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meehowon TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges

I just did some statistic and "four" is correct answer to 8% of questions.

meehowon TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges

> it's trivial to generate text that could match any given hash

Actually I don't know why there is some hash used at all. According to the example, answers are stored in a session. CRC32 would do the job as well. Or no hashing at all. You would need some better hash in case when user downloads it. I can imagine different flow where you would need some better hash: I.e. you have some secret token, hash it together with captcha answer, send question with good hash to a browser and user sends back answer together with a hash he got. In such flow there would be no need to store values in a session.

meehowon TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges

I like the idea of domain specific questions, but I also think that questions are the biggest added value of this API. If you have your own list, then you can implement your own "captcha" pretty easily.

meehowon TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges

This will work well as long as it's a niche captcha and creating automated solver it's worth the effort. Hardcoding something in JavaScript what will be injected to all form submits is even simpler and doesn't require anything from your users. It will work as long as bots don't execute JS or someone is willing to spent some time on modifying the bot.

meehowon Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge

There is also HN discussion about this addon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18965729

meehowon Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge

I had similar problem and wrote a browser addon: https://2read.net/ It converts websites to "readable" form and if you have IPFS running, it will also "pin" content locally. In most cases it works better than just printing an article. Here is an example with mentioned article: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYPkcXgKLBye3L8M1VJWsGAb2mJXkJSEncqcSC...

meehowon Volatile – A key-value pair API

  curl -i "https://volatile.wtf/?key=foo&val=%F0%9F%92%A9"

  HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error

meehowon In Germany, couples with more than €5160/month belong to the upper class

it's closer to 110K. German taxes and other fees are on Scandinavian level.

meehowon Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

What a beautiful code! It's not that common nowadays.

meehowon Ask HN: Should there be regulations for “banning” users from platforms?

There should be less regulations about everything in general.

meehowon Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

Every time when some language generator become more popular, it's a sign, that something is wrong with the main language. It happened to Java, JavaScript, CSS.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

I posted it here already and got almost 200 upvotes, but this time there is also Chrome version published.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

It's converts article locally, exactly how Firefox reader does.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

2read is using Readability.js from Mozilla with literally one line modification.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Unfortunately ipfs:// didn't work, so I rolled back changes. I also don't have access to window.ipfs, so I don't know at the moment how to handle custom port.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Is there some misconception in that sentence?

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Now it has a fallback to ipfs:// (in version 1.3). Thank for pointing it out. As I understand it will only work if you have IPFS Companion, right?

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Right, it's a local, sharable copy. Actually Readability cuts off so much HTML, that it's quite possible that 2 users will generate the same hash even from very dynamic website.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

It's already built-in. URLs in IPFS are Base32 encoded SHA-256 hashes https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/hashes/

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Chrome version is waiting for a review :)

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Yes, it's a bit oversimplified. Thank you for the suggestion. I will test it tomorrow. I hope it can be done without creating settings.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

I was checking my old bookmarks and big part of them was outdated (404). Average lifespan of a website is 100 days https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/11/the-average-lifespan... , but I would like to keep some articles to read and share even way later. I thought that it would be nice to have simple tool, which doesn't require setting up another account. Just backup and add a link to bookmarks. Because all technologies needed to fix the problem are already here, I just put them together.

meehowon Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

Right, just wanted to clean it a little first :)

meehowon Ask HN: Where to buy a new MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2015?

It's time to switch to Linux :)

meehowon Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?

It's actually very easy to setup "boot to scratch" in raspi-config: https://geek-university.com/wp-content/images/raspberry-pi/b...

meehowon Node-OS: The first operating system powered by node.js and npm

I think I will stick to my Bash-OS.

meehowon Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?

There is a documentation how to host on github: http://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

I use hugo and deploy to cheap shared hosting with 3 lines long Makefile:

deploy:

hugo

rsync --progress --archive -zLcb ./public/ webhost:~/example.com/

meehowon Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go

I think you guys are awesome. Keep up good work. Battery, CPU and RAM of my laptop are having the same feeling. Can I deploy it as fcgi script on cheap shared Apache hosting?