Hacker News: skrtskrt

New comment by skrtskrt in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

skrtskrt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:25:05 +0000

Love the idea of someone tackling this space in Rust, but please just make a normal UI, I have no idea what I am looking at.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

skrtskrt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:23:33 +0000

The article is paywalled, so I cannot tell if they mention the link to PFAS/PFOS: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...

New comment by skrtskrt in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"

skrtskrt — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:25:55 +0000

It’s sort of like a leftist publication for leftists that have never read anything and don’t base anything in any economics or theory or historical context and just do unresearched reactionary “capitalism bad” stuff.

I do not know any actual leftists that take it seriously it mostly just serves to embarrass everyone.

New comment by skrtskrt in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

skrtskrt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:54:28 +0000

I would like to know how these are on XCode - would love to have the cheapest/most lightweight possible way to build iOS apps (derived from some cross-platform builder like Expo/Lynx/Dioxus) since I have no other use for MacOS.

Looking at tech specs, it seems like the one with 512GB drive might be serviceable. I have a very old 256GB Air and I struggle to keep enough drive space open to have XCode installed on it.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

skrtskrt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:36:49 +0000

Agreed, I left Fastmail for Proton and am very happy with it. It improves/changes in fits and starts sometimes, but support is always great and overall I am happy with the usability, direction, pricing, etc.

I do wish ProtonMail handled labels/folders as one unified model like GMail does, it's so much simpler and more ergonomic. But I imagine hoping for a data model change like that is probably a pipe dream.

New comment by skrtskrt in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

skrtskrt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:10:22 +0000

Kagi is still by far the best results for me, particularly for engineering content and worth every dollar.

DuckDuckGo results are even more frustrating than the currently-terrible version of Google for finding good information IMO.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

skrtskrt — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:23:38 +0000

I also love the ability to prioritize domains.

I push docs.rs up because otherwise I often get the crates.io page which I never want.

And I push GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg sites up so I get actual repos instead of product pages.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

skrtskrt — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:11:12 +0000

You can also duplicate RFIDs with like a $5 scanner from Amazon (which is probably overpriced).

New comment by skrtskrt in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

skrtskrt — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:36:12 +0000

This will probably get buried but here’s my shot at a feature or extension request:

The Daily Note.

It’s the only extension I use in Obsidian. I love opening my phone (or on desktop on any platform) and automatically getting a templated note with some of my daily ToDos as a checklist: stretching, exercises, language practice, etc. With a space for adding that day’s one-off ToDos ad priorities.

It’s the sole reason I use Obsidian over anything else - and happily pay for the sync service.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

skrtskrt — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:37:36 +0000

The common issue with PDFs is that e-readers generally have terrible support for them.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

skrtskrt — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:59:41 +0000

The actual cost is shrinkage from general human accounting mistakes and all the extra time it takes to manage.

I worked at the gym in college and we sold like one item a day and it was still a whole bunch of work and pain to keep up on the cash counts correct.

I definitely believe that all businesses should take cash as much as is reasonable, but logistically it is understandable why some choose not to

New comment by skrtskrt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

skrtskrt — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:01:47 +0000

It would be nice to get a backlight and no touchscreen.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

skrtskrt — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:59:05 +0000

Some mixed reports on this, but supposedly they are only putting an (easily-bypassed) firmware on the devices sold to the Chinese domestic market.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

skrtskrt — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:57:20 +0000

You could say this about endless devices. Ricoh GR: Why buy this camera that fits in your pocket when a bigger more expensive one with more features that doesn’t fit in your pocket exists?

Well because people like it better!

New comment by skrtskrt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

skrtskrt — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:54:58 +0000

CrossInk is much more popular than this fork AFAICT from the Reddit discussions.

New comment by skrtskrt in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

skrtskrt — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:21:55 +0000

You can literally plug the Better Auth libraries into a little Node server and run it as a separate auth server for free, forever, same as if you used a Django or Rails deployment for that purpose.

That’s all it takes to not use their cloud at all.

New comment by skrtskrt in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

skrtskrt — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:17:50 +0000

Cookie management and CSRF stuff harder to get right, hashing passwords is completely trivial with and library.

And the cookies are not difficult on a technical level, you just have to spend time understanding the threat models and mapping those models correctly onto your own app.

New comment by skrtskrt in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

skrtskrt — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:38:37 +0000

Well no, the result is they still make a lot of software it’s just really bad

New comment by skrtskrt in "OpenWarp"

skrtskrt — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:51:29 +0000

I mean here are just a few of the issues re: the founding https://hackernoon.com/the-case-against-rocky-linux

If you’re “pretty tuned in” you would at least know that all this founder & foundation fluff is a load of corporate PR BS.

I was also referring to them shipping broken releases early on and them fighting with users about it instead of fixing and figuring out why they were publishing broken garbage.

New comment by skrtskrt in "At Protocol: Building the Social Internet"

skrtskrt — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:55:06 +0000

Try reading the actual ATProto docs they are a million times worse