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New comment by shrinks99 in "Show HN: Things to Do API"

shrinks99 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:38:52 +0000

Personally, I don't have a project that requires it right now, but aspirationally maybe! I agree with another commenter that mentioned this is basically a public service that should exist similar to Wikidata / Musicbrainz.

I know this is currently a paid service you're trying to make happen and the scraping part is a reasonable amount of effort, but if you wanted to make the data source public, you could publish community.lexicon.calendar.event ATProto records and it would be very cool. At the very least, you could ingest it as a data source!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Show HN: Things to Do API"

shrinks99 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:15:48 +0000

This is pretty cool, does it scrape Instagram? A lot of events where I live (Toronto) are posted there and not many other places. It's a real problem if you don't want to spend time on that app.

New comment by shrinks99 in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

shrinks99 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:13:18 +0000

I walked away with _mostly_ the opposite impression. They have a specific tone of voice! I think that's good.

I've yet to see any company match the copy writing skills of Valve though.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

shrinks99 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:29:05 +0000

Very cool! Did you consider Protomaps for the map tile format at all? It's a pretty clever way of storing everything in a single file and their tooling is pretty nice.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Restroom Archive"

shrinks99 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:01:08 +0000

What are you talking about, this IS a nice thing!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

shrinks99 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:45:35 +0000

Firefox's extension support is far superior to Safari's, cross-platform support, and I really don't want to use Edge for the same reasons I don't want to use Chrome.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Llama.cpp v0.1.0"

shrinks99 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:31:13 +0000

That's really encouraging news, the per-commit versioning has been tricky to follow. Happy to see it!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

shrinks99 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:30:16 +0000

If you're like me and also wondered "huh, what's tinygrad up to?" apparently they now let you place $100,000 USD pre-orders on a $10M shipping container full of GPUs which they say will ship (literally it seems) in 2027.

New comment by shrinks99 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

shrinks99 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:48:46 +0000

As somebody who is also terrible at remembering names, I also used to think this but ever since I saw this idea taken to its logical extreme by some students a few years ago I've become significantly more resistant to it: https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]"

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:08:49 +0000

For anyone reading the thread, they did do this! Had a nice call with James too, which I appreciate.

It looks like the situation is actually more complex and interesting than "The registry rug-pulled me". My .sexy domain price was increased by the owners of .sexy (to $3000) since I bought it 6 years ago BUT in Hover's system it was supposed to retain the legacy price of $38 as it had for the past few years. Something went wrong between Hover and the registry where the legacy price wasn't honoured and as such, it bumped to $3000 on renewal. Apparently support really flubbed this one and we both agreed that going the "post on HN" route for customer service isn't exactly a win on their part.

The money has been refunded and I've been assured they're looking into the bug. Will probably do a follow up blog post!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]"

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:03:27 +0000

Heh yeah, I've recently had another site succumb to the same thing (that domain wasn't managed by me). I've long accepted that domains are kind of a racket, but haven't actually been on the losing end of the money until now!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]"

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:55:01 +0000

Yeah, I already transferred everything else to Cloudflare in advance of this so that part should be taken care of.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]"

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:18:50 +0000

The domain renewal cost in their dashboard is notably right back to $38 too!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]"

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:51:31 +0000

Arguably yeah! The issue I have seems to mostly be with Uniregistry (aside from the fact that Hover takes a cut of the transaction).

...But I'm also not a Uniregistry customer, I'm a Hover customer. Do I have any recourse with the TLD owner?

Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]

shrinks99 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:46:28 +0000

I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is SFW). This year I got an email stating that, like all prior years, the domain would auto-renew at $38 in seven days and didn't think anything of the next two emails also notifying me that the domain would auto-renew.

It would seem that I very much SHOULD have paid attention to those next two emails, because in both the three and one day renewal emails the price changed from $38 to $3000. Needless to say, I was surprised when I was billed $3k USD (plus tax).

After contacting Hover's customer support, they told me that there was nothing that they could do about this and they have a no refund policy because "Hover does not have the ability to override or reverse pricing set by the registry. Premium domain pricing, including renewal costs, is determined by the registry, and they may adjust those prices over time. Once a renewal has been processed, we are charged that fee immediately by the registry, and those charges are non-refundable to us."

So according to Hover, the .sexy registry (Uniregistry) sets prices as it sees fit, decided to jack up the renewal cost at the last minute because they can, and there's simply nothing they or I can do about it. Has anyone here experienced anything similar?

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New comment by shrinks99 in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

shrinks99 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:48:13 +0000

8 Nvidia B200s. Crazy from an individual perspective, costly for a small business!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

shrinks99 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:40:58 +0000

The Library of Congress runs Webrecorder's Python Wayback for their web archive replay and has an extensive collection of over 35,000 web archives each comprising multiple pages: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/01/beta-release-of-libr...

New comment by shrinks99 in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

shrinks99 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:10:58 +0000

Pretty cool! I've also been playing around with GLM 5.2 this week and was equally impressed. At work we're running it locally on some crazy expensive hardware as a test before starting another project so it's great to see people taking this massive FOSS model release and running it on an average machine, even if it's not terribly practical at this point.

Nice work!

New comment by shrinks99 in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

shrinks99 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:43:54 +0000

I prefer CoMaps' tile styling, they did a bunch of updates to it early on to differentiate it from OrganicMaps, IMO it's much nicer.

CoMaps also has a better system for distributing map data now which isn't bound to app updates. Not sure if this has made its way back to the other app, but it's quite nice.

New comment by shrinks99 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

shrinks99 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:30:26 +0000

I've been using GLM 5.2 a lot this past week, it's been replacing Opus 4.8. I mostly do front-end web development and haven't noticed much of a quality difference.

Sure, "it's just frontend", but that's actual use enough for me to take it seriously.