Hacker News: Fizzadar

New comment by Fizzadar in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

Fizzadar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:29:32 +0000

One silver lining this is finally going to push me to switch to a dedicated camera and some niche unrestricted Linux or graphene device as a phone. Goodbye iPhone. (I say this as someone with an Apple account old enough to auto “qualify”, how lucky).

New comment by Fizzadar in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

Fizzadar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:23:53 +0000

Also parent in the UK - strong disagree, it’s part of our parental responsibilities to set this up, not doing it is the same as not watching a newly walking baby on the stairs (/etc). Compromising everyone’s privacy for a subset of lazy parents is a failing of society.

New comment by Fizzadar in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

Fizzadar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:00 +0000

I’m predicting a wave of such incidents to start appearing over the next few months/years.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Claude Code Remote Control"

Fizzadar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:51:20 +0000

There's https://happy.engineering/ which already does this with many fewer bugs and supports codex.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Mato – a Multi-Agent Terminal Office workspace (tmux-like)"

Fizzadar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:16:39 +0000

All of these agent wrappers/claws/whatever seem to encourage wildly irresponsible usage of AI. Sure it can get stuff done in what is effectively a simple loop but without review we’re just playing with fire.

I was experimenting with Claude code doing similar (don’t need wrappers really) and the result was a huge amount of mediocre code and my weekly limit burnt. The code “works” but oh my the duplication and potential bug surface is off the chart.

Stopped my experiment and back to human in the loop plan->execute cycle which is way more effective.

Thankfully I don’t think we’re at jarvis levels yet.

New comment by Fizzadar in "GitHub Actions is broken again"

Fizzadar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:48:12 +0000

Worse than yesterday I reckon - no status page update, actions/etc are delayed by 15-45 minutes, some just never run. Bit of a mess!

GitHub Actions is broken again

Fizzadar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:01 +0000

They just don't even start now, no new statuses on commits. Fun. Second day in a row.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871583

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

AppleUnsold

Fizzadar — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://appleunsold.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802282

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by Fizzadar in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

Fizzadar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:55:46 +0000

Damn I ripped all our telephone lines out and ran cat6 up through the house to my office and I could have just done this?! Well shit.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Fizzadar — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:31:41 +0000

http://pointlessramblings.com (though ramblings are rare these days!)

New comment by Fizzadar in "Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them"

Fizzadar — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:24:30 +0000

As a primarily Go dev - 100% agree. The endless check and wrap error results in long chains of messages you have to grep for to understand the call stack. For what benefit? Might as well just panic and recover/log the stack in many cases.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"

Fizzadar — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:40:36 +0000

The key here is a singleton sequencer component that stamps the new versions. There was a great article shared here on similar techniques used in trading order books (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192181).

Agree this is the best solution, I’d rather have a tiny failover period than risk serialization issues. Working with FDB has been such a joy because it’s serializable it takes away an entire class of error to consider, leading to simpler implementation.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars"

Fizzadar — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:46:35 +0000

Absolutely fascinating. Hubble pictures are always mind blowing.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?"

Fizzadar — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:56:15 +0000

Eight, but half of them exist as long running test accounts for Kanmail (kanmail.io) so arguably do not count. I do use them for legit emails though, new services usually get one of four test emails.

Show HN: Kanmail – Turn your inbox into a Kanban board

Fizzadar — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:07:23 +0000

Hey HN! Been a while.. last post for reference in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22985055. Moved city, job and had two children since then which is wild :)

Been working away shifting Kanmail over to a Go backend (using the excellent wails) and rewriting the frontend in TypeScript. This "new" v2 is much quicker, overcomes a bunch of old limitations (no age limit on paginating folders) and finally gets a working Linux AppImage (*my Linux test setup is somewhat limited and I expect there's plenty of edge cases here - hit me up if you have issues).

Anyway, would love any feedback on site or app, the previous round was incredibly useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348462

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Fizzadar in "Backing up Spotify"

Fizzadar — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:12:33 +0000

I have Spotify premium but the constant shuffle of content availability has meant I’ve stared routinely archiving my liked songs to avoid any rug pull. Zspotify and co still work a charm.

New comment by Fizzadar in "Electron vs. Tauri"

Fizzadar — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:09:58 +0000

In my experience building Kanmail neither Tauri or Wails have this figured out. I had to combine elements of both projects custom linuxdeploy GTK plugin and I’m still not 100% sure it works everywhere. https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/blob/19c5bfe78fe1b22147c01...

New comment by Fizzadar in "Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes"

Fizzadar — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:23:03 +0000

Nvm - dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083004

New comment by Fizzadar in "Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes"

Fizzadar — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:21:22 +0000

> Airbus said in a statement that a recent incident involving an A320-family aircraft had revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

And this is addressed via software update?

New comment by Fizzadar in "Ask HN: Have you ever seen a perfect codebase?"

Fizzadar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:59:16 +0000

I don’t think it exists. An empty folder perhaps. Guaranteed bug free.