Hacker News: proton_9

New comment by proton_9 in "AlpineBSD"

proton_9 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:46:36 +0000

while sitting on a cab a few weeks ago, i was watching other large trucks passing through, and i was wondering about what it would be like if these trucks were entirely made by bots, would travelling on roads feel less safer? when you know that the existing old stuff is made by humans and most humans who are good at their work genuinely put in effort and care in their craft, can we say the same about work generated by clankers? Really got me wondering, still split on if all this AI hype will be a net good in the long run. Sure you're more productive and end up spitting out more code, as long as its non critical SaaS stuff, who cares if things go wrong right? for crucial, mission critical stuff, relying only on AI autonomously, especially when they are still prone to make errors, seems like a very dystopian reality. Just today claude code hallucinated the first name of a person because in the username the first name was one letter.

New comment by proton_9 in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

proton_9 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:44:21 +0000

I had my vm's price increase by around 30% percent as well but they did communicate it and the reason for it being the global ram prices going up. Even then I think hetzner is pretty good, not a lot of good cloud providers keep the port 25 open.

New comment by proton_9 in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

proton_9 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:20:51 +0000

This sounds like a really interesting story, would like to read more on why half life 2 specifically? the game itself was pretty well optimized and ran on really low end hardware even back in the day.

New comment by proton_9 in "The Permanent Upper Crow"

proton_9 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:59:54 +0000

The one by Simon Sinek? I've just picked it for reading this week

New comment by proton_9 in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

proton_9 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:17:32 +0000

This was so mesmerising! Will show this to my nieces when they come visit. Kudos!

New comment by proton_9 in "Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes"

proton_9 — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:01:12 +0000

I’ve made a submission. I think as time passes there will be a niche for curated content thats free from AI slop.

New comment by proton_9 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

proton_9 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:28:32 +0000

I got to know about this when i was setting up my email server, I have never sent emails to people i don't personally know and yet a few did land in spam and i had to ask them to mark it as not spam, that did help with improving the reputation, i also signed up on google postmaster also outlook as well i think. It's a actually a pretty easy thing to setup your own email server, i wrote about it, not the explicit details but the jist of it. https://tech.yaker.in/posts/self-hosted-e-mail-stack

New comment by proton_9 in "Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work?"

proton_9 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:28:55 +0000

Have you read Ray Kurzweil's how to create a mind? His definition of our mind is something similar along the lines. Pattern matching/ predictions are all that we do, according to him. I didn't think we'd come so far when I read it a few years ago. Agi seems like a real possibility now and I think I should consider developing some skills besides being able to write php.

New comment by proton_9 in "Why People Think PHP Sucks (2014)"

proton_9 — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:20:23 +0000

Laravel has been great so far for me, I don't think js has any frameworks that are as good. Curious to know how django compares to laravel.

New comment by proton_9 in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

proton_9 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:49:45 +0000

Didn't think I'd find something like this on hn. Good luck to you mate. I'm on the journey too. Almost 2 years now, was on the verge of brink and posted something on hn to which Dan, the moderator emailed me and told me to hang in there. At the time had no one, still keep a small circle and no immediate family. His words gave me strength to survive and possibly how I ended up in recovery instead of the other side.

New comment by proton_9 in "Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?"

proton_9 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:17:37 +0000

thanks for this mate, was looking for a free tier paas to show off some proof of concept projects, northflank seems good.

New comment by proton_9 in "Ask HN: Why do people write comments?"

proton_9 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:36:21 +0000

this as well as indexing by search engines, i found some wonderful perspectives about rails for example from hn comments, things which were much better than any seo optimized content that you find now.

Does Gratitude Increase Happiness?

proton_9 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:08:19 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/gratitude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686483

Points: 6

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New comment by proton_9 in "Are we going back to the cable days?"

proton_9 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:49:35 +0000

PirateBay ftw eh? haha.

New comment by proton_9 in "I still love PHP and JavaScript"

proton_9 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:14:25 +0000

wow, that was some incredible performance, never thought php could be this fast, I was in a dilemma on what language to focus on as an ordinary dev, think I'll stick with php for a while longer.