Hacker News: kawsper

New comment by kawsper in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

kawsper — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:47:42 +0000

That's interesting, we moved to Cloudflare R2 for our CDN solution, and we got reports from some european government institutions that our assets weren't loading, likely for similar reasons as you mention, so we rolled back whilst looking for options.

The solution was to move to Bunny, and that worked for everyone.

New comment by kawsper in "Every GPU That Mattered"

kawsper — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:27:35 +0000

I was running a 970ti for the longest time, it was only when I wanted to get into some VR gaming that it was time for an upgrade.

New comment by kawsper in "Every GPU That Mattered"

kawsper — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:25:29 +0000

We had the Riva TNT2 in our family computer, so that was fun to see that again, I think it was paired with an AMD K6-2 chip.

One day one of my friends from school wanted to optimize airflow in our computer, and re-did the cabling, but he managed to block the CPU-fan from spinning. I am not sure how, but we didn't realise it for a couple of months.

When I got my own PC, it had an AMD Barton chip, and it allowed me to play Half-Life 2.

Railway CDN Caching Incident: When Opt-In Becomes Opt-Everyone-In

kawsper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:06:26 +0000

Article URL: https://joshuabellew.com/posts/railway-cdn-caching-incident-march-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580308

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by kawsper in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

kawsper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:27:11 +0000

Even earlier than that:

Win98: bad

Win98 SE: good

New comment by kawsper in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

kawsper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:03:38 +0000

I asked about this tool 3 days ago, HN is a magical place! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363432

New comment by kawsper in "Digg is gone again"

kawsper — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:07:06 +0000

If someone wants to read the AMA, it is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qhf27j/alexis_ohania...

New comment by kawsper in "Show HN: fftool – A Terminal UI for FFmpeg – Shows Command Before It Runs"

kawsper — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:18:42 +0000

Speaking of ffmpeg tools, someone on HN showed a TUI for ffmpeg that let you trim a video, with a preview in your terminal so you could trim precisely.

I've tried searching for the comment but without any luck, if anyone have a suggestion for the name, I would be grateful.

New comment by kawsper in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

kawsper — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:04:28 +0000

If you can get your hands on it, I recommend the 4 episode BAFTA-winning mini-series about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Bates_vs_The_Post_Office

New comment by kawsper in "Put the zip code first"

kawsper — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:56:40 +0000

A lot of the times both "zipcode" and "state" are mandatory fields.

Zipcode is easy, the platform likely wants my postal code.

You have to be a little bit more creative with state, sometimes "We don't have any states" is fun to see printed on your address label on a parcel, other times "Denmark" could be considered a state in the EU and that can be an answer, but most times "N/A" is enough.

New comment by kawsper in "Put the zip code first"

kawsper — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:52:55 +0000

My postal code is 2200 (København N), and that form didn't do anything for me.

All zip codes are postal codes, but not all postal codes are zip codes.

At my last gig, this sentence was said a lot, and people kept confusing the two, both in code and in daily speech, so maybe colloquially they are the same :)

New comment by kawsper in "Stathat Is Shutting Down"

kawsper — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:53:40 +0000

This makes me a bit sad, the $99/month always made other options more preferable for me, but I always loved the graphs from stathat and the forecasts seemed useful.

New comment by kawsper in "Bunny Database"

kawsper — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:19:01 +0000

Hi Joe,

Thank you for your update, it's really appreaciated, it will be good to get this sorted :) It sounds like quite a challenge you're working on with the ingest and backlog!

New comment by kawsper in "Bunny Database"

kawsper — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:06:37 +0000

At 14:00 UTC, I was still seeing requests from 2026-02-01, and none from today, the order also seems random.

Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

New comment by kawsper in "Bunny Database"

kawsper — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:57:03 +0000

I've been struggling with Bunny the last couple of days.

Their log delivery api is delayed by over 3 days, despite them promising only "up to 5 minutes delay" in their docs: https://docs.bunny.net/cdn/logging

Why isn't it on the status page you might ask? Oh, that's because a delay is not "critical", but I fear I am losing loglines now, their retention is 3 days.

It's an interesting strategy for them, because it doesn't inspire confidence in me about their other offerings. When they can't reliably operate a log delivery API or be transparent about issues, it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database.

New comment by kawsper in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

kawsper — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:46:26 +0000

Oxylabs sells proxies for scrapers, I suppose you can use the socks-proxy as a VPN, and they claim to use Honeygain.

Honeygain is a platform where people sell their residential internet connection and bandwidth to these companies for money.

For comparison Honeygain pays someone 10 cents per GB, and Oxylabs sells it for $8/GB.

New comment by kawsper in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

kawsper — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:58:16 +0000

When I was about 12 I was working on a PHP3 application, I had some issues with a MySQL query, and I pasted my code to pastebin (or whatever we used back then) and shared the link on IRC, the code included my database credentials.

Back then our ISP gave every computer a public IP.

The next thing that happened was that someone changed my MySQL password, and me being 12, I didn’t know how to change it back.

They made me beg for the password, to much amusement to the whole channel, and then they helped me secure it and taught me how to reset the password.

NAT would have saved me, but I wouldn’t have received a free, though a bit embarrassing, security lesson.

New comment by kawsper in "The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998)"

kawsper — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:58:51 +0000

I have one of those somewhere, I thought it was a cool piece of tech history.

New comment by kawsper in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

kawsper — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:55:44 +0000

You're right, I was mistaken, I've seen some Youtubers playing games on it, but they use GameHub to run Steam games, somehow I thought it was running Steam OS.

Sorry for the confusion.

New comment by kawsper in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

kawsper — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:21:09 +0000

AYN Thor looks quite promising in that category https://www.ayntec.com/products/ayn-thor

It’s an ARM machine running SteamOS.