Hacker News: frantathefranta

New comment by frantathefranta in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

frantathefranta — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:02:59 +0000

I settled on that after trying to be extra careful with TOTP. Now my split is 95% of passwords, TOTP codes and passkeys in 1Password, 5% (really important stuff like email) in an offline KeePass DB + passkeys on Yubikeys.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

frantathefranta — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:42:26 +0000

1. Upgrade to Emacs version +1

2. Remove MELPA packages that are now part of Emacs

3. Go to step 1 when new version comes out

New comment by frantathefranta in "I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]"

frantathefranta — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:51:50 +0000

Pretty sure at $1,400 it's cheaper than most worthwhile eBikes on the market.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

frantathefranta — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:02:22 +0000

Wheelchair yourself in and out.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

frantathefranta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:56:13 +0000

I'm probably a heavier user of reddit than most but I recently deleted the reddit app on my phone because it's just too much. I still use the site though, but now I use an iPad with old.reddit to make using it as difficult as possible.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes"

frantathefranta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:52:14 +0000

Claude's "write me a product description like a cool human would" is just using lower-case where it shouldn't be though.

New comment by frantathefranta in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"

frantathefranta — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:07:53 +0000

In a pursuit of saving even more money, I noticed a lot of T14 ThinkPads have missing/broken keys. Replacement keyboard is $20 and a few minutes of work. Worth about a $50-$100 discount.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

frantathefranta — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:54:21 +0000

Very nice, I was looking for something like this to scrobble to both Lastfm and listenbrainz.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

frantathefranta — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:30:36 +0000

Yeah the headline made me think "oh god they are trying to get away with their scam for the third time".

New comment by frantathefranta in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

frantathefranta — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:25:57 +0000

Hopefully Plex (PlexAmp specifically) will support this at some point.

New comment by frantathefranta in "RISC-V Router"

frantathefranta — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:57:54 +0000

People run NixOS on their Omnias, that's enough for me.

https://gitlab.com/Cynerd/nixturris/

New comment by frantathefranta in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

frantathefranta — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:27:02 +0000

They are disposable, they just last way longer than any of their competitors. They are not on the level of upgradability as the Framework (anymore).

New comment by frantathefranta in "Your favorite brands got worse on purpose"

frantathefranta — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:14:39 +0000

Also Barnes & Noble weirdly

New comment by frantathefranta in "IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00"

frantathefranta — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:59:00 +0000

It feels like a reply to the IPv8 draft[0] that got viral yesterday.

[0]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

New comment by frantathefranta in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

frantathefranta — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:34:36 +0000

I thought it was just Tailscale trying to style their blogpost into a news article.

New comment by frantathefranta in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

frantathefranta — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:12:14 +0000

Honestly I think kitchens have way less stuff than a lab like this and following Alton Brown's advice of avoiding "unitaskers" will basically guarantee you don't get overwhelmed.

New comment by frantathefranta in "How to turn anything into a router"

frantathefranta — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:53:19 +0000

pon.wiki is a great resource

New comment by frantathefranta in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

frantathefranta — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:23:30 +0000

Blaming voters for being stupid is not widely accepted yet.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Why I love NixOS"

frantathefranta — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:34:48 +0000

I agree with the many levels of abstraction, but at the same time, directly managing systemd units is also so much easier with Nix then any other distro I've tried.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

frantathefranta — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:09:55 +0000

> In isolation, nobody _wants_ their vehicle to spew black smoke.

Honestly, when I was 12 years old and my dad floored the TDi in our Land Rover (with the diesel particulate filter deleted), it felt satisfying in a way, like the machine is allowed to be its most efficient self.

Now that I'm adult, I know that it's marginal gains for the car and terrible for the environment, but there are people that have the thinking capability of a 12 year old driving these trucks. I don't think all of them do it because of spite (though I'm sure most do).