Hacker News: Manfred

New comment by Manfred in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

Manfred — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:22:33 +0000

It's on the homepage under "Recent updates".

New comment by Manfred in "We need a federation of forges"

Manfred — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:18:44 +0000

Please don't give your users a nickname like "tanglers", groups come up with their own nicknames. It's not as infuriating as when New Relic started calling everyone "Data Nerd", which is actually offensive to me and weirdly aggressive for a corporate product.

New comment by Manfred in "I am building a cloud"

Manfred — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:05:14 +0000

Companies buy cloud services because they want to reduce in-house server management and operations, for them it's a trade-off with hiring the right people. But you are right, when you can find the right people doing it yourself can be a lot cheaper.

New comment by Manfred in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

Manfred — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:44:38 +0000

Around 2010 I met a friend at a bar in San Francisco and within 10 minutes we were approached by someone with a chocolate bar startup. It may have been vaguely associated with developers or maybe I'm misremembering. We got a free sample and I explained I didn't live in the US and I also wasn't an investor. They left and moved on to the next group of people at the bar.

This has always stuck to me as an example of the pinnacle of collective investment delusion that seems to exist in certain circles. They idea that you can shape the world to your product instead of improving the world with your product. You just have to try hard enough.

New comment by Manfred in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

Manfred — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:50:32 +0000

DDoS saturates the network, not the service. Even a box doing nothing would still be unreachable.

New comment by Manfred in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

Manfred — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000

To prevent abuse, for example to prevent an old owner of domain to have a valid certificate for the domain indefinitely after transfer.

New comment by Manfred in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

Manfred — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:32:42 +0000

I had the same experience. It's even more confusing when you want to create an API key because they are separated by product, maybe?

New comment by Manfred in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

Manfred — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:35:08 +0000

Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.

New comment by Manfred in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

Manfred — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:27:14 +0000

Maybe publicly invisible, but a personal network and resume have always been important in a career.

New comment by Manfred in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

Manfred — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:22:43 +0000

Seaweed :)

New comment by Manfred in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

Manfred — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:03:08 +0000

Even following their own "getting started" tutorials you get stuck at step one trying to find Visual Studio or whatever it's called nowadays.

New comment by Manfred in "There is an AI code review bubble"

Manfred — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:03:35 +0000

Fuzzy automated reviews should always run in an interactive loop with a developer on their workstation and contain enough context to quickly assess if they are valid or not.

When developers create a PR, they already feel they are "done", and they have likely already shifted their focus on another task. False positive are horrible at this point, especially when they keep changing with each push of commits.

New comment by Manfred in "Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres"

Manfred — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:01:37 +0000

Especially with small datasets it’s more important to be exact at the expense of a user having to fix a typo.

New comment by Manfred in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

Manfred — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:57:40 +0000

I have also seen situations where sales opted into Microsoft early on. When they grew in relation to engineering forced the rest of the company to standardize to Microsoft products so they could get better rates and “save money”.

New comment by Manfred in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

Manfred — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:05:57 +0000

The fight against “left” and “right” is just a narrative to gin up allegiance with certain groups.

The only relevance to the article is that it indicates which parties have sided with the US administration to fight consumer’s digital rights.

New comment by Manfred in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

Manfred — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:30:43 +0000

It seems more likely that people will buy a digital copy of the book for a few bucks and then run the TTS themselves on devices they already own.

New comment by Manfred in "Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year"

Manfred — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:43:40 +0000

Which is why you put them in the sea or in places with sparse population.

New comment by Manfred in "US freezes visas for 75 nations"

Manfred — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:51:55 +0000

I guess Denmark is going to be out of the question now.

New comment by Manfred in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

Manfred — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:56:48 +0000

A microservice architecture would probably use a message bus because they would also need to broadcast the result.

New comment by Manfred in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

Manfred — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:17:06 +0000

> I can definitively see use cases for both

Me too, I was just wondering if you have any real world examples of a project with a large payload.