Hacker News: retlehs

New comment by retlehs in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

retlehs — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:41:35 +0000

The link doesn’t load for me FYI. A web version would be in Go, reusing the TUI internals. All doable, just not where I want to spend my time right now. I’ll likely get to it at some point.

New comment by retlehs in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

retlehs — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:49:21 +0000

This was really just a personal tool I built because I got tired of parsing default whois output. Don’t have the bandwidth for a web UI right now, maybe down the road.

It’s not about making money. It’s more that there’s no real way for people to discover it by competing for visibility on whois-related searches against established sites.

New comment by retlehs in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

retlehs — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:57:36 +0000

The goal was a fast terminal tool, and I'm not ruling it out, but considering how hard it would be to compete in the SERPs with other whois sites, I don't think I'd spend the time on it right now

New comment by retlehs in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

retlehs — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:07:07 +0000

Thanks for the request! Shipped both in https://github.com/retlehs/quien/pull/4

New comment by retlehs in "Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver"

retlehs — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:30:38 +0000

This is really great work, I’m installing this immediately once I’m back on my machine

My terminal loads ANSI each time it opens, but requires downloading artpacks first: https://github.com/retlehs/ansimotd

I also like how your README suggests specific packs to grab

Show HN: ANSItype – Browse 900 TheDraw fonts in the browser

retlehs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:53:23 +0000

There's a project called tdfiglet that allows you to preview TheDraw fonts (https://www.roysac.com/thedrawfonts-tdf.html) from a CLI, but I wanted a web view to quickly browse through the font archive.

Type some text, pick a font, get ANSI color or plain block output, and filterable by style.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218717

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by retlehs in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

retlehs — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:58:15 +0000

The tip releases have had search support for a few months:

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1993728538344906978

As Mitchell stated above:

> Ghostty 1.3 is around the corner, literally a week or two away, and will bring some critically important features like search (cmd+f), scrollbars, and dozens more. In addition to GUI features it ships some big improvements to VT functionality, as always.

New comment by retlehs in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

retlehs — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:16:28 +0000

As others have noted, the emails frequently include the sender's actual GitHub username or organization in the body or signature.

Attribution isn't speculative. The DKIM/SPF headers show the messages are authenticated and sent through the company's own mail servers, signed by their domain. These are not spoofed "joe@legitbusiness.com" messages. I include the original headers in every abuse report.

In several cases I've engaged directly. One founder replied to my "stop spamming" email and later sent me a LinkedIn request. When the name in the signature, the GitHub profile, the authenticated sending domain, and the LinkedIn account all align, the hacked-account explanation no longer fits the facts.

New comment by retlehs in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

retlehs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:50:01 +0000

By visiting the account and noticing that it still has activity long after the report.

New comment by retlehs in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

retlehs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:44:25 +0000

I’ve made over five reports for this exact spam scenario, and never once have y’all acted on them. I have a hard time believing you ban spam accounts that clearly violate your ToS.

I even wrote about a specific example of a YC company spamming me from my GitHub email at https://benword.com/dont-tolerate-unsolicited-spam

New comment by retlehs in "Serving Markdown Instead of HTML to LLM User Agents"

retlehs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:30:34 +0000

After Bun reported a 10x token reduction by serving markdown docs to Claude Code, I implemented the same approach for our docs site.

Serving Markdown Instead of HTML to LLM User Agents

retlehs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:30:34 +0000

Article URL: https://benword.com/serving-markdown-instead-of-html-to-llm-user-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404588

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by retlehs in "The American Nations regions across North America"

retlehs — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:00:14 +0000

> There's a big ford in each driveway that hasn't hauled more than dogs and kids since the day it came home

I can't speak on Knoxville because I've only spent a day there, but I've spent a good bit of time around Amarillo mostly from driving between CO and TX over a hundred times, although not really in the suburbs.

Saw a lot of beat up trucks that looked like they were owned by blue collar folks and used for truck things. But of course there's also plenty of brodozers, which I'm assuming are also fairly common in Knoxville.

New comment by retlehs in "The American Nations regions across North America"

retlehs — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:17:09 +0000

What shared traits do you see between Amarillo and Knoxville? Having visited both, Amarillo is distinctly High Plains/Western while Knoxville is Appalachian. Different cultures, geography, everything.

New comment by retlehs in "Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem"

retlehs — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:08:06 +0000

This won’t protect against everything, but it still seems like a good idea to implement:

https://github.com/danielroe/provenance-action

New comment by retlehs in "Legal win"

retlehs — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:29:38 +0000

WP offers a “no-content” packaged version

https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-6.3.1-no-c...

There’s also a Composer package:

https://github.com/roots/wordpress-no-content

Show HN: IRC /Whois Gallery

retlehs — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:30:18 +0000

I made a short collection of /whois output from an old IRC client (XiRCON + kano.tcl), showcasing the creative ASCII art and custom formatting that made IRC client customization an art form.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784907

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by retlehs in "Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates"

retlehs — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:41:08 +0000

PayPal's site is affected by this

New comment by retlehs in "Show HN: Live Simple – Tiny homes"

retlehs — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:10:24 +0000

Tried to sign up with Facebook and got an error, FYI.

New comment by retlehs in "Wordpress Bootstrap 3 Starter Theme – MIT License"

retlehs — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:41:23 +0000

You shouldn't be hardcoding CSS/JS into the template files - look into wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script.

Could use a better directory structure, too. Assets should be in a different folder, things like the walker should be in a lib/includes folder.

Being a starter theme, it doesn't make sense to just reference the Bootstrap CSS from a CDN. Shouldn't you have the LESS files so people can easily make changes without having to do overrides in their CSS?

ps. It's "WordPress", not "Wordpress" (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dang...)

Disclaimer: I made Roots (http://roots.io), a Bootstrap starter theme that's been around for a while