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Re:Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:26AM (#45667478)
I'm sorry it didn't resonate with you. The accusation of vibe coding is a bit discouraging, but I don't feel the need to prove anything. I built this in my spare time and shared it in case it's useful to others.

Some of the most helpful code I've used in my career started out as quick scripts or pastebin snippets.

Yes, I used AI to help with the documentation, but I also put in time to edit it and make sure it clearly explains the concept.

Show HN: Sneak Link – Share links from Nextcloud, Immich, without full exposure

https://github.com/felixandersen/sneak-link

Hi HN!I've built Sneak Link to solve a common selfhosting problem: securely sharing content from internal services like NextCloud, Immich, or Paperless without exposing the entire service to the internet.Sneak Link works by using the share link itself as a kind of "knock", similar to old school port knocking. When someone accesses the link, Sneak Link verifies it with the backend service (e.g....

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Re:Nintendo Almost Made a Knitting Add-On for NES on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @06:45AM (#4473960)
Reminds me of us tuning mopeds back in the day.

The Aprilia SR50 Ditech with direct injection had an ECU that was limitied to make it's power output street legal. Our finest moment was when we got our hands on a debug cable for that ECU. You connected it to an outlet on the moped. The other end had a GameBoy cartridge that went into your GameBoy.

Removing the limit on the ECU would of course have been illegal. Let's just say that we could have done that if we wanted to...

Re:Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:38PM (#4429822)
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Re:Idiomatic-css on Saturday June 09, 2012 @07:59PM (#4089714)
I agree. If a selector has enough rulesets to justify a wrap I usually let the first line be positioning rules, second box-model rules and third color rules and so on. I find that I am much more productive this way VS following the guidelines that idiomatic CSS proposes.