Hacker News: filcuk

New comment by filcuk in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

filcuk — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:04:08 +0000

This is cool, but I have the same in my house - is there any advantage beside likely better uptime? I do have a physical firewall in between, I suppose there's no need for it with your setup?

New comment by filcuk in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

filcuk — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:03:27 +0000

The scripts are hilarious, yet not inaccurate. I can't stop chuckling. 'Are you happy with that?' 'Happy is a strong word' 'OK' moves on to the next topic

New comment by filcuk in "Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again"

filcuk — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:50:42 +0000

I got entranced by ms paint. Love the attention to detail.

New comment by filcuk in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

filcuk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:18:03 +0000

This is fair, but it feels like it pushes another finger into the door of mass surveillance. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a few toggles away in the station software.

New comment by filcuk in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

filcuk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:51:27 +0000

People see an — dash and kneejerk. Writers are deciding to stop using this valid punctuation because of this exact reaction, it's ridiculous.

New comment by filcuk in "LLM Honeypot"

filcuk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:02:57 +0000

Well, yeah... because it's mostly 5-10KB gifs that are lazy-loaded on scroll.

New comment by filcuk in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

filcuk — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:51:31 +0000

Between being criticised for too much LLLM and not enough, the developers can't win can they?

New comment by filcuk in "Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library"

filcuk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:50:13 +0000

For causal use, I've had best success with freemium photoroom.com (export res limit on free use). Even better than OP's, but it's been a while since I've compared these.

New comment by filcuk in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

filcuk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:33:09 +0000

Yeah a $60 hot air station may be enough, assuming you have all the consumables and chips. This isn't something even the average techie will risk trying.

New comment by filcuk in "Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds"

filcuk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:14:57 +0000

True, but it's extremely effective at getting registrations, almost to the point that you're dooming yourself without it. Anyone and everyone uses it, big and small. Google can afford any random user to run a few queries before dangling the hook, but it's all the same.

New comment by filcuk in "Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds"

filcuk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:11:46 +0000

Whilst a valid complaint, I'd not even entertain a response with this attitude.

New comment by filcuk in "Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit"

filcuk — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:05:43 +0000

If you look up v4, you get about the same price as other resellers.

New comment by filcuk in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

filcuk — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:20:11 +0000

You'd do well to avoid them if you want to own your printer forever. I have 3 different Prusa printers, few of which have gone through several upgrades, and I love working with them (and not on them, as I'mnot the tinkering type).

New comment by filcuk in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

filcuk — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:22:19 +0000

That's pretty simple - the chosen display is best for core usage. Cleay visible in bright sun or dark, sharp angles, easy on the battery. For anything else, there's a HDMI out isn't there.

New comment by filcuk in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:05:27 +0000

BW. I don't think colour would do much, as the screen is 250x122. Battery may depend on what you can find, but the one I have should last several weeks (still testing). I started on a tiny LiPo I ripped from my cat's floppy fish toy.

To give more info here, it uses Heltec Wireless Paper, which is a self-contained unit and just needs a battery added.

New comment by filcuk in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:46:13 +0000

I'm using one of those devices with a tiny eink screen... as a pocket ebook reader. Sorry for the bait. Fun and easy project though, lookup Pala one if you're interested and dm me for improved firmware (restrictive license)

New comment by filcuk in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

filcuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:23:39 +0000

The latest UUID (7?) Uses half random gen, half timestamp. This not only makes it sortable by creation, but would also make a collision like this impossible.

New comment by filcuk in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

filcuk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:27:19 +0000

Who mentioned marketing? It's used for package tracking, order updates, bookings and so on where I live.

New comment by filcuk in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

filcuk — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:41:23 +0000

Because it has a legitimate use. As anything, the tools will be abused by malicious actors

New comment by filcuk in "Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?"

filcuk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:50:06 +0000

Pure heating doesn't generate any work beside just heating. This is an interesting and a rather futuristic concept.