Hacker News: jimaek

New comment by jimaek in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

jimaek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:39 +0000

I've seen it but it's buggy and lacking in features. Feels like an afterthought instead of a real product

New comment by jimaek in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

jimaek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:09:26 +0000

I wish I had as much faith in myself as you have in me :)

New comment by jimaek in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

jimaek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:11 +0000

Honestly I would build it if I knew how to properly market it to quickly get users.

Globalping and jsDelivr took years to gain a meaningful user base

New comment by jimaek in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

jimaek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:58:53 +0000

Capture developers and funnel them to the Workers platform

New comment by jimaek in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

jimaek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:51:09 +0000

Off topic but I wonder when Cloudflare is going to launch their own Docker registry as a product.

Gtrace an advanced network path analysis tool

jimaek — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hervehildenbrand/gtrace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933588

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:59:20 +0000

I run about 270 servers in verified locations as part of the Globalping network https://globalping.io/users/jimaek so I had plenty of targets to test

I tested against them, as well as other infrastructure I control that is not part of the network, and compared to the ipinfo results as well

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:36:19 +0000

I talk a little about it in the article, but the main goal was to build something simple that works as proof of concept.

This brute force approach works much better than I expected as long as you have enough probes and a bit of luck.

But of course there are much better and smarter approaches to this, no doubt!

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:30:49 +0000

Yes, most likely there are multiple algorithms that could be used to get better results with fewer probes, but I'm not smart enough to do the math and implement them.

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:28:21 +0000

Atlas is great but it is focused more on academic research and professional use.

Globalping offers real-time result streaming and a simpler user experience with focus on integrations https://globalping.io/integrations

For example you can use the CLI as if you were running a traceroute locally, without even having to register.

And if you need more credits you can simply donate via GitHub Sponsors starting from $1

They are similar with an overlapping audience yet have different goals

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:04:26 +0000

I talk about it a bit in the article. The easiest solution is to use the last available hop. In most cases its close enough to properly detect the country even if the target blocks ICMP.

Email me if you would like to get some additional credits to test it out, dakulovgr gmail.

New comment by jimaek in "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:25:54 +0000

This is a little project exploring the feasibility of using a service such as Globalping for geo location needs.

I had fun making it but please note that the current implementation is just a demo and far from a proper production tool.

If you really want to use it then for best possible results you need at least 500 probes per phase.

It could be optimized fairly easily but not without going over the anon user limit which I tried to avoid

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

jimaek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834953

Points: 228

# Comments: 61

New comment by jimaek in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

jimaek — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:54:01 +0000

Yes I played it on a 4090. The game is good but graphics are underwhelming.

To my eyes everything looked better in BF1.

Maybe it's trickery but it doesn't matter to me. BF6, new COD, and other games all look pretty bad. At least compared to what I would expect from games in 2025.

I don't see any real differences from similar games released 10 years ago.

New comment by jimaek in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

jimaek — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:23:05 +0000

It's fine, but definitely a downgrade compared to previous titles like Battlefield 1. At moments it looks pretty bad.

I'm curious why graphics are stagnating and even getting worse in many cases.

A simple CLI tool to run network tests from locations

jimaek — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jsdelivr/globalping-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480882

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jimaek in "Cloudflare Is Not a CDN"

jimaek — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:08:25 +0000

Note that while the above is mostly true for free plans, it can also behave like a normal CDN on more expensive plans. The more expensive the more reliable and consistent it is.

New comment by jimaek in "Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly"

jimaek — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:06:33 +0000

I don't understand why we even need such services. Why don't the browsers and maybe even the OS just not improve their included grammar checkers?

The Chrome enhanced grammar checker is still awful after decades.

Maybe the AI hype will finally fix this? I'm still surprised this wasn't the first thing they did.

New comment by jimaek in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

jimaek — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:40:11 +0000

An open source and easy to use globally distributed network monitoring and testing platform called Globalping https://globalping.io

Currently it's at stage of "RIPE Atlas with better UI and UX" but I plan to expand the functionality to cover a lot more use cases like ISPs,Cloud,Edge rankings and performance

New comment by jimaek in "Unpkg CDN down causing dependent website outages"

jimaek — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:44:42 +0000

I invite everyone affected to consider switching to a production focused CDN https://www.jsdelivr.com/

There is also a tool to simplify migration https://www.jsdelivr.com/unpkg