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boukon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I just released https://gizmopack.app, which adds a bunch of useful new actions to Shortcuts on iOS.

boukon Full third-party cookie blocking and more

The point of third party cookies is cross-site tracking, which doesn't work with a first party domain.

boukon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Neat idea. Would this make it possible to use a tar gz as a squashfs archive, basically?

boukon $5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA

You're justifying your own unethical behavior by painting yourself as a rational economic agent, when you could also just not buy more than necessary and leave some for other people.

boukon Using Anki to remember what you read

Classic Simon

boukon A new Go API for Protocol Buffers

You could give google.golang.org/protobuf@v1 an //importpath to the github package, so go would warn people about it.

boukon Monkey Patching in Golang (2015)

Taking the piss 100%

boukon Monkey Patching in Golang (2015)

People really want to mock out dependencies in go, instead of architecting their application properly

boukon Monkey Patching in Golang (2015)

The project is meant as one big joke, so yeah don't use it.

boukon Monkey Patching in Golang (2015)

People kept asking for a license so they could use it, so I added a license that clarifies that this is not a project that should be seriously used.

boukon I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices

What a lot of people don't know is that you're allowed to use cookies for analytics purposes with GDPR, as long as you're anonymizing and as long as they're not used for cross-site/device tracking and advertisement.

The Dutch personal data authority even published a guide for Google Analytics explaining exactly what to do: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/sites/default/file... and they ruled that you don't need permission to enable the cookies when you do. You do need to have a privacy policy however.

boukon DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

We're working on it.

boukon Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

The shit sandwich always works!

boukon Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation

They're saying the opposite, and agreeing with you

boukon Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

http over localhost is considered secure by browsers

boukon A Simple Dutch Cure for Stress

This is another one in a series of articles (like https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/smarter-living/the-case-f...) about Americans finding out that there's a word for something in Dutch and making a big deal out of it. It's just so hilarious to me as someone from The Netherlands. Not like we're niksen and uitwaaien every day.

The Dutch version of The Onion made fun of it too: https://speld.nl/2019/01/25/kwakkelen-the-ancient-dutch-art-...

boukon Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?

If netv2 is neutral, I would just stuff all of the topics with my own content millions of time, so everyone can only see my content

boukon Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving

You can look at competitive programming sites, they are a lot more serious than leetcode/hackerrank

https://dmoj.ca/problems/?type=5&show_types=1&order=-points

https://codeforces.com/problemset?order=BY_RATING_DESC&tags=...

boukon Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch

This is true! Running extension JS on every request is a big performance penalty and rule based blocking is much better.

boukon Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

IRC has terrible UX, and Slack beat it because the experience is better.

boukon Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)

> we have a massive stolen car problem in Europe

Any kind of generalization like that for all of Europe is bound to be wrong

boukon An End-to-End AutoML Solution for Tabular Data at KaggleDays

Excel is an amazing tool, and if this becomes the Excel of the ML space then it will be a great success

boukon Interface Dispatch (2018)

Can’t really say what’s going on here without seeing some code.

boukon Show HN: tor_ssh.sh – One command to enable SSH access via Tor

You can do that with a direct link too: bash <(curl -s https://gitlab.com/grownetics/devops/raw/ef053050065c4928714...)

boukon Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

Books aren't priced by the number of pages

boukon LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve

It doesn’t work with setuid binaries

boukon Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

DigitalOcean is able to hire in the Netherlands and Germany.

boukon Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I

boukon Ask HN: What has HN given you?

On HN I saw this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156478 (you can see my comment on it too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157074)

Through that I contacted the author, we became friends, hung out at the IOI, and eventually he referred me to Shopify, where I've worked for the last 4.5 years. Because of that I also lived in Canada for 3.5 years. Quite a ride.

boukon LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

tptacek exploits computers for a living, so it's glorious for him :)