Hacker News: efrecon

New comment by efrecon in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

efrecon — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:09:39 +0000

Indeed really quick and responsive

Naval shipwreck emerges in Sweden after being buried underwater for 400 years

efrecon — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-shipwreck-emerges-baltic-sea-sweden/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075371

Points: 5

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New comment by efrecon in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

efrecon — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:38:02 +0000

No. Act is for running actions locally. What was mentioned is a way to insert an SSH step at some well-chosen point of a workflow so you can login at the runner and understand what is wrong and why it's not working. I have written one such thing, it relies on cloudflare free tunnels. https://github.com/efrecon/sshd-cloudflared. There are other solutions around to achieve more or less the same goal.

New comment by efrecon in "Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions"

efrecon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:43:04 +0000

I have written https://github.com/efrecon/sshd-cloudflared to solve the same problem. It provides you with an SSH connection inside a transient cloudflare tunnel. The connection is only accessible to the SSH public keys stored in your GitHub account.

New comment by efrecon in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

efrecon — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:27:35 +0000

Because awk understands "columns" better.

echo '999 888' | awk '{print $2}'

prints 888

New comment by efrecon in "OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware"

efrecon — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:10:30 +0000

Link from the homepage: https://openipc.org/supported-hardware/featured

New comment by efrecon in "The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters"

efrecon — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:44:06 +0000

This is really good! Thanks!

New comment by efrecon in "We are destroying software"

efrecon — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:09:09 +0000

But then... One of those engineers quit and another one becomes seriously ill and cannot work for a longer period of time...

New comment by efrecon in "I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century"

efrecon — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:29:59 +0000

I would believe this is mostly due to panic rather than being stupid. At some point, for many people, your logical brain stops working.

New comment by efrecon in "A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers"

efrecon — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:34:57 +0000

Isn't contiki-ng another one?

New comment by efrecon in "Beware of Base64 Encoded Strings"

efrecon — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:13:28 +0000

That's what I meant indeed. The article never mentions busybox in the text, does it?

New comment by efrecon in "RHttp: REPL for HTTP"

efrecon — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:55:49 +0000

I've built dew for this. It "knows" about many of those apps (and where to get a container from). https://github.com/efrecon/dew. Adding a term app is usually just a matter of crafting an .env file with the necessary settings.

New comment by efrecon in "BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem"

efrecon — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:14:53 +0000

That's really cool

New comment by efrecon in "Beware of Base64 Encoded Strings"

efrecon — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:48:46 +0000

Or better : use the --wrap option so it gets clearer that no wrapping on long lines happens .

New comment by efrecon in "ble.sh: Revolutionize the BASH user experience"

efrecon — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:47:35 +0000

I use ble.sh. I find it really good, even if a bit sluggish at times. The multi-line editing mode is god's end when trying little advanced snippets of shell.

New comment by efrecon in "VNC Resolver"

efrecon — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:05:19 +0000

This is both funny and scary. A quick look through some of them reveals (no links on purpose):

- Some UI in Swedish to control the heating system (+warm water) of two houses - A host where the username and password are written in clear text with a gentle message of "use sudo to gain root access" - somebody's browser logged onto something that looks like a crypto mining sys. - an homeassistant prompt, ready for control..

As usual the IoT dominates and many open systems seem to be related to some visualisation or control.

New comment by efrecon in "From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs"

efrecon — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:39:43 +0000

Downloading the tarball/zip with just a shell and regular utils is possible. See https://github.com/efrecon/ungit

New comment by efrecon in "Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action"

efrecon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:53 +0000

Yes. But act isn't entirely compatible unfortunately. To run the "real" thing, my latest attempt is here: https://github.com/efrecon/gh-runner-krunvm. It let you create ephemeral runners in microVMs. As soon as one runner has finished a job, a new one will be created. You can have several of those loops running in parallel on the same host.

New comment by efrecon in "Build time is a collective responsibility"

efrecon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:43:43 +0000

I've just made a ShowHN [1] about my pet project [2] for the past few weeks. It let you run isolated runners on-prem from any OCI image using microVMs. The project uses a base image to form a minimal runner environment, and an image that layers the tooling required for running the runner on top of the base image. You can insert your own set of pre-installed tools in that chain of images to warm up runners quickly.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844932 [2]: https://github.com/efrecon/gh-runner-krunvm

New comment by efrecon in "ST-DOS"

efrecon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:32:49 +0000

or Tramiel Operating System?