Hacker News: holysoles

New comment by holysoles in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

holysoles — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:44 +0000

If anyone is looking for a tool to actually send traffic to a tool like this, I wrote a Traefik plugin that can block or proxy requests based on useragent.

https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin

New comment by holysoles in "Firefox Bug Bounty Program Updates"

holysoles — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:05:39 +0000

Looks like the Firefox team is requiring clearer, higher quality security reports, presumably due to AI assisted submissions. Hopefully this will be enough to not require more significant barriers for submissions.

Firefox Bug Bounty Program Updates

holysoles — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:02:53 +0000

Article URL: https://attackanddefense.dev/2026/03/13/bug-bounty-program-updates-2026.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389314

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by holysoles in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

holysoles — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:38:04 +0000

I'll plug a similar project that I found last week, its an emulated TV Tuner (HD Homerun) of your Plex/Jellyfin content. Its great having an easy option to throw something on for background noise.

https://tunarr.com/

New comment by holysoles in "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"

holysoles — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:38:08 +0000

I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio

For a web GUI, I had been using this project: https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console

I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage. Its maturing rapidly and seems promising.

New comment by holysoles in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

holysoles — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:24:21 +0000

The Verge had some good coverage about this, but TLDR: probably. Flagship phones may not raise in price to fully reflect it. They might cut costs elsewhere like keeping the same camera, or eat some of the cost increase in their margin.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/880812/ramageddon-ram-shortage...

They discussed it on the decoder podcast as well.

New comment by holysoles in "Never buy a .online domain"

holysoles — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:33:45 +0000

Yeah this doesnt seem like a unique or new issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195410

New comment by holysoles in "Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot"

holysoles — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:09:12 +0000

Paywall bypass: Set your user-agent to "Googlebot"

New comment by holysoles in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

holysoles — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:48:07 +0000

For those curious, the federation roadmap is here: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

I'm watching this pretty closely, I've been mirroring my GitHub repos to my own forgejo instance for a few weeks, but am waiting for more federation before I reverse the mirrors.

Also will plug this tool for configuring mirrors: https://github.com/PatNei/GITHUB2FORGEJO

Note that Forgejo's API has a bug right now and you need to manually re-configure the mirror credentials for the mirrors to continue to receive updates.

New comment by holysoles in "I miss thinking hard"

holysoles — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:41:08 +0000

I very much think its possible to use LLMs as a tool in this way. However a lot of folks are not. I see people, both personally and professionally, give it a problem and expect it to both design and implement a solution, then hold it as a gold standard.

I find the best uses, for at least my self, are smaller parts of my workflow where I'm not going to learn anything from doing it: - build one to throw away: give me a quick prototype to get stakeholder feedback - straightforward helper functions: I have the design and parameters planned, just need an implementation that I can review - tab-completion code-gen - If I want leads for looking into something (libraries, tools) and Googling isn't cutting it

New comment by holysoles in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

holysoles — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:27:29 +0000

I always say I'm opting out as loudly as possible, many people don't even know that you can opt-out. The signs are often small and out sight.

FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s

holysoles — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/faa_radar_atc_deals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530358

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by holysoles in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

holysoles — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:40:03 +0000

Fascinating find and investigation. While there isn't a solid conclusion from it, glad it was written up, perhaps someone will be able to connect more dots with it.

New comment by holysoles in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

holysoles — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:59:54 +0000

The mullvad apps do offer obfuscation options (shadowsocks, etc) but i agree it would be nice if something was baked into wireguard itself. I recently went through setting up shadowsocks over wg for my homelab and it was a good bit of effort

New comment by holysoles in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

holysoles — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:51:02 +0000

Continuing to add new features for my traefik plugin that manages bot traffic: https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin

Also working on getting Nix setup on my devices, including a PR for the official installer to support OpenRC + BusyBox distros. Hopefully will get merged soon :)

New comment by holysoles in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

holysoles — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:03:04 +0000

In general I have a pretty negative view of private equity. However I did see this awhile back that seems at least partially positive: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/private-equity-giant-kkrs-an...

New comment by holysoles in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

holysoles — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:03:19 +0000

There more sources if you google, but someone leaked a Cellebrite meeting.

https://www.androidauthority.com/cellebrite-leak-google-pixe...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which...

Chicago Tribune Sues Perplexity

holysoles — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/chicago-tribune-sues-perplexity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157924

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by holysoles in "Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available"

holysoles — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:14:17 +0000

Both my current org and previous org (large) have mentioned it many times as an option, but both ended up choosing other commercial alternatives: HyperV and XenServer.

I think the missing datacenter manager was causing a lot of hesitation for those that don't manage via automation

Glass-detect: a detector for Ray-Ban Meta glasses

holysoles — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sh4d0wm45k/glass-detect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130838

Points: 3

# Comments: 0