Hacker News: kingo55

New comment by kingo55 in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

kingo55 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:46:08 +0000

> I pre-cache all the domains I use hourly via cron.

How does this look? Shell script querying a list of hostnames? What qualifies as a domain you use?

New comment by kingo55 in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

kingo55 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:43:32 +0000

It would be nice if a site like this could offer a basic speed comparison test to your local network.

Imagine seeing response times at P90 for a series of random lookups and comparing the median response times.

New comment by kingo55 in "The End of Eleventy"

kingo55 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:26:19 +0000

Thanks! Just fixed it - that did the trick...

New comment by kingo55 in "The End of Eleventy"

kingo55 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:37:01 +0000

Well spotted! I'm leaving the OG's like Greece, Spain and Italy till last so I can do them justice.

New comment by kingo55 in "The End of Eleventy"

kingo55 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:26:18 +0000

It's sad to see 11ty co-opted like this especially after building a complex project on it with several thousand pages (https://www.extravirginvault.com/). Despite the complexity, I feel like it's only a couple of days work to replatform my site to a more modern SSG like Astro.

Unfortunately I don't think anyone feels strongly enough about 11ty to fight for it when the next SSG is a few Claude Code prompts away.

New comment by kingo55 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

kingo55 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:14:22 +0000

Maybe the family un-friendly kind?

New comment by kingo55 in "Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM"

kingo55 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:20:57 +0000

Presumably in much the same way it knows it needs to use to calls for reaching its objective.

New comment by kingo55 in "Can I run AI locally?"

kingo55 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:08:50 +0000

How's it compare in quality with larger models in the same series? E.g 122b?

New comment by kingo55 in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

kingo55 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:46:46 +0000

Are there existing alternatives to this? I use KDE, but I have also heard Steam OS has something similar.

New comment by kingo55 in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

kingo55 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:34:25 +0000

"Vibe killing"

New comment by kingo55 in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

kingo55 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:06:54 +0000

Funnily enough about 10 years ago, I had noisy neighbours playing music late at night and after some fruitless attempts at politely asking them to turn the sound down, I found their wifi and ran a 'deauth attack'. Effectively flooding their wifi with packets disconnecting devices. Followed by a, "fuck!"

Safe to say we got peaceful nights sleep.

New comment by kingo55 in "Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?"

kingo55 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:02:54 +0000

I look forward to the cheap compute flooding the market when the music stops.

New comment by kingo55 in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

kingo55 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:47:27 +0000

It had a date, but I also agree this is extremely confusing. Even semver 2.5.1 would be clearer IMO.

New comment by kingo55 in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

kingo55 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:57:22 +0000

As opposed to blockchain where reversal depends on the grace of the merchant.

I've often wondered whether payments providers entering the blockchain space (like Visa/Mastercard) would act as trusted intermediaries for dispute resolution. Kind of a 2-of-3 multisig to disperse the funds in escrow.

New comment by kingo55 in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

kingo55 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:48:04 +0000

That would be nice... Good luck to you if you can use it.

I would consider myself tech savvy but I struggled immensely to run lightning without custodial risk back.

New comment by kingo55 in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

kingo55 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:37:30 +0000

If you've tried gpt-oss:120b and Moonshot AIs Kimi Dev, it feels like this is getting closer to reality. Mac Studios, while expensive are now offering 512gb of usable RAM as well. The tooling available to running local models is also becoming more accessible than even just a year ago.

New comment by kingo55 in "Do not download the app, use the website"

kingo55 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:22:54 +0000

Given how much it seems Apple detests PWAs, I don't ever see this happening. One can dream.

New comment by kingo55 in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

kingo55 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:10:27 +0000

There's now Ethereum, Base and Solana featuring US dollar stablecoins and significantly cheaper fees. If you want to go a step further and eliminate the stablecoin issuer's counterparty risk you could even pay in the base asset of ETH. Shopify allows payments from crypto now, so Steam should try it again.

Good luck censoring purchases on ETH.

New comment by kingo55 in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

kingo55 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:21:58 +0000

Changing your hosts file helps but it would only block hostnames primarily used for ads and trackers - it wouldn't address those trackers and ads loaded from hostnames shared with actual content. The more sophisticated sites will proxy their tracking and ads through their main app:

E.g. www.cnn.com/ads.js

I prefer having multiple layers just in case anything drops off:

1. VPN DNS / AdGuard local cached DNS 2. uBlock Origin

It's like wearing two condoms (but it feels better than natural).

New comment by kingo55 in "In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture"

kingo55 — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:58:39 +0000

When a buddy and I used to go out to bars, he would dress and act Mexican too. I think he enjoyed the style but, on some level, also the attention when girls would mistake him for being Mexican rather than his Chinese heritage.