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Re:Hey linker, can you spare a meg? on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:00PM (#50311216)
(2021)
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:08PM (#50025979)
I'm more thinking of "Deno (the company) lost interest/faith in Deno (the runtime), so they were looking for an out". They like working with runtimes, so Cloudflare is probably a good choice.

I guess this is why so much core staff left suddenly some months ago.

I read somewhere that a common thing in text written by LLMs is, in their sentences, putting inanimate objects in the active position.
Re:Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:45AM (#49608482)
I'd only add the Safari Pinned Tabs `meta` tag (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...), which had you define a simple black and white SVG. This image would get used when a user pinned your tab in Safari, in color when active and black when inactive.
Re:Audacity 4.0 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:13AM (#49549533)
It was using wxWidgets, not GTK directly IIRC
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:42PM (#49234991)
I’ve been gearing up for launching Todone, a CLI / GitHub Action that can scan comments with URLs to GitHub issues, Figma comments, or browser support pages, and more (plugin system available); and open an issue when the issue or comment is resolved, or your target browser has that feature, etc

It’s still in flux and a bit slow as I have to juggle it with my day job, but pretty excited to launch it once it’s good enough for a 1.0!

https://github.com/todone-run/todone

Re:More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:40AM (#49094117)
I knew this was the case, but I did a couple of stopovers in China earlier this year when flying to/from Japan, and using Tailscale to connect through my local homelab worked perfectly.
I think FIFA has been doing blatant bribery for much longer than just this World Cup.
Re:Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:32PM (#47447304)
- Easy OIDC - Generally improve the file manager addon - ncdu-like addon - interface to create simple systemd services - more visibility into which commands you can run to do the same thing
Server is down :(
Re:Updating the Verge's Background Policy on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:24PM (#47067261)
(2021)
I think proxyman
Re:The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:40AM (#46300873)
I was talking specifically of macOS Intel runners. The sibling comment from the founder confirmed they don't have them.
Re:The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:29PM (#46293978)
I checked the WarpBuild website and got excited because the header in the menu says you have macOS Intel runners, but then you click through and it doesn't seem to be so?

Right now at my company our biggest complaint are macOS Intel runners from GitHub which somehow take 15+ minutes to provision and are the slowest of the bunch.

Re:Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:38AM (#46285801)
That was an interesting read, thanks! Two questions:

- What is the problem with stale certificates if a domain changes hands? It seems to me that whether they renew the certificate or not, the security situation for the user is still the same, no?

- Is CertKit a similar solution to Anchor Relay? (https://anchor.dev/relay)

Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:42AM (#45769686)
I'm disappointed to see so many negative responses to such a good thing to do. I understand where it's coming from, the distrust on progressively de-empowering freemium apps. But if there was a product to gain some trust (or at least the benefit of the doubt) on doing the right thing, and having a fair and balanced approach to monetization, it is Affinity. Same thing they've been doing for years.

I for one, think this is a really nice thing, and that it gives access to really well-made and actual professional-level design tools to a huge swath of people who didn't have it before, be it for personal use or for work. No previously included feature is now part of the subscription, and they've made sure to say they'll be free forever. I see this as a huge win.

I think most of this are being done in the moment, without advanced warning. Plus, some ISPs carry soccer in their TV offerings so they’re probably not benefiting from speaking out. At least, my ISP does replace the blocked website with a notice explicitly stating that this is the result of a judicial ruling in favor of LaLiga
The ISPs are compelled by judicial order to take down whatever LaLiga tells them to, and LaLiga is telling them to block the entire IP range. They can’t not do it.
Yep, this was a huge hassle for me, I didn't realize it would happen!

Another option is to do `ssh -L 32400:localhost:32400 <your-plex-address>` and connect to http://localhost:32400/web, it will let you claim the server as it detects the connection being local.

Re:Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:07PM (#44934953)
IIRC there was this service called Tunlr which offered VPN-like location spoofing with similar DNS tricks.
Re:Anthropic rejects the main developer of the library they use on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:56AM (#44809061)
I was thinking about this the other day. I think it might just be a thing of Google looking for a different thing than what made his open source project famous.

Without no knowledge of the details further than mxcl's tweet; probably any performance issues even on simple code, get infinitely multiplied when running at Google's scale, slogging the thing, on Google's dime. From what I've seen of him, mxcl is good at designing a really approachable product, and on running an open source project. But homebrew is really slow, even on the latests Macs, even for basic cases.

To me it seems then that he'd be more fit for a product owner/manager position than an engineering one, and that could be the root of his not-hiring.

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