Hacker News: notpushkin

New comment by notpushkin in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

notpushkin — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:31:37 +0000

> CREDITS FROM YC STARTUP SCHOOL

Is that still a thing? I’ve thought they’ve discontinued the deals section. (There are a lot of other ways to get a startup grant, of course.)

New comment by notpushkin in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

notpushkin — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:27:43 +0000

And I’m pretty sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

New comment by notpushkin in "Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns"

notpushkin — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:32:23 +0000

It is used and I guess it works largely the same way as in author’s first picture: you get arrows pointing towards where you should correct your course to. Tom Scott has made a video on those: https://wew.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM

New comment by notpushkin in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:04:55 +0000

> Maybe I'm foggy on the history. But isn't this like Fork #4 or #5 of some previous AdBlock extension?

IIRC it was written from scratch. It was called uBlock before, then a co-maintainer tried to pull some shit, and the original author had to fork it with a new name (I don’t remember the details, it’s been ages since then).

No selling out yet. The author also explicitly says they don’t accept donations. I don’t think he’s looking for a business model. But if that changes – yeah, the fork button is right there, so I don’t see a big problem here.

New comment by notpushkin in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:43:14 +0000

Waterfox, a Firefox fork, has actually built a builtin qdblocker. (And yes, they do whitelist their search partner by default, but you can turn that off.) Apparently it’s faster than uBlock Origin, but there’s been problems on some websites, so I’ll be sticking with uBO for now.

Edit: actually, it seems the underlying functionality was built by Mozilla themselves, just not exposed in the UI yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309020

New comment by notpushkin in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:02:40 +0000

> I get unsolvable recaptchas all the time, especially on cloudflare pages.

If you really mean reCAPTCHA (the one with a “select all squares that have X” kinda challenges), then Cloudflare hasn’t used that for quite a while now. archive.today uses a Cloudflare-looking (old style) page with a reCAPTCHA (and they do serve it quite often), but I don’t think I’ve seen other sites do that.

New comment by notpushkin in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:29:38 +0000

Good point, thanks.

New comment by notpushkin in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:12:56 +0000

Why even type anything? Just ssh to 7000, and use the same public key to authenticate. The server responds with “You’re in”, opens up 22 and closes the connection. You then ssh normally.

This bespoke server should not advertise it in any special way though (generic OpenSSH banner), and can be used to also ban port scanners if they try to do something fishy.

fwknop is impossible to even scan for, though, so it’s a bit more robust in that sense.

New comment by notpushkin in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:58:11 +0000

You could run both on 443: https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh

New comment by notpushkin in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:54:22 +0000

fwknop is a bit lower risk though. If all an attacker can do is open a port, they’ll still have to exploit OpenSSH.

New comment by notpushkin in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

notpushkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:44:57 +0000

This can briefly happen, but until VCs run out of money we’ll get competitors about as soon as the enshittification starts. Well, at least in theory, regulatory caprure is a thing, so it doesn’t always work out.

This also doesn’t work when there’s network effects at play. I believe this is why Grab (Southeast Asian Uber/UberEats) is adding social features like a whole fucking messenger into the app. Didn’t help: Bolt has launched there as well and is often cheaper and faster so I usually check both.

(Now, Grab is publicly traded, and maybe it’s profitable, which would undermine my whole argument. But I’m still getting cheap transportation and discounted food. Maybe they externalize the costs somewhere else which indeed also sucks.)

New comment by notpushkin in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

notpushkin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:05:30 +0000

All that aside, I’m happy that VCs are paying for my stuff! I have no idea why they keep doing that. They’ve studied my behaviour so they should already know I’ll delete {app_name} as soon as I get a better deal elsewhere. (Better yet, I’ll keep both and let them fight!)

Maybe they can capture the market for a brief moment, but if they do have a long term strategy, I’m not seeing one.

New comment by notpushkin in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

notpushkin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:41:10 +0000

100 Mbps is sometimes just enough for the job. And it’s easy to see that you only have two pairs instead of four – just look at the connector.

New comment by notpushkin in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

notpushkin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:37:37 +0000

WhatKable was right there!

New comment by notpushkin in "Bluesky Protocol Services"

notpushkin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:07:24 +0000

There’s a next-route-announcer tag on the page, so probably not Astro. (Can’t recommend Astro Starlight enough though!)

New comment by notpushkin in "Gloomberb"

notpushkin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:14:38 +0000

I think it is more oriented towards retail investors (if anybody) than professional users. In theory it could compete with TradingView?

(I’d especially love to see some federated social feature built in!)

New comment by notpushkin in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

notpushkin — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:09:56 +0000

The number of permutations of n distinct objects is n!. So, probably a bit more than 8, since 8! < 10⁸, but I don’t think you are terribly off :-)

Edit: 58! < 10⁸⁰ < 59!

New comment by notpushkin in "Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client"

notpushkin — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:57:01 +0000

Cool! Can we get a human-efficient MCP CLI while at it? I want to be able to use MCP just as well as the LLMs can.

New comment by notpushkin in "My server is a phone now"

notpushkin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:59:24 +0000

> It came back, and lesson learned: Android already has working drivers for every piece of this hardware. [...] Throwing all of that away in pursuit of a more conventional userspace was the wrong trade.

pmOS is a proper port with native Linux drivers, but there’s also Libhybris / Halium which runs Android drivers in a more typical “Linux” userland. Ubuntu Touch uses that, so it could be a good starting point. Sadly, I don’t see CMF Phone 1 in the devices list: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

New comment by notpushkin in "Pareto Front"

notpushkin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:22:52 +0000

Something like that! But for any font.

I think fontTools instancer could work here, though it’s a CLI: https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/varLib/instancer....