Hacker News: tharos47

New comment by tharos47 in "Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project"

tharos47 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:31:29 +0000

If you like old maps you can check the french maps with historical layers (17xx, 1880, 1950, today) :

https://cartes.gouv.fr/explorer-les-cartes/

you can add and remove layers by clicking on the map icon on the top right.

New comment by tharos47 in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

tharos47 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:32:27 +0000

Weird text was already deemed acceptable by microsoft in their documentation as they machine translated most screenshots instead of recreating them in different locales, leading to the same problems as this image.

New comment by tharos47 in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

tharos47 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:33:31 +0000

Do you have the code for your book library ? I wanted to do something similar to help me remember the books I read in a year too.

New comment by tharos47 in "Adventures in upgrading Proxmox"

tharos47 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:59:06 +0000

It should in an ideal world but docker is a very leaky abstraction imho and you will run into a number of problems.

It has improved as of newer kernel and docker versions but they were problems (overlayfs/zfs incompatibilities/ uid mapping problems in docker images/ capabilities requested by docker not available in LXC, rootless docker problems,...)

New comment by tharos47 in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

tharos47 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:16:02 +0000

I use ctrl+R for search that way I'm not dependent of a terminal emulator features and can get to work even on random computers.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-rev...

New comment by tharos47 in "What to expect from Debian/Trixie"

tharos47 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:01:16 +0000

It was done in Ubuntu a few versions ago. Afaik only the listening port config is ignored and instead is setup in systemd

New comment by tharos47 in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

tharos47 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:51:14 +0000

Here is american Express "secure email" documentation : https://www.americanexpress.com/us/customer-service/secure-e...

I've mistakenly deleted from our mail quarantine multiple times as spam/phishing. Imho it's wilful négligence toynkeep such a system operating in 2025.

New comment by tharos47 in "Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative"

tharos47 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 07:31:23 +0000

I have (re)installed it recently and I can't find the apps backup. The only backup that seems to run in settings is the coolify instance backup.

Moreover I don't see a way to restore a coolify hosted app from the gui (couldn't find one in the doc too). The documentation around traefik and caddy is lackink a bit. It seems they want you to expose the coolify server directly on the internet. I prefer to host my services behind a cloudflare tunnel and it was a bit janky to setup.

It's low maintenance and stable and certainly has come a long way since I tried it about 2 years ago but there is still many improvements to make.

New comment by tharos47 in "Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account"

tharos47 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:39:00 +0000

The simplest way imho would be to use Windows configuration designer. It generates a file that automate windows oobe when put on a USB key connected to the pc during setup.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/prov...

New comment by tharos47 in "Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)"

tharos47 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 07:12:10 +0000

How do you handle backups ? I recently setup coolify and installed the included WordPress. WordPress was broken by a failed module install, I wanted to restore a backup and didn't find a way to backup only one service/stack.

Compared to simply docker compose isolated in a vm/lxc container it was not a particularly better experience.

I also wanted to use cloudflare tunnels instead of exposing the server on the internet and it seems coolify really prefers to work directly on the internet (lacking reverse proxy doc, ...)

New comment by tharos47 in "Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?"

tharos47 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:20:40 +0000

Afaik they do but only for low system ressource usage. Anecdotally I had my test free instance culled years ago. But later I deployed a minecraft server (higher baseline ram+cpu use than a web server or small app) and they never culled it (3+ years uptime until a friend reminded me of the server and I updated/restarted it)

New comment by tharos47 in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

tharos47 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:44:54 +0000

You should use "Multi account containers" instead of profiles in firefox. It's like profiles in chrome/edge but it works by tab instead.

New comment by tharos47 in "Ask HN: Recommend me some silent movies"

tharos47 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:44:37 +0000

There is a 2024 restoration of Napoléon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film) ).

It's quite long (I think 7h in it's restored version) but it's a masterpiece with many innovative techniques and huge budget for the time.

I don't know how you can watch it legally unfortunately but it was aired in France on TV at the end of summer early september iirc and released in some theather (in 2 parts) this summer.

New comment by tharos47 in "New Mac Mini with M4"

tharos47 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:59:53 +0000

IMHO it's not as NUC style mini PCs with x86-64 CPUs from AMD and intel are really cheap and the 256Gb storage is way too small making the "real" price $200 higher for any sort of moderate usage.

New comment by tharos47 in "Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features"

tharos47 — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:24:03 +0000

You should check out this project (https://kyber.media/) by the man behind VLC and ex CTO of a cloud streaming (JB Kempf). It also uses QUIC for transport and VLC/ffmpeg for fast encoding. Unfortunately it's not launched yet AFAIK.

Brief slide in english : https://conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/147/attachments/7...

More detailed overview (in french) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVgvBulXcDA&t=3368s

New comment by tharos47 in "Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS"

tharos47 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:17:41 +0000

You can use paged.js (https://pagedjs.org/) it's a polyfill for CSS Paged Media to generate good PDFs with modern HTML/CSS.

New comment by tharos47 in "Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo"

tharos47 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:16:13 +0000

What are you offering that's different from already existing solutions like Moodle or Opigno[1]?

For example with Opigno you can already build an open-source based education platform with content authoring with H5P[2] (HTML-5 based interactive content)

I've used Opigno LMS in the past, it's Drupal based so it's easy to deploy/maintain and basically have all features you advertise. Schools especially may use a learning platform for 10+ years, at least when authoring with H5P they are not stuck in a single platform anymore. What's your solution for this problem?

The loss of flash left a lot of courses or interactive learning content unusable, that's a mistake I hope new platforms don't repeat.

[1] https://www.opigno.org/

[2] https://h5p.org/

New comment by tharos47 in "What is in that .git directory?"

tharos47 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:21:38 +0000

I can recommend git-filter-repo instead, it's relatively recent and there is a lot of outdated info on the internet about cleaning git repos. The --analyse flag will generate a report about files in your repo even if they were deleted. I used it to cleanup a number of repo and it helped in detecting large files commited by mistake 10 years ago. The history rewrite removed the files and we didn't need to create a new repo (old history still works fine).

New comment by tharos47 in "Tailscale vs. Narrowlink"

tharos47 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:34:45 +0000

You can disable key expiration for the machine via the web UI.

New comment by tharos47 in "Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers"

tharos47 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:06:06 +0000

Just in case someone at deno is monitoring HN comments there is a typo in the third link resulting in a 404 : https://deno.com/manualruntime/web_platform_apis should probably be https://deno.com/manual/runtime/web_platform_apis