Hacker News: renchap

New comment by renchap in "Chatto is now open source"

renchap — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:51:11 +0000

For Mastodon, each mobile app developer needs to have a "webpush relay server" to receive Mastodon's webpush notifications and transmit them to the platform's push service. For Android, Mastodon recently added support for the latest webpush standard which allows the app developer to directly register Google's webpush endpoint with Mastodon, removing the need for a relay. In all cases, push notifications are encrypted by the Mastodon server, and decrypted by the Mastodon client, so any intermediaries (relay server, push notification service) can not read their content.

New comment by renchap in "RIP botsin.space"

renchap — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:31:46 +0000

The content warning styling may be reverted (its already done in `main`), and we are not aware of any performance issues with 4.3, it's in fact the opposite from all the feedback we got. I am really curious of what is happening here and asked the admin to provide more information.

New comment by renchap in "Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit"

renchap — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:56:37 +0000

Our operating structure is still the Germany-based Mastodon gGmbH. The new US non-profit is here to facilitate fundraising in the US and promote Mastodon there (plus maybe one day pay developers directly, if we hire in the US).

New comment by renchap in "Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit"

renchap — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:55:00 +0000

We have been a non-profit since Mastodon gGmbH has been founded and our biggest issue is our lack of funding to hire more people full-time, not politics or admin overhead. We do not expect this to change anytime soon.

New comment by renchap in "Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit"

renchap — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:52:18 +0000

There are a few companies providing this, like https://masto.host and https://federation.spacebear.ee

New comment by renchap in "What happened to Vivaldi Social?"

renchap — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:46:24 +0000

We (the Mastodon non-profit) do not offer support contracts at the moment, but this is a good idea, thanks :)

But we indeed have sponsorships open, and they really have impact. Having full-time people working on the project is very impactful, but at the moment we only have 1 full-time developer in addition to Eugen (the founder) and a DevOps person on the technical side.

New comment by renchap in "Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9"

renchap — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:58:58 +0000

From the information I gathered, this is an incident in the GlobalSwitch datacenter in Paris.

The cooling system leaked, and this started a fire in an electrical room.

The big issue here is that one Datacenter failure brought the whole region down, this is very abnormal.

New comment by renchap in "Is this the end of social networking?"

renchap — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:08:01 +0000

This is why we are building Notos[1], most of the photo sharing websites evolved in social networks (or died).

We chose to not make our user's album public by default, where most competitors are doing so and benefit from the SEO involved, but we want to focus on sharing with family and friends, not the whole world.

Now the elephant in the room is monetisation and getting people to pay for their usage, this is not easy but we firmly believe it can be done but probably not with a trajectory allowing you to raise VC money.

[1] https://www.notos.co/

New comment by renchap in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

renchap — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:38:20 +0000

You can have a try at https://www.notos.co/ for the privacy-minded sharing part. This is my main focus for the product. No mobile app (yet) or sync as backups and sharing require very different products and my focus is on the later for now.

New comment by renchap in "DigitalOcean App Platform"

renchap — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:55:49 +0000

Is this based on knative? It seems very similar :)

French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic

renchap — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:06:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator-says-google-must-pay-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic/?comments=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827708

Points: 11

# Comments: 5

New comment by renchap in "Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote"

renchap — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:56:19 +0000

Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com) just implemented collaboration, making it a free, secure and OSS solution for remote whiteboard :)

New comment by renchap in "SCA, invoicing, and tax tools for Stripe Billing"

renchap — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:56:21 +0000

This is quite big for businesses in the EU. You used to require external tools to emit invoices & handle VAT, now everything should be doable from Stripe, with no fees.

I had a look at the API and it seems you still need to assign the correct VAT rate yourself (importing VAT rates from the official websites, and assign the correct rate to your items), where it could be automated: "my customer is in country X, I am selling electronical goods, please apply the correct VAT". But this is a very strong first step!

SCA transition for recurring changes will also be automatically handled, one less hurdle to go through.

SCA, invoicing, and tax tools for Stripe Billing

renchap — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:52:02 +0000

Article URL: https://stripe.com/en-US/blog/billing-eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746224

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by renchap in "Fastly Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO"

renchap — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:55:34 +0000

S-1 (HTML): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517413/000119312519...

Fastly Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO

renchap — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:54:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastly.com/press/press-releases/fastly-files-registration-statement-proposed-initial-public-offering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698464

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by renchap in "Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks"

renchap — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:27:42 +0000

I really like h2o (https://h2o.examp1e.net) as a nginx replacement, very nice software, lot of features, extensibility using mruby and amazing perf.

TSL: a developer-friendly Time Series query language for all our metrics

renchap — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:42:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ovh.com/fr/blog/tsl-a-developer-friendly-time-series-query-language-for-all-our-metrics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19160932

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by renchap in "Hello, and welcome to libh2o"

renchap — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:17:15 +0000

libh2o is a library, h2o is a full fledged webserver using libh2o. They are both made by the same people and released together.

Having all the core features in a library allow any developer to use libh2o to easily add a webserver to their program.

note: this is explained in the first part of the link.

New comment by renchap in "Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts"

renchap — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:34:31 +0000

Thanks! I plan to add tracks to the maps feature. I only added maps recently and this is the next logical step. I did not know about OwnTracks but I definitely plan to allow importing external GPS data, in addition to EXIF GPS data. For the data export, this is definitely planned. I can do it manually right know if you ask for it, but creating a process to do it automatically is not the top priority. But we will not shutdown or be acquired before this is in place. I got screwed too many time by other SaaS who just disappeared so I dont want to repeat this with my users.