Hacker News: nullcipher

New comment by nullcipher in "Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future"

nullcipher — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 08:38:22 +0000

It's really not meant for public facing servers. Now people will say it can but sandstorm like any other software can be hacked into doing whatever. It's meant to host "documents", think Google docs style hosting. You can make documents public which is quite different from a public server.

New comment by nullcipher in "George Carlin's "Soft Language" (2019)"

nullcipher — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:09:45 +0000

Would we put foxconn related in the QR code of all apple software etc also ?

I agree with the spirit of what you are saying but this is hardly the solution. I don't think people are against killing of animals, we have been doing this since man was born. What we are against is modern industrial animal farming.

New comment by nullcipher in "Open Source does not win by being cheaper"

nullcipher — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:25:51 +0000

> While the core product is typically maintained by a central engineering team, integrations or plugins are often built by community developers and then occasionally merged into the main branch.

One of the things I really dislike about opensource deployments is plugins. Often the core team is happy to let something go to a plugin and 99.99% of the time plugins just get abandoned. It's worse when some projects "outsource" basic functionality like authentication (say via saml or oidc) to a plugin.

New comment by nullcipher in "It's okay to make something nobody wants"

nullcipher — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 08:39:54 +0000

there's plenty of people who cook for others when they don't like it themselves? like meat, eggs, seafood etc.

New comment by nullcipher in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

nullcipher — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:35:55 +0000

New comment by nullcipher in "mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites"

nullcipher — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:52:37 +0000

Where is the code? I couldn't find a link.

edit: https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

New comment by nullcipher in "What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)"

nullcipher — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:33:17 +0000

neither is it like that to be a multi millionaire. rare is the multimillionaire who "retires" to a village and enjoys siesta. usually, they want to move even more money (which is fine).

New comment by nullcipher in "Jupyter Notebook 7"

nullcipher — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:54:51 +0000

Thanks for explanation. I still don't get what is the motivation to keep Jupyter Notebook going. Is it different feature wise? Or it's just a chrome over JupyterLab because people like the retro look of Jupyter Notebook?

New comment by nullcipher in "Jupyter Notebook 7"

nullcipher — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:43:03 +0000

I thought Notebook is getting deprecated. What is the difference between Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook ? Are these developed by two completely different teams? Why maintain two code bases?

New comment by nullcipher in "40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight"

nullcipher — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 02:35:37 +0000

Great write up!

New comment by nullcipher in "Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation"

nullcipher — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:49:25 +0000

or vpn

New comment by nullcipher in "Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability"

nullcipher — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:49:41 +0000

https://hoppscotch.io/ is an alternative

New comment by nullcipher in "Self hosted YouTube media server"

nullcipher — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:11:29 +0000

Maybe I misunderstood this but why does a personal youtube listing / downloading app need ES ? Seems so heavyweight for such a lightweight use.

New comment by nullcipher in "Self hosted YouTube media server"

nullcipher — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:37:18 +0000

I couldn't find docs for installing from source. Is docker really mandatory ?

Also, "Tube Archivist depends on Elasticsearch 8." . Wow, why?

New comment by nullcipher in "WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser"

nullcipher — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 05:38:52 +0000

The link in your profile doesnt work - http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808177

New comment by nullcipher in "Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?"

nullcipher — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:53:54 +0000

I mean just search for "is forEach functional programming"

New comment by nullcipher in "Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?"

nullcipher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:57:14 +0000

If i ask you to add from 1 to 10 , is that how you add ? 1 + 10 + let_me_add_from2_9 ? So yeah, not at all natural.

New comment by nullcipher in "Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?"

nullcipher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:55:48 +0000

The functional programmers (in my circle) have latched on to forEach/map/reduce/filter etc as the bibile of functional programming. Writing a simple for..each loop will make them reject PRs

New comment by nullcipher in "PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web"

nullcipher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:52:49 +0000

Well, I don't want to run untrusted apps for a start. I am not that desperate :)

New comment by nullcipher in "Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?"

nullcipher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:51:47 +0000

Ah, i hate those coding styles where everything must use forEach/map/reduce