:40:43 +0000

Doesn't twitter already have themes [0]? Or is it more than just the accent color?

[0] https://twitter.com/i/display

New comment by dschep in "Show HN: HN-blacklist – hide submissions from certain sources"

dschep — Mon, 24 May 2021 17:31:01 +0000

You should consider making this into a browser extension. For this kind of script it's rather easy and is way easier for users to install. For an example with a very similar configuration (array of strings) that is a configurable extension instead, checkout my WaPo Metal Taglines greasemonkey script[0] and extension[1]

[0] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/27767-wapo-metal-taglines/... [1] https://github.com/dschep/metal-wapo