<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alexaholic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexaholic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:59:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alexaholic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rust is a tool that allows one to build cars for humans to drive, in order to avoid certain accidents. If you try to put your dog in the driver’s seat of a Rust-powered car, Rust will stop you and ask you to produce proof that the dog is a qualified human driver.<p>The world is a pretty big place, so of course there are people who sometimes put their dog in the driver’s seat. Sometimes by accident, sometimes out of necessity, and sometimes because they think it’s mighty fun. Since Rust is strict about who or what gets to drive the car, these people build their cars using other languages.<p>Some Rust-heads, however, are pretty adamant that cars are to be driven by qualified humans only, and therefore keep nagging everyone about how all cars should be built with Rust.</p>
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<p>The Jehovah's Witnesses of programming</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:29:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489764</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone remember Xandros? <a href="https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros" rel="nofollow">https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros</a><p>Iirc it was a bit wonky and it eventually convinced me that, if I wanted to ever use Linux, I didn't need a Windows UI — I needed to learn to use Linux.</p>
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<p>> Any half decent product, with a nice website, a real solution and some SEO can get in front of say 100,000 prospects these days<p>A lot of the Internet says otherwise — especially these days. Care to share your sauce?</p>
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<p>I assume you're talking about O Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa (The Fantastic World of The Portuguese Sardine). It's obviously a tourist trap and, btw, contributing to the craze.</p>
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<p>I haven't heard of Delphi in ages. Where I grew up, I was the first generation to start high school with C++ as opposed to the previous ones who were stuck with Pascal. I believe I did some in university, but not much. Anyway, I am amused to find this news on HN. I spent some of the past 24 hours reading through — and trying to draw some conclusions out of — the Go vs Rust sword fights in <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222270">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222270</a> Mad respect for these guys not giving a funk.</p>
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<p>This is awesome! I wonder how far can you get with a wood and iron build</p>
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<p>Fwiw Rovo is built on top of Claude</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:10:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188317</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> or you can just wire everything up in the shell itself keeping it as simple as possible with one single tool<p>If I understand correctly, you’re not answering my question, and you’re not talking about MCP either. Have you considered that maybe you’re in the wrong thread?</p>
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<p>MCP is nice, but does your agent use it without you explicitly asking it to do so?<p>From my experience, instructions in `.md` files aren't enough. In fact, Claude seems to prefer the shell over even its own built-in tools (e.g. `read`, `edit` etc.) See: <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19649" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19649</a>. It's like an old dog that needs to be tricked to learn new tricks.</p>
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<p>[flagged]</p>
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<p>Excellent!</p>
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<p>If you believe the EU cares about kids, then yeah, I guess you could say it's sad to talk about the EU targeting Temu.<p>If you believe the EU cares about the EU economy, then I think it's absolutely relevant to talk about the EU targeting Temu.</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.ph/ea6TC" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/ea6TC</a></p>
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<p>The Amália model is not yet publicly available. Until it's ready, one can fool around with Anália at <a href="https://analia.pt" rel="nofollow">https://analia.pt</a></p>
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<p>> I know that at least Blik is working on making it possible for international payments<p>International transfers between MB Way (PT) and Bizum (ES) are working e.g. via phone number. See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Alliance" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Alliance</a></p>
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<p>> personally I'd still wait for some reviews from some real world people<p>Fine, wait, but do encourage everybody else to buy, otherwise you won't see any review from any "real world people"</p>
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<p>> winget install 9NQ7512CXL7T<p>LOL</p>
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<p>If you’re a paying customer, it’s paying customer funded, not VC funded.</p>
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<p>> more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro plan<p>The change applies to existing subscriptions, some paid a year in advance.</p>
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