Hacker News: treve

New comment by treve in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"

treve — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:18:51 +0000

I just installed Proxmox for the first time with a 5 disk ZFS array. Very basic stuff but I already had to go to the CLI a few times and it didn't really feel that well integrated. Even setting up the array didn't work (non-descript -1 error message, and ended up needed to use -f on the cli). I also couldn't find a zfs create equivalent (but that could have been me?)

It's fine because I'm comfortable in the CLI but I read your comment and wanted to share that it felt a bit rudimentary at best.

Show HN: Burrow, a Gopher browser/proxy written in JavaScript

treve — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:43:38 +0000

Article URL: https://burrow.din.gy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481307

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by treve in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

treve — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:05:34 +0000

Laws in the US aren't taken as literal as in civil law systems. The intent and precedent is what carries much more weight in the end. Graph calculators are unlikely to be tested in court because it's irrelevant with respect to what this law is trying to accomplish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

I often see laws discussed here and people finding some edge case and presenting this as a gotcha. The reality is that it's unlikely to matter.

New comment by treve in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

treve — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:59:40 +0000

Public services don't need to be 'economical'

New comment by treve in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

treve — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:14:44 +0000

It's wild this is what you took from that, but no. My issue was with the word 'Hype'. Would you call windows Hype because it's bigger?

New comment by treve in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

treve — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:46:35 +0000

Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The vast majority of current Linux Desktop users are on Wayland, and X11 is phased out across the board. Calling it hype is absurd.

New comment by treve in "What came first: the CNAME or the A record?"

treve — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:26:36 +0000

Good modern protocols will explicitly define extension points, so 'ingoring unknown JSON keys' is in-spec rather than assumed that an implementer will do.

New comment by treve in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

treve — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:11:27 +0000

it's nice to be able to use https locally if you're doing things with HTTP/2 specifically.

Phased Package Installations

treve — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/vlt-build

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984814

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by treve in "Project Euler"

treve — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:33:10 +0000

Nobody is interested in AI commentary.

New comment by treve in " Htmx – The Fetch()ening"

treve — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:57:41 +0000

or 'cascade' ?

New comment by treve in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

treve — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:21:16 +0000

I replaced all my Dropbox uses with SyncThing (and love it). I run an instance on my server at all times and on every client.

New comment by treve in "HTTPS by default"

treve — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:41:25 +0000

If you think about it the spirit of the internet is based on collaboration with other parties. If you want no third parties, there's always file: and localhost.

New comment by treve in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

treve — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:58:51 +0000

Yeah I would argue that it's possible to do it well with Backbone, and you end up with something much leaner but it requires a really strong understanding of state/event flow and lot of discipline, whereas with React the correct way to handle this is the 'obvious' path, which dramatically lowers the barrier to entry.

New comment by treve in "Technical experts have zero customers"

treve — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:02:33 +0000

A good engineer is not a perfectionist, but they're not callous either. It's knowing when to make the trade-off, or at least making an informed guess.

New comment by treve in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

treve — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:16:28 +0000

I don't think you'll find many recommendations for key lengths under 128 bits / 16 bytes these days.

New comment by treve in "Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi"

treve — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:44:17 +0000

For me they are weirdly hard to obtain. Don't show up in second hand shops. Ebay shipping is prohibitively expensive.

New comment by treve in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

treve — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:07:07 +0000

There's 2 cases being discussed. A UUIDv7 is a bad secret, but it's fine for many other ids. If I can guess your user id, it shouldn't really matter because your business logic should prevent me from doing anything with that information. If I can guess your password reset token it's a different story because I don't need anything else beyond that token to do damage.

New comment by treve in "ImapGoose"

treve — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:03:31 +0000

Looks great! Curious what the author and others use for local maildir email reading.

New comment by treve in "Why is everything so scalable?"

treve — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:12:32 +0000

A bit of an alternative take on this, but I talk to a lot of folks at small start-ups (in Toronto, if that matters), but it seems like most people actually get this right and understand not to bring in complexity until later. Things like microservices seems like they are mostly understood as a tool that's not really meant to solve a real scalibility problem and is massive liability early on.

The exceptions are usually just inexperienced people at the helm. My feeling is, hire someone with adequate experience and this is likely not an issue.

I do think architecture astronauts tend to talk a lot more about their houses of cards, which makes it seem like these set ups are more popular than they are.