Hacker News: ewidar

New comment by ewidar in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

ewidar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:50:48 +0000

It's not about the cyclists wearing ANC headsets (which is already prohibited at least in Euro countries), but about pedestrians wearing them. Another problem altogether.

New comment by ewidar in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

ewidar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:07:06 +0000

I think you should just explain that part more clearly: why would they want you to host git repos on their behalf.

UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security

ewidar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://theoryofchange1.substack.com/p/from-global-warming-to-homeland-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653816

Points: 101

# Comments: 59

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

ewidar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:40:01 +0000

What these 'channels' do is essentially why I was running a nanoclaw at work: triggering a claude code based on events and getting feedback/review/analysis which nicely closes the loop with other agents.

Not sure why it has to be an mcp, but will be trying this out asap.

New comment by ewidar in "Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP"

ewidar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:54:07 +0000

One thing that I currently find useful on MCPs is granular access control.

Not all services provide good token definition or access control, and often have API Key + CLI combo which can be quite dangerous in some cases.

With an MCP even these bad interfaces can be fixed up on my side.

New comment by ewidar in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

ewidar — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:55:51 +0000

Do you have a good starting point or explanation to share about using obsidian for a team, where we all change/sync files?

New comment by ewidar in ".Beat Swatch Internet Time"

ewidar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:48:31 +0000

same here, this is just moving to switzerland as the base time.

https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/internet-time.html https://beats.wiki/0

New comment by ewidar in "[dead]"

ewidar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:34:38 +0000

Probably because it's the first day.

New comment by ewidar in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

ewidar — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:54:12 +0000

I guess it depends what appeal to you.

As an example finding myself in a similar 80% situation, over the last few months I built

- a personal website with my projects and poems

- an app to rework recipes in a format I like from any source (text, video,...)

- a 3d visual version of a project my nephew did for work

- a gym class finder in my area with filters the websites don't provide

- a football data game

- working on a saas for work so typical saas stuff

I was never that productive on personal projects, so this is great for me.

Also the coding part of these projects was not very appealing to me, only the output, so it fits well with AI using.

In the meanwhile I did Advent of Code as usual for the fun of code. Different objectives.

New comment by ewidar in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

ewidar — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:56:51 +0000

That's not meaningful, it all depends on what content is shared on the respective platforms.

New comment by ewidar in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

ewidar — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:00:24 +0000

Not sure you can "cancel" github reactions of other users

New comment by ewidar in "Using Python for Scripting"

ewidar — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:52:25 +0000

Sure but the sub question here was about packages.

If you are installing packages, then starting with installing uv should be fine.

New comment by ewidar in "Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing"

ewidar — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:18:36 +0000

Not trying to be snarly, but you should read the article and come back to discuss. This specific point is adressdd.

New comment by ewidar in "Advent of Code 2025"

ewidar — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:32:00 +0000

Online chess competitions actually spend quite a lot on preventing cheating, and even then it's a common talking point.

New comment by ewidar in "Why Strong Consistency?"

ewidar — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:17:40 +0000

I am not an expert, but from the examples in the article I think the author is looking for a bit more than read-your-writes.

E.g. They mention reading a list of attachements and want to ensure they get all currently created attachements, which includes the ones created by other processes.

So they want to have "read-all-writes" or something like that.

New comment by ewidar in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

ewidar — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:11:48 +0000

I am not sure any of the points you raised change anything to the OP's point, do they?

Op was taking about changing the rule to something more intuitive, in such case it would s'en natural that decimal numbers are used.

New comment by ewidar in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

ewidar — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:36:54 +0000

To non Americans, and given the current political climate imposed by the American government, no it's not very different.

New comment by ewidar in "Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos"

ewidar — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:04:55 +0000

That would be whoever owns the private key, no?

It's similar to any other private/public key scheme: it just serves to prove the signature was generated by the owner (here whoever owns the location at which the video is taken).

But I guess you could imagine multiple flickering patterns per location, with each pattern being owned by a different entity (an NGO + a governement + a private company for example), in essence doing a multi-sig of the video.

New comment by ewidar in "Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos"

ewidar — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:23:33 +0000

While it does not seem enough to guarantee authenticity, this scheme does seem like it would prevent creating a video from scratch pretending to be taken at a protected location without having express knowledge of the key or the flickering at that moment in time.

Definitely interesting for critical event and locations, but quite niche.

New comment by ewidar in "DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service"

ewidar — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:26:33 +0000

I respect that, but I am curious, what DNS do you use?