Hacker News: louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=louismerlinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 09:40:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Permacomputing Principles"]]>I have been involved in Berlin’s permacomputing scene for a few years now, and have met a lot of very cool people through that. Can highly recommend you get involved in your local meetups or start your own !

https://permacomputing.net/Community/

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 04:19:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045336louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045336<![CDATA[First Known Mass iOS Attack]]>Article URL: https://iverify.io/press-releases/first-known-mass-ios-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246514

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:28:08 +0000https://iverify.io/press-releases/first-known-mass-ios-attacklouismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246514https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246514<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"]]>Awesome! Gives me mnt pocket reform vibes.

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform

]]>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:14:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026493louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026493<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users"]]>Amazing to see my little phone pop up randomly on hacker news :D

Thank you stranger.

]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:37:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845803louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845803https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845803<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "An update on the Farphone's battery"]]>Yup that's right!

]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:40:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099167louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099167https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099167<![CDATA[An update on the Farphone's battery]]>Article URL: https://far.computer/battery-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078684

Points: 102

# Comments: 62

]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:57:43 +0000https://far.computer/battery-update/louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078684<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"]]>In my experience (in Germany and Switzerland) ISPs don’t care, but they will rotate everybody’s IP once or twice a year.

Friends from other countries, India for example, have had different experiences though, where IPs were on a much more frequent rotation and required scripted solutions.

]]>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:44:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062111louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062111<![CDATA[How to repurpose your old phone into a web server]]>Related ongoing thread: This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049981

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

Points: 358

# Comments: 114

]]>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:16:59 +0000https://far.computer/how-to/louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"]]>You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.

]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:36:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964824louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964824https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964824<![CDATA[What happens when our self-reliance relies on technological providers [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://pub.yctct.com/asymmetry.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914277

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:48:56 +0000https://pub.yctct.com/asymmetry.pdflouismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914277<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>Happy you're interested! I haven't set-up the website yet but feel free to reach-out via email (you'll find it in my hn profile)

]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:10:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912143louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912143https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912143<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>Working on a charity + website (not live yet) that allows you to centrally manage your charity donations.

I'm in Germany so I'm working on a Germany-specific solution for now.

- you choose from a list of charities (right now I'm working with the list from the https://dzi.de plus a few such as Wikimedia Deutschland)

- you setup a recurring donation to our bank account

- we redistribute the money according to your split

- no spam in your email and snail mail

- one pdf at the end of the year for your tax returns

I'm not planning on taking any cut of the donations obviously, so this will be a fully self-funded project at first, but I'll reach-out to foundations once I'm up and running.

The URL will be https://super.giving/ (not setup yet, should be fairly soon).

I'm also planning on releasing the source code as open-source.

I'd be happy to hear your feedback, either here or via email :)

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:28:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874179louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874179https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874179<![CDATA[Project Vend]]>Article URL: https://red.anthropic.com/2025/project-vend/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436713

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:05:33 +0000https://red.anthropic.com/2025/project-vend/louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436713<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"]]>> Having no prior exposure to any European languages

I'd classify English as a European language. It is even classified as a Germanic language.

]]>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:28:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436507louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436507<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "iPhone Air"]]>n=6

]]>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:44:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194520louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194520https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194520<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "GPT-5"]]>We joked yesterday with a colleague that it feels like the top AI companies are using the same white label backend.

]]>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:43:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44833493louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44833493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44833493<![CDATA[Notes on Asymmetry, Heteronomy, Delegation]]>Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/papers/asymmetry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725380

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:29:35 +0000https://ratfactor.com/papers/asymmetrylouismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725380https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725380<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"]]>I’ve been experimenting in the past few weeks with an old fairphone : https://far.computer/ Still work in progress, so I haven’t shared it here yet.

]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:35:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364675louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364675https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364675<![CDATA[Fuzzing go binaries using LibAFL]]>Article URL: https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/golibafl---fuzzing-go-binaries-using-libafl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702902

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:25:18 +0000https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/golibafl---fuzzing-go-binaries-using-libafllouismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702902https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702902<![CDATA[New comment by louismerlin in "Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram"]]>Same here in Germany

]]>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:53:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778677louismerlinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778677