Hacker News: k_bx

New comment by k_bx in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

k_bx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:35:08 +0000

The worst one is password based login it enables

New comment by k_bx in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

k_bx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:03:53 +0000

Did you try Incus? Gives you VM-like experience in a container

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:12:53 +0000

I just realized that `apt install emacs-nox` is a great editor in containers and VMs. I just have to disable it every damn time (for regular and root user). Defaults would be better.

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:13:47 +0000

By default I mean whatever you get by doing `sudo apt-get install emacs-nox`

I disagree about "tough". Emacs has changed for the better in new releases quite drastically in the last years in my experience.

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:36:30 +0000

They are hostile to me proposing a better (IMO) default

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:09:42 +0000

I was proposing to make default where those files are not created, since Emacs is actually surprisingly great out of the box with no configuration, except for this "little" thing. Apparrently, some people believe it's perfect as it is

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:59:18 +0000

It's a very different experience:

- I already have tmux launched, if ssh drops – I can continue

- I don't have to match windows to ssh sessions -- just have them in my tmux

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:14:24 +0000

I do too, it’s just that I’ve realised that emacs-nox is awesome container / vm editor out of the box, this backup thing is the only most annoying part (and Ubuntu 22.04 emacs packages expired cert)

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:12:55 +0000

Yes I’ve added this to hundreds of containers and vms at this point

(setq make-backup-files nil)

New comment by k_bx in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

k_bx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:45:37 +0000

> — Sensible file handling: backups and auto-saves in a cache/ directory, recentf for recent files, clean buffer naming with uniquify

It's crazy to me how out of the box when you edit nginx file at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/foo it creates another file foo~ there and nginx tries to load that too

When I tried to ask emacs reddit community they started attacking me for changing the default that only I need and fits everyone perfectly.

Still can't believe I'm the only one finding that default amazingly bad.

New comment by k_bx in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

k_bx — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:26:45 +0000

Web browsing modern websites like Github (or some worse ones)

New comment by k_bx in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

k_bx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:44:52 +0000

What I would love to see is "tig" replacement that is:

- even faster, especially if you have couple thousand files and just want to press "u" for some time and see them very quickly all get staged

- has this split-view diff opened for a file

Otherwise tig is one of my favorite tools to quickly commit stuff without too many key presses but with review abilities, i have its "tig status" aliased to "t"

New comment by k_bx in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

k_bx — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:05:22 +0000

No I'm using Bitwarden and hate it :)

New comment by k_bx in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

k_bx — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:37:50 +0000

Bitwarden is a shit product lacking basic niceties: search is terrible (substring match is beyond first page of results), UI is sometimes non-async (typing freezes search), no way to sort by newest/date added, no way to make two note (textarea) fields, no way to expand it, consumes memory and CPU etc

However, it’s open-source, cross platform and sorta works.

New comment by k_bx in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

k_bx — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:41:49 +0000

Thank you sir, appreciate the support!

New comment by k_bx in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

k_bx — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:44:01 +0000

Thank you sir, I wish your words will eventually come true

New comment by k_bx in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

k_bx — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:29:27 +0000

As a Ukrainian at war since day 1 – I don't buy it. They will sell their gas at discount to China until the very end. Military force is the only way to get them to the death zone.

New comment by k_bx in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

k_bx — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:55:54 +0000

When I see Activity Monitor that doesn't show tabs until you nearly go full screen – all I can think is that this shit product was built even before vibecoding was a thing. Truly ahead of its time.

New comment by k_bx in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

k_bx — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:51:10 +0000

Thanks, I'll soon get to try this out hopefully!

New comment by k_bx in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

k_bx — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:44:17 +0000

I want my CI containers created per branch/PR to have their own Tailscale domain, so logging them in is useful via non-expiring key. Only good option I've seen previously is to notify every 90 days when key expires.