Hacker News: kuekacang

New comment by kuekacang in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

kuekacang — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:28:31 +0000

I went all-in with bun. Did I bet wrong?

New comment by kuekacang in "System-level ad-blocking in Android"

kuekacang — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:56:38 +0000

Had dailied redmi note 12 4g, with debloat, ublock and selective uscript block. Many js/media heavy websites (that needed to have their js enabled to be viewed) lagged under firefox

New comment by kuekacang in "OpenSSH 10.6"

kuekacang — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:46:22 +0000

Link or didn't hapen /s

But seriously if feasible, share the issue link. Especially when there's conversation involved, it's different kind of nice (and learning opportunity) reading such thread

New comment by kuekacang in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

kuekacang — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:20:35 +0000

Can't seem to beat vscode in over-ssh editing. Using IDEA it requires ~2GB transfer (local download plus ssh transfer) which is quite significant.

> ...inspecting...

I got used to sublime merge to context-switch editing vs reviewing, staging changes line-by-line

New comment by kuekacang in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

kuekacang — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:43:13 +0000

Tried the autoskip youtube apk, and the default assuming one would prefer autoskip is intriguing; yes that's among the first feature I change to just show skip button on all of detected segment. Another is tap to seek.

New comment by kuekacang in "Audacity 4.0"

kuekacang — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:53:45 +0000

Should watch the pre release video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38 If what they're saying is true, this project is very much a pile of tech debt. They need to migrate whatever they can early before continuing work on the audio engine.

New comment by kuekacang in "HyperOSUnfucker is an Android app that unlocks hidden system performance"

kuekacang — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:23:22 +0000

Been using redmi phones since those are the most personally usable features with great budget option. Current active one has IR blaster, stereo, display finger print, 3.5 jack and sd card slot. ~$190 in 2025 money

Software wise, it is manageable with help of shizuku & canta, as noted also in the article. The OS doesn't have good UI/UX but not bad either. Many of android material features are missing under the custom OS they provide and I'm not doing major rom modification since this is the daily communication & banking phone.

New comment by kuekacang in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

kuekacang — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:27:30 +0000

With advent of ai-based impersonation, I wonder why in-person reset is not the priority right now

New comment by kuekacang in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

kuekacang — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:20 +0000

It helps too that agent work is done server side so you can hog all the local resources for your thin client.

New comment by kuekacang in "Deno Desktop"

kuekacang — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:57:32 +0000

Isn't all uses native OS UI widget? But since the brand need to be experienced the same across platform, it overrides the native rendering and use custom styles instead.

New comment by kuekacang in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

kuekacang — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:56:18 +0000

Only using ubuntu rn, but when the server is mostly running docker, it is simpler upgrade nowadays with so little dependencies. But then the problem just moved to the container image updates.

New comment by kuekacang in "The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs"

kuekacang — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:49:14 +0000

Somewhat agree!. I think my main gripe is that there are no good-enough reader that: - without account integration - has good ux

Even some of the okay ones, most are, as tantacurl may say, janky.

New comment by kuekacang in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

kuekacang — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:34:54 +0000

Genuine question, does brave have ff's container extension? currently that's one of the thing that keeps holding me on ff. another big one is i test website on firefox so to not get carried away with features only available in chromium

New comment by kuekacang in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

kuekacang — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:37:30 +0000

New comment by kuekacang in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

kuekacang — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:16:05 +0000

I've been lucky to discover git relatively late and sublime merge relatively soon. It seems like separating the concern of editing and reviewing code is making me consider each more as separate thing.

It also makes me more comfortable figuring out how a project's pull acceptance are like (maybe due to how fast local ui is compared to web-based git). On the other hand, I can only run some basic git cli commands and can't quickly comprehend raw text-based diff, especially when encountering some linux patches from time to time.

New comment by kuekacang in "What Is OAuth?"

kuekacang — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:14:09 +0000

In homelab, I push myself to use proxy (header) authentication. I know I'm burdening many responsibilities in a reverse proxy (tls, ip blocking, authentication) but it seems I can better handle those complexity as compared to oauth setup.

New comment by kuekacang in "I'd tell you a UDP joke…"

kuekacang — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:47:13 +0000

> A UDP joke I would tell you... but you might get it not

New comment by kuekacang in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

kuekacang — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:01:18 +0000

Except the text is stored as image, I can't imagine localization would be that large.

New comment by kuekacang in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

kuekacang — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:51:23 +0000

I'm sure no API and only built-in control is more favorable. Digressing, built-in mixer is nice to have too.

New comment by kuekacang in "CSS Grid Lanes"

kuekacang — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:46:22 +0000

experiencing how text renders differently, slowly, with my potato battleship