Hacker News: seriocomic

New comment by seriocomic in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

seriocomic — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:06:07 +0000

From an outside-US point of view, both of these links border on the satirical. The DHS one, with it's no-longer-funded/maintained banner, and the entire content, complete with the quote is just eye-brow raising.

I wonder if anyone did read through the accordian FAQs, especially this one:

> How will exit bonuses be issued to participants?

DHS is working with Project Homecoming partners on the disbursement of exit bonuses. Illegal aliens will receive the exit bonuses after they land in the country of arrival.

The delivery method will vary based on country-specific guidelines and regulations. However, no bank account is necessary for illegal aliens to receive their exit bonus. In most instances, illegal aliens will collect their exit bonus in their home country.

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Yeah, like _that_ is going to happen...

New comment by seriocomic in "US Job Market Visualizer"

seriocomic — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:33:21 +0000

Can't believe some one has already made a Australian version: https://0xtreme.github.io/aus-jobs/

New comment by seriocomic in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

seriocomic — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:58:58 +0000

I was thinking the same, but (and correct me if I'm wrong), the timezone means this is only really useful between 11pm and 5am AEST? - EDIT: yup - I _completely_ missed the "outside" of those US hours. yay!

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

seriocomic — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:42:42 +0000

Working on an all in one "platform" that runs multiple different checks on a website/domain. Got sick of having to run different checks in different places to ensure everything is at it should be - SSL, HTML, SEO, redirects etc.

Extended the checking to monitoring and change detection/alerting. You can try for free at https://www.augsentric.com - built for my own needs, but made it for others if there's interest... feedback welcome

New comment by seriocomic in "My Homelab Setup"

seriocomic — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:28:10 +0000

With AI/LLM assistants the barrier to setting up and running a homelab is so much lower - in the past 6 months I've had Claude help me completely reconfigure the (now) 5 RPis that were sitting around severely underutilized, I have 3 running Docker, some split between home stuff, production testing and a separate management layer (along with backups that were just in the too hard basket previously). Not to forget all the documentation that goes with it. Fun times!

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

seriocomic — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:34:55 +0000

What came to my mind when I saw this at 625 points and 1743 comments, was "I'd love to run all these sites through my own tool that analyses websites (for tech issues)" and comment with a link to the commentor/site-owner with their own personal link for them - sort of like a technical 'mirror'). If I don't get down-voted I might just do that...

New comment by seriocomic in "Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time"

seriocomic — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:20:00 +0000

Interesting, but not original - a simple search shows at least a dozen same/similar (better?) solutions? Anything that yours does that those don't?

New comment by seriocomic in "Orion 1.0"

seriocomic — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:47:04 +0000

I use Kagi as my daily driver on mobile, and have it constantly as my second browser (next to FF Dev) on desktop for the same reason I use Kagi Search, support of the concept. It doesn't hurt that the browser is pretty good performance and experience-wise.

New comment by seriocomic in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

seriocomic — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:51:00 +0000

More fascinating for me is this discussion thread, where there's legitimate debate around the need/expectation for alphabetical sorting to match/include lexical sorting.

I'm personally in the "want lexical as part of alphabetical" - as 'photo19' should come after 'photo2' in my expectations, but the number of cases cited where this doesn't/shouldn't work is enough to justify a degree of contextual or situation awareness that most systems and interfaces simply aren't designed to cater for (file-systems vs photo-storage applications).

New comment by seriocomic in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

seriocomic — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:53:36 +0000

Don't laugh, but in my org we have a bi-annual "Hive Week" where all Product/Tech (two sub-orgs) bring all the 'bees' home to Office Central for a week of, um, collaboration?

New comment by seriocomic in "What to do with an old iPad"

seriocomic — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:24:57 +0000

Funny how some things you were thinking about before you log-on for the morning suddenly become front-and-centre for you.

I have an old original iPad wall mounted showing an AppDaemon dashboard from my HomeAssistant. I wish the old Safari could handle a standard dashboard but alas. I even had to add a specific certificate to enable Safari to access and show things such as HTTPS feeds from my cameras.

Looking at the comments, there doesn't appear to be anyone who has solved this issue :(

New comment by seriocomic in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

seriocomic — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:56:49 +0000

I've walked the same rocky path and have the bleeding feet to show for it! My problem is that now my packaging/environment mental model is so muddled I frequently mix up the commands...

New comment by seriocomic in "Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings"

seriocomic — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:53:27 +0000

Adding my kudos to the other commenters here - the polymath skills necessary to take on something like this is remarkable as a solo effort. I was hoping for more detail on the issues found during the request/parsing at a domain/page level.

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

seriocomic — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:37:59 +0000

Almost ready to launch an all-in-one platform for solving problems I face all the time at work, with clients and my own sites.

Frustrated with running 10+ different checks on domains/websites I've built or working on with 10+ different services, I've built - with help from Claude Code - a Django app that tries to wrap all those key checks into one place. On top of that, I've built in scheduled monitoring and alerting.

It's been a great experience learning about the intricacies and nuances in different website set-ups, the complexities in avoiding false negatives, fun with CloudFlare workers, agentic coding and much more.

The site is still running off a RPi (Coolify) in my home-server behind a CF Tunnel at the moment, so won't link directly here - but ping me if you want to give it a test-run.

New comment by seriocomic in "Monitoring My Homelab, Simply"

seriocomic — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:45:33 +0000

Love this - tried it. The problem as I see it is that these still require hosting - ideally (again, as I see it) self-hosting a script that monitors internal/homelab things also requires its own monitoring.

Short of paying for a service (which somewhat goes against the grain of trying to host all your own stuff), the closest I can come up with is relying on a service outside your network that has access to your network (via a tunnel/vpn).

Given a lot of my own networking set-up (DNS/Domains/Tunnels etc) are already managed via Cloudflare, I'm thinking that using some compute at that layer to provide a monitoring service. Probably something to throw next at my new LLM developer...

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

seriocomic — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:58:09 +0000

There's a bunch, but most of it comes to the following: 1. Mis-matching declarations - e.g. a meta robots tag that conflicts with a HTTP Header x-robots-tag for example 2. Missing declarations - missing title tags, canonical tags, etc - not often critical - but not ideal either 3. Missing redirections from no-www/http - often overlooked 4. Open-graph images that 404 5. XML sitemaps that 404 or reference 404 resources 6. Mis-configured SSL/TLS headers and more...

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

seriocomic — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:49:53 +0000

Getting close to dark-launching a web-app that scans a domain for common issues - there's a heap of "performance measurement", "security analysis", "SEO scan" sites - but nothing that really does them all - a one-stop-shop if you will.

It's been a fun ride co-coding with Claude (Sonnet 3.5 > 3.7 > Code). Already it found a bunch of interesting bugs on a heap of my own sites, older employer sites, friend's sites.

Started as a simple Django web app, extended to Celery+Redis, now also leveraging CF Workers and R2 storage.

Was bourne out of an observation that some sites I have been working on missed some crucial things like domain expiration of asset-domains, mis-configured CORS or SSL certificates, http header and meta collisions, missing/wrong redirects for http/https/www/no-www etc.

New comment by seriocomic in "Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar"

seriocomic — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 04:06:15 +0000

> The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

Another #TIL for Apple hidden features

New comment by seriocomic in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

seriocomic — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:46:14 +0000

I don't think there's any disagreement about that particular aspect of what kicked this all off (in terms of being incensed about an imbalance of contributions to money being made) - it's the _way_ he went about that, _then_ all the subsequent WPDrama that unfolded (personal attacks, unilateral cancellations, removals, blockages, deletions etc) that has most people concerned.

I've been around WordPress since 2003 (since the fork from B2/Cafelog) and have watched Matt evolve over that time, make a few missteps, act/react with humility, speak conscientiously on a wide range of matters and issues. The actions of the past 12 months seem quite contrary to that established behaviour (speaking from a far perspective & never had met the man in person).

I feel sad whether this is a deliberate or unintentional (mental) path, but am confident that like the drama that created WP's popularity orignally (MoveableType), there will be a path forward for the community - it's the damage that will be done in getting there that's upsetting...

New comment by seriocomic in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

seriocomic — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:23:20 +0000

After years of lying dormant, I'm reactivating a hacky PHP script to test 'technical SEO' knowledge in the way of a challenge - more aligned to a technical web challenge, with a "SEO" bent more than anything spammy.

I've used this previously as a recruiting test in lieu of any other method to evaluate knowledge.

It's currently brittle and hosted on a RPi in my garage. It also requires a name + email to prevent spamming (and certification if successful), but once I've built some way of moderating access it will be more open.

Happy for HN users to have a go as long as load allows: https://cryptex.site/