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Re:Proton goes all in on using AI on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:41PM (#50298423)
Andy Yen himself mentions "Tuta": https://tuta.com/en/secure-email
historea.org is available.

It sounds like history, storage and ethereal at the same time.

Re:DeCloudflare on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:42PM (#49666942)
> strips SSL from every connection before passing it onto origins

What do you mean? You definitely can serve with TLS end-to-end with CF, it's called Full (strict) mode, or something like that.

Re:ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:25AM (#49407928)
So true. IMO, (web) aesthetic went downhill after that, with web2.0 rounded corners and then mobile friendly minimalism.
Re:c100 on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:03PM (#49390955)
Wait, what's the ruler that can stay over any open program, in the demo video?*

Is it coming from another project or is it built-in?

I also like the multi-modal scratchpad on the bottom half of the screen.

Edit: ok this is not a distro in the classical sense.

Edit 2: call me perv. but I'd love to see the back of the box where all the connectors are.

* link: https://customer-i8ks9tgi5lkllj0i.cloudflarestream.com/c60aa...

Re:Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:30PM (#49337190)
Check out `git init --bare`.

You can basically self-host your repos on a cheap VPS. I did that some time ago. You'll have to create a ssh user that has only 'git' as a shell, iirc, on that box. Works okay. But doesn't provide a web ui.

I think that's where https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb becomes handy.

Re:Sonic Pi v5 Released on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:09PM (#49246627)
Is there any (somewhat) known artist who uses Sonic Pi in their actual work?
Re:Staging patches with Git add -p on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:07PM (#49104256)
and also for `git reset`, when you added one thing by mistake.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:01PM (#49029699)
I would not be so quick to judge. Book are better consumed actively than passively. To me it hints on a desire to absorb what's being read. i.e. a thirst for knowledge that is weighed above material possession.
Re:Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025) on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:24PM (#48999737)
What are the advantages of running Kubernetes on a single node versus not using kubernetes at all (which seems simpler to me).
Re:Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:22AM (#48748380)
And for some non-geoblocked music, if you want to actually purchase the song as MP3, there's no way unless you have a Mac or Windows PC to install iTunes (too bad for Linux users).

https://uk.7digital.com/ has a lot of songs available in MP3 format, but not as many as on iTunes.

Killing human fetuses is also bad.
Re:How to talk to anyone and why you should on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:01PM (#47226965)
The most difficult thing is to break the ice.

Once this is done, everything feels easy. The trick is to have a rough idea of what you'll say and just take the plunge. And practice.

We all fear rejection. Once you get past that fear, you realise most people are reasonable human beings just like you.

If you're curious about the topic, I recommend the book Rejection Proof, by Jia Jiang.

Re:Level S4 solar radiation event on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:21AM (#46692092)
Might be a coincidence but for the first time last night, my son's sleep projector[0] didn't stop after 1h like it does normally.

I guess this could be related to it? (we are in Montreal)

I doubt these toys are protected from those kinds of events.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Settle-Sleep-Projection-...

Re:A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:15PM (#45904751)
You so perfectly verbalized the semiotics behind those stickers.
Re:Language Support for Marginalia Search on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:21AM (#45656187)
I remember asking you for this, so Thank you so much! It works quite well from what I can see.

Small UI issue: on Desktop, the left sidebar should be scrollable, because now on Firefox I can't reach the "Language" menu item in the search results view, unless I zoom-out.

I'm curious what is specific to Phoenix that made this so productive for that project? Is the frontend using something like HTMX?
Re:Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @08:14AM (#45515301)
This cargo seem to give magical superpowers.
Re:The YAML Document from Hell on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:21AM (#45347437)
We'd need a "YAML, the good parts".
Re:Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:53AM (#45262299)
> there's this trend of purego implementations which usually aim towards zero dependencies besides the stdlib and golang.org/x.

I'm interested in knowing whether there's something intrinsic to Go that encourages such a culture.

IMO, it might be due to the fact that Go mod came rather late in the game, while NPM was introduced near the beginning of NodeJS. But it might be more related to Go's target audience being more low-level, where such tools are less ubiquitous?

https://vention.io :

1. Design some machinery online with their 3d modeling tool

2. Order the parts

3. Assemble your machine and deploy it

It's just a troll (although not valid in this context) counter-argument to the saying above.
What's wrong about filtering before saving, is that if you forget about one rule, you have to go back and re-filter already-saved data in the db (with some one-off script).

I think "normally" we should instead filter for XSS injections when we generate the DOM tree, or just before (such as passing backend data to the frontend, if that makes more sense).

Re:Nobody Cares on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:11PM (#42720164)
I used to feel the same before having a kid.

Nowadays, the scope of what I can care about is drastically reduced. But one area where I don't allow care to be dissolved (apart from my family) is the work I do.

I had to leave a job where co-workers wouldn't care and it was about to influence my own level of care by the end.

Re:Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:06PM (#42660228)
Her biography on Elon Musk is also pretty good as far as depicting someone who did hard things. I was quite impressed by his tenacity.
Re:FaSTer Atari ST Digital Magazine – By Paul Lefebvre on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:32AM (#42215182)
Seeing the articles penned by "Alain Plouffe", "André Lafrenière" and "Serge Vaillancourt" makes me realize they were _french_ canadians.

Funny to imagine a clique of – old like my parents – québécois geeking out about Atari computers and making a floppy zine about it.

So far, I find Ansible Vault to be good enough for this (when using Ansible at least): https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.ht...

You still have to "manage" the vaults' passwords, though.

Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Thursday September 12, 2024 @06:17PM (#41526223)
I see this pattern coming where we're still able to say:

"It's not AGI - it's X, driven by Y-driven heuristics",

but that's going to effectively be an AGI if given enough compute/time/data.

Being able to describe the theory of how it's doing its thing sure is reassuring though.

Good point. But is there an oligopoly in the Canadian real estate market though?

I assume the premise of Project Hammer is that transparency applied on the food industry would underline some collusion and invite for a debate on whether there's some legislation to apply against such an oligopoly.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:58PM (#41428761)

  Location: Montreal, Canada
  Remote: No preference
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: PHP, React, JavaScript, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Go.
  Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliendesrosiers/
  Email: julien AT desrosiers DOT org
I did mostly Web app development but also some systems programming with Ruby and Go.

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