Hacker News: ollybee

New comment by ollybee in "Isseven"

ollybee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:12:11 +0000

With 250k weekly downloads. That is no joke.

New comment by ollybee in "A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source"

ollybee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:38:22 +0000

Add it to the list https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

New comment by ollybee in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

ollybee — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:58:29 +0000

It's not government mandated. It's a defacto requirement as all commercial broadcasters require it but that their commercial choice not government.

What's actually illegal in law to broadcast is very different from what you practically cant due to the theoretically voluntary codes. Even that guidance is broad but hard to argue with "Advertisements must contain nothing that could cause physical, mental, moral or social harm to persons under the age of 18." No reasonable person would argue you should be allowed to do that.

New comment by ollybee in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ollybee — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:56:07 +0000

Is this just to lock out the cheap clones?

New comment by ollybee in "Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel"

ollybee — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:40:41 +0000

Add it to the list https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

New comment by ollybee in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

ollybee — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:13:10 +0000

China has also just launched a megawatt scale wind generator a the helium-lifted balloon, the S2000 , they have active thorium rector the TMSR-LF1 and GW/h Vandium flow battery. The scale , speed and breadth of what they are doing is incredible and I think missed my people

New comment by ollybee in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

ollybee — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:20:18 +0000

In that case it like someone controlling the DNS records for a banned site could cause some mischief

New comment by ollybee in "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"

ollybee — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:24:49 +0000

How is a company like mintlify getting so many big name customers for what appears to be a static site generator + hosting? Is there some secret sauce I'm missing, what is the value proposition?

New comment by ollybee in "High Performance SSH/SCP"

ollybee — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:00:01 +0000

It's not clear if you need it on both ends to get an advantage?

New comment by ollybee in "WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]"

ollybee — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:42:19 +0000

There's a whole industry of people selling solutions to WordPress's failings, all of whom have strong incentives for it not be properly improved.

New comment by ollybee in "Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces"

ollybee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:35:42 +0000

A bit like psDooM

New comment by ollybee in "Roc Camera"

ollybee — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:37:18 +0000

I always assumed high end CCTV cameras already did something like this?

New comment by ollybee in "Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex"

ollybee — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:09:05 +0000

web search too is off by default

New comment by ollybee in "Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs"

ollybee — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:38:24 +0000

H100's can be $2 and hour, so $192 an hour for the full cluster. They report 22k tokens per second, so ~ 80 million an hour, thats $16 an hour at $0.2 per million. Maybe a bit more for input tokens, but it seems a long way off.

New comment by ollybee in "SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious"

ollybee — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:09:29 +0000

What is obnoxious is that certificate transparency logs mean that you now have to effectively centrally register any new domain you put online. That means you instantly see a whole load of traffic to your domain from bots, scrapers, beg bounty scanners etc. Any new site has to be designed to handle that baseline of traffic.

I understand the point of CTL's and it's necessary given that every browser and device is configured to trust CA's that you wouldn't actually trust. It's had awful side effects for people who want to host low traffic sites, or fly under the radar for whatever reason.

New comment by ollybee in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

ollybee — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:27:38 +0000

Two problem with offering usage limits is the real limit you could offer if all users hit it, is low. The users with usage far below the limits feel they are getting a bad deal, compared to if they can't see the limits and they don't hit them, they feel they have "unlimited!".

New comment by ollybee in "The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure"

ollybee — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:57:19 +0000

Are they going to be able to maintain the volunteer team who curate the catalogue? Currently a fair amount of work goes into making sure that hosted packages do not contain malware and also add value in that they don't replicate the features of existing packages. This workload has increased recently with AI generated submissions.

New comment by ollybee in "O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call"

ollybee — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:33:08 +0000

From their statement "Our engineering teams have been working on and testing a fix for number of weeks". Can you image if a database was knowingly left unsecured for that long with data that sensitive and seemingly without telling anyone. It will be interesting to see how the ICO deal with this.

New comment by ollybee in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

ollybee — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:20:25 +0000

sqlite provide the sqlite3_rsync command to safely copy databases https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

New comment by ollybee in "The Future Is Niri"

ollybee — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:17:36 +0000

I've been using sway daily since before it was really stable and recently tried Niri but maybe couldn't get over the muscle memory from sway. I use sway mostly in tabbed mode anyway which gives a similar feel to a scrolling WM but with flexibility to break out to tiles in a different workspace if needed.

What has massively improved my workflow recently is vertical tabs in Firefox. I now have browser tabs I can cycle up and down through on side of my screen, and application tabs I can cycle through left and right at the top. I love it.