Hacker News: kawsper

New comment by kawsper in "Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch"

kawsper — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:56:14 +0000

libvips also have a block_untrusted mode where it will block unsafe loaders, .mat seems to be marked as untrusted:

    vips -l
    VipsForeignLoadMat (matload), load mat from file (.mat), priority=0, untrusted, is_a, get_flags, get_flags_filename, header, load

New comment by kawsper in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

kawsper — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:33:54 +0000

> and hackable with official firmware from the company.

GoPro Labs works really well, https://gopro.com/en/us/info/gopro-labs

But it's a bit sad how long their expirements lives there before making it into the default firmware.

New comment by kawsper in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

kawsper — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:31:27 +0000

All GoPros since HERO 8 (released 2019) works as a webcam without any hacks, just plug it in.

New comment by kawsper in "In praise of memcached"

kawsper — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:28:55 +0000

We had Rails writing to memcached, and nginx pulling from memcached for full page caching.

At some point someone decided to gzip all writes into memcached, and our site looked really fun for a while.

New comment by kawsper in "In praise of memcached"

kawsper — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:54:04 +0000

I think the clearest example of that is that people think Redis can only function as a cache that loses data on crash or shutdown.

I think that’s because people replaced Memcached with Redis, and expect the same from it.

New comment by kawsper in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

kawsper — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:57:10 +0000

I just don’t want to be reminded how I look like while using these devices, it’s really distracting to me.

If I wanted to know what I look like, I use a mirror.

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.