Hacker News: nomilk

New comment by nomilk in "Download your favourite YouTube videos"

nomilk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:01:04 +0000

Same experience. I have years of notes and many link to specific youtube video sources (with time stamp). Unfortunately those URLs don't even give a title of a video, so tracking down removed videos can be hard. However, I've had some luck using LLMs! (obviously only when I can remember the context of a quote or some details about the video, even if vague). Once you know the video title it can often be found on unofficial youtube mirror sites.

New comment by nomilk in "Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity"

nomilk — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 04:29:05 +0000

Any indication what the price difference might be? (e.g. 20% less, 50%, 90%!?)

I read that SpaceX's engines deliver a bit more thrust at a bit less mass than NASA engines. But the kicker was SpaceX's were 1/200th the cost. From the cost angle it's very interesting observing space activities going from mostly public to mostly private.

How Command and Conquer Died [video]

nomilk — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:52:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlEgGHx4II

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364334

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nomilk in "Kitty 0.50"

nomilk — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:12:52 +0000

Anyone know if the upgrade breaks anything? (I recall a few small but annoying things broke last upgrade)

A scan of this list doesn't indicate any breaking changes: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#id1

New comment by nomilk in "Kitty 0.50"

nomilk — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:11:09 +0000

> 'open last execution log' (ctrl + shift + g). It's a lifesaver.

When do you use this? (guessing, when you run something that crashes the terminal?)

Possibly related: I use ctrl+shift+h (and somehow configured it to use neovim), which is a nice way to navigate the terminal history - useful when pilfering through thousands of lines of local server logs

New comment by nomilk in "ChatGPT Is Down"

nomilk — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:38:31 +0000

Still getting same message 1.25 hours later.

ChatGPT Is Down

nomilk — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:24:16 +0000

> upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. retried and the latest reset reason: remote connection failure

I've been seeing this on ChatGPT web for 20 minutes, with the occasional request getting through like normal.

Anyone else?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362058

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 23:18:59 +0000

This is cool. It would be better if it linked to the hn comment/s and showed some gameplay on hover (also the splash page is unnecessary, ideally https://hnarcade.com/games/category/games should be the home page)

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:11:58 +0000

A version of this that's only live videos would be cool.

New comment by nomilk in "Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:58:23 +0000

We (technical folk) can (mostly; some of the terminology is needlessly unfamiliar). A florist, beautician, candle maker, restaurateur or scuba tour operator is unlikely to find themselves on the NIST website pilfering through webpages that may as well be in another language.

New comment by nomilk in "Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:40:07 +0000

The linked page simply has one extra hurdle; it requires an entrepreneur to first click on:

> Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You.

then follow the steps already outlined i.e. click on the abstruse Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50), which directs to an academic style page with the report.

If anything, the linked page makes it harder to find, since it requires an additional step.

Since this is intended for small business owners with a thousand competing priorities, hiding the guide between walls of text and down a rabbit hole of unfamiliar links and titles will result in significant drop-off.

New comment by nomilk in "Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:56:05 +0000

> written in lay language

yet its title is:

> Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50)

Small businesses don't identify as 'Non-Employer Firms', have no idea what 'NIST' is, most wouldn't know what a White Paper is, nor number 50.

'A Crash Course in Cybersecurity for Small Businesses' would be an improvement.

New comment by nomilk in "X/Twitter Is Down"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:22:10 +0000

Working now.

X/Twitter Is Down

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/a/wc8QHNf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347929

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by nomilk in "US boy names that became girl names and vice versa"

nomilk — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:45:59 +0000

Wonderful little bit of data analysis. I appreciate that the data visualisations let us see the answer from just a scan, no reading required (except the legend to make sense of the colours).

Tangent: I assumed this was a clever piece of marketing for an underlying company, but looks like 'NameDaisy' is purely a personal project (as opposed to a business).

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

nomilk — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:30:05 +0000

Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot?

https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

nomilk — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:27:30 +0000

Thank you I see them now. Since I enjoy reading the HN comments more than (and often prior to) the video itself, I'd love the comments to be on hover or sidebar (like Wikihack) on the main page so I can use them to decide whether to invest time on the video.

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

nomilk — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:21:56 +0000

I like that it links to the actual HN comments (I don't think Karpathy's yt equivalent did that), and tbh I enjoy reading the context in which articles/videos are mentioned as much (or more) than the articles/videos themselves.

New comment by nomilk in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

nomilk — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:11:52 +0000

Youtube sometimes displays an 'Ask AI' button under the video. I recently searched 'Pride of America' (the cruise ship) and the top result was interesting but alarmist/clickbaity, along the lines of 'Don't make these 7 mistakes'. 'Ask AI' let me ask "what are the 7 mistakes": it told me, and in 10 seconds I could deem that video a waste of time. Very efficient.

Overall this 'Ask AI' button is going to smash content creators who rely on clickbait. As a user, it greatly improves my ability to skip bad/clickbaity content, which I really appreciate.

New comment by nomilk in "Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)"

nomilk — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:33:41 +0000

My Cloudflare solver is command + w. It's 100% reliable in a headful browser and occasionally results in finding an alternative site that doesn't place its priorities (denying bots) over the user's (judicious use of time).