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New comment by micw in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

micw — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:48:30 +0000

It misses a "I don't know" button. So it has a 20% false positive by guessing bias built in, right?

New comment by micw in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

micw — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:30:16 +0000

For a second I thought github has updated to a clean and usable user interface. Then I realized that it's codeberg / forgejo ^^

New comment by micw in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

micw — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:22:11 +0000

I wonder why this is a thing nowadays. I use yocto for embedded devices and it was almost a no-brainer to implement reproducible builds. I can also easily enable Debian package management, so everything is already available.

New comment by micw in "Share.google delivers wrong TLS certificate in some regions, breaking shortlinks"

micw — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:59:40 +0000

My fist submission was rejected, probably because it was not reproducible. Now I figured out that the issue is location dependent, at least in germany, share.google is broken since the CERT does not contain the domain anymore.

Share.google delivers wrong TLS certificate in some regions, breaking shortlinks

micw — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:59:40 +0000

Article URL: https://semonto.com/tools/https-checker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959128

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by micw in "[dead]"

micw — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:40:33 +0000

Google’s Android app uses share.google as a link shortener for shared URLs. That was already controversial; now the links appear to be broken in regular browsers because share.google currently serves a TLS certificate for a different hostname.

New comment by micw in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

micw — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:55:04 +0000

I wish there was something like this or talos or coreos but more generic: - immutable - a/b boot - declarative (like talos) But with choice of workload, like docker, k8s, qemu

New comment by micw in "Enforcing new limits and retiring Opus 4.6 Fast from Copilot Pro+"

micw — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:03:48 +0000

The new rate limit system is completely broken. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180092 for a lot of affected users.

Some report wait times of 50 or 100 hours. I had the issue that it shows "wait 20 seconds" but (on retry) it counts down one second every 10-20 seconds.

And all this for a service where you pay per use.

Copilot: Sorry, you have been rate-limited. Please wait 181 hours 8 minutes

micw — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:05:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180092

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763536

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by micw in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

micw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:13:54 +0000

No, coal and oil is not. Since we have micro organisms that can consume wood, coal and oil will never be produced again.

> During the Carboniferous period, massive amounts of plant matter accumulated to form coal because microorganisms and fungi had not yet evolved the ability to break down lignin, a tough, aromatic polymer in woody plants.

New comment by micw in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

micw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:51:08 +0000

Who exactly is blocking and on what legal base? If it's Spanish ISPs and they are massively over blocking, why are there no legal actions against them? (E.g. for not fulfilling their contracts)

New comment by micw in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

micw — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:08:14 +0000

Hey great. Need the same for amazon ^^

New comment by micw in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

micw — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:06:42 +0000

> SSH is forwarded via socket

Maybe I misunderstood this point. But the ssh socket also gives access to your private keys, so I see no security gain in that point. Better to have a password protected key.

New comment by micw in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

micw — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:37:23 +0000

You can throw matter on it. But this needs to be confined carefully...

New comment by micw in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

micw — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:34:09 +0000

You can easily put it into an antimatter tank ;-)

New comment by micw in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

micw — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:13:16 +0000

I'd like to run my personal DNS server for privacy reasons on a cheap VPS. But how can I make it available to me only? There's no auth on DNS, right?

New comment by micw in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

micw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:08:17 +0000

No, the next generation queens grow in that swarm and learn it there. All swarm members learn it. To the queen (or the first few workers) you teach it. The rest learns from the others. But the workers are short living (few weeks). The queens live for about a year and can take knowledge in the next year.

New comment by micw in "Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI"

micw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:54:54 +0000

For labels I use Phomomo. Quite cheap. I wrote some python code to drive it.

New comment by micw in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

micw — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:36:12 +0000

I built such bumblebee houses a few years ago with the kids. The flap is essential against a kind of flies that lay their eggs in the bumblebee nest and their caterpillars eats the nest. Either the Queen or the others learn the usage quite fast. Sometimes next generation queens remember it in the next year

New comment by micw in "Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font"

micw — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:51:07 +0000

Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?