Hacker News: ubershmekel

New comment by ubershmekel in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

ubershmekel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:25:21 +0000

I'm building something that isn't necessarily more secure than vercel, but it is self hosted. I think in the future personal vps family clouds are going to be a lot more common because of these cloud-level attacks and costs.

Show HN: I made a shell with AI suggestions – Caroushell

ubershmekel — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:56:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ubershmekel/caroushell

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075899

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Release Date DB

ubershmekel — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:18:32 +0000

I made this mostly for myself, but I imagine it could be useful for others. Do y'all have any projects you'd like listed there? Any smarter ways to visualize these timelines to help predict future release dates?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817819

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: The news in the last 30, 14, 7, 3, or 1 days

ubershmekel — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:54:21 +0000

I made this for when I come back from vacation and want to catch up on news. It's a bit of a simplistic LLM transformation on headlines and URLs that I store from RSS feeds. So it bugs out sometimes. But I think it might be useful to me. You can check out some of the prompts in the "debug" links. What do you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43065708

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

Google Surveys Sunset

ubershmekel — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/surveys/answer/12626240?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32918915

Points: 88

# Comments: 52

Show HN: Celebrate - pop some confetti

ubershmekel — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:15:01 +0000

Article URL: https://ubershmekel.github.io/celebrate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937125

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubershmekel in "New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML"

ubershmekel — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:07:46 +0000

I wrote a bit about this about a year ago: https://blog.usejournal.com/the-next-css-frontier-classless-...

Definitely got me Zen Garden vibes.

New comment by ubershmekel in "Show HN: Internet Leaderboard, see what's winning the game of likes"

ubershmekel — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:34:36 +0000

Thank you :) fair point. I'll add filtering by domain, and then maybe by hash tags. Though it might be tricky to identify the category across different sites.

Show HN: Internet Leaderboard, see what's winning the game of likes

ubershmekel — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:10:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.internetleaderboard.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569511

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Show HN: WebCard – make and share simple cards (I use it as a business card)

ubershmekel — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ubershmekel.github.io/webcard/?background=%23fa6501&color=%23fff&fontSize=3vw&text=Hackernews%2C%20%0AThis%20could%20be%20your%20business%20card.%0AModify%20it%2C%20bookmark%20it.%0ALet%20others%20snap%20a%20picture.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542921

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubershmekel in "Show HN: Query and skim through Reddit, Twitter and YouTube"

ubershmekel — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:21:29 +0000

Any feedback would be most welcome!

Show HN: Query and skim through Reddit, Twitter and YouTube

ubershmekel — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:21:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tagsyo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051064

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Lyft Level 5 AV Dataset 2019 – 41GB of Camera and Lidar

ubershmekel — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:50:01 +0000

Article URL: https://level5.lyft.com/dataset/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536712

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubershmekel in "I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today"

ubershmekel — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:34:41 +0000

> This person is so convinced that they are a good developer that they refuse to take direction or ask questions

While I agree a coding exercise is valuable - this is the actual problem. The way I test for that humility is by asking "tell me about a time you personally did a poor job." I then follow up by asking for a time they identified a failure of a colleague. I look to see if they're empathetical, open to being wrong, and declaring they're always trying to improve.

New comment by ubershmekel in "People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge"

ubershmekel — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:35:58 +0000

I learned this lesson from the videos of the Harvard course on justice. The lecturer got explanations that I thought at the time were laughable, but somehow in his response he rephrased them to be reasonable and a great platform to deepen the conversation. It requires a great deal of empathy and intelligence to do that and I try my darndest to read as much sense as possible from any question directed my way. Here's an example:

https://youtu.be/kBdfcR-8hEY?t=2446

The Next CSS Frontier – Classless

ubershmekel — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 06:07:41 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ubershmekel/the-next-css-frontier-classless-5e66f3f25fdd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612209

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

CSS Bed – class-less CSS gallery

ubershmekel — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:19:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cssbed.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19595731

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubershmekel in "Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer"

ubershmekel — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:14:53 +0000

That's a good idea. Sort of like the good old css zen garden, but with simple, not ugly, css resets.

Here's my attempt: https://www.cssbed.com/

Feel free to add options at https://github.com/ubershmekel/cssbed

New comment by ubershmekel in "FoundationDB Record Layer"

ubershmekel — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 04:19:41 +0000

I'm sure they're good, but better is better.

New comment by ubershmekel in "Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week"

ubershmekel — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:24:16 +0000

I felt wrapping added a strategic depth for me to explore and a positive sensation of "outsmarting" the red block.