Hacker News: xiekomb

New comment by xiekomb in "Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website"

xiekomb — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:45:15 +0000

Remote Browser Isolation is interesting for several use cases. Your demo unfortunately does not work on iOS

New comment by xiekomb in "How to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account"

xiekomb — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 17:32:09 +0000

I thought it was clever not to create a Microsoft account on my laptop. Turned out bitlocker was active (by an update, I don’t know, I never activated it manually). Motherboard fails, no key backup on the Microsoft account I did not have. Backup were corrupted, some data loss occurred…

New comment by xiekomb in "Ask HN: Which websites do you use to find mid/long term remote contracts?"

xiekomb — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:12:55 +0000

Good question. When I was looking for developers I could only find freelancers interested in short term contracts.

New comment by xiekomb in "Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script"

xiekomb — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:54:39 +0000

That looks like using docker-compose ? My problem now that we switched to docker swarm is that docker compose commands are not available anymore. Need to use « docker service » or docker on the hosts and again deal with the complexity of some commands.

New comment by xiekomb in "Mitmproxy – An Interactive HTTPS Proxy"

xiekomb — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 06:55:17 +0000

With more and more websites relying on Cloudflare and similar services to fight bots can Mitmproxy still be used in such context?

I am particularly thinking about the TLS fingerprinting features of cloudflare.

New comment by xiekomb in "Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?"

xiekomb — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:11:41 +0000

I thought they used this browser extension: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

New comment by xiekomb in "Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design"

xiekomb — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:05:07 +0000

I hope sync with apple calendars will work out of the box. It’s just a pain right now (events disappearing randomly without any way to debug)

New comment by xiekomb in "On being tired"

xiekomb — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 07:24:08 +0000

Gluten can be responsible for such conditions. As many other external factors I guess. I have been reducing gluten consumption recently and kinda feel tiredness as reduced. Maybe unrelated but it cannot hurt. Also practicing sport regularly helps reducing tiredness. Human body is such a complex machine.

New comment by xiekomb in "[dead]"

xiekomb — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:49:44 +0000

Definitively AI generated article with really poor content.

No this is not an honest review… Look at the profile of Charles Ingram: a GAN generated picture and dozens of random articles published the same day all pointing to Amazon affiliates.

New comment by xiekomb in "Tell HN: Kraken customers experiencing fund withdrawal issues"

xiekomb — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:40:25 +0000

« Kraken, a U.S. Crypto Exchange, Is Suspected of Violating Sanctions »

New comment by xiekomb in "Cosmetics Giant Revlon Files for Bankruptcy"

xiekomb — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 05:55:31 +0000

And they didn’t have crypto in their balance sheet

New comment by xiekomb in "In Defence of the Single Page Application"

xiekomb — Thu, 05 May 2022 17:07:06 +0000

Not long ago coindesk.com updated their website with whatever JS framework and then behave exactly like OP joke. You had to wait nearly 15s with a loader before being able to see the front page. How is it even possible that nobody in the management and dev team realized that this was an absolute failure for a news site ?

They reverted back to some more traditional behavior some times after, but common!

New comment by xiekomb in "Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites"

xiekomb — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:12:26 +0000

Lot of different tricks. One example: just by using a Google Bot user agent some websites will let you access the full content. Sometimes working with some cookies, blocking some particular 3rd party JavaScript libs, some other are more complicated.

New comment by xiekomb in "Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me"

xiekomb — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:18:12 +0000

Ahah this! When reading the post title I was wondering if Twitter backend end (or even front end) source code had leaked. As a candidate I would give minus 1 point to the interviewer ;)

New comment by xiekomb in "Launch HN: Nyckel (YC W22) – Train and deploy ML classifiers in minutes"

xiekomb — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:55:58 +0000

Hi, exactly what I am looking for. Do you handle multiple languages for text categorization (other than English)?

New comment by xiekomb in "Gravatar allows mass collection of user info"

xiekomb — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:02:12 +0000

The json endpoint is patched but it must have been scrapped by many people since this has been published.

New comment by xiekomb in "It's time for you to install Windows Terminal"

xiekomb — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:47:37 +0000

I have had only problems with windows terminal especially regarding Font aliasing. I moved since to Tabby which does a way better job imho. https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby

New comment by xiekomb in "Shorting Bitcoin"

xiekomb — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:02:08 +0000

So many things wrong with this article. Taking a bet against bitcoin it totally legit but please don’t over simplify things or make false claims.

“No real world use” for bitcoin and other crypto currencies: ok so the goods I bought for years with bitcoin do not exist? And the trading market you are playing on are not a real world use case?

“ These practices have run rampant on every financial market in human history that hasn’t regulated against them fiercely. Why should Bitcoin be any different?”. That’s the ultimate authoritative argument. “Everybody knows”, “obviously”, etc. Please back up with facts and don’t make general claims like that.

USDT: totally agree. But then don’t trade with usdt. Bitcoin not easily convertible to cash ? Maybe you should pickup a more serious trading desk. On boarding is much more restrictive than mainstream platforms like binance but nothing is more untrue that bitcoin is not liquid. You can settle trades in USD (not USDT) instantly with a serious regulated broker.

Limitations of bitcoin: mining, fees, other. Agree, but nothing of these problems makes bitcoin an insider scam. Is there is a problem there is a solution. Who says that these shortcomings can’t be solved ?

New comment by xiekomb in "Gisgraphy – open-source geocoder based on open data"

xiekomb — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:06:16 +0000

There is also Pelias which is a very good open source geocoder: https://pelias.io

New comment by xiekomb in "How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)"

xiekomb — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:06:40 +0000

I vote for creating a « mkcd » alias !!