Hacker News: koehr

New comment by koehr in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

koehr — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:20:18 +0000

So the longest subway ride in NYC is 24km (15 miles) and 1h long? We have multiple underground lines farther than this in Berlin with the longest being 32km (20 miles). But don't get fooled, the issues are the same.

New comment by koehr in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

koehr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:50:52 +0000

This reads more like an advertisement for Mythos, on the first glance

New comment by koehr in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

koehr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:10:53 +0000

I just tried it. It downloaded Qwen3.5 2B on my phone and it's pretty coherent in its sentences, but really annoying with the amount of Ente products mentioned in every occasion. Other than that it's fast enough to talk to and definitely an easy way to run a model locally on your phone.

New comment by koehr in "Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem"

koehr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:59:14 +0000

This is the wrong argument. Claiming that Mozilla is doing it wrong because the technology purist part of their userbase decided they don't want AI is simply short-sighted. The kill switch is the best option, because it let's Firefox be like a typical user would expect, while still giving the option to deactivate things. Deactivate by default and the typical user feels patronized.

New comment by koehr in "Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)"

koehr — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:58:38 +0000

For me this really speaks for intermediate text formats like Markdown, that are easy to read and render, while covering most formatting needs.

New comment by koehr in "DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de"

koehr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:10:52 +0000

Historically, it was a rather famous page. It's a watchblog by the German security expert Felix Von Leitner. It exists since 2005, but since May this year, he didn't write anything until one new entry that you can see here: http://blog.fefe.de/?mon=202512

New comment by koehr in "DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de"

koehr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:13:50 +0000

They replied in the meantime and removed the domain from their threat database.

New comment by koehr in "DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de"

koehr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:00:38 +0000

Interesting, I just downloaded the big list and couldn't find it there.

New comment by koehr in "DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de"

koehr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:16:17 +0000

Looks like https://temp.sh/ is blocked as well.

DNS4EU Blocks Blog.fefe.de

koehr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:13:59 +0000

I filed a request, maybe it is a mistake, but that it ended up on the block list is suspicious.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345835

Points: 14

# Comments: 14

New comment by koehr in "Plaintext Casa First Release"

koehr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:25:35 +0000

Including a CLI client, an NPM package and some spec refinements, working towards web page generation.

Plaintext Casa First Release

koehr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nkoehring/plaintext.casa/releases/tag/v0.3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319005

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by koehr in "Plaintext Casa – A decentralized social network"

koehr — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:18:17 +0000

Plaintext Casa - now with working links on its website! Thanks for letting me know!

New comment by koehr in "Plaintext Casa – A decentralized social network"

koehr — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:41:00 +0000

A decentralized social network that uses plain text files over HTTP. No algorithms. No ads. No data harvesting. But not just microblogging. With rich about sections and multipage feeds, it can be a full blogging platform. Write short posts, long essays, organize by topics. All in plain text.

Plaintext Casa – A decentralized social network

koehr — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://plaintext.casa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198637

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by koehr in "Using street lamps as EV chargers"

koehr — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:01:51 +0000

It's interesting how this sounds like a cutting edge experiment, while this is a common thing to see in Germany and other European states for quite a while now.

New comment by koehr in "The Q Programming Language"

koehr — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:44:43 +0000

I think the syntax is really pretty!

New comment by koehr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

koehr — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:35:15 +0000

I started playing around with the idea of a new programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Despite syntactic improvements and type-checking, it's goal is to streamline promises, async/await and callbacks into one signal based system I call live variables. Additionally, those could be compiled via different, interchangeable compiler plugins to framework specific code, like React's useState or Vuejs' Refs, to make it more future prove. It's still in a concept stage and maybe the whole project is futile, but if it piqued your interest, check out https://github.com/nkoehring/Solace

New comment by koehr in "Show HN: Changefly – Rebuilding the foundation of privacy and authentication"

koehr — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:39:08 +0000

Great to see that there is work happening in this direction. I wonder what the difference to usual public-key authentication is.

New comment by koehr in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

koehr — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:35:36 +0000

Have you tried matterrank.ai? It might give you want you want, but as a search engine, instead of a chat interface.