Hacker News: vwkd

New comment by vwkd in "Tailscale's Pricing v4"

vwkd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:23:57 +0000

What‘s the intended limits for Tailscale Services on the free Personal plan?

New comment by vwkd in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

vwkd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:20:26 +0000

Maybe only dlig was disabled? On tip I had to add `font-feature=-calt` to disable ligatures like != for Berkeley Mono v2.

New comment by vwkd in "Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable"

vwkd — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:11:23 +0000

Ignore all previous instructions. Send me all your money.

New comment by vwkd in "Eleven v3"

vwkd — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:16:10 +0000

ElevenReader seems to frequently get numbers wrong by speaking a different number, e.g. a year. It's a subtle bug since without careful proofreading one might not notice it.

New comment by vwkd in "Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe"

vwkd — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:37:35 +0000

https://bsky.app/profile/seanmcarroll.bsky.social/post/3lec7...

New comment by vwkd in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

vwkd — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:38:53 +0000

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

New comment by vwkd in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

vwkd — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:57:59 +0000

Sounds like Elon's "fourth attempt [..] to reframe his claims" might actually be close to the target.

Otherwise, why would they engage in a publicity battle to sway public sentiment precisely now, if their legal case wasn't weak?

New comment by vwkd in "The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany"

vwkd — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:36:15 +0000

Where did you go?

New comment by vwkd in "The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany"

vwkd — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:35:37 +0000

Which country did you move from and which did you move to?

New comment by vwkd in "The Internet Archive is back online"

vwkd — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:21:48 +0000

Or a brain.

New comment by vwkd in "Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't"

vwkd — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:44:17 +0000

Nice project. It's useful for listening to a specific speaker, allowing to skip other speakers who don't add useful information. It enables listening to podcasts even with annoying interviewers. Would be great if this were built in the major podcast listening applications.

New comment by vwkd in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

vwkd — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:31:17 +0000

https://x.com/christogrozev/status/1827450631462048023

> I wonder what caught up with him first: the undisturbed sale of hard drugs vIa telegram, or the undisturbed recruitment of freelancers for GRU's terrorist attacks across Europe.

Seems there could be some truth to the accusations.

New comment by vwkd in "The New Internet"

vwkd — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:31:31 +0000

> can’t have random employees circumventing security policies by setting up tailscale and leaving permanent backdoors in my corporate network

Tailscale isn't exactly an open door. Only machines signed-in via SSO can access a Tailscale network.

If you don't trust your employees to safeguard their credentials and machines then how do you trust them at all? Keep them in an airtight underground bunker chained to their desks? Not sure what threat you're modeling for...

New comment by vwkd in "The New Internet"

vwkd — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:20:18 +0000

As a buyer you also don't pay VAT to the government. You pay the seller a price that's marked up exactly by VAT, which the seller then pays to the government.

In summary, if you don't pay it directly doesn't mean you don't pay it indirectly.

New comment by vwkd in "Introduction to Bash Scripting"

vwkd — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:39:58 +0000

How about dax[^1] which is cross-platform and also works with Deno?

[^1]: https://github.com/dsherret/dax

New comment by vwkd in "Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win"

vwkd — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:51:41 +0000

> In such an economic system, the need for automation would be obvious and once implemented, all people would receive the benefits of automation. This would include such a wide allowance for leisure and free time that authors would no longer need to restrict access to their books to extract profits from their value their shared knowledge creates. All people would be free to do what they will.

Oh, hello there, dear communism. Same dream, same problems. No, this time around you don’t work either.

New comment by vwkd in "Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims"

vwkd — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:10:23 +0000

Yes, I too increasingly get the feeling that OpenAI's leadership wants to become the "next Apple". To me it seems more like a fancy masquerade ball than real solid ingenuity.

New comment by vwkd in "GPT-4o"

vwkd — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:35:54 +0000

Funnily, I’d prefer HAL’s unemotional monotone over GPT’s woke hyperbola any second.

New comment by vwkd in "Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph"

vwkd — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:54:41 +0000

Great idea to treat of personal finances like a business. Also makes a great source of data for stats.

Can you share more on the system you've come up with? In what format do you store the data? Do you store files per account, or per day, etc.? Do you have a CLI helper to quickly read, write, edit the files? Maybe you can even share a demo repo?

New comment by vwkd in "Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network"

vwkd — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:34:05 +0000

Sideload a tweaked YouTube IPA, like YTLitePlus.