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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by mboehm »

bpierre wrote: post #23

https://scri.ch/ draw => save => share (you can add .png to the URL) https://gif.gg/ photos => save => share (you can add .gif to the URL) I made them because they were useful for me, and I am still happily using them almost every day, especially scri.ch: nothing beats typing scri.ch in a browser from anywhere to quickly sketch an idea (except a napkin and a pen of course). It’s nice to see other people using them to…

Nice tool. What someone might should consider that you URLs are not private. They are quite guessable and each saving leads to an "increment" in the alphabet: https://scri.ch/acc -> https://scri.ch/ace

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by tscs37 »

https://bitbucket.org/tscs37/lhm

it's a small "webserver" that acts as a sort of proxy between several localhost: applications and a domain name.

You need to modify your /etc/hosts file but then you can access your localhost applications from dedicated domains.

Mostly intended for dev purposes, not really production. Like, you could use it to test your website awesome.example.org as if it was in production on your dev-machine while it really only runs on localhost:9999

It also copies headers, so no problems when using some custom headers either!

(Beware that it uses IPv6)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by mfukar »

pj_mukh wrote: post #366
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

Can you make a version of this that just texts my mom that "I'm okay". That'd be perfect. P.S: Yes I'm thirty. Y'all don't know Indian moms.

"- Text me when you arrive"

5 minutes later..

"- I arrived. No assassins encountered."

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by eriknstr »

sean2 wrote: post #596
wubbfindel wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|

I don't know, getting that as a final joke from the right friend or younger family member might be my favorite way to be informed, and then I'd go walk their dog. I'd still be sad, of course, but there's really no good way to be informed of this. In all likely hood, I'd already be informed, and then I'd get this half-assed reminder and be all "oh my god, it's so like them!" Actually when considering likelihood, they'…

I agree in part, but I think that if you are setting up such a message, it's important that you inform your friends and family of the message while you are still alive, and probably you should also tell them that the message might end up getting sent while you are still alive because you forgot or for some other reason didn't get around to confirming that you are alive still in time.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by juhq »

lewiscollard wrote: post #299
rsync wrote: post #146

rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…

I have used rsync.net at work in the past, and the service and support is the best I have experienced in any commercial service, period. Good job. On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...

Holy moley that scrolljacking

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by cryptarch »

flukus wrote: post #636
viraptor wrote: post #579

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just SSH + shared screen / tmux? Not sure why you need to involve the browser.

Incoming SSH connections can/should be blocked by the router. There is also likely to be no static IP.

You can install TOR on the machine and use it for NAT traversal, by making SSH available through a hidden service. Latency is a bit high but it's easy to set up and connect to.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by bb611 »

detaro wrote: post #668
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #666

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It's no more of a risk really with TeamViewer installed. An attacker can use gotomypc or similar or just send a TeamViewer invite binary (or link to download it and give the attacker access).

Wasn't there some story a few months back about TeamViewer accounts being hacked in some unknown way and their access used to infect machines? Was that ever clearly resolved? (I remember speculation of TeamViewer themselves being compromised, or just a massive password-reuse attack, or ...)

It's never been clearly resolved, but also hasn't developed. So far it looks like TV was correct and the breaches were the result of password reuse from other sites who did have passwords compromised.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by emodendroket »

cperciva wrote: post #712
emodendroket wrote: post #687

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine if this principle were applied to other software products. "Click here to download the Office installer, which will gain full admin-level access to your machine. We promise to only use that to install Office."

That would be awesome. Users might start to understand security.

Users don't read.
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