Hacker News: harrygeez

New comment by harrygeez in "My Homelab Setup"

harrygeez — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:11:12 +0000

not really a solution (as others have pointed out already) but it also tells me you are missing a central identity provider (think Microsoft account login). You can try deploying Kanidm for a really simple and lightweight one :)

New comment by harrygeez in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

harrygeez — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:18:37 +0000

Ladybird can't arrive sooner

New comment by harrygeez in "Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch"

harrygeez — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:23:34 +0000

at my work place we call them "Agile Champions" now

New comment by harrygeez in "Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework"

harrygeez — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:35:27 +0000

I’m in a similar boat like you. I would love for a React-like library that compiles down to direct JavaScript DOM transforms. Of course Svelte exists but I don’t want to mark what is reactive or not and I can’t go back to html templates after using typed JSX. Also I don’t really like the “island” like template syntax of Vue, Svelte, etc

New comment by harrygeez in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

harrygeez — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:07:44 +0000

I wish all Chromium forks would band together to maintain a base that supports Manifest V2, it shouldn't be that difficult to each chip in some funding.

New comment by harrygeez in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

harrygeez — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:03:51 +0000

VSCode is still a very competitive text editor even without its proprietary plugins.

Ootb VSCode is already a superior experience to Emacs, which I only begrudgingly move away from because of subpar TypeScript + JSX support like 6 years ago. However, after I started using VSCode for work there was just no going back. I use VSCode a lot for text manipulations. I find its regex search replace much easier than using sed in the terminal. Multiple cursors, Git integration, beautiful diffs, command palette is just like Emacs M-x.

Without its proprietary plugins it's still a great gift to the public and forks like Cursor is a good showcase of that. Thanks to monaco almost every web editor nowaways have great usability, syntax highlighting and the keybindings that I'm familiar with.

I think the bigger joke of the century are open source beneficiaries that only take and give nothing back, but still have the audacity to demand for things and hound open source developers to implement what they want. You can't have your cake and eat it too

New comment by harrygeez in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

harrygeez — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:19:34 +0000

Sounds like recipe for r/spicypillows

New comment by harrygeez in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

harrygeez — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:00:18 +0000

Even now that they have reversed it I'm now determined to find a way to do this the cheapest way possible

New comment by harrygeez in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

harrygeez — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:26:37 +0000

I have a similar setup, it will not be immune if they start implementing in your area. They were rolling out by areas before they reversed course. Your upstream will stop working unless you proxy it through another network

New comment by harrygeez in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

harrygeez — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:53:00 +0000

can you share a little on your setup?

New comment by harrygeez in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

harrygeez — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:06:48 +0000

I'm in PJ. It seems that they have reversed the move after wide media coverage, claiming that it there has been a "confusion"

New comment by harrygeez in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

harrygeez — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:18:25 +0000

I'm Malaysian. They even messed up DoH for the popular DNS providers like Google and Cloudflare. I think they are routing 1.1.1.1 to their own DNS, so when you try to connect to DoH you get SSL_ERR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN. The only option it seems is to VPN or play the cat and mouse game now to find a DNS that hasn't been rerouted yet

New comment by harrygeez in "Apple will reportedly pay OpenAI with 'exposure'"

harrygeez — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:47:52 +0000

It's between ChatGPT being on there or something else like Claude... OpenAI cannot afford to let the masses know there is something out there that is just as good

New comment by harrygeez in "Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users"

harrygeez — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:39:16 +0000

For on-device AI as a matter of fact it is. 35 TOPS vs 17 TOPS is quite substantial. For reference Microsoft demands 40+ TOPS for “Copilot+” PCs.

Probably they could offload more to their servers but it wouldn’t be the same experience definitely.

New comment by harrygeez in "Array.shift Optimizations in Firefox's JavaScript Engine (2020)"

harrygeez — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:03:00 +0000

if you are at a stage where this matters you will not be using Array.shift or even Array for that matter. JavaScript has lower level facilities for this.

New comment by harrygeez in "Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses"

harrygeez — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:47:28 +0000

does anyone know to make a diagram using text like that in the README?

New comment by harrygeez in "Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords"

harrygeez — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:35:08 +0000

There are a few convenient scapegoats here but ultimately in this case it is not biometric unlock that enabled this but rather characteristic of the Active Directory's design (I'm not sure I will call it a weakness).

For Android and iOS if you forget your PIN code I believe you are screwed, as in no one can decrypt your device for you.

New comment by harrygeez in "A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback"

harrygeez — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:06:47 +0000

> The goal is to enhance the user experience and interface, making it more user-friendly and visually appealing

I don't want to sound discouraging, but the thing you need to realize is most of us are here because we like its user interface, not despite it. If you're looking to enhance the site you should improve on its strengths, not change it to something it isn't.

Hacker News loads instantly all the time and I think I speak for most here that we don't want all these extra JS or Next React wizardry.

New comment by harrygeez in "US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect"

harrygeez — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:24:14 +0000

Forget small companies. Apple is famously known for blocking import of 3rd party parts for repair, but refuses to sell such parts to independent repair shops before recently.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kxzpy/apple-is-still-trying...

New comment by harrygeez in "Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data"

harrygeez — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:16:30 +0000

If every app need to poll different servers periodically or, listen for pushes, it will be a nightmare for battery life and be a big detriment to phone resource usage.