Hacker News: stanac

New comment by stanac in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

stanac — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:31:27 +0000

I am just confirming that CAPTCHA still works against most basic bots.

New comment by stanac in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

stanac — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:24:39 +0000

I added custom captcha (simple math as slightly distorted pictures with audio alternative) on one of my forms, it prevents ~80% of spam submissions. less than 1% of spam passes, other ~20% are blocked on key words (like "sex", "passion", etc...).

New comment by stanac in "Show HN: Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game"

stanac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:31:24 +0000

It's interesting, couple of things you can fix/change:

1. It's annoying to be asked to provide username every time I complete a level. Can you simply remember my previous choice? Instead something like next level button would be my preference.

2. Tab works until it stops working, it will switch between game elements and then at one point it will focus on buttons (firefox, windows).

New comment by stanac in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

stanac — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:02:43 +0000

So is local stack dead? Is this situation the lesser evil? Or is it not dead and we will see a villain rise?

Edit: I see now, they have commercial offerings: https://www.localstack.cloud/pricing

I am not sure if my corp will be willing to pay or tell us to find something else, but I use it everyday, our integration tests depend on local stack.

New comment by stanac in "Migrating to the EU"

stanac — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:40:00 +0000

Also IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer. If you really want to guard yourself from a legal standpoint, write the full sentence. "IANAL" could mean anything.

That being said, I am not a lawyer, I am not a legal professional, this is not a legal advice.

New comment by stanac in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

stanac — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:44:10 +0000

> If Photoshop ran in the cloud

Off topic, but there is something like that: photopea, it's free and it's good enough for my use cases (I need it once a year maybe).

New comment by stanac in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

stanac — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:34:23 +0000

> The goal of specs is largely to maintain desired functionality over many iterations, something that pure code handles poorly.

IMHO this could be achieved with large set of tests, but the problem is if you prompt an agent to fix tests, you can't be sure it won't "fix the test". Or implement something just to make the test pass without looking at a larger picture.

New comment by stanac in "Java 26 is here"

stanac — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:53:30 +0000

After ~13 years of working with C#, I moved to Kotlin. It's such a beautiful language. When I have to read docs for a Java lib I realize why I like Kotlin.

I want to say culture around Java doesn't have to change, new culture is growing around succinctness (if not simplicity) of Kotlin, and it gets most of the benefits of Java ecosystem.

New comment by stanac in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

stanac — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:19:19 +0000

It's probably the only program I despise, but need. I want to use small button under the wheel as middle click (I have short fingers), and until now, the only way to do it is/was to use logi options+. LO+ updater will get stuck on update every couple of months and while it's updating my button configuration doesn't work. Solution? kill process, uninstall, reinstall and hope it will not get stuck again any time soon.

I have to test Mauser.

While I am here, can anyone recommend good alternative mouse with both smooth/quick and precision scroll like logitech's? Back and forth buttons are also a must for me, horizontal scroll optional. Ideally a mouse would save configuration onto itself, so I don't have rely on garbage software like LO+.

New comment by stanac in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

stanac — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:11:58 +0000

It's probably just element without "controls" attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

> controls

> If this attribute is present, the browser will offer controls to allow the user to control video playback, including volume, seeking, and pause/resume playback.

Edit: I misunderstood, you are asking

> how they'd managed to hide the video context menu

Not sure, but it works in FF for me

New comment by stanac in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

stanac — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:54:40 +0000

Caning is really extreme. I watch a documentary on it. Punished person would avoid going to toilet (#2) for days because of how painful it is. They would not eat anything to prevent #2.

New comment by stanac in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

stanac — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:02:06 +0000

AI written driver could be a rip off Linux driver.

New comment by stanac in "Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia"

stanac — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:47:42 +0000

It doesn't have to be consumer hardware to be economically viable. I can imagine something like this replacing or complementing tape storage at data centers. We already have hard drives filled with gas for dust-proofing. For archival storage it does not have to be fast (in terms of latency) it just needs to be reliable with high data density.

Hard drives where the size of a car decades ago, we could now have archival storage of the same physical size that can hold petabytes (just guessing, didn't do the actual math).

New comment by stanac in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

stanac — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:04:08 +0000

Yes, same, also FF, but it was working an hour or two ago.

edit: https://archive.ph/fiCKE

New comment by stanac in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

stanac — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:21:28 +0000

They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. There is a repo on GH with powershell scripts for activating windows/office and they let it sit there. Just checked, repo has 165K stars.

This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.

New comment by stanac in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

stanac — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:32:08 +0000

There is PeerTube for video content.

New comment by stanac in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

stanac — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:09:21 +0000

One minute latency? Sound like worse experience than dial-up.

New comment by stanac in "Internet Archive's Storage"

stanac — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:48:00 +0000

Yandex had a data center in Finland,, not sure if it's still operational. It was heating 1500 homes with 4 MW.

https://www.euroheat.org/dhc/knowledge-hub/datacentre-suppli...

New comment by stanac in "What happened to WebAssembly"

stanac — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:06:48 +0000

Anyone knows why docker is dropping wasm workloads? I never heard of anyone using it, I thought it was because wasi hasn't reached "1.0" yet, so ecosystem is still small.

Wasm and wasi are very promising, as stated in the article, it's safe/isolated by default, it can target different hardware and almost any popular language (in theory) can be compiled to wasm. It sounds perfect on paper. It's quick to start (quicker than docker). Maybe it will be replacement/supplement for lambda-esque type of workloads.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/features/wasm/

New comment by stanac in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

stanac — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:52:05 +0000

You cant reliably store secrets in tpm and expect it to work after an os update. Windows is using workarounds during windows update to avoid breaking bitlocker.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...