Hacker News: polycancel

New comment by polycancel in "An airport cooled by natural ventilation"

polycancel — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:46:11 +0000

As someone who grew up with AC, I was one time in Brazil and got stuck in a place without AC. Needless to say the first few nights was hell. I just couldn't follow asleep. However after few days, my body just adjust to the local temperature, and really enjoyed it. In fact, going into mall with AC just feels too cold for me then. Of course there is a limit to what our body can endure, but there is something to be said about exposing and adapting our body to the natural elements instead of just adjusting the environment to make what is comfortable to our body.

New comment by polycancel in "Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS"

polycancel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:30:49 +0000

Hmm why is it 186.1MB? Where Search is only 2MB? And blocks ads. Seems like much needed browser that is NOT Chromium based. Seems like DDG team can learn something from the way how Search is built.

New comment by polycancel in "The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi"

polycancel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Not hitting the site in Tor. Getting "Secure Connection Failed"

Here are the archive onion and regular links:

https://web.archivep75mbjunhxc6x4j5mwjmomyxb573v42baldlqu56r...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260924163612/https://www.xda-d...

New comment by polycancel in "Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers"

polycancel — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:36:30 +0000

The point is NOT older, rather decentralized!

From a efficiency perspective centralized anything seems better at first glance, however decentralized anything just seems more resilient in the long run like nature and/or our universe.

New comment by polycancel in "OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM"

polycancel — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:32:08 +0000

Being using granite model pretty small and good. Can't do JSON, but don't really care.

Which models are EasyOCR and RapidOCR using?

New comment by polycancel in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

polycancel — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:21:28 +0000

US's birth rate are actually way higher than Europe and China, not as high as Africa, but still better than most other areas in the world.

New comment by polycancel in "Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun"

polycancel — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:13:47 +0000

Well at that seems to be one of main thing on mind of the Chinese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth

New comment by polycancel in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

polycancel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:27:59 +0000

>and people will compromise speed for data sovereignty

People should always compromise speed for data sovereignty! Who said: that in this digital day and age, information about money is more important than money!

New comment by polycancel in "OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack"

polycancel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:25 +0000

>That these frontier models are so powerful

Maybe powerful might NOT be the right word to describe them, they are just non-deterministic, there for we going to see this kind thing more and more.

New comment by polycancel in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

polycancel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:54:06 +0000

Also for all these kind of ssh stuff. Please include server finger print so others verify.

Is this your server fingerprint?

ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:Tc7aeaaQulKJeF3C/zd2BKvq/KgaQTHyMPNa3s9K+aE.

New comment by polycancel in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

polycancel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:04:29 +0000

With the state of current Android locking down to iOS level of closeness ( https://keepandroidopen.org )

Since my last smart phone broke, I have held out on getting a smart phone for personal use. Sure for doing professional stuff for work, I'll use the work phone, but NOT going to pay my own money to get a surveillance device now.

If you are a business, and the you don't have a web site working, then yeah too bad.

Until Ubuntu Touch or something similar catches up and can run on old smart phone in a reliable way (not having to hunt down ROM like LineageOS ) it will be going back to before 2007 for me. It is more inconvenient sometimes, but life is also better in many ways.

New comment by polycancel in "Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres?"

polycancel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:37:02 +0000

> Document store -> FerretDB

Love FerretDB, but it doesn't really replace MongoDB's GridFS which is main reason why most people who are really using Mongo now day. Anyone knows a good replacement for GridFS?

New comment by polycancel in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

polycancel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:32:33 +0000

> It uses DNS/pkarr and relays as the primary method.

Thanks for clarifying that. So does that mean Iroh still require a DNS server or domain name even though it doesn't rely on IP address?

I thought dial by key means the other party just need to be on internet and has the right key/pubic identifier then they can reached.

Where does the message resides if the other end is NOT online?

New comment by polycancel in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

polycancel — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:24:44 +0000

Seems like nothing can really get around this without a server/relay/TUN/STUN server. Peer to Peer messaging just doesn't work otherwise.

Saw Iroh post on HN. Just wonder how it differ from Nostr, Scuttlebutt or Yggdrasil or DHT etc? Many from Nostr claim that they are successor of scuttlebutt, but many devs from Scuttlebutt highly dispute that.

Be good to get a comparison between these protocols for devs who want to use them.