Hacker News: haarolean

New comment by haarolean in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

haarolean — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:06:26 +0000

Creem is just a MoR layer on top of Stripe. Not really an EU alternative.

New comment by haarolean in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

haarolean — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:15:20 +0000

ha good luck. they already aggressively scan and use public wi-fi networks and have everything shipped on a chonky SoC

New comment by haarolean in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

haarolean — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:25:45 +0000

it's kinda bleak realizing I've been running the same cursed workflow for way too long. brb gonna disable that autocomplete

New comment by haarolean in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

haarolean — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:07:09 +0000

Porkbun also uses Cloudflare for their NS servers.

New comment by haarolean in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

haarolean — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:54:49 +0000

>A warning to auth engineers: if an account is using a Gmail address, then auth codes from Google Authenticator should not be considered a second factor.

Incredible take. I don't know what's worse here — suggesting gmail address = google authenticator, thinking you can know the source of "auth codes", or the fact this is coming from an auth engineer. I'm switching to handwritten HMACs on paper napkins today.

New comment by haarolean in "Why Koreans ask what year you were born"

haarolean — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:09:30 +0000

Nowadays it seems more of a coping mechanism for fading relevance rather than respecting the actual competence.

New comment by haarolean in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

haarolean — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:00:05 +0000

IMO, PM2.5 sensors are essential nowadays. What's the point of a device without one? Especially for $229. I can get a chinese thingy like qingping for ~$115 with PM2.5 and other stuff.

New comment by haarolean in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

haarolean — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:58:28 +0000

They will happily oblige and put your review down if the host asks nicely. Happened to me, happened to my friends. Also they don’t care a bit about fake obvious reviews. Not like “not actively monitoring”, like telling you idk if you care to report it.

New comment by haarolean in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

haarolean — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:51:13 +0000

Sure, but the shorting happened in 2022, when Musk wasn't clowning nearly as hard as now. Unless Gates has a time machine, this argument doesn't really stick.

New comment by haarolean in "DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently"

haarolean — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:46:44 +0000

>DNS is fundamentally broken

Is it? Seems to be working as intended. Don't like a specific resolver? Cool, switch to another. Or run your own.

The problem is entities like Cloudflare trying to centralize the internet, DNS included, not the protocol itself.

New comment by haarolean in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

haarolean — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:46:02 +0000

>ultimate

Who knows? Maybe when and if that happens, civilizations will be advanced enough to try to reverse this: manipulating the local Higgs field, pocket universes, and counter-decay waves

New comment by haarolean in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

haarolean — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:05:28 +0000

It's hard to take him seriously or consider him a good guy. While advocating for the environment, he doesn't hesitate to short tesla, an EV company (questionable nature aside).

There are two possible reasons for this (the 'why' remains -- not enough money?):

- He's admitting he doesn't care about the environmental mission, just the returns

- He thinks tesla is a fraud, but isn't saying it publicly

Either way, it's sus, so it's tough to trust him.

New comment by haarolean in "Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English"

haarolean — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:36:53 +0000

Agreed, pretty meh. Tried my usual accent (the one where natives mostly can’t tell where I'm from) — got 78%. Then went full cartoon russian ‘bad neighborhood’ mode — somehow scored 68%.

New comment by haarolean in "Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart"

haarolean — Mon, 05 May 2025 02:55:58 +0000

> you might get dangerous X-ray and gamma ray emissions from its accretion disc

There’s not enough matter nearby to feed it enough to form an accretion disc

> we could send probes to orbit it

Hitting a cm-sized black hole orbit at a lunar distance sounds insanely hard, given it’s invisible (even with occasional lensing).

Show HN: Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.2 is out

haarolean — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:22:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kafbat/kafka-ui/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434772

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by haarolean in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

haarolean — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:33:51 +0000

1) There are a lot of bugs, for starters. I've been using it for many months but had to switch back to Chrome about a year ago due to some unbearable bugs like tabs freezing and sync kept bringing back long-gone tabs. Don't get me wrong, I've reported a dozen issues (I have 50+ started threads on orionfeedback forums), but anyway, I felt like I spent more time reporting bugs than actually doing my stuff. 2) Some needed extensions are broken. It's not like I need that many with weird APIs. Bitwarden has been broken for some time, and Grammarly is still broken (3 years in). I tried the latest version a few days ago given what's happening with chrome rn, there are some annoyances still. I like Orion (kudos to Kagi team for working on it) and want it to succeed, I believe it just needs more time, I guess.

New comment by haarolean in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

haarolean — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:49:56 +0000

Hey there, nice shilling for brave. 1 thread, 4 comments!

New comment by haarolean in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

haarolean — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:44:16 +0000

Yeah, ignore the crypto and tons of other stuff about phoning home or doing malicious 'oopsies' things.

New comment by haarolean in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

haarolean — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:41:05 +0000

I love Kagi's Orion but it's still not good enough yet to switch off chrome completely. You realize this once you delve deeper, install extensions, and use it as your daily driver.

New comment by haarolean in "Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery"

haarolean — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:04:40 +0000

You’d need to upgrade the account to a paid one (there will be no charges anyway if you stay within free limits of the ARM offer), which unlocks a different pool to spin up a server in.