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deweyon Pirating the Pirates

Yep, definitely! I know of instances where professional archives and libraries work with specialized torrent sites to archive content directly and these days that's sometimes necessary with how content is locked down, games are dependent on a server or DRM schemes don't make archiving easy.

You frequently hear of cases where the last remaining official copy got lost and only due to some fan service (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694382) data could be recovered.

deweyon Pirating the Pirates

> When I came to work for Arrow, I was bringing a lot of awareness of the methods of fan preservationists on the torrent sites

Very smooth way of using your torrenting skills on your CV.

deweyon Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

That is currently still the differentiator between people producing code and shipping something and people who care and actually have years of experience shipping. At the current state how well you steer the LLM and which questions you ask still matters, maybe in the future "build me an app" will give amazing results, but right now you still need to know what you are doing.

In this case, it's just a waste of tokens as something not very unique was generated that doesn't have a real use case, or solves anyone's problem. As with many AI generated projects, I'm willing to bet that OP themselves will not using it any more in a month.

deweyon Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

That landing page looks like it's straight out of Claude Code (The Serif font is almost a giveaway these days). The interface will not look native on any platform.

There's so many Markdown editors for all platforms, what made you join this crowded niche?

deweyon Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

> That is, if you move your git hosting to GitLab then you have to change your code!

You can also just use "replace github.com/example/example => gitlab.com/example/example" in your go.mod file and everything will keep working. That seems like a very pre-mature optimization for something that doesn't really matter.

deweyon Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

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deweyon Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

Personally I wouldn't want all my emails stored on a provider that doesn't speak IMAP.

deweyon We Write Code by Hand

Backlink from a website with no authority doesn't really help you.

deweyon We Write Code by Hand

The amount of Mastodon icons on that page sadly also confirm my feeling that Mastodon in general is a very "Anti AI" bubble and it became a lot less fun to hang out there if you are even slightly interested in AI or working with it. Not even talking about being some AI hyper, just someone who sees benefits in some fields and my daily work life.

deweyon Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

That's the only issue I have with ebooks and the reason why I would never read a technical / reference book on it where you want to jump around and have your fingers in some pages to flip back and forth.

deweyon Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

Building a social network / two sided marketplace will always be one of the most complicated projects as the technical part doesn't really matter so much but the distribution is the only thing that is important and there's not really a single way to make it work. The only thing that doesn't work is "build and they will come".

deweyon Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

If you want to start in that niche you really need to double down on a specific subset of that niche to get people to use it. Right now you are not offering much over Facebook Events or Meetup and the tech / design in this case doesn't matter when all that matters is that you have people using it for their events.

I'd take a look at how Luma (The only seemingly competitor in that niche these days) is doing it, they are focused on a very small group of large cities and started being mostly for crypto related events. Only these days it feels like there's more variety in the events depending on the city. Doing a generic "I was annoyed with Meetup" strategy won't work.

deweyon Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

They actually do.

deweyon An update on Wayback Machine access

Yep, verifying the IPs is still the way to go. You often see websites that do it wrong when you set your user agent to Google Bot and they give you a different version of the page without validating that.

deweyon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot of them, but every time I want to test a new one I dread it.

deweyon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

That gives you the extension, but the workflow within macOS for users is still very user hostile. Problem with extensions might be that the training data isn't that great as there's not that many open source Safari extensions.

deweyon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

I wish they would improve the extension support in Safari. I'm on Safari full time but I always dread the moment I have to install an extension. If the extension even exists (Firefox / Chrome is easy, so developers always do that and they don't have to pay Apple a fee) download some app, then click some button to open Safari settings, then enable the extension there, then give it permissions in the Safari menu bar. Horrible UX.

deweyon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

In theory that makes sense, in practice I've never had any issues with updating on day one and it's often necessary if you want to develop for iOS / macOS anyway unless you have a dedicated developer machine.

deweyon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

I was surprised to see that macOS is 28GB. Is that all the local models that come with it?

deweyon Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

So instead of doing the easy thing (Giving your Claude a read-only role, having snapshots etc.) you decided to patch the database which needs to be kept in sync with every PG release and build a landing page?

deweyon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

You are taking comments in this thread as personal attacks, when the they are not.

deweyon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

> I am trying to make is that maybe YC could start curating the content somehow to give those easily-drowned-out articles a visibility bump?

This kind of defeats the purpose of a link aggregator compared to a human curated newsletter or blog. Maybe something like https://hackernewsletter.com acts as a good filter for you?

There's already the "second chance pool" which is a human bump for interesting posts that didn't get the attention they should (Bad timing, other big news overshadowing, bad title etc.).

deweyon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Or the main topics just changed to something you are not that interested in, there was always a temporary bias to some bigger topics.

If I would not like to hear about funding rounds when money was cheap, being here 5 years ago wouldn't have been fun.

If I don't like to hear about Go being here 10 years ago would not be fun.

My timelines may be off, but the general industry trends showing up on HN were always there (and it would be weird if they wouldn't).

deweyon Rails 8 Guide: Features, Requirements and Upgrade Path (2026)

My favorite part of Rails 8 is the focus on reducing infrastructure and just defaulting to the DB for queue (SolidQueue) / caching (SolidCache), such a nice out of the box experience.

deweyon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

If you scroll Instagram for a few minutes you'll see what they have been working on and that are also making a ridiculous amount of cash by selling and serving ads while burning some on side projects like that.

deweyon “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

In what way? I haven’t seen someone say “toot” in a very long time. Tweet I did but that was arguably more entrenched in pop culture over the years.

deweyon “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

Mastodon and X both switched to “posts”. Toots was the old name.

deweyon Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue

Thats a bit of an odd comparison as they are in pretty different categories and don’t really compete against each other.

deweyon LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

Most people don't care that much. When I read some comments on Mastodon I get the impression that people absolutely hate it, then I'm reading some comments on X and people love it and build things with it. Then I'm talking to friends and they are excited about what ChatGPT can do for them and don't even think about the bigger picture outside of a "AI will take our jobs haha" joke.

deweyon Why the AfD Wins

> Or did they just lie out of their ass and leave everyone worse off?

This, but I guess I should've been more clear in my parent comment in saying that by "addressing" should come in heavy quotation marks.