Hacker News: nickweb

Replacing Uptime Kuma with Gatus on a Tiny VPS for $1.20/Year

nickweb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:18:47 +0000

Article URL: https://nick-web.co.uk/gatus-tiny-vps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851698

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickweb in "Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's"

nickweb — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:35:35 +0000

Microsoft's new spam filtering is affecting mail deliverability from a number of email service providers. MX Route is recommended here often enough that these issues may crop up for people here

Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's

nickweb — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://status.mxroute.com/incident/3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155706

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by nickweb in "Never buy a .online domain"

nickweb — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:55:42 +0000

Hot Take: the proactive action of the registrar here is probably more beneficial than the number of false positives captured. If the registrar is aware that Google is hot on blocking potentially harmful sites, it's right that they take action expeditiously.

The bigger problem is the unbanning - for which there should be a better system, probably that should take the form of the registrar having a short grace period to aid in the Google stuff (DNS verification etc.) with additional checks by the registrar to make sure it's not being used for spam/malicious content.

The other point being why was Google banning you so quickly? This is the opaque part. Was the site reported? Was there some URL hijinks? That's the thing you'll probably never find out.

New comment by nickweb in "Epic Rap Battles – Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs (2012)"

nickweb — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:51:09 +0000

This popped up on my Watch Again part of YT. I figured it may have been a few years since folk seen it and a little but if humour is never s bad thing for a Monday morning.

Epic Rap Battles – Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs (2012)

nickweb — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031696

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nickweb in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

nickweb — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:08:58 +0000

Think you've inadvertently found a way to provide extra tests for mobile devices.

The Crime and Punishment one consistently crashes Brave mobile for me. I assume it's the length of the URL - and seen another commentator say the same for chrome mobile (sure they both use the same codebase so likely an upstream issue).

New comment by nickweb in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

nickweb — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:54:26 +0000

They didn't block it. The site owners have chosen to not show the site to UK users for Legal Reasons.

New comment by nickweb in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

nickweb — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:34:37 +0000

Fully understand the reasons for the site - and the title on HN is shutdowns and site blocks - but the site itself displays self-enforcinging sites and shows them as potential government blocks.

There are blocked sites but you have to look for them in different sections of the site.

One site shown at the start of the other pages, adult friend finder is showing as blocked, however I can access it from my UK provider so honestly not sure what value this site brings (yet) apart from highlighting those that have a self-enforced blackout due to "451 Legal Reasons".

I'm on mobile so difficult to copy and paste - but that site was the top of an alphabetical list after I made my way past a few VPNs.

New comment by nickweb in "Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email"

nickweb — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:19:24 +0000

I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned mxroute[1]. Thier pricing normally is pretty decent, but they keep the BF deals going pretty much all year [2].

I've been using them for 6 years with no issues. I use it now with all my domains and never have any deliverability issues.

The owner (Jar - one person shop again) is passionate about their email reputation for deliverability and is active on both lowendtalk and the dedicated sub Reddit.

I ended up comparing purleymail and mxroute - tested mxroute and stayed with them.

[1] https://mxroute.com/ [2] https://mxroute.blackfriday/

New comment by nickweb in "Original Pirate Material"

nickweb — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:42:14 +0000

The lyrics are so culturally appropriate to that time that anyone listening now wouldn't probably get it.

The same with Futuristic Sex Robotz with the Hotel Coral Essex album - some of those songs on there are so pinpointed in time that they just remind me of the computers and using them.

Affinity (Serif) being purchased by Canva

nickweb — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:21:18 +0000

Article URL: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825726

Points: 25

# Comments: 6

New comment by nickweb in "The Death of Free Shipping"

nickweb — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:39:14 +0000

I run a small online store for decal’s for the geek market. When I say small - I mean I regularly only have 4 items listed. Think HANKA Robotics, TARS and the like.

I keep my costs to the bare minimum. I started it because I wanted decals no one else was making. I cannot justify feee shipping.

In the UK I eat the cost as it is about £1 to ship UK wide. Posting to the US is now around £7. I need to send tracked thanks to the selling platform.

It honestly pains me to have to charge shipping - but I could’t do it any other way. I can only imagine the costs that are associated with this for bigger outfits. Heck. Even Amazon has a logistics company now (but I suppose that’s where the Prime premium comes in!)

New comment by nickweb in "Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems"

nickweb — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:09:05 +0000

The hate came from it being pre installed on massively underpowered computers. The majority of users came to vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.

I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and it took half a day just because of the performance on this new PC.

New comment by nickweb in "Where Have All the Websites Gone?"

nickweb — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:03:24 +0000

I think that as the author notes, we have gone. And I think it’s because we grew up. We don’t have the spare time like we used to, which, inevitably means we don’t access same sites, depriving them of visitors and relevant revenue.

We’ve gone.

Motion Extraction – simple way to view slight motion in video over time

nickweb — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:41:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yAMZF78

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743829

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by nickweb in "Traffic collisions including cyclists in London 2022"

nickweb — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:06:46 +0000

*reported collisions. There will no doubt be a lot more minor bumps that haven’t been reported to one of the relevant agencies.

CMYK Printing

nickweb — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckU9UXI_XE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36765109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickweb in "About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library"

nickweb — Sun, 28 May 2023 09:52:06 +0000

It’s comments like this where I wish I wasn’t so much of a lurker to get the karma required to downvote you.

These are age appropriate books being sent to families of all incomes to promote good education. Let people have nice things.

New comment by nickweb in "Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks"

nickweb — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:28:20 +0000

I’m curious as a hobby programmer - how would these issues be rectified? Hope that the source code is available to add in new defines for 64bit time? Patch existing libraries after stracing existing programs without source code? Might need to take a deep dive into C for 2038!