Hacker News: smalltorch

New comment by smalltorch in "IPFS Maintainers Winding Down"

smalltorch — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:44:39 +0000

isn't it brand new?

New comment by smalltorch in "A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it"

smalltorch — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:32:11 +0000

Getting any sort of signal from a mic all the way inside a building whilst your outside it is wild.

New comment by smalltorch in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

smalltorch — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:14:02 +0000

Surely they have the high quality scans, but there would probably be the same legal restrictions to just share the archive.

New comment by smalltorch in "Spotify Soloist, official terminal client for headless and DIY setups"

smalltorch — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:42:14 +0000

Neat, anyone tried it?

New comment by smalltorch in "Stripe says "the singularity" has begun"

smalltorch — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:51:25 +0000

What exactly does that even mean?

New comment by smalltorch in "Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:42:30 +0000

Trashcan was a nice touch

New comment by smalltorch in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:01:25 +0000

I like it.

Just one cell.

Heck, you could probably make a little program for HN to use the about box as the service and achieve the same thing.

New comment by smalltorch in "Ask HN: Should we regulate first party ads?"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:15 +0000

Yeah but it's just a luxury service and you can do all the same things cheaper without any app at all?

I'm fine with regulation, but specifically services are kinda self regulating. Do you not agree?

I can get behind regulating the monetization of public data for private gain. That's completely out of hand.

New comment by smalltorch in "Ask HN: Should we regulate first party ads?"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:40:55 +0000

Just don't use it if you don't like it.

Why do you need it so bad?

You can still have food delivered without an app, and get rides.

New comment by smalltorch in "Chess in a box. [X,Y,Z]"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:28:38 +0000

It's hard to play this game of chess. The rules of movement are hard to fathom after playing lots of regular chess.

New comment by smalltorch in "Coin size device can hack Boeing airplanes"

smalltorch — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:12:39 +0000

>“There’s a plug deep in the ‘E and E’ bay,” Schulman said. “If you open the door and get inside, you can then touch [it] from the ground. “If you attach something to that plug, it actually gives you full control over this entire flight management computer.”

New comment by smalltorch in "The Origin of Consciousness (2008)"

smalltorch — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:59:23 +0000

Apparently you don't need much brain to be conscious. This boy was born with 2% of a brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKelkdfi25k

I think of it when someone tries to explain it. Perplexing!

New comment by smalltorch in "Tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associates devices with cars"

smalltorch — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:16:07 +0000

Thats really powerful technology.

New comment by smalltorch in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

smalltorch — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:27:34 +0000

>Email can't really change much. The protocol is too old. It would be better if we came up with new protocols that solve the email messaging problems and then gradually wean ourselves off email rather than trying to "fix" email.

I completely agree with this.

New comment by smalltorch in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

smalltorch — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:51:37 +0000

On the other hand, I'm working on a prototype to completely throw away conventional email. Creating a system where you can simply spin your own physical mail box and node, and reach others at their unique address.

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/tmail

New comment by smalltorch in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

smalltorch — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:21:18 +0000

Thanks for the reference

New comment by smalltorch in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

smalltorch — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:46:09 +0000

There's a code block option. I thought that would be useful too. Is that what you mean?

https://i.postimg.cc/0yKXWSbg/IMG-20260815-113546.jpg

Yeah follow along I still have alot of testing and polishing to complete before I call it v1.

No license on yet either. Still pondering that as well.

New comment by smalltorch in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

smalltorch — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:04:02 +0000

I'm pretty sure you dropped a comment a while back about mailing systems. Finally got around to making my ideal prototype.

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/tmail/-/raw/main/tmail3.pn...

Show HN: Tmail – The Mailbox You Own

smalltorch — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:19:14 +0000

Access locally or remotely with authenticated service. Encrypt your communications E2E by publishing your PGP key to your node.

Minimal distraction free UI.

Optional 2FA access for additional security.

Host on linux, macOS, or termux

Find it here!

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/tmail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304043

Points: 3

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New comment by smalltorch in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

smalltorch — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:26:50 +0000

This is different, what would be the purpose of having two falcons on one pole. One pointed at the driver, one at the license plate?

They are all over the interstate in my area now. It's to see who's driving obviously, no? These cameras are top of the line with great resolution.