Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin
7 by terry_hc | 11 comments on Hacker News.
I'm looking for a simple way to locally define hostnames for internal use, think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges. Running a resolver locally, or within the LAN, falls outside the realm of "simple". The subject is primarily the web browser, so a clever browser extension for Firefox and/or Chromium would work great. If resolution could also happen outside the browser that would be a nice bonus. Thankful for any suggestions.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How important is peer programming?
Ask HN: How important is peer programming?
2 by Awesomedonut | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a junior dev and I'm atrocious at peer programming. Is this a skill I should be actively working on improving?
2 by Awesomedonut | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a junior dev and I'm atrocious at peer programming. Is this a skill I should be actively working on improving?
New ask Hacker News story: Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting?
Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting?
2 by technivis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I'm completely new to PCB autorouting and just started exploring it. I've figured out that AI is now a big thing for predicting routes, but it seems that many researchers are facing issues with datasets. I found some of their GitHub links, but the datasets are either missing or the code to generate them is broken. Is there any way to get PCB datasets specifically for autorouting? I've seen many datasets for PCB defects, but not for this purpose.
2 by technivis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I'm completely new to PCB autorouting and just started exploring it. I've figured out that AI is now a big thing for predicting routes, but it seems that many researchers are facing issues with datasets. I found some of their GitHub links, but the datasets are either missing or the code to generate them is broken. Is there any way to get PCB datasets specifically for autorouting? I've seen many datasets for PCB defects, but not for this purpose.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Inflow – invoke an LLM with your viewport just by typing
Show HN: Inflow – invoke an LLM with your viewport just by typing
2 by vagabund | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I built this simple tool for fun over the weekend after getting tired of breaking my flow to copy and paste what I was reading in a Claude tab. My goal was to make the process as frictionless as possible so you don't expend cognitive load thinking about the tool. To that end, there are no hotkeys or buttons to initiate the chat widget, the extension just detects natural language as you type and populates the widget after a threshold. The LLM gets the text content in your current viewport as context.
2 by vagabund | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I built this simple tool for fun over the weekend after getting tired of breaking my flow to copy and paste what I was reading in a Claude tab. My goal was to make the process as frictionless as possible so you don't expend cognitive load thinking about the tool. To that end, there are no hotkeys or buttons to initiate the chat widget, the extension just detects natural language as you type and populates the widget after a threshold. The LLM gets the text content in your current viewport as context.
New ask Hacker News story: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now
Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now
4 by Tremeschin | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Just received quite a smart phishing email/notification coming from "GitHub" by a user created less than a week ago (1) which is currently creating multiple issues a minute tagging many random usernames in a repository (2) with a "ycombinatornotify" app (3). The usual - asking to verify wallets, deposit for authorization as I've been selected for funding, etc. All issues contains the content of the email received, so I'll not paste them here (they're gone, but still, a bad idea to paste it). - (3m in) They seem to have been rate limited or reached a target of 500 issues - (5m in) Repository was just taken down, hope they automate back a warning - They have typo-squatted the "y-comb[l]nator [dot] com" domain (with hyphen and L) Quite urgent actions are needed to stop it, or warn the affected. Will update the submission with more information as time goes. - [1]: https://ift.tt/J38it5I - [2]: https://ift.tt/nNLwOAt - [3]: https://ift.tt/dAyVecO
4 by Tremeschin | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Just received quite a smart phishing email/notification coming from "GitHub" by a user created less than a week ago (1) which is currently creating multiple issues a minute tagging many random usernames in a repository (2) with a "ycombinatornotify" app (3). The usual - asking to verify wallets, deposit for authorization as I've been selected for funding, etc. All issues contains the content of the email received, so I'll not paste them here (they're gone, but still, a bad idea to paste it). - (3m in) They seem to have been rate limited or reached a target of 500 issues - (5m in) Repository was just taken down, hope they automate back a warning - They have typo-squatted the "y-comb[l]nator [dot] com" domain (with hyphen and L) Quite urgent actions are needed to stop it, or warn the affected. Will update the submission with more information as time goes. - [1]: https://ift.tt/J38it5I - [2]: https://ift.tt/nNLwOAt - [3]: https://ift.tt/dAyVecO
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence
Show HN: Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence
2 by cloudmanager | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I had this idea: what if you removed customer choice entirely? So I'm selling rocks for $49.99. You can't pick which one. You just get rock #000001, then the next person gets #000002, etc. No returns, no exchanges. Currently sourcing rocks and taking pre-orders for November. Each one gets weighed, photographed, numbered, and comes with a certificate. Could be a 1-gram pebble or a 10kg boulder - same price. It's the opposite of how everything online works. Amazon shows you a million options, I'm giving you zero. Wondering if that constraint makes it more interesting or if I'm just making it harder for no reason. No social media, no marketing, barely any explanation on the site. Just: here's a rock, here's a number, here's the price. Honestly not sure if anyone will actually buy these, but the pre-orders will tell me if removing choice kills demand or creates it. https://weight.rocks
2 by cloudmanager | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I had this idea: what if you removed customer choice entirely? So I'm selling rocks for $49.99. You can't pick which one. You just get rock #000001, then the next person gets #000002, etc. No returns, no exchanges. Currently sourcing rocks and taking pre-orders for November. Each one gets weighed, photographed, numbered, and comes with a certificate. Could be a 1-gram pebble or a 10kg boulder - same price. It's the opposite of how everything online works. Amazon shows you a million options, I'm giving you zero. Wondering if that constraint makes it more interesting or if I'm just making it harder for no reason. No social media, no marketing, barely any explanation on the site. Just: here's a rock, here's a number, here's the price. Honestly not sure if anyone will actually buy these, but the pre-orders will tell me if removing choice kills demand or creates it. https://weight.rocks