Hacker News: flippant

New comment by flippant in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

flippant — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:38:22 +0000

> I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people)

Linkwarden does this well. You can share a collection for a small group of people.

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

New comment by flippant in "More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access"

flippant — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:29:55 +0000

Thank you! Yes, you just get a zip file with all of your saved pages.

It looks like this:

├── files

│ └── 632daffb-2f4f-4795-bb4d-3149d24f4264

│ ├── original.html

│ ├── readerview.html

│ └── screenshot.png

├── manifest.json

└── metadata.csv

New comment by flippant in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

flippant — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Apologies for the self-promo. Downvote and I'll know not to do it again.

This trend of outright banning the Internet Archive has me extremely worried. I fear a future where news articles are memoryholed, and no one can remember exactly what was reported and how sensational it all seemed.

I've been working on this project [0] for a while. Originally, I started with a tool that would allow people to snapshot webpages in their own browser, and they could selectively share their snapshots. Then by consensus, everyone could understand what exactly had changed, and they could draw their own conclusion about why.

While working on it, I realized that an authoritative answer to "what did it look like on $DATE" can't be produced by a no-name company. It's gotta be a non-commercial entity that's got a track record of integrity. The dream would be to allow MemoryHole customers to submit their snapshots to the Internet Archive (or other non-commercial entity). It's definitely a copyright nightmare - so no clue how this could work.

[0] - https://memoryhole.app

New comment by flippant in "Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban"

flippant — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:15:59 +0000

I did exactly this in early 2025 with a small keyword tagging pipeline.

You may run into some issues with Docker and native deps once you get to production. Don’t forget to cache the bumblebee files.

Wealthsimple Data Breach

flippant — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://help.wealthsimple.com/hc/en-ca/articles/40752002620571-An-Important-Security-Update-For-Our-Clients

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45139807

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flippant in "Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'"

flippant — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:01:42 +0000

Archived copy

https://archive.is/JbtH8

FLAME – Auto scale parts of your existing app

flippant — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flippant in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

flippant — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 22:18:39 +0000

Thank you. I didn't know this existed.

https://qtconsole.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

New comment by flippant in "Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship"

flippant — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:15:34 +0000

On the other hand, it would make it harder for big business to retain talent.

New comment by flippant in "XUL Layout is gone"

flippant — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 16:52:25 +0000

There was also instantbird - an IM client that let you connect to various IM platforms (MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Facebook before “Messenger”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instantbird

New comment by flippant in "Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?"

flippant — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:30:43 +0000

It's an IRC network. https://libera.chat/

New comment by flippant in "Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work"

flippant — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:27:40 +0000

What are you using this for?

New comment by flippant in "India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders"

flippant — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:41:03 +0000

After a year it’s not reasonable to call the restrictions temporary.

Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism

flippant — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25638301

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Mozilla Manifesto

flippant — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165284

Points: 88

# Comments: 66

New comment by flippant in "Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday has on me?"

flippant — Mon, 11 May 2020 15:43:19 +0000

Take a day off in the middle of the week.

New comment by flippant in "Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try"

flippant — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:05:14 +0000

Pocket still isn't open source after being acquired by Mozilla two years ago.

Erlang Design by Contract

flippant — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tamarit/edbc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105566

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Any news about Pocket being open sourced?

flippant — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:44:55 +0000

It's been almost two years since Pocket was acquired by Mozilla [0]. It's still installed by default on Firefox. Does anyone have any news about the server-side part of Pocket being open-sourced? I'm asking because it would be great to eventually self-host this kind of service.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/27/mozilla-pockets-pocket-in-first-acquisition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18764729

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by flippant in "Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs"

flippant — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:44:06 +0000

Be patient and point at specific "sloppy" things and explain why. If your colleagues are reasonable, eventually you'll help them up to your level.