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New comment by thexa4 in "Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?"

thexa4 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:18:17 +0000

I am running local models but noticed that Copilot didn't work with them correctly. To fix that I made a llama copilot extension that fixes some problems like Copilot throwing away thinking traces: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=delft-so...

Getting pretty good results now with the Qwen models on my mac.

New comment by thexa4 in "Can I run AI locally?"

thexa4 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:28:47 +0000

I've created a llama.cpp integration with Copilot in vscode. The extension readme contains setup instructions: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=delft-so...

New comment by thexa4 in "Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity"

thexa4 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:17:37 +0000

If anyone else runs into this, it's very easy to set up an ssh proxy: ssh -D 8080 user@hostname

Once that connection is set up, point your browser to use localhost:8080 as a socks proxy.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: What have you built this year that you are proud of?"

thexa4 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:55:53 +0000

I made a mac screensaver that paints your screen based on Game of Life: https://github.com/DelftSolutions/ConwayWatercolor

Don't be smart and use web standards

thexa4 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:58:29 +0000

Article URL: https://derk-jan.com/articles/2022/12/16/dont-be-smart-and-use-web-standards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573523

Points: 2

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New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?"

thexa4 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:30:30 +0000

I've backed up a forum[1] by crawling it using wget and creating a WARC file.

I hosted it again by writing a python script[2] to serve responses from that WARC file again and put it behind nginx with caching enabled.

[1] https://forums.empiresmod.com/index.php

[2] https://gitlab.com/thexa4/warc-server

[2, deb package] https://gitlab.com/thexa4/warc-server/-/jobs/5213679726/arti...

New comment by thexa4 in "Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future"

thexa4 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:57:11 +0000

I've reported a similar issue on mac where it gets slower over time [1]. I hope it gets fixed at some point.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799681

New comment by thexa4 in "Any way to improve email as a standard in a backwards compatible manner?"

thexa4 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:09:17 +0000

You can add another format to the multipart/alternative container. Just like html emails often have a text fallback. It requires picking a Content-Type name (application/vnd..something) but then you can attach any additional metadata you want: https://kevinjmcmahon.net/articles/html-and-plain-text-multi...

The hard bit is getting email clients to use your information.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: Is anyone not using containers in production nowadays?"

thexa4 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:49:52 +0000

We standardized on debian packages for configuration management and code deploys. The packages are built during CI and then either pushed directly to the desired machine using ssh or published on our own debian package repository.

New comment by thexa4 in "Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app"

thexa4 — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:56:32 +0000

If that works you can probably encode the ics as a data url and link that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

New comment by thexa4 in "Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera"

thexa4 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 11:29:32 +0000

Instead of ice cubes you can also use frozen coffee cubes, it prevents dillution.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: The nitty gritty details of game matchmaking?"

thexa4 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:15:05 +0000

I've personally used trueskill for n-n team balancing: https://trueskill.org/

I haven't had enough players to actually have enough data / joining players to actually tune those parameters. If I did though I would store joining data and try out different strategies offline using gradient descent / grid search.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: How to store large amounts of data on paper with QR code like tech?"

thexa4 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:23:07 +0000

I made a small script to securely backup and restore some important files: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/ocrbackup

Data density isn't great though (especially with the added redundancy) but it's enough for things like a password manager file.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: How could you effectively collaborate with non-vcs users?"

thexa4 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:06:02 +0000

You can create your own repo and also do a `git init` in the dropbox folder. Then configure both to point to each other as remotes. (`git remote add dropbox /path/to/dropbox`)

When merging stuff, make a commit if needed on the dropbox repo and merge in your changes. Then pull from your personal repo from the dropbox one.

New comment by thexa4 in "Hetzner appears to impose unlisted “fair use” on traffic"

thexa4 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:21:59 +0000

They did have traffic caps a while back but explicitly abolished them.

New comment by thexa4 in "Round a direction vector to an 8-way compass"

thexa4 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:31:12 +0000

Taking the dot product of the [x,y] with the 8 directions and picking the one with the largest magnitude might be faster in some cases.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects?"

thexa4 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:16:34 +0000

I've spent way too much time implementing a transpiler and bash like shell that makes programming my ships in Kerbal Space Program easier. The self-hosted version is almost done. I'd probably do it again though, way too much fun to see your spaceships autonomously do things.

Transpiler: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kos-kpp

OS: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/kosos

New comment by thexa4 in "DreamHost shared server cannot disable logging IP addresses"

thexa4 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:10:03 +0000

You can set up a cronjob to run hourly to remove logfiles using `crontab -e`. That would achieve almost the same effect.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: What's been the best usage for QR code apart from restaurants menus?"

thexa4 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:42:41 +0000

Sorry, you're right. I switched it out.

New comment by thexa4 in "Ask HN: What's been the best usage for QR code apart from restaurants menus?"

thexa4 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 10:25:47 +0000

I've made a tool to back up my important files on paper using QR codes and erasure coding: https://gitlab.com/thexa4/ocrbackup