Hacker News: moontear

New comment by moontear in "I Changed My License"

moontear — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:07:33 +0000

I do appreciate the link to the article and came via HN. I don’t think you can speak for either the audience of people producing software nor for HN.

Another article comparing LGPL and this license sounds good and I am interested in that as well. This article though is a good nudge to start thinking about licensing.

New comment by moontear in "Small, native web tricks worth remembering"

moontear — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:28:52 +0000

There are some good descriptions and hints, but what the site really needs is examples. Just looking at the code doesn't help me much. The descriptions are also mostly so short, that they could just as well be tooltips on the homepage. The whole premise of the page is a collection of "web tricks worth remembering" and I can't fathom what bash (e.g. `du -hd 1 . | sort -hr`) is doing there.

New comment by moontear in "OpenLogi"

moontear — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:26:21 +0000

The code is right here: https://github.com/AprilNEA/OpenLogi

What makes you say this is stolen from LinearMouse?

New comment by moontear in "A directory of people who love RSS"

moontear — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:05:45 +0000

I get your distaste, but RSS is the more famous wording of the technology. I would frame it as "people who love RSS - but technically these are Atom feeds". RSS is the word that stuck and I think we should keep promoting it and on a technical front I am with you - sure, let's use the Atom format "for RSS feeds".

New comment by moontear in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

moontear — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:37:14 +0000

True. Just based on the reporting we don't know what's going on, but the article makes it sound like those 180+ nodes were unexpected. Of course you would need to set your own limits to alerting and "what is unexpected" and you may still fail to catch something this way.

New comment by moontear in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

moontear — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:35:33 +0000

Not sure that everyone does this anyway. There are some good security postures you can take with Tailscale as well and leaving an auth key lying around is not one of them.

Tailscale lock should have been enabled. For CI/CD purposes the auth key could have set specific tags, which would result in specific ACLs that limit blast radius. The auth key could have a short validity. You could actually use the Tailscale API to generate alerts when a new device joins your Tailnet and ping your phone or something. You could have a complete separate Tailnet for your CI/CD workers.

And all of that was only the free features.

New comment by moontear in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

moontear — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:41:24 +0000

That’s awesome!

New comment by moontear in "Stolen Buttons"

moontear — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:40:36 +0000

Why I third party? Aren’t the stolen buttons stored locally?

New comment by moontear in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

moontear — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:32:25 +0000

How do we UPDATE the underlying engine once it gets new features? Since this is a self contained HTML file I am not sure how this works.

Editing multiple things at once (select via CTRL) needs some more options (like text centering).

New comment by moontear in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

moontear — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:21:29 +0000

Very interesting rabbit hole for today. Thanks for mentioning Pareto frontier!

New comment by moontear in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

moontear — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:29:37 +0000

Is „frontier“ overused? I thought frontier models were the best-of-the-best such as Fable right now. I assume you can’t host these models yourself since you would need many GB of RAM and expensive GPU of is my thinking of „frontier models“ wrong?

New comment by moontear in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

moontear — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:53:00 +0000

Back when eastereggs were semi-allowed in MS software. Shame it is being discouraged or disallowed.

Totally understand it from a security and maintenance perspective, but things were more fun back then.

New comment by moontear in "Show HN: 18 Words"

moontear — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:23 +0000

Same! I did it by using private browser windows, this way I could see all the words.

New comment by moontear in "Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]"

moontear — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:23:01 +0000

So what’s a better form than the current capitalistic (?) model? Surely we would say the market is efficient, but at the same time it can’t be good for society that so much capital is localized with a few people (bezos, musk etc.).

If the roots for capitalism or similar market economies are so old, what would be better for society?

New comment by moontear in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

moontear — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:30:31 +0000

So what’s the functional difference to Cloudflare (free) DNS? Anything besides „this is European“ that makes me want to switch?

New comment by moontear in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

moontear — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:54:24 +0000

Their claim is that they are European, but I see a US support hotline in the footer and all prices are in Dollar. Seems to be targeting the US market (which is smart), but I don't know whether the European angle wins there.

New comment by moontear in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

moontear — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:34:18 +0000

You are right. Sometimes I do care about overly Americentrist views. But maybe better to now reply, thanks.

New comment by moontear in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

moontear — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:15:28 +0000

* to some countries. We don’t all celebrate Father’s Day on the same day and we don’t all celebrate Father’s Day at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day#/media/File:Fat...

New comment by moontear in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

moontear — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:34:20 +0000

Ah, so this is ANOTHER price increase in a short timeframe? Thought I read about this before

New comment by moontear in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

moontear — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:43:55 +0000

I'm sure! But then I would need a custom PCB and spare time on my hand as well as possibly skills I don't have like SMD soldering.

I would love to buy a cheap (~50€/$) finished LoRaWAN gateway product, but those don't exist (yet) AFAIK.