Hacker News: ahofmann

New comment by ahofmann in "Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners"

ahofmann — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:19:25 +0000

They don't seem to understand, that there is no way out of it except giving the guy all the Lego sets or 200k dollars and saying "we are very sorry" multiple times. They're still trying to save their face and money and it might ruin the whole franchise.

New comment by ahofmann in "macOS needs its grid back"

ahofmann — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:35:04 +0000

I switched to MacOS a few months ago from sway and I really try to be as open as possible to the mac way of life, because I don't want to fight my OS. But, boy, mission control is unusable crap. I was really shocked how dumb everything around this feature was made. Things that were possible a few years ago, are not possible anymore. Like switching to desktops/workspaces by keyboard. Or the grid.

With the app "AltTab" I can at least switch between my apps without using the mouse and with raycast I can position windows, but it is painful how much slower switching and positioning things in MacOS is, than in any tiling window manager.

New comment by ahofmann in "My wife tried to log 1k phone-free hours but quit. So I vibe-coded an app"

ahofmann — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:25:53 +0000

Great Idea, thanks for building it!

New comment by ahofmann in "Vivaldi 8.0"

ahofmann — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:02:45 +0000

Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.

New comment by ahofmann in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

ahofmann — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:42:56 +0000

I have kind of the same architecture. I host multiple dedicated servers and vps instances in the Hetzner "cloud", but all of these connect to a few hosted databases by Hetzners web hosting packages for like 20 bucks a month. It sounds insane, but the one thing that absolutely needs to stay online, is the database, so not hosting this myself makes sense. And since Hetzner is apparently tuned their dirt cheap databases pretty well, we can hammer them pretty hard without any problems.

New comment by ahofmann in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

ahofmann — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:53:47 +0000

The services, I ran didn't care about decisions "the industry" made. They worked just fine.

New comment by ahofmann in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

ahofmann — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:49:34 +0000

To me this makes no sense. Nothing in web development changes because of long running requests, there are plenty of solutions for this. The most easy one is to just listen long enough on a http request for the answer. The routing problem can be mitigated with session pinning. Http2 and 3 have solutions for streaming data, websockets can be used, and pub/sub also. Heck, we could push the LLM response in a k2v system/redis and read it from there. "State is in the DB" is running strong and will be for decades to come.

New comment by ahofmann in "AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever"

ahofmann — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:30:41 +0000

This project looks very interesting. Unfortunately, the fact that only new accounts are praising the tools reeks of astroturfing.

New comment by ahofmann in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

ahofmann — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:32:39 +0000

Putting on my tinfoil-hat: Sooo, the guy who runs the test and delivers the report could just have removed the more interesting bugs and delivered those to any three letter agency?

New comment by ahofmann in "AI Skills as loader spec, not prompts – why the architecture changes everything"

ahofmann — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:16:46 +0000

I'm sorry, but this is unreadable to me. It's long, it's very repetitive and it feels very over the top. Just tell me, what a skill.md is and what to look out for, that I would happily read.

New comment by ahofmann in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

ahofmann — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:04:13 +0000

You mean like this? https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison

New comment by ahofmann in "[dead]"

ahofmann — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:40:22 +0000

This, and "don't be evil" was replaced over ten years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

So stop calling the Google people out for being evil. They are officially evil since 2015.

New comment by ahofmann in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

ahofmann — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:56:18 +0000

In 20 years of hosting all kinds of web services, some of them serving over 200m requests per month, a crashing single server was twice a problem.

Dealing with over engineered bullshit, that behaved in strange ways that disrupted the service was far more often a problem.

So, yes, redundancy is something that can be left away, if you're comfortable to be responsible for fixing things at a Saturday morning.

New comment by ahofmann in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

ahofmann — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:47:18 +0000

They do, it's called B2 and is another product of them.

New comment by ahofmann in "Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result"

ahofmann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:10:42 +0000

Sadly so. In the last decades it was just normal for almost all countries. It's kind of maddening how low Trump lowered the bar for politicians.

New comment by ahofmann in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

ahofmann — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:01:21 +0000

Resizing the context window seems like a very good idea to me. I noticed a decline of productivity when the 1M context window was released and I'd like to bring it back to 200k, because it was totally fine for the things I was working on.

New comment by ahofmann in "Am I German or Autistic?"

ahofmann — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:40:41 +0000

It's always funny to see people try speaking/writing german and screw it up in four words/14 characters :-)

I got 38% german, 58% autistic btw.

New comment by ahofmann in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

ahofmann — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:56:21 +0000

I loved that time. Websites, or "apps" that don't change every second time I want to use them, are great.

New comment by ahofmann in "Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard"

ahofmann — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:14:21 +0000

I think the "overboard" part is that the developer was doxxed and received death threats.

New comment by ahofmann in "Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology"

ahofmann — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:11:28 +0000

I managed once to complete the maze, but then it went into "checking" and a spinner forever.