Hacker News: nickweb

XPENG's Humanoid Robots production line is finished

nickweb — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:52:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgBm8PdtpGo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654444

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickweb in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

nickweb — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:08:27 +0000

No. Posts are only editable for a small window of time.

New comment by nickweb in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

nickweb — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:21:03 +0000

Via nitter: https://xcancel.com/JustinGorya/status/2097287080128708930

Looks like the new model can be used if summoned via the API but the API won't list it.

New comment by nickweb in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

nickweb — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:17:33 +0000

I swear I put that at the start of the post. Must've managed to miss it when copy and pasting!

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

nickweb — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:19:26 +0000

DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our commitment to user responsibility, following the official launch of V4.1 Flash and prior to the release of V4.1 Pro, all requests to the Pro model will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price. If you encounter any issues during your comparative testing between V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash, please do not hesitate to reach out to us with your feedback. Thank you for your support!

We will adjust the pricing for the Flash series effective from 12:00 Beijing Time on September 10, 2026. During off-peak hours, the unit price will be $0.003 for input cache hits, $0.15 for input cache misses, and $0.6 for output. Peak-hour prices will be double the off-peak rates. Please plan your usage accordingly.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624603

Points: 417

# Comments: 217

New comment by nickweb in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

nickweb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:50:27 +0000

Honestly. This with Paperless-NGX might be game changing if both pointed to the same folder.

New comment by nickweb in "Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access"

nickweb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:24:21 +0000

That's cool. Yours comes up as stars (*). Must be a HN thing.

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!)