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New comment by nickspacek in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

nickspacek — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:22:35 +0000

The runner's high I've experienced comes after completing a long, hard race and finally getting to rest after pushing myself beyond what training was like.

New comment by nickspacek in "Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing"

nickspacek — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:07:53 +0000

It's the opposite of shade, unless GP is being sarcastic. "Class act" is normally a compliment, and in the context here it sounds to me like they're congratulating Baidu/the researchers in being transparent about where their ideas came from.

Bombardier, Colab (YC S19) sign multimillion-dollar deal to design jets using AI

nickspacek — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:26:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bombardier-signs-contract-colab-ai-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875508

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New comment by nickspacek in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

nickspacek — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:31:12 +0000

For sure, that or just ensuring they have laws in place that grant them access to the unencrypted data we are sending to CDNs operating in their jurisdiction (when necessary for national security reasons).

New comment by nickspacek in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

nickspacek — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:14:05 +0000

teampcp taking credit?

https://github.com/krrishdholakia/blockchain/commit/556f2db3...

  - # blockchain
  - Implements a skeleton framework of how to mine using blockchain, including the consensus algorithms.
  + teampcp owns BerriAI

New comment by nickspacek in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

nickspacek — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:53:50 +0000

There's probably a useful middle ground between tossing people in jail and rewarding with great wealth, power, and influence those people whose main drive appears to be accumulation of said things without regard for their fellow citizens.

New comment by nickspacek in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

nickspacek — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:10:49 +0000

We have CI actions we use to configure and deploy dev namespaces. We document a bunch of steps for these actions in a doc, including situational tweaks. I could see this being a great replacement for that, given the right integrations.

New comment by nickspacek in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

nickspacek — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:11:28 +0000

I've read good things about Seafile and have considered setting it up on my Homelab... though when I looked at the documentation, it too seemed quite large and I worried it wouldn't be the lightweight solution I'm looking for.

New comment by nickspacek in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

nickspacek — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:50:46 +0000

Worth considering at least, and looking at approaches like you mentioned and avoiding allowing free entry of foreign vehicles. We could consider partnerships (if China is interested) like we have with other foreign manufacturers like Honda and Toyota. We should also be considering expanding the existing relationships, though I'm sure there are retooling costs, and possibly playing hardball with other manufacturers to encourage them to setup shop (e.g. Kia/Hyundai).

I doubt I'm offering anything that hasn't been part of discussions already, but having the ability to manufacture vehicles seems like an area of industrialization a country shouldn't part with lightly.

New comment by nickspacek in "Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels"

nickspacek — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:23:48 +0000

My homelab has a setup like this, but all done somewhat-manually. HTTPS for my Docker images running in the homelab via a certbot image. A Wireguard setup to connect the homelab to a small Hetzner VPS, and a proxy there to allow certain traffic through.

I've been wanting to add some authentication lately so that I can manage access to the homelab resources. I currently prohibit all traffic and only allow the Wireguard subnet, but this means any clients have to be provisioned in Wireguard, which is a nuisance to setup manually. It does seem to work well enough though.

Pangolin seems like it would be a one-stop replacement and simplify the setup, especially once I look at adding user management to the mix.

New comment by nickspacek in "Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain"

nickspacek — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:21:04 +0000

Lots of anecdotal cures here, but I'll add Aloe Vera gel to the mix since it seems to help* both soothe/recover/prevent the return of my reflux symptoms for long periods of time.

New comment by nickspacek in "Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass"

nickspacek — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:12:24 +0000

Yes, I was imagining never seeing a captcha on any device without needing extensions though.

I think it exists already, found this randomly today: https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

New comment by nickspacek in "Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass"

nickspacek — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:18:13 +0000

As someone who uses ISPs and browser configurations that seem to frustrate CloudFlare/reCaptcha to the point of frequently having to solve them during day-to-day browsing, it would be interesting to develop a proxy server that could automatically/transparently solve captchas for me.

New comment by nickspacek in "Sodern launches Astradia, a star tracker for GNSS-denied navigation"

nickspacek — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:45:11 +0000

Neat, this latest implementation seems a little more compact than the SR-71's, but it's hard to tell.

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...

New comment by nickspacek in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

nickspacek — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:24:08 +0000

Look into Backblaze B2. Use rclone, or another backup tool that has S3 compatibility (though B2 API has some additional bells and whistles).

With rclone, you can also have a step to seamlessly encrypt the contents on the client side before sending to an external provider like B2.

I chose B2 because it is the most affordable option, but rclone supports many backends.

New comment by nickspacek in "Locating Stealth Fighters with Cheap Cameras Without Using AI or Radar [video]"

nickspacek — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:33:14 +0000

Could the advantage be that a military monitoring installation of cameras is less detectable than a high-frequency radar monitoring installation? My understanding is that active radars are easily detectable, but perhaps cameras could be less so and that advantage could allow them to be deployed closer and might require less protection themselves.

New comment by nickspacek in "Tesla sales drop 35% in San Diego County"

nickspacek — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:22:57 +0000

Our Kia EV6 (similar platform) has been great, besides its 12V flooded battery once going flat and disabling the vehicle.

The EV6 has a big touchscreen, a touch screen for combined media/climate controls, capacitive buttons for seat heat and steering wheel heat. However, many of the controls are available as physical buttons as well.

New comment by nickspacek in "Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels can)"

nickspacek — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:34:51 +0000

You can use Termux:X11 now which is an X server you can target from your Termux shell. I've used it with Andronix distros and plain XFCE inside Termux and it works, ish. I occasionally experience crashes and it gets memory-killed on my phone.

New comment by nickspacek in "How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40"

nickspacek — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:09:42 +0000

I wonder if the mispronunciation of "polish" as "Polish" had anything to do with missing out on a win with the fairy submission? Fun read!

New comment by nickspacek in "We've built the Ultimate e-Bike Battery that you can Repair and Refill"

nickspacek — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:03:48 +0000

Here's some more information I found linked through the reservation process: https://docs.gouach.com/