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OP sentences have issues, but I understood what they meant.

davidcollanteson Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails

The main drawback I saw on jails is that they are FreeBSD. The owner doesn’t mention, and I have not researched it, but can you run any Linux distribution in a FreeBSD jail?

davidcollanteson American Aviation Is Near Collapse

Got a link to the entry?

davidcollanteson Kimchi-derived probiotic found to promote excretion of intestinal nanoplastics

Something isn't (or wasn't) right at your/their end. I can reach the site without issues right now.

davidcollanteson Show HN: Genjutsu – Dev social network where posts vanish in 24h

If everything vanishes, why to force the creation of accounts?

davidcollanteson AI and the Ship of Theseus

> Right now I would argue that unless some evidence of the contrary could be provided, this can be seen as a new implementation from ground up.

Not ship of Theseus, but a "new implementation from ground up.

Evidently, the author prefers MIT (https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4...), and seems OK with slop-coding.

davidcollanteson Apple: Enough Is Enough

> "Suffice it to say, I have ordered a Linx PC, which will replace the Mac."

That was a sentence uttered with the misplaced confidence of a man who had no idea his real troubles were only just beginning.

davidcollanteson New iPad Air, powered by M4

I don't think it is technical. Because of their size, they would be hard to hold without covering portions of the screen, if the bezels were thinner. As is, my fat fingers get in the way already.

davidcollanteson Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

I get spams referring my GitHub username from time to time too: https://netbros.com/1771535100/. I swear it has gotten worse the last year or two.

davidcollanteson Portable Secret: End-to-End Encrypted Files in One HTML

I am interested! :-)

davidcollanteson Access to a Shared Unix Computer

I don’t know. Certified Unix? There might be, but it would certainly be a small picking. This is the list of UNIX certified products: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/.

davidcollanteson Access to a Shared Unix Computer

I believe it runs Linux. [This](https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...) is the story behind tilde.club.

davidcollanteson Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

It would be nice to have the user comments linked to their original. That way we can enjoy reading the child comments.

davidcollanteson Portable Secret: End-to-End Encrypted Files in One HTML

Do you have a repository for this?

davidcollanteson The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)

Thank you for the correction! I managed to find some, but not the collection as the post OP meant to share.

davidcollanteson All Look Same?

"Out of 18, you scored 9". I am considered "normal". Best compliment of the day.

davidcollanteson Famous Signatures Through History

On Firefox, under Linux, the carrousel of signatures is not showing a navigation (mouse driven). Only way I got it to work was using the keyboard arrow keys.

davidcollanteson Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

Yes, none work for me. They either don’t have peers, or the few ones are on a very slow network.

davidcollanteson We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

> Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and reposts of classics every now and then are good because it's important for new users to learn the classics!

It would be nice if HN would simply "float" to the front page the classics, a year or two after their submission. That would avoid duplication (specially of comments!), and allow people in the lucky 10,000 group know about it.

davidcollanteson Restretto – minimal REST client for Mac

Need to add some screenshots for the visuals amongst us.

davidcollanteson Sleep Machine

I like it. Believe it or not, it took me a while to find the play, to my frustration, as without pressing it, nothing else is clickable, draggable, etc.

davidcollanteson Ask HN: Share your personal website

Active: Notes - https://netbros.com/

Inactive: Blog - https://collantes.us/

davidcollanteson Former Fed chairs and Treasury secretaries: Statement on the Federal Reserve

That might be it! First mention of Substack found: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-y...

davidcollanteson Former Fed chairs and Treasury secretaries: Statement on the Federal Reserve

Exactly. If there were not involved, they might never be aware of it.

davidcollanteson Former Fed chairs and Treasury secretaries: Statement on the Federal Reserve

How do we know this is real? I don't know much about Substack, but couldn't just about anyone create this, and "sign" it?

davidcollanteson Ask HN: QR code generator that doesn't require sign up

This one seems simple: https://github.com/matteason/qr-code-generator. See it at http://qr.matteason.co.uk.

davidcollanteson [dead]

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/trump-white-h...

davidcollanteson The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

Right, the real test is knowing your device is tucked in the pocket and completely ignoring it. At first it might be hard, but completely doable. Before I start my drive I put my non-peered-to-vehicle phone in my pocket, and it ceases to exist while I drive. Similarly it can be done in any other situation; in this case, a coffee shop.

There is no need to leave it behind, just having the right usage control over it would suffice.

davidcollanteson Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)

Is the source published somewhere? I would love to run this on premises.