Hacker News: timando

New comment by timando in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

timando — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:24:30 +0000

I don't see any cars racing in the Melbourne Cup.

New comment by timando in "Don't push AI down our throats"

timando — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:27:44 +0000

What product should I buy if I need a smartphone to e.g. pay for parking but I don't want a smartphone that tracks me?

New comment by timando in "A $1k AWS mistake"

timando — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:15:51 +0000

Turn off S3 requests, but keep the data.

New comment by timando in "A $1k AWS mistake"

timando — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:11:31 +0000

2 caps: 1 for things that are charged for existing (e.g. S3 storage, RDS, EBS, EC2 instances) and 1 for things that are charged when you use them (e.g. bandwidth, lambda, S3 requests). Fail to create new things (e.g. S3 uploads) when the first cap is met.

New comment by timando in "UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)"

timando — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:20:59 +0000

Why does it use version 4 instead of version 8? Version 4 implies that it's random bits, but it's actually not random. Version 8 doesn't imply anything about what the bits mean.

New comment by timando in "How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail"

timando — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:13:28 +0000

I'm thinking something like a switch on the side to switch between slow, fast, and using the app.

New comment by timando in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

timando — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:48:24 +0000

Some way to simulate a slow CPU

New comment by timando in "MS Paint IDE"

timando — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:10:50 +0000

It automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.

New comment by timando in "Is the world really running out of sand?"

timando — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:04:58 +0000

You don't need to construct sand by induction. Just notice that snow has the right particle size to be considered sand.

New comment by timando in "How to Make HTTPS Verifiable"

timando — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:27:39 +0000

Their email server likely signs their emails using DKIM.

New comment by timando in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

timando — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 01:20:44 +0000

The problem is if one channel only uploads once a month and another channel uploads twice a day, I will see many videos from the frequent upload channels and might miss the infrequent uploads. If it was just a list of channels with their most recent video I'd see a new thumbnail and know to check that channel for any new videos.

New comment by timando in "8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler"

timando — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:16:43 +0000

Can you use the ELVM backend to compile Emacs into Vim script?

New comment by timando in "Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap"

timando — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:32:18 +0000

Iterate through /proc//fd and check for the pipe id in the symlink target.

New comment by timando in "Anonymous public voicemail inbox"

timando — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:09:30 +0000

Whisper can transcribe/translate non-english speech to english text

New comment by timando in "YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI"

timando — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:50:28 +0000

Point a camera at a monitor showing AI generated video and you now have signed video of AI content.

New comment by timando in "When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished"

timando — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:46:23 +0000

> Not to mention if your threat model includes attacker has hacked the server and added javascript, why doesn't the attacker just take over the server directly?

If the attacker can only hack the server that hosts your SPA, but not your API server, they can inject javascript to it, but can't do a lot beyond that

New comment by timando in "File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images"

timando — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:41:05 +0000

"S3" is often used to refer to any S3 compatible object storage system. You can even self-host it with something like MinIO.

New comment by timando in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

timando — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:50:28 +0000

I weighed 4 sunflower seeds and got 170mg.

New comment by timando in "Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale"

timando — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:21:50 +0000

I have no idea what a gigabit per siemens is supposed to mean.

New comment by timando in "PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database"

timando — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:19:11 +0000

You can use SET ROLE to become another user you have permission to become (I think you need to be in the same group or something) and RESET ROLE to go back to your original user. If the initial connection was made with a superuser or whatever, you could change to the user in the connection manager and reset when the connection goes back in the pool.