Hacker News: ondrek

New comment by ondrek in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

ondrek — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:14:58 +0000

I miss the times when someone else made recommendations for you. Now I’m stuck with the same content, which I like( don’t get me wrong), but I’m pretty sure our view of music and movies is much narrower nowadays, when we’re no longer "forced" to experience different content.

New comment by ondrek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ondrek — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:47:42 +0000

We started a side project for ourselves and our agency clients, and recently made it public. It's a selfhosted chat, similar to WhatsApp or Signal. The app connects to your own server, so your data isn't stored in the cloud. It's still in alpha, but we're already having a lot of fun with it. After a decade of mostly building things for clients, it feels great to work on our own product. The business side isn't the main point for us, but we still end up talking about it for hours every day and enjoying the process again.

Bearicorn.com

New comment by ondrek in "No right to relicense this project"

ondrek — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:59:57 +0000

With continuing the same repo, name, and reputation built on LGPL code.. you can’t keep the goodwill and drop the contract that created it :-)

New comment by ondrek in "CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately"

ondrek — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:25:26 +0000

The U.S. CDC abruptly halted all collaboration with the WHO, impacting efforts to combat global health threats, including Marburg virus, mpox, and bird flu, per a leaked memo.

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately

ondrek — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/cdc-who-trump-548cf18b1c409c7d22e17311ccdfe1f6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847501

Points: 16

# Comments: 4

New comment by ondrek in "Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh"

ondrek — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:32:52 +0000

This may be true for the US, but the whole argument falls apart as soon as you remember the world is wider. Eg in Europe are suppressors often allowed with a special permit only = which, in my country, basically means army use only.

There are plenty reasons why.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Legality_of_firearm_...

New comment by ondrek in "Russian diplomat caught on camera recruiting a spy"

ondrek — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:21:20 +0000

A short video of Russian espionage in Slovakia. Sergei Solomasov, a military attaché at the Russian embassy in Slovakia, pays 2x 500 euro to a pro-Russian journalist for making contact and bringing classified information.

Russian diplomat caught on camera recruiting a spy

ondrek — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrS98C796xA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30694141

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by ondrek in "A word used only by Postgres developers"

ondrek — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:04:50 +0000

Domain frammish.com is free. Let's see for how long after posting this comment.

New comment by ondrek in "Electron isn't Cancer but it is a Symptom of a Disease"

ondrek — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 05:54:25 +0000

Yes, Electron has a huge amount of problems (bundle size, speed, feeling, native APIs..) but all are solvable.

With a right approach, some Webassembly improvements and Webkit iterations all could vanish.

On the end of the day, Slack and Visual Code Studio are great apps from the user perspective while features, design and business model play much important roles in choosing the software compared to the underline tech stack.

New comment by ondrek in "Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?"

ondrek — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:24:54 +0000

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bebusy

Seven years ago I needed time for finishing a school project and wanted to look busy at work. The packages prints random messages to terminal, so you look like you are are in middle of some deployment job or npm install.

Still works as far as I know.

New comment by ondrek in "Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)"

ondrek — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:24:48 +0000

Also, I guess, it's needless to say, most of people don't have Docker already installed (unless your target audience is a dev-ops community). So it's not just "docker run".

New comment by ondrek in "Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle"

ondrek — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 05:09:27 +0000

I asked Kangjie Lu to explain the original complain. Here is his reply from Wednesday:

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Thanks for sharing.

The statements in the link are wrong. I will make some clarifications.

1. We have never intentionally introduced any bugs in Linux. 2. The project that investigated the issues with OSS patching process was done in November 2020. We did get an IRB letter for the research. The purpose of the research is to improve the security of the OSS patching process. 3. One of my students is working on a different project which has nothing to do with the project mentioned in 2. The student aims to fix problems in Linux instead of introducing problems.

If you are interested in the project mentioned in 2, please find more details here: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

I hope these clarify the misunderstandings.

Kangjie Lu Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu

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New comment by ondrek in "An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet"

ondrek — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:20:37 +0000

Exactly! Quite a nice refreshment and storytelling between startups, politics and tech.

New comment by ondrek in "Gitlab default branch name changes to main"

ondrek — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:50:27 +0000

Seeing black / whitelists discussions I always wonder, if white color is racist also by containg all wavelengths, while black suffers by absencing visible light.

New comment by ondrek in "Hockey goalies are too big now"

ondrek — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:04:29 +0000

This also answers why goalies aren't huge fat guys.

As the rules limit how big a goalie's pad can be, a huge guy might take up a lot of space, but much of his body will be unprotected from 150+ km/h slap shots.

New comment by ondrek in "Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step"

ondrek — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:12:13 +0000

Everytime someone mentions UO, my heart start racing.

I spent several years within this world, met hundreds of friends I already forgot, tried countless tournaments, fights and lived so many memories.

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but this game showed me, what it means to love something you spend your free time with. Maybe it even transfered somehow to programming later on.

New comment by ondrek in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

ondrek — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:10:57 +0000

Async planning tool Bearicorn (https://bearicorn.com/)

I started this two months ago and it's suppose to be a tool which helps me with personal planning. Sharing tasks with my wife, colleagues, friends and employees.

It's a side project and I still have a job, so I work during evenings and nights on it.

New comment by ondrek in "A Look at iMessage in iOS 14"

ondrek — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:07:59 +0000

The original article from December:

> In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.

> The phones were compromised using an exploit chain that we call KISMET, which appears to involve an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. In July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at least iOS 13.5.1 and could hack Apple’s then-latest iPhone 11.

New comment by ondrek in "Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters"

ondrek — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:11:54 +0000

It seems that face recognition could be as dangerous as country laws are. China's social credit system is a strong mirror to its government. The Black Mirror scenario with all those people scared to even talk publicly could (if once real) be strongly country specific, if we get to the point, where life drastically depend on ethics of technology laws.