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hiphopyoon Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

They just recently started supporting OpenBSD officially as well.

I immediately switched. This way I wouldn't have to deal with the generally more messy and weaker[1] OS that is FreeBSD, nor would I have to use old pf syntax.

[1] "Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security": https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

hiphopyoon Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

Big ups to Vultr for doing what DigitalOcean wouldn't do - supporting OpenBSD.

hiphopyoon Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

My recent findings is that it's better to not take any notes at all. Instead of adding some item to your todo list, do it immediately and don't send it off like some nasty surprise to your future self. The smaller my notes.txt the less complications I have to worry about and I can go on living a happy and fulfilled life.

hiphopyoon Irssi 1.0.0 Released

Ofcourse Irssi wouldn't be complete without its ircII minimalist theme:

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/181/commits/0494925a465b...

Also, +1 for Ruby support.

hiphopyoon Ask HN: Thinking of moving to Europe from USA

A lot of Americans live in Norway:

https://visitnorway.no/

https://nav.no/workinnorway/en/Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Americans

hiphopyoon Ask HN: Thinking of moving to Europe from USA

It's short and concise spoken American, I don't see what the big deal is

hiphopyoon Ask HN: How to build a personal landing page?

Don't forget http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/.

hiphopyoon Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

Does DO even offer custom images? Last I spoke to the owner he said they had other priorities.

hiphopyoon Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

> Who wants to be patching the OS? Who wants to be dealing with package vulnerabilities?

Choose OpenBSD (and don't install stupid stuff like bash) and you won't have to deal with any of that.

hiphopyoon Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

I must strongly agree with this one. Just switched from DigitalOcean to Vultr myself. Vultr is the only decent one I'm aware of who'll let me run OpenBSD. No other OS is good enough for me. Strongest security in the world, and no need to update as frequently as with other OSes or distros.

Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

hiphopyoon Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx

Anybody else wishing they would set up shop in the Scandinavian countries so poor people there could earn money off their affiliate program as well?

hiphopyoon Using Gmail with Mutt

I always used what I saw as the simplest Mutt setup possible: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ca8dc3ecba60bdee41abb241e6... along with:

mutt -f imaps://imap.gmail.com

hiphopyoon GIMP development - What’s the point?

I prefer Photoshop for the UI, but boy are those Elsamuko plugins something.

hiphopyoon Maru OS becomes an open source project

https://copperhead.co/android/ too apparently -- a hardened open-source operating system based on Android.

hiphopyoon Maru OS becomes an open source project

OpenBSD is simply a lot better designed than Linux, free from fancy bells and whistles. As the the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS, any mobile OS choosing it over Linux would have a significant advantage.

Android has bits and pieces of it, but not nearly enough.

Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

hiphopyoon Maru OS becomes an open source project

Wish it could be based on OpenBSD instead of Linux.

hiphopyoon Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport

Similar to https://github.com/customd/jquery-visible which I use a lot.

hiphopyoon Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel

For one, Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

OpenBSD's documentation is also known to be a tad better than FreeBSD's.

hiphopyoon Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel

Where does OpenBSD's kernel fit into all of this? Isn't that, in turn, lightyears ahead of illumos?

hiphopyoon Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernel

Compared to other OSes and distros this is one in a million.

hiphopyoon The state of LibreSSL in FreeBSD

It's awesome that cool things from OpenBSD are being ported over to FreeBSD, but why not just use OpenBSD from the get-go? It's already a struggle having to deal with FreeBSD's outdated version of pf.

iTWire - Crypto: FreeBSD playing catch-up, says De Raadt: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-cry...

hiphopyoon Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?

> libuinet is a library version of FreeBSD's TCP stack. I guess there's a theme here.

That is excellent, considering FreeBSD's TCP stack is supposed to be faster and better designed than that of Linux.

hiphopyoon Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

Speaking about new features -- what I'd like to see is the ability to remove items from my public profile / activities list. Often I make mistakes. Often I do stuff I don't want the public to see, and I'd rather not have to email GitHub support asking them to remove them manually all the time.

hiphopyoon FFmpeg 3.0 released

Awesome! Hoping for quick updates to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD ports.

hiphopyoon Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster

There's also Donepezil, a drug similar to the one from the movie Limitless (2011).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2593268/The-d...

    - Donepezil is used to improve memory function in Alzheimer’s patients
    - Children learn skills quickly as their brains go through 'critical periods’
    - Researchers found donepezil can revert adult brains to these periods
    - It increases the 'elasticity' of the brain making it capable of learning rapidly
    - Researchers rewired a visually impaired patient’s brain to process images
    - The drug works by boosting chemicals in the brain that reduce with age

hiphopyoon Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

Does this bring us any closer to warp drives?

hiphopyoon Rack-Mini-profiler – The Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed

Hasn't Peek (https://github.com/peek/peek) sorta replaced Rack-Mini-Profiler?

hiphopyoon Progressive Web App: A New Experience for Mobile

Nicely done! Would love to get a list of which libraries and techniques they use!

hiphopyoon Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security

Some interesting insights on Grsecurity's approach by OpenBSD's Nick Holland in the comments section:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

hiphopyoon Show HN: React for Beginners

I just started on http://survivejs.com/ which does that. Have yet to make a comparison with React for Beginners though.