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Ralph's Blog
Personal blog · golb.hplar.chprogrammingweb
Ralph's Blog is a personal blog at golb.hplar.ch about programming and web. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts about reaching a self-hosted machine behind NAT through Tor onion services, and about running a web server on solar power. They are cited as a Tor workaround for blocked ports.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I like the fact that I can expose a machine using tor. Its .onion address becomes something analog to a public ip address[0]. It even works behind a nat, so I can ssh to a machine of mine from anywhere in the world. The problem: the other point must support tor to access it. Anyone knows a way using these overlay networks, tor, i2p, freenet, to expose a service on a machine behind a NAT to be accessed through the in…
Comment linking /2019/01/expose-server-tor.html
on “Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication”Submitted Expose server behind NAT with Tor as a story · 85 points
HN discussion> Parcel is better than any of those, because does the right thing automatically. Parcel does seem nice, because it does do a lot of things automatically. But I'm not sure that can always be "the right thing". For example it seems a bit surprising that plain js will always be compiled, to support ie11, while typescript will not. Neither option is "always the right thing". And as far as I could figure out, there's no…
Comment linking /2018/01/Bundling-web-applications-with-Parcel.html
on “Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript”Submitted A closer look at the Java 11 HTTP Client as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Indeed, as mentioned earlier, these common internet ports are blocked off at ISP level, so no amount of port forwarding in the router will expose our little web server to the internet. I'd try to work around that limitation using tor: https://golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/expose-server-tor.html Clients will have to use tor too, but it could be used to complement instead of replacing the current solution.
Comment linking /2019/01/expose-server-tor.html
on “We are now Solar Powered”Submitted JavaScript BigInt and JSON as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real-Time Messaging with Cettia and Spring Boot as a story · 1 points
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