Hacker News: worksonmine

New comment by worksonmine in "Using XDG-Compliant Config Files (2024)"

worksonmine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:21:40 +0000

Great for apps, terrible for people. It's much simpler to sync setups across machines with plain files than databases.

New comment by worksonmine in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

worksonmine — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:17:15 +0000

I'm not OP but probably the licensing drama. Gitea is now open core if I remember correctly. Some details are available here[1]. I also used to run Gitea, but I don't any more. The open-source churn is getting tedious and difficult to keep up with.

[1]: https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

New comment by worksonmine in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

worksonmine — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:13:24 +0000

How portable do you need it to be? I use pass[1] and it is good. Just a shell script wrapper to gpg and the passwords are encrypted files you can backup and sync anyway you want.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

New comment by worksonmine in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

worksonmine — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:41:26 +0000

There are more secure alternatives. Are you sure those you listed actually use it on the servers? I would guess that at least Spotify and Netflix uses some other container runtime than Docker on their production servers.

For a long time Docker was helpful and opened exposed ports on the firewall. So you wanted to access your redis ports locally and exposed it on the container? Now everything in there is accessible on the open internet.

I believe they've fixed it but I haven't used Docker in years so I wouldn't know.

New comment by worksonmine in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

worksonmine — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:38:22 +0000

I think plugins is the better solution, then you can't pay the browser to get your ads through.

New comment by worksonmine in "PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux"

worksonmine — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:50:48 +0000

Cool project, but they should really upgrade at least the downloads to https...

New comment by worksonmine in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

worksonmine — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:18:01 +0000

This would break so many websites. There are valid uses for the history API, I often do modals/popups as shareable URLs, and using the back button closes it.

New comment by worksonmine in "Reading Is Magic"

worksonmine — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:02:30 +0000

There's a (very) big difference between reading weekly and reading a book in the past 12 months. I used to read a book or two in the past 12 months, back then it was on vacation to have something to do while lounging on the beach. Today I read a book every month and it's something I do instead of watching TV. I would not call my younger self a reader.

New comment by worksonmine in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

worksonmine — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:14:09 +0000

Interesting choice to change the time of the comment, a deja-vu can be weird enough without staring at a comment with a recent timestamp.

New comment by worksonmine in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

worksonmine — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:32:27 +0000

Didn't know about this project, looks useful. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, FAKKU.

New comment by worksonmine in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

worksonmine — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:12:04 +0000

> Why even use else if with return...

What is the problem with that? How would you write that snippet? It is common in the new functional js landscape, even if it is pass-by-ref.

New comment by worksonmine in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

worksonmine — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:01:02 +0000

They are amazing tools, but when people try to give them agency someone has to explain it in simple terms.

New comment by worksonmine in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

worksonmine — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:40:37 +0000

It doesn't try to do anything. It doesn't work like that. It regurgitates the most likely tokens found in the training set.

New comment by worksonmine in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

worksonmine — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:24:13 +0000

Hey! How can I make this about LLMs?

(Many countries' laws are already available online and included in the dataset they're trained on. The project is very cool for humans though.)

New comment by worksonmine in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

worksonmine — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:28:58 +0000

> Those are opt-out. The entire discussion is about opt-in.

Depends on your perspective, to me you have them flipped, and enabling them is "opt-in", i.e: "now I would like to see the hidden files please".

But I don't think I misunderstood you. You're telling me I should prefer hidden files to be the default, and I disagree and give my arguments. It's not more complicated than that.

To me rg only follows the same principle as the rest of my tools, fd requires `-H/--hidden`, ls `-a` or `-A` and so on. It is a big reason to why I prefer rg and fd over grep and find. Which brings us back to your first comment:

>> You started using it because it had that capability I imagine, not because it is the default.

New comment by worksonmine in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

worksonmine — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:24:33 +0000

And if you set `set editing-mode vi` in ~/.inputrc (readline configuration) you'll have it in even more places.

New comment by worksonmine in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

worksonmine — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:14:59 +0000

What is it like to be this proud of not learning the tools you use? Do you really think several paragraphs to an agent that may or may not be correct is the "easy" way compared to just checking the manual for the flag you want?

I will never understand people like you.

New comment by worksonmine in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

worksonmine — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:55:31 +0000

I use very short aliases with fallbacks to standard tools if ripgrep/fd/bat/... isn't installed. For my use searching files in `.gitignore` is useless 9/10 times, why would I want that to be default?

> Or if it came with a short flag that could work too

It does, `-.` for hidden and `-u` for hidden + ignored.

New comment by worksonmine in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

worksonmine — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:31:34 +0000

Or just don't install every package on the earth. The only supply-chain attack I've been affected by is xz, and I don't think anyone was safe from that one. Your solution wouldn't have caught it.

Better to enforce good security standards than cripple the ecosystem.

New comment by worksonmine in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

worksonmine — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:16:01 +0000

No, because it was default.

> You could easily just alias a command with the right flag if the capability was opt-in.

I tried a search to make grep ignore .gitignore because `--exclude=...` got tedious and there was ripgrep to answer my prayers.

Maintaining an alias would be more work than just `rg 'regex' .venv` (which is tab-completed after `.v`) the few times I'm looking for something in there. I like to keep my aliases clean and not have to use rg-all to turn off the setting I turned on. Like in your case, `alias rg='rg -u'`, now how do you turn it off?