Hacker News: pkz

New comment by pkz in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

pkz — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:59:14 +0000

Sorry for wasting your API resources but there are many hilarious things people generated. https://anycrap.shop/product/danger-swede-suit-dog-generator

New comment by pkz in "FFmpeg merges WebRTC support"

pkz — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:46:25 +0000

Does this mean that ffmpeg now can record a Jitsi video meeting audio stream?

Show HN: QuickSus – a free tool to run System Usability Scale surveys

pkz — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:37:17 +0000

Knowing of a product works for end users or not needs proper usability testing. But sometimes you want to do a quick, minimal check what user's think about your product.

Over the holidays I rewrote a service I had a couple of years ago that let's you run System Usability Scale (SUS) surveys quickly (SUS is an established 10-item questionnaire that results in a indicator score that shows if your users are likely to consider your product usable).

It rus on Django / Caddy / PG. I am keeping it free to use for now with the hope that more people will use SUS surveys to improve their products.

Happy for any feedback while I am fixing the last issues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615436

Points: 1

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New comment by pkz in "Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative"

pkz — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:44:49 +0000

That sounds great. Outline only has SSO in the per-user paid version. If you decide on providing additional functionality in a non-free "enterprise" version, please don't use the per usermonth model for people running it on prem.

The Evolution of AI Bot Blocking on News Websites

pkz — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:35:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.peterkrantz.com/2024/evolution-of-ai-bot-blocking-news-websites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963662

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New comment by pkz in "Paint.net"

pkz — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:39:30 +0000

It is a great piece of software but annoying that you can't edit text.

New comment by pkz in "Moore's Scofflaws"

pkz — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:04:44 +0000

This was a great blog post highlighting some of the weird business models that plague cloud computing. I tried to find competitors to suppliers like Oxide in the EU where there should be a huge amount of business cases for "datacenter in a box". Surprisingly there are very few options available (yes, Azure Stack is available but there is still licensing per cpu for that).

Why aren't there more players in this area?

New comment by pkz in "OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools"

pkz — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:56:17 +0000

I hear the company owner is a russian citizen. Maybe that is a problem.

New comment by pkz in "Codex Gigas: the largest manuscript of the middle ages"

pkz — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:16:25 +0000

The National Library of Sweden has made the raw digitized files available under CCBY here for those of you who want to play around with their own visualization: https://data.kb.se/dark-17757824

New comment by pkz in "Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++"

pkz — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 05:47:41 +0000

Great work! I use it experimentally in a free service for people who want to subtitle videos. The small model runs o a USD8/mo VPS. Looking into running the medium model soon.

New comment by pkz in "German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR"

pkz — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:04:16 +0000

It involves sub licensing the entire suite to a EU entity. It is happening in France with Bleu (MS365 run by Capgemini and Orange): https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/orange-and-capgem...

New comment by pkz in "Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)"

pkz — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:09:26 +0000

It would be interesting to know how many of government agencies use Google email services? Is the email interaction between citizen and state now predominantly in the hands of a foreign third party?

New comment by pkz in "Non-Code Contributions to Open Source (2021)"

pkz — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:51:20 +0000

This! Many seem to think that only developers can contribute in a way that gains experience and CV-items. UX people, designers and wordsmiths can have a great impact on a project too. I wish more people found out and contributed.

New comment by pkz in "Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk"

pkz — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:21:15 +0000

A very good question!

New comment by pkz in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

pkz — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:18:53 +0000

Maybe a button cluster for cars could be standardized? Everything relating to AC, heat, etc could work with similar symbols and placement. Everything else had to go below or above this module?

New comment by pkz in "LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor"

pkz — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 18:17:40 +0000

...and the Acer Swift. A great screen size for programmers.

New comment by pkz in "Bad UI is causing people to get scammed"

pkz — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 05:53:10 +0000

A large email provider like Gmail could probably train a network to find emails that look similar to an official brand (start with payment providers). The client could warn the user that "Warning! This email looks a lot like it is trying to impersonate a different brand".

New comment by pkz in "Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API"

pkz — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:48:28 +0000

This was a nice intro to the Blender Python API. Thank you!

New comment by pkz in "Storing State in the URL"

pkz — Thu, 12 May 2022 08:08:52 +0000

Exactly. This post was like a blast from the past about things that have been working fine for ages. Curious if young developers read this and thought it was a modern invention.

New comment by pkz in "How to make $2K/ month selling an automation script"

pkz — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:21:43 +0000

Somewhere a Ruby installer developer cries silently...