Hacker News: gforce_de

New comment by gforce_de in "La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)"

gforce_de — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:22:02 +0000

"I'm glad I found this file..." nice! wish I had also some captures of old BBS sessions safed like this one - thanks Oscar!

New comment by gforce_de in "Show HN: Tblue – 614 passive security scanners for any website, runs locally"

gforce_de — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:02:44 +0000

You forgot a dependency: when installing tblue, please make sure that "PyYAML" is installed

New comment by gforce_de in "Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?"

gforce_de — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:37:21 +0000

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

...and easy session sharing

New comment by gforce_de in "Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?"

gforce_de — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:33:15 +0000

This is https://github.com/voidtools/ES (a "locate" replacement for windows-computers)

New comment by gforce_de in "Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer"

gforce_de — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:02:50 +0000

Thanks Oscar - as always, a very very nice writing style - a good read!

New comment by gforce_de in "How My Images Are Dithered"

gforce_de — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:39:07 +0000

I like it! But i'm not so sure about the filesize safings mentioned.

Your dithered "truedinner.webp" has 189.166 bytes. The original image has 34.682 bytes with JPEG.

https://show.quicky.club/results/b5/30/12/16f36013492e06b658...

New comment by gforce_de in "Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format"

gforce_de — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:58:18 +0000

interesting! 147 bytes for 128x128 pixels are ~0.096 bpp (bits/pixel).

Everything above 153x153 pixels is too small (!) to count as LQIP (lighthouse).

The "normal" way would be to use a 0.05+ bpp WEBP-image as LQIP,

which has ~600 bytes, but looks MUCH better and is widely supported:

https://show.quicky.club/results/cb/1f/a5/ddbacee070083ac5f7...

  $ echo "(8*147)/(154*154)" | bc -l
  .04958677685950413223

@dmit - please check your HTML (w3c validator is unhappy): https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2026/wasm-handsum-example/ This is just invalid: '... width="128px" height="128px" ...'*

New comment by gforce_de in "Icinga2 Release v2.14.9 (3 x critial) + v2.15.4 + v2.16.2"

gforce_de — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:14:05 +0000

As always: build and install soon

Icinga2 Release v2.14.9 (3 x critial) + v2.15.4 + v2.16.2

gforce_de — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://icinga.com/blog/icinga2-security-release-v2-16-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719545

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gforce_de in "Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive"

gforce_de — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:30:12 +0000

Really slow and not snappy on my machine (i7-8550u). each animation takes ~60kb (avif) - way too much!

It needs to download 50 megabytes to show a single startpage.

New comment by gforce_de in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

gforce_de — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:55:09 +0000

It's all about licences. If you need the images for the web: go for jpegli, webp and avif - the distance to jpegxl or webp2 is not worth the hassle:

https://show.quicky.club/results/14/f8/f1/d8db84d57222d32db6...

New comment by gforce_de in "Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression"

gforce_de — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:24:03 +0000

Yeah, thats slow - but the approach is at least interesting:

I tried to compare it with other encoders for the sample (girl/face painting): https://show.quicky.club/results/14/f8/f1/d8db84d57222d32db6...

The PICO-result claim to achieve 0.268 bpp (bit-per-pixel): Even webp (version 1) can do that good enough.

I understand, that one needs really advanced hardware to decode this. Not sure if this is worth the hassle.

New comment by gforce_de in "Show HN: Unlegacy – document everything, from COBOL to AI generated code"

gforce_de — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:24:53 +0000

Interesting! The produced Markdown (gemini flash) seems fine and correct, i was hoping for a PDF and markdown download. It seems not possible.

New comment by gforce_de in "Income percent for all food, food at home and food not at home, 1960-2019 (2020)"

gforce_de — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:15:02 +0000

A similiar graph for germany: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/75719/umfrage...

Typically 13-14% - my own statistics says ~17%

New comment by gforce_de in "purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment"

gforce_de — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:12:59 +0000

  user@NAS:~$ curl -fsSl https://www.purl.dev/install.sh | bash
  ...
  purl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by purl)
  
  user@NAS:~$ uname -a
  Linux NAS 6.1.0-43-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.162-1 (2026-02-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

New comment by gforce_de in "Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying"

gforce_de — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:48:12 +0000

Wow - interesting how strong the differences are!

What seems missing: I can not see the answer from the different models. One have to rely on the "correctness" score.

Another minor thing: the scoring seems hardcoded to: 50% correctness, 30% cost, 20% latency - which is OK, but in my case i care more about correctness and latency I don't care.

Wow! This was my testprompt:

  You are an expert linguist and translator engine.  
  Task: Translate the input text from English into the languages listed below.  
  Output Format: Return ONLY a valid, raw JSON object.  
  Do not use Markdown formatting (no ```json code blocks).  
  Do not add any conversational text.
  
  Keys: Use the specified ISO 639-1 codes as keys.
  
  Target Languages and Codes:  
  - English: "en" (Keep original or refine slightly)  
  - Mandarin Chinese (Simplified): "zh"  
  - Hindi: "hi"  
  - Spanish: "es"  
  - French: "fr"  
  - Arabic: "ar"  
  - Bengali: "bn"  
  - Portuguese: "pt"  
  - Russian: "ru"  
  - German: "de"  
  - Urdu: "ur"
  
  Input text to translate:  
  "A smiling boy holds a cup as three colorful lorikeets perch on his arms and shoulder in an outdoor aviary."

New comment by gforce_de in "JPEG XL Test Page"

gforce_de — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:45:31 +0000

can you please:

* add an correct HTML image alt information

* compress your HTML and CSS with brotli (or gzip)

thanks!

New comment by gforce_de in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

gforce_de — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:17:15 +0000

Wow, for screenshots much faster than chromium:

  $ time target/release/fetch_and_render "https://www.lauf-goethe-lauf.de/"
  real 0m0,685s
  user 0m0,548s
  sys 0m0,070s
  
  $ time chromium --headless --disable-gpu --screenshot=out.png --window-size=1200,800 https://www.lauf-goethe-lauf.de/
  real 0m1,099s
  user 0m0,927s
  sys 0m0,692s

# edit: with a hot-standby chrome and a running node instance a can reach 0,369s seconds here

New comment by gforce_de in "Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps"

gforce_de — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:21:21 +0000

Does look alien. When Going to http://baremetal.returninfinity.com/ one can only see some b0rken plaintext in the browser:

  GET / HTTP/1HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
  Server: BareMetal
  Content-type: text/html
  
  
  
   
    404
   
   
    404 - Not found



New comment by gforce_de in "Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)"
gforce_de — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:57:32 +0000

It seems not possible to drag and drop from one day to another.