Hacker News: perino

New comment by perino in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

perino — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:09:53 +0000

This was first done by SIDN I believe, the company that orchestrates the .nl domains. They however, do not implement most of the spec.

When searching their online whois[1], they'll tell you if a domain is for sale and link to the for sale page. They don't use any of the info you put in the DNS though. The URL comes from their internal system. You need to register it separately. They also don't use the price, txt or anything else you put in the DNS.

All they use is the "fcod", to look up the url in their own system. They had a different syntax for this before, but this functionality has existed for some years.

[1] https://www.sidn.nl/whois

New comment by perino in "Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website"

perino — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:32:55 +0000

I know a future web designer when I see one!

As a side note and you're probably not interested in this, but since you mention the total size: your avatar/favicon can be compressed down. to 14.3kb (saving 18,6%) which keeps the Toal just under 50Kb!

New comment by perino in "Fastly Outage"

perino — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:07:43 +0000

Anything hosted on Firebase seems to be down

New comment by perino in "Neuroon: Sleep mask for polyphasic sleep"

perino — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:48:47 +0000

I think that if you need the product to increase the amount of workable hours in a day, you're doing something wrong to begin with. The idea of Polyphasic sleep in itself is interesting, but do it for the right reasons (more time to communicate with friends/family who are in a different timezone, work nightshifts etc.).

One other thing to consider is the fact that sleeping less means you've got more time to spend, also during hours when almost nobody else is awake. For some this isn't an issue, but for others this could prove to be difficult. I for one would opt for an Everyman cycle, since it allows you to be awake during relatively "normal" hours.

New comment by perino in "Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2"

perino — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:20:39 +0000

Besides the fact that a direct debit payment is reversible, isn't there also a timeout between the authorization and actual debit (in The Netherlands, I believe it's about 1-2 days)?

How do they handle chargebacks/failed payments and do they charge their merchants for failed payments/chargebacks?

I think direct debit could be huge on mobile, but given the fact that every direct debit payment can be cancelled within a month or so, how do you reduce your risks?