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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
632•klaussilveira•13h ago•187 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
20•theblazehen•2d ago•2 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
930•xnx•18h ago•548 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
34•helloplanets•4d ago•26 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
110•matheusalmeida•1d ago•28 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
43•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
10•kaonwarb•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
222•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
213•dmpetrov•13h ago•103 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
323•vecti•15h ago•142 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
372•ostacke•19h ago•94 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•19h ago•181 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
478•todsacerdoti•21h ago•234 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
275•eljojo•16h ago•164 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
404•lstoll•19h ago•273 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
85•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
25•romes•4d ago•3 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
56•kmm•5d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
16•jesperordrup•3h ago•9 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
245•i5heu•16h ago•189 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
13•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
54•gfortaine•10h ago•22 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
141•vmatsiiako•18h ago•64 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
281•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1060•cdrnsf•22h ago•436 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
133•SerCe•9h ago•119 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
177•limoce•3d ago•96 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•12h ago•14 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
28•gmays•8h ago•11 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•20h ago•23 comments
Open in hackernews

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

https://val.packett.cool/blog/podfox/
116•pierremenard•9mo ago

Comments

amarshall•9mo ago
Unfortunately page is completely blank (iOS Safari)
conception•9mo ago
Turn off your content blockers? Comes up fine for me. Or maybe add some? ;)
prmoustache•9mo ago
I have firefox and content blockers and it works fine for me. On Linux.

Maybe they simply banned some user agents commonly used by IA scrapers.

wingmanjd•9mo ago
Blank for me too (Windows Firefox), ublock off.
zamadatix•9mo ago
Same, here's an archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250509050906/https://val.packe...
CGamesPlay•9mo ago
The project being discussed in this post is https://codeberg.org/valpackett/podfox#podfox

You can actually use Traefik to do something similar using its Docker service discovery. Instead of being a SOCKS proxy, Traefik is a reverse proxy, and you can combine with `lvh.me` which resolves all subdomains to localhost. I don't use this technique any more, but a functional example command can be seen here: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/c49e2b4ddd0fe591...

hobofan•9mo ago
I think that puts it into an entirely different category. SOCKS proxies are great, as they don't require you to try and bend all domain names the correct way. In a typical intranet or proxied container cluster setup, you quickly end up hitting some application logic that e.g. returns back an absolute URL (breaking your manual usage of lvh.me), or uses non-default HTTP ports, or one of many other ways that break if you try to use a lvh.me-like setup or remapping DNS entries to localhost.
CGamesPlay•9mo ago
You're correct, but in practice I never had that issue. All the applications I used this technique with were easily able to set the "site root URL" via an environment variable or something similar.

To show the other side of the coin: SOCKS proxies are less convenient, as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it.

hobofan•9mo ago
> All the applications I used this technique with were easily able to set the "site root URL" via an environment variable or something similar

Yeah that often works, but also requires running things locally or redeploying them. For quick debugging, trying to use the service without altering it is more convenient.

> as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it

See my other comment. I'm on macOS, and I'm quite happy with FoxyProxy, which allows for individual pages to use a SOCKS proxy based on a regex (or just via an on/off toggle).

prmoustache•9mo ago
> To show the other side of the coin: SOCKS proxies are less convenient, as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it.

It is no big deal. The blog post shows the usage of a pac file which only redirects the local .podman tld to the socks proxy.

It is only maybe an issue if you are using a company issued computer already using a pac file from a GPO. But in that case you can totally decide to dedicate a browser for it and setup the socks proxy only for it. Choices.

sureglymop•9mo ago
With regular docker or podman it was always easy and useful to forward a containers port over ssh. Does anyone know how to just as easily do that (i.e. with a single command) for rootless podman?
yjftsjthsd-h•9mo ago
With or without binding a host port? With a host port it should Just Work, without... I'm not sure why it wouldn't route just as well, actually; I don't think `ssh -L` acts differently than anything else, does it? Actually let me back up: What are you doing, and what does it currently do with podman?
sureglymop•9mo ago
Without binding a host port. I have a remote server where my containers run and want to forward their ports directly to my local machine without binding to a host port there. That of course works with a regular bridge but not with rootless containers.
jbverschoor•9mo ago
I dunno. I just use orbstack and everything works. Containers have their own IP, dns, and https certificates
hobofan•9mo ago
For managing SOCKS proxy usage in the browser, I can highly recommend FoxyProxy[0]. I'm using it for about a dozen different SOCKS proxy setups, and it also exists for both Firefox and Chrome, making it easy to share a similar setup with colleagues.

[0]: https://getfoxyproxy.org

sibilantcinder•9mo ago
Very cool. This proxy should be a Podman feature.
depingus•9mo ago
This is such a great post full of cool little tricks for immutable OS users. Thanks for posting!