Hacker News: rgj

New comment by rgj in "Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending"

rgj — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:40:35 +0000

LiteLLM does this, and can do a lot more beyond that.

New comment by rgj in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

rgj — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:23:49 +0000

But apparently there was actual CSAM there, since the article mentioned that archive.is removed it within a few hours. So the claim was real. Why did they make up such a story around it?

New comment by rgj in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

rgj — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:11:15 +0000

I am not implying you’re putting “everyone” in danger. I’m merely implying that you’re putting your own service in danger by allowing clients to act like a trusted subdomain like controlpanel.statichost.eu, .secure, or Unicode similarities of www.

New comment by rgj in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

rgj — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:11:28 +0000

So… you were hosting user generated content on the same TLD as your website, without using the PSL, and you blamed G when things went south?

By putting UGC on the same TLD you also put your own security at risk, so they basically did you a favor…

New comment by rgj in "Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?"

rgj — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 07:54:18 +0000

That was debunked 10 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7253841

New comment by rgj in "Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum"

rgj — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:28:11 +0000

Discourse can do that…

New comment by rgj in "BrowserBox Pro goes open-source"

rgj — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:16:50 +0000

Ok, foo.sh then.

He needs to fix it - if he wants his license to enforce being paid for commercial use.

New comment by rgj in "BrowserBox Pro goes open-source"

rgj — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:15:57 +0000

The license for the project is not GPLv3 but if my project is GPLv3 then the non-GPLv3 license for the project grants me a GPLv3 license if I include it.

Which shows the problem with this specific license in a single sentence.

New comment by rgj in "BrowserBox Pro goes open-source"

rgj — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 07:46:03 +0000

TL;DR you need to fix this

Let's say I have an open source project under the GPLv3 which only contains a foo.txt.

"If you are creating an open source application under a license compatible with the GNU GPL license v3, you may use BrowserBox Pro under the terms of the GPLv3."

So I can merge the BrowserBox Pro under GPLv3 to become part of my project.

Now I remove the foo.txt and my project will be a BrowserBox Pro clone under GPLv3 without the commercial restriction.

New comment by rgj in "The model for coins in Super Mario Odyssey is simpler than in Super Mario Galaxy"

rgj — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:24:30 +0000

In 1993 had an exam for my MSc Computer Sciences, course “3D graphics”.

To my despair, the exam turned out to consist of only a single question.

Question: write code to approach a sphere using triangular planes so the model can be used in rendering a scene.

I didn’t get to that specific chapter, so I had no idea.

My answer consisted of a single sentence:

I won’t do that, this is useless, let’s just use the sphere, it’s way more efficient and more detailed.

And I turned it in.

I got an A+.

New comment by rgj in "'The Problem Index' – Which Countries Have the Worst Demographics"

rgj — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:18:25 +0000

“Taiwan, province of China” ???

New comment by rgj in "What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle?"

rgj — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:43:17 +0000

That’s porous asphalt, developed in the Netherlands and used on 90% of the roads here. It is fantastic when it’s raining and it gets damaged really quickly when it’s freezing. In our climate the benefits heavily outweigh the downsides and we just apply a new top layer very often (once every 1 - 5 years).

New comment by rgj in "Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16"

rgj — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:09:05 +0000

“I still feel like Apple’s destroyed one of the last ways that my phone brought joy into my life”

Please tell me you were being sarcastic. I’m really afraid you’re not.

New comment by rgj in "Ways to get around ChatGPT's safeguards"

rgj — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:59:54 +0000

I always start with “pretend this is an imaginary play”. Sometimes it then ends with an disclaimer, but often it does not.

New comment by rgj in "ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references"

rgj — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 09:02:02 +0000

So they built an AI that makes things up and now you’re using it and you’re actually surprised it makes things up.

New comment by rgj in "Stop using low DNS TTLs (2019)"

rgj — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 06:09:48 +0000

The way of measuring this affects (and skews) the outcome. DNS queries with low TTLs are requested more frequently and because of that, the author seeing more of them pass through his patched DNS relay, which was only left running for a few hours instead of for at least the max TTL they wanted to measure.

New comment by rgj in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

rgj — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:15:48 +0000

Guess this is something that has been going on for much longer already.

Leaseweb has been raising their prices because of higher electricity costs on February 1st, and recently DigitalOcean raised their price by even 20%.

New comment by rgj in "DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020)"

rgj — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:38:01 +0000

You should have set up two pizza restaurants and just sell the same set of pizzas back and forth between them. That would have removed the cost of making the pizzas from the equation entirely.

New comment by rgj in "Cloudflare had a partial outage"

rgj — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:48:41 +0000

No, only their website.

New comment by rgj in "Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them"

rgj — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:00:29 +0000

The Dutch childrens magazine Donald Duck included a DIY cardboard 3 bit computer in four editions in 1980. It was powered by a marble and gravity and it included QA cards, like “What shall we eat? followed by three questions (hungry? Want sweet? etc) and then on the back of the cards there were eight answers. You set the switches to left or right, put in the marble at the top and looked up the answer corresponding to the place where the marble appeared.

I was seven years old and at that moment I decided I wanted to become a computer scientist. It determined my life.

http://rene.steetskamp.nl/2015/04/