Hacker News: mfkp

New comment by mfkp in "Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines"

mfkp — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:56:00 +0000

Filters are included, as well as high quality fans, AC/DC converter and speed controller, and the portable/collapsible enclosure. It's really not that expensive vs trying to put together the parts yourself, and it's tested to work very well compared to other more expensive filters.

New comment by mfkp in "Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines"

mfkp — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:09:19 +0000

One of the best air purifiers you can get (linked in the above writeup) uses PC fans and a custom controller where you can control the speed/volume: https://housefresh.com/best-air-purifiers-we-tested/#2-best-...

New comment by mfkp in "Gemini 4 Argon"

mfkp — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:56:31 +0000

I have Ultra and went to try it and...

"Unavailable · Gemini 4 Argon is currently available to Ultra plan subscribers."

New comment by mfkp in "CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition"

mfkp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:20:06 +0000

I've been using semver for ages and I never realized it banned leading zeroes. Guess it makes sense, how many octal bugs were avoided?

New comment by mfkp in "All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS"

mfkp — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:19:19 +0000

Unfortunately camel^3 and others are easily gamed now by "on-page coupons" which keep the price the same or lower normally and can trick the price tracker into thinking it's a good deal when it's actually just the normal price.

This video has a good summary at the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsndlciGWA

New comment by mfkp in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

mfkp — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:44:11 +0000

Yes, openrouter providers are all over the place (in a bad way): https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/

I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.

New comment by mfkp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

mfkp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:24:07 +0000

For the avgeeks: Turning ads-b feeding into a game: https://adsb.win/

New comment by mfkp in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

mfkp — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:13:09 +0000

The best part about Kagi is you can set it to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com to avoid the enshittification

New comment by mfkp in "Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted"

mfkp — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:27:19 +0000

Looks interesting, but in order to actually compete with any e-signing platform you'll at the very least need to have templates with pre-filled information, an API to autofill docs with required information, and more field types. Right now for example, you can only add text, checkbox, and date/signature fields. Checkboxes are required to be checked (no making them optional), so if there are multiple checkbox options, they have to check them all to continue. Not very useful for actual e-signing flows.

New comment by mfkp in "Telegram Serverless"

mfkp — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:38:36 +0000

Probably doesn't cost much at all to run some servers to spin up javascript functions, compared to their massive storage costs. It's at best a fraction of a percent of total costs.

Whether or not they (or discord for that matter) can sustain a profitable business in the long term is another question.

New comment by mfkp in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

mfkp — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:18:08 +0000

Just had to look this up, impressive specs for a Subaru. They've had some pretty lackluster EVs in the past (along with Toyota), but this one actually seems like a good combination of range and performance (375hp equivalent and 281 miles of range). Doesn't have super fast charging, which isn't a dealbreaker at the pricepoint.

I've got a Volvo C40 currently which is 400hp and likewise impressively fast, but the range is absolute trash (230mi claimed, usually more like 200mi). Otherwise the vehicle is nearly perfect.

New comment by mfkp in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

mfkp — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:12:08 +0000

I absolutely can't stand the suspension on Teslas, some of the worst ride quality of any modern vehicle.

New comment by mfkp in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

mfkp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:29:52 +0000

They used to, before they got bought out by private equity and started jacking up the rates. Moved all my domains to porkbun since then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243123

New comment by mfkp in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

mfkp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:00:14 +0000

how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet

New comment by mfkp in "I Built a Telegram Client for Pi"

mfkp — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:51:04 +0000

This is awesome, I use telegram as my main chat app with all of my friends and coworkers. Now I need to figure out how to dockerize this and run it on my NAS so it's not reliant on my laptop being online.

Maybe can figure out a workflow to make a branch, deploy it and give me a cloudflare tunnel link to test it, and if approved merge the changes into main branch and deploy to prod. The vibes are off the charts.

New comment by mfkp in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

mfkp — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:46:06 +0000

Highly recommend setting up your own photo hosting and backup. People love Immich, but ente.io is also great! Much better than trusting your photos to a single microSD card which may die at any moment.

New comment by mfkp in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

mfkp — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:02:04 +0000

Seems like it actually loads a PNG image now, maybe the npm script adds some additional headers to trigger the payload.

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