Hacker News: vladkens

New comment by vladkens in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

vladkens — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:36:11 +0000

Actually, my problem is not really with NPM itself or the fact that it can be hacked, but with the damn auto-update policy of software – as users we usually have no idea which versions are installed, and there is even no way to roll back to a safe version.

All these Chrome, VSCode, Discord, Electron-apps, browser extensions, etc – they all update ± every week, and I can't even tell what features are being added. For comparison, Sublime updates once a YEAR and I'm totally fine with that.

New comment by vladkens in "Don't guess my language"

vladkens — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:19:23 +0000

Totally agree. Who can send this article to Google?

New comment by vladkens in "Don't guess my language"

vladkens — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:10:31 +0000

Honestly, I don't even know what you're talking about – I don't have anything like that. Maybe it can be changed in the settings?

New comment by vladkens in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

vladkens — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:00:43 +0000

I agree that there are too many dependencies in Rust. I support the idea of adding some of the more popular crates to std. Many applications use something like tracing, tracing-subscriber, and basic server/client functionality. It would be great to have simple, minimal-feature implementations of these in std — similar to how Go does it. If someone needs a more complex system, they can still use an external crate, but having basic building blocks in std would really help.

New comment by vladkens in "Show HN: Tgfeed – convert public Telegram channels into RSS or Atom feeds"

vladkens — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:32:23 +0000

You can read any public Telegram feed in your web browser at the URL: t.me/s/CHANNEL_NAME. So far it doesn't look like a problem with scrappe telegram feeds now. Unlike Reddit / X.

New comment by vladkens in "Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps"

vladkens — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:16:12 +0000

Great idea! Quick and easy link previewing is super useful.

New comment by vladkens in "Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1"

vladkens — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:21:18 +0000

RIP Docker Hub.

New comment by vladkens in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

vladkens — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:59:00 +0000

Pricing page looks completely same with Plausible. But prices is less which is good

New comment by vladkens in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

vladkens — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:21:13 +0000

Tested `ollama run deepseek-r1:8b` myself. Give plus minus same results, also uncensored. So this is the filter in the online version.

New comment by vladkens in "Lightpanda – The Headless Browser"

vladkens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:20:44 +0000

Hi. The project looks promising. Haven't tested it yet, but I want to try it together with Playwright to speed up tests in CI and some scrapping tools. I will keep an eye on the project. Best of luck to you!

Lightpanda – The Headless Browser

vladkens — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:02:56 +0000

Article URL: https://lightpanda.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42745150

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by vladkens in "Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers"

vladkens — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:43:46 +0000

Site looks fresh. At now there are free slots to publish projects, so I added my as well.

Good look!

New comment by vladkens in "Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]"

vladkens — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:37:32 +0000

Content distribution services are so "convenient" that it's easier to get everything in one place on a pirate torrent, LOL.

New comment by vladkens in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

vladkens — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:26:19 +0000

Hi. The blog looks good. A few things to make it better:

1) You can use watchexec https://watchexec.github.io/ to live reload during development. 2) Also, please add a clickable image preview (you can use this lib for example https://github.com/francoischalifour/medium-zoom) 3) No commenting feature, luckily I found your post here on HN. But it would be better to have comment blocks, like from https://giscus.app/ or just a link where readers can comment. 4) No RSS feed. I'd like to subscribe to your updates, but there is no such option right now. RSS is one of the points why site generators are used for static blogs (e.g. Hugo, Zola, Astro, etc.)

New comment by vladkens in "Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?"

vladkens — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:55:13 +0000

I just blog as personal tech notes to remember how to do something, or to share with coworkers. And I do reposts manually on Medium / Dev.to / X to attract more viewers. Medium actually pretty good with that.

Faster multi-arch Docker build for Rust projects

vladkens — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 04:37:01 +0000

Article URL: https://vnotes.pages.dev/fast-multi-arch-docker-for-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747761

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vladkens in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

vladkens — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:50:43 +0000

Hi. I've been working on this open-source projects last time:

ghstats[1] - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)

macmon[2] - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)

ecloop[3] - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)

[1] https://github.com/vladkens/ghstats

[2] https://github.com/vladkens/macmon

[3] https://github.com/vladkens/ecloop

Show HN: I made a self-hosted GitHub traffic dashboard

vladkens — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:46:54 +0000

Hi HN! I'm excited to introduce ghstats – a self-hosted dashboard for Github traffic history longer than 14 days.

Github has a great traffic feature that allows you to see why a repo went viral (or just where people are finding it), but this data is only stored for the last 14 days. I wanted to keep this data for a longer period and have the ability to view it all in one place.

This service is currently a basic version. It can be installed on a home server from a Docker image and uses only 5 MB of memory.

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167182

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Sudoless asitop alternative – CLI perf monitor for Apple Silicon

vladkens — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:23:09 +0000

Hi. Would be happy to announce macmon, a sudoless tool for monitoring the performance of Apple Silicon processors. The program uses a private Apple API to get current metrics (just like the build-in powermetrics tool does) but does not require root privileges.

Useful to use together with local LLM models to see what is currently loaded (CPU / GPU / NPU aka ANE). Or in any other tasks where is necessary to see the current load of the system.

I will be glad to get feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vladkens in "Show HN: iAmAgile – another planning poker, but clean and with a pinch of fun"

vladkens — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:25:12 +0000

Hi. Have not been using poker for scheduling work in my team lately, but the site looks nice. Added it to bookmarks.

Good luck!