emn4tor
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Posted by
emn4tor on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey yall, so I've kinda started understanding why people tend to hate on AI, I found myself in a situation where I would stop thinking myself, I stopped evaluating whether my issue could be fixed by just using my damn brain. So I just wanted to stop for a few months, just see what will happen. Tho my biggest issue now: I am a Full-Stack Dev and of course I could again write my code 100% myself,...
Posted by
emn4tor on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:29AM
from the self-post dept.
Hey yall, so I've kinda started understanding why people tend to hate on AI, I found myself in a situation where I would stop thinking myself, I stopped evaluating whether my issue could be fixed by just using my damn brain. So I just wanted to stop for a few months, just see what will happen. Tho my biggest issue now: I am a Full-Stack Dev and of course I could again write my code 100% myself,...
Posted by
emn4tor on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey HN, so I got a few friends that completely hate on AI, which I partially get, AI-Art is taking jobs and looks ugly, but what is too much for you and how much AI do y'all use? Id like to understand the people that hate on AI, but most of the time their arguments are water usage, tho they all eat meat and buy new clothes which can be read about here...
Posted by
emn4tor on Saturday August 15, 2026 @05:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey HN, I know this might sound sus lol, but I'd like to learn more about cyber security and today I've managed to build an arp spoofer today which cuts off network for anyone but the host (me), tho a deauth attack script seems to be more of an effort and I couldn't find anything on GitHub, any ideas or links?
Hey HN, I've recently released the first version of my anonymous p2p, end-to-end encrypted Chat-Messanger Seal, its basically Discord but without any of your data being stored anywhere, the only thing ever reaching a server, is your public id linked with your username and due to technical limitations we also have a relay set up which will be used if the user is behind a NAT, or Firewall.
Feel free to check out all the features in the readme. :)
Thanks a lot, will check them out ;)
Posted by
emn4tor on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:35PM
from the self-post dept.
Hey HN, Id like to learn more about cybersecurity and wanna test around a bit, ive used tool like net cut a lot a few years ago to troll my brother when he was using all the bandwidth, but id like to actually learn how it works and how those tools do stuff.
Does anyone have links to good guides or wanna share their own knowledge?
It depends, it can be... But tbh just set up a cronjob (auto repeating task) that refreshes your ssl certificate via certbot and you should be good to go. The initial setup might that a few hours of tinkering, but once you've made it you can easily have a mail server for $1-3. If you really don't wanna fully self host you can buy a Plesk workspace for like 99ct-5$ which allows emails, websites and databases
Posted by
emn4tor on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I really like using Claude for writing docs, sum up texts or search causes of big logical bugs that would take hours to debug, tho I hate the fact that you don't know how many tokens you have left, what the actual limit is etc. They just give you a damn percentage that tells nothing, id like something that is first of all cheaper, has the same or better thinking and just actually tells me my...
Just no. The EU literally just passed regulations requiring AI-generated content to be clearly labeled, and youre out here trying to make the internet even more sloppy and untrustworthy than it already is, cool project....
This is actually a pretty cool project, thanks for sharing :)
Posted by
emn4tor on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Is this even something people want?
A friend and I built a fully secure p2p end-to-end encrypted chat messenger with groups 1:1 chats and calls, every message is fully encrypted and sent directly to the other person.
The only backend existing is a directory server which lists users by their public id (the fingerprint of a Ed25519/Curve25519 keypair) and name. There is also a relay which is only...
As iyamani said this aint Stack Overflow, but:
Either check if pip exists via py exec. (python -m pip install package_name)
or bootstrap pip using ensure pip (python -m ensurepip --default-pip)
Last option would be cloning from source and running python setup.py install
Really interesting idea, had fun testing - tho tbh it gets repetitive and slow after a few minutes, power ups or other ways to interact with player would be cool.
Fastmail natively supports JMAP, is pretty cheap ($3-5). I always like selfhosting either at home, or using a cheap VPS - iRedMail, MailCow etc.
I don't think so, its being reinvented, due to the massive AI boom, people can easily create 'their own' tools, tho ive realized building your own software needs updates, fixes, patches etc. which take a lot of time. So no, people try around but in the end most of them go back to the bought tools
Posted by
emn4tor on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:04AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/Emn4tor/Seal
Hey y'all, I've built a completely free open-source p2p Messanger in my free-time. Most 'private' messengers still rely on central server infrastructure to queue and hold messages in an inbox - that makes it a target for metadata or message collection.With Seal there is NO Server-Side Inbox: Every Message directly travels from peer to peer via libp2p.
Every Message is 'sealed' using Olm (1:1)...
Interesting, tho I gotta ask how much of it is done by ai/what role AI played in this project, because Claude even added itself as co-author lol. Will check it out later
Checked it out, looks extremely cool, couldn't move in the beta playtest, will bookmark and check again later :)
Ohhh, that is such a cool project
Posted by
emn4tor on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey HN, I was wondering what projects you've finished that made you think that you actually made something really cool. I'm looking for some revolutionary, or just cool REPOs or tools I can check out, lemme see them :)
that's such a cool project and congrats on that article, looks nice. Good luck on your game-dev path :)
Oh that sounds too extremely cool, have a 5yo brother, will definitely show this to him, wish you all the best on your journey :)
I'm currently working on an open-source End-to-End Encrypted P2P Chat-Platform similar to matrix but with the thinnest backend possible, the backend is a a simple directory server + relay, nothing more you can find more about it in the readme on GitHub :)
https://github.com/Emn4tor/Seal
On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut, even tho Premiere is great, it's Adobe so meh. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too
Ive been reading a lot of docs and not gonna lie it can be interesting just reading how a matrix works exactly for 3 hours straight. Ive read an article about how chopsticks where made, just those random informations you will never need again lol
I am moving further away from just telling an AI to 'fix' something, instead ive started using it for docs and codebase analysis that runs while I code myself.
Yes definitely, I don't even see a single positive reason why they should be allowed to lie. Ive seen a lot of scams lately with AI's being used myself and it's scary how real they sound in tone etc. So a big YES from me
Im lowkey trying out everything, I'm not really good at anything but I'd say drawing, music production and book writing are all awesome. I always say 'Being decent in a lot of different things is way cooler than being the best at ...'