Hacker News: mfkp

New comment by mfkp in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

mfkp — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:42:46 +0000

Now it's showing "self registration is currently disabled, please contact customer support"

New comment by mfkp in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

mfkp — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:08:23 +0000

This actually isn't the case anymore, plenty of non-US airlines allow beards and the new masks still provide perfect oxygen flow. It's more of a "professional image" thing in the US.

New comment by mfkp in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

mfkp — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:32:04 +0000

Also happy to test it out on Gnome

New comment by mfkp in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

mfkp — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:20:48 +0000

I was a day after you, march 27th. #67730

New comment by mfkp in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

mfkp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:26:35 +0000

Yes, and my point is that the (supposedly) real human is also AI. You're chatting with a bot.

New comment by mfkp in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

mfkp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:44:21 +0000

Yeah I think it's something like a 20+ year lifespan, I doubt I'll even be living in the same house in 20 years.

New comment by mfkp in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

mfkp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:54:03 +0000

Then please explain what you're talking about.

New comment by mfkp in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

mfkp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:40:22 +0000

If you don't think that OF models are using AI to reply to incoming chats from users, well I've got a bridge to sell ya.

New comment by mfkp in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

mfkp — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:29:28 +0000

I got an electric one so I never need to remember to replace mine!

New comment by mfkp in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

mfkp — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:15:25 +0000

Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!

New comment by mfkp in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

mfkp — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:24:42 +0000

Wow, very angry and uninformed comment. No airplane owners are lobbying for lead. As a pilot with a personal airplane that runs on avgas, we all want lead to go away too. But it's a problem with FAA regulations, and an infrastructure problem where every airport nationwide needs to have separate fuel tanks/trucks with leaded fuel and the newer lead-free alternatives simultaneously, which is a massive expense. Plus, there is no consensus on which lead-free alternative is safest for old engines, so we're still waiting on data.

California has a few airports that are stocking the lead-free alternatives, but that's about it.

But yes, blame the small aircraft owners if it makes you feel better.

> "piston engine aircraft carry virtually no vital role in anything except people flying them for fun"

I guess we just shouldn't train new pilots then.

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

mfkp — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:16:45 +0000

Just got a new OnePlus 15 last month and it has an IR blaster built in. Works great

New comment by mfkp in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

mfkp — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:25:13 +0000

Like what? I just checked and it shows that the system launcher on OnePlus has used exactly 0 data.

New comment by mfkp in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

mfkp — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:55:14 +0000

You know you can export your Nova configuration and import it on a new phone, right?

New comment by mfkp in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

mfkp — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:37:20 +0000

I recently switched to a OnePlus 15 and Nova Launcher had a really annoying 0.5-1 second delay every time you went back home.

I've been a paid Nova user and used it on every android device for the past 10 years or so.

I ended up migrating to the stock OnePlus launcher and it's actually surprisingly good, other than you have to disable the stupid google recommended page every time you reboot the phone, so I'm still open to alternatives.

New comment by mfkp in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

mfkp — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:51:34 +0000

Some cars do this. Audi and Porsche (if I recall correctly) use the disc brakes for the first couple stops each drive to knock off the rust if there's any build up. I think I remember reading that Ford uses the real brakes if you're under 5mph. I'm sure other manufacturers do something similar (other than Tesla which apparently doesn't do anything to help).

New comment by mfkp in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

mfkp — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:52 +0000

- Reddit cutting off API access for third party clients

New comment by mfkp in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

mfkp — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:08:29 +0000

Or ente photos: https://ente.io/

New comment by mfkp in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

mfkp — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:23:22 +0000

Definitely, hard to compete with YouTube as a revenue source. That being said, my instance is mainly for digitizing and hosting old VHS tapes from my family so they don't get lost over the years. No need for advertising there :)

New comment by mfkp in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

mfkp — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:50:53 +0000

I host a simpler youtube alternative based on https://www.mediacms.io/

It's not a perfect platform, but generally does well enough from my home server and a gigabit fiber connection.