Hacker News: felbane

New comment by felbane in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

felbane — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:26:50 +0000

> Come to think of it, if there is a latching door on the detergent tray, your dishwasher definitely has a prewash cycle, or else they’d skip the door entirely

Alec also mentions this briefly in the linked video; if manufacturers could avoid the cost of a latching mechanism, they absolutely would. Its presence means a pre-wash cycle exists.

New comment by felbane in "A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos"

felbane — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:42:09 +0000

Bug fixes:

- Corrected an infrequent issue with getResultingProtonCount that would cause it to always return 1 for certain origin bodies.

(In the merge request comments: "This why we don't let junior devs commit unreviewed code to critical branches, guys.")

New comment by felbane in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

felbane — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:10:11 +0000

Extreme aversion to NIH syndrome, perhaps? I agree that it's weird. Sure, don't try to roll your own crypto library but the amount of `require('left-pad')` in the wild is egregious.

New comment by felbane in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

felbane — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:16:42 +0000

Your argument highlights its own flaw; changing your editor opens up a world of tooling that's certainly adequate for most use cases you can throw at it, but it also requires either discarding or (worse) un-learning all of the tooling that you've learned for your current editor.

For example, I'm perfectly content to use nvim as my primary editor, and this was born out of having to develop for and administer literally tens of thousands of linux servers professionally. I have all the plug-ins and configuration necessary for productivity on my development machines, and when I'm on a remote system ad hoc editing a configuration it already has a built-in lightweight version of the editor I'm already used to.

If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell. Changing to Emacs would require more cognitive bandwidth when the whole purpose of "switching for org mode" is to reduce mental load.

New comment by felbane in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

felbane — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:33:30 +0000

You can cut and shape rock with chisels. Isn't the water used primarily for dust control in powered stone drills/saws?

New comment by felbane in "Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry"

felbane — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:24:05 +0000

I've built a setup that orchestrates updates for any number of remotes without needing a permanently hosted registry. I have a container build VM at HQ that also runs a registry container pointed at the local image store. Updates involve connecting to remote hosts over SSH, establishing a reverse tunnel, and triggering the remote hosts to pull from the "localhost" registry (over the tunnel to my buildserver registry).

The connection back to HQ only lasts as long as necessary to pull the layers, tagging works as expected, etc etc. It's like having an on-demand hosted registry and requires no additional cruft on the remotes. I've been migrating to Podman and this process works flawlessly there too, fwiw.

New comment by felbane in "Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable"

felbane — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:34:15 +0000

Sounds like you already know this, but your dad's a hero. Infinite respect for the folks who dedicate their lives to helping others.

New comment by felbane in "A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air"

felbane — Tue, 27 May 2025 01:37:27 +0000

The loss of tactile keyboards on mobile devices is a tragedy.

New comment by felbane in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

felbane — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:42:31 +0000

mutt is all I'll ever need...

New comment by felbane in "Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V"

felbane — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:36:53 +0000

Man some of y'all really have beef with Rocky...

New comment by felbane in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

felbane — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:38:27 +0000

Does anyone actually still use jQuery?

Everything I've built in the past like 5 years has been almost entirely pure ES6 with some helpers like jsviews.

New comment by felbane in "Firefox tab groups are here"

felbane — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:59:48 +0000

I wish there were better coupling between TST and STG (Simple Tab Groups). Automatic nesting of TST is great, but sometimes I'd like to just move a whole tree into a named group. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

New comment by felbane in "Firefox tab groups are here"

felbane — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:23:40 +0000

This is the primary reason I keep so many tabs open instead of just bookmarking things or copying URLs into my project notes.

New comment by felbane in "Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)"

felbane — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:53:01 +0000

I can't tell if you're being hyperbolic.

Plenty of people make art to express themselves, not for the potential profit of it.

New comment by felbane in "Pitfalls of Safe Rust"

felbane — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:14:14 +0000

It certainly used to, but tbh C++ since 17 has been pretty decent and continually improving.

That said, I still prefer to use it only where necessary.

New comment by felbane in "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"

felbane — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:52:50 +0000

Ah yes, the "We have a problem over there/I'll just delete 'over there'" approach.

New comment by felbane in "Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened"

felbane — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:38:11 +0000

Hey just want to take the opportunity to say thanks for your efforts with releng. I'm always pleasantly surprised by how quick and effective you folks are with getting updates built, validated, and shipped when upstream has a release.

Looking forward to Rocky 10!

New comment by felbane in "Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened"

felbane — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:35:40 +0000

This is just categorically wrong. Alma is no longer a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL due to the licensing changes RedHat made in 2023, but it is absolutely still binary compatible.

New comment by felbane in "Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP"

felbane — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:31:30 +0000

...would it?

I guess maybe if it was PHP8 only...

New comment by felbane in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

felbane — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:43:52 +0000

This baffles me. What's to maintain? I've been running wireguard for years and never had to do anything except scan a QR code when I get a new phone.

By "as if it were public facing" I assume you mean locked down as much as possible using either router or host-based firewall rules?