Hacker News: jonasdoesthings

Discord is working on Game Server Hosting

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/35370817986839-Game-Servers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145353

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Atlassian gets base URL by throwing error and regexing the URL from stacktrace

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:51:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/5678

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027386

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:07:02 +0000

Most Open Source maintainers give away their work for free.

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive"

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:57:08 +0000

I think the goal of this project is not to simplify the use of Annas Archive for humans (as they could just use the Website anyways), but to allow AI "Agents" to automatically source information out of books while researching without requiring user interaction.

The LLM's default web-browsing tool probably won't or can't download books from AA while looking for information on a subject. This enables it to do so.

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "React-Searchable-Dropdown"

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:40:40 +0000

I've seen that there's a demo, but the link is kinda small and you need to scroll down on the Website. Adding a small gif to the README showcasing one or more implementations of the component would be cool

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Show HN: A free, privacy preserving, archive of public Discord servers"

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:00:19 +0000

Maybe also exclude messages by bots (e.g. "username has joined the server") from the index to decrease the stalking-potential of your site (99.9% of these bot messages have no informational-value for the index anyways). Currently you can still search for an username and get a subset of servers that the username is in (even if not active) by finding these bot messages.

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Material 3 Expressive"

jonasdoesthings — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:24:17 +0000

I would have liked a short explanation on what makes the new M3 Expressive really different from Material You?!

They are re-using the exact same words [1] ("expressiveness", "personal style") from You. Did they just add more spacing and change the default-color?

[1]: https://m3.material.io/blog/announcing-material-you

Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines

jonasdoesthings — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:44:37 +0000

Article URL: https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812714

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier"

jonasdoesthings — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:25:20 +0000

Which Zig are you talking about?

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Posthog/.cursorrules"

jonasdoesthings — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:11:42 +0000

> oops this is purely for r&d and isn't used for cascade or anything production

according to their lead design engineer (https://x.com/andyzg3/status/1894437305274044791)

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services"

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:04 +0000

There are great alternative libraries for AWS & AWS-compatible services like S3

Been really happy with aws4fetch in TypeScript (for Cloudflare R2, generating presigned URLs & sending mails via SES) after getting much frustration out of the official JS SDK.

https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch

Fun facts about parsing party donations public data

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://donation.watch/en/fun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096653

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Hacker Public Radio

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:45:30 +0000

Article URL: https://hackerpublicradio.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731325

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Map that displays geotagged Wikipedia pages around the world

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:14:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.matthewsiu.com/local-map

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42397277

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Fly.io outage – resolved"

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:24:45 +0000

Last month Turso released AWS-hosted databases to the public (still in Beta): https://turso.tech/blog/turso-aws-beta

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript"

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:27:47 +0000

the apps you build will be cross-platform "soon" (no specific timeframe)

https://electrobun.dev/docs/guides/Compatability

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Vercel acquires Grep"

jonasdoesthings — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:18:24 +0000

GitHub also had a global code-search for around 1 year now, even with some additional search-operators like programming language. grep app has already existed before GitHub added that feature tho.

I think there are some differences in index-size, search fuzzyness, etc. between grep vs github search, but not 100% sure about the details and which is better for what.

Example Query: https://github.com/search?q=System.exit%281%29%3B+%28languag...

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor"

jonasdoesthings — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:06:21 +0000

Not sure if I'm missing something, but the submission title says "open-source" and in the tool's help menu there's a link to the repo (https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat), the tool runs in your browser, there's no server involved besides a Web-Server hosting the files.

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

jonasdoesthings — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:44:35 +0000

Instead of heavily limiting account creation, Discord for example limits the possibility to message users outside of your network by default. Only people you have added as friend or you share a server with are allowed to message you by default.

For signal that would be harder to implement since it's more focused on 1o1 chats instead of groups, maybe if spam gets out of hand they could use a grey-listing approach like Instagram does where users outside your network get moved to the "message requests" inbox by default.

New comment by jonasdoesthings in "Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers"

jonasdoesthings — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:45:53 +0000

The docs state:

  Not Good For:  
  [...]  
  User IDs  
    Can be decoded, revealing user count

So yeah, just using a sequential id and encoding the number with this library is not a viable idea if you want to hide your insights.