Hacker News: mik3y

New comment by mik3y in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

mik3y — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:02:39 +0000

Because the repo includes the tool authored for, and discussed in, the "blog"?

Uv-outdated: Show outdated packages in your uv projects

mik3y — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/simonpercivall/uv-outdated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277059

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mik3y in "We should all be using dependency cooldowns"

mik3y — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:23:59 +0000

Could a supply chain attacker simulate an advisory-remediating release somehow, i.e., abuse this feature to bypass cooldowns?

New comment by mik3y in "[dead]"

mik3y — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:54:28 +0000

Yes, seeing periodic 5xx errors (though eventually succeeds).

Interestingly `bun upgrade` catches "GitHubIsDown" as a specific case:

    $ bun upgrade
    Bun v1.2.20 is out! You're on v1.2.18
    Downloading [38003/21788202] Bun upgrade failed with error: GitHubIsDown
    
    Please upgrade manually:
      curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

(Appears to have been triggered by a 503 for https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.2.20...)

New comment by mik3y in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

mik3y — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:35:48 +0000

Right, but, they never owned it, and would never attempt to assert that. So in hindsight (and similar to GP) compliance was a worse and more frustrating option than simply never mentioning things.

New comment by mik3y in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

mik3y — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:36:14 +0000

Ugh, you gave me bad flashbacks of the same committee.

I tried to re-license a previously-released project (like from GPL to MIT or similar) and they wouldn't budge. I had written all the code.

In the end, I decided that them suing (or firing) me to assert their ownership of $VALUELESS_PROJECT, so they could then license it back, was ridiculously unlikely, said fuck it, and did it. And I was right.

New comment by mik3y in "The FAA’s Hiring Scandal"

mik3y — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:37:47 +0000

A very well-written and persuasive critique, thank you for it.

(And god I hope you’re not a state-of-the-art summarization LLM.)

New comment by mik3y in "Party Squasher, the first guest occupancy counter for homes"

mik3y — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:12:26 +0000

Thought this was going to be an mmWave sensor with an "AirBnB host friendly" UI of some sort.. turns out it's just a network sniffer? Seems.. defeatable.

    > How it Works
    > 
    > Party Squasher uses the presence of mobile phones
    > as a proxy for the presence of people.  You start by
    > connecting our small sensor to your property’s internet
    > router. [...]

New comment by mik3y in "How to disable cellular connectivity in a Gen 2 (2016-2019) Chevy Volt"

mik3y — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:54:24 +0000

I've been interested in doing this as a side project too, ever since "unwiring" my jeep in a similar fashion (rip out modem).

My quick-and-dirty idea was to stand up a Discourse forum with categories for each make, threads for each model (or possibly model + model year range pairs).

If anyone wants to collaborate / provide some extra motivation, hit me up..

New comment by mik3y in "Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?"

mik3y — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 02:36:57 +0000

I refer back to your exact blog post every 6 months or so to see how (or if) its various issues have been smoothed out, and whether I should recommend it in a new build. Thanks much for keeping your post up-to-date!

New comment by mik3y in "Changes to Stripe Billing"

mik3y — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:22:11 +0000

0.5% -> 0.7% = 40% increase in fees, for affected customers.

(edit: 0.7% not 0.8%)

Changes to Stripe Billing

mik3y — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:07:25 +0000

Article URL: https://support.stripe.com/questions/july-2024-changes-to-stripe-billing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40931486

Points: 67

# Comments: 53

New comment by mik3y in "US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban"

mik3y — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:44:06 +0000

In case you're interested, there's a fascinating recent book about the effects roads & road development have on their surroundings (and the planet at large): _Crossings_ by Ben Goldfarb [1]

[1] https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossings

New comment by mik3y in "I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business"

mik3y — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:30:47 +0000

Lovely read, and great to see a happy ending - I remember your previous blogs here.

As a sometime-bootstrapper and having failed at a previous hardware startup, I can relate to many of the emotions you narrated through. It may be too early, but my biggest curiosity is whether you think you will bootstrap something again?

(In my case, after the hardware business and some time off, I found that taking a swing at a “pure software” idea was the right balance for me, after the considerable challenges and occasional joys of building physical things..)

New comment by mik3y in "The UX of UUIDs"

mik3y — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:09:16 +0000

Nice list, found a couple projects I hadn't seen before.

My addition for your consideration: https://github.com/mik3y/django-spicy-id

The Small Software Business Alliance

mik3y — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://ssballiance.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719689

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mik3y in "I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot"

mik3y — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 02:12:05 +0000

I just made up `blogger.com` as an example. I probably could have picked a better one. `blogspot.com` & its many TLD variations are on the list.

It looks like the repo where the list is maintained [1] is pretty active. YMMV, I'm not a maintainer or anything..

[1] https://github.com/publicsuffix/list

New comment by mik3y in "I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot"

mik3y — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:18:37 +0000

    A big problem that came up at the domain level was what I'd call
    a _trustworthy domain with untrustworthy subdomains_, specifically
    where those subdomains represent user-generated content.

The Public Suffix List (PSL) [1] to the rescue! It can help with this kind of disambiguation.

Paraphrasing, it's a list of domains where subdomains should be treated as separate sites (e.g. for cookie purposes). So `blogger.com` on the list means `*.blogger.com` are separate "sites".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List

New comment by mik3y in "Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]"

mik3y — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:48:13 +0000

It sounds like it indeed was a GoPro, neat! Were you not surprised to get video back, then? What steps were taken? I don't know much about Space Stuff but seems like even with shielding, you would expect off-the-shelf consumer hardware to fail somehow..

New comment by mik3y in "How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works"

mik3y — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:51:21 +0000

I thought this was a fantastic accomplishment of both 3d modeling & “explainer” production.

The whole channel is great. Even something I thought I knew all about, “How a Jet Airliner Works” [1], was fun & revealing.

[1] https://youtu.be/NZLbTuBDhJg