<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>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:22:38 +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 "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
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<p>Excellent!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:04:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544921</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<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>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:41:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177688</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<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>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060445</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<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>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996161</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’re a paying customer, it’s paying customer funded, not VC funded.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845434</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<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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<p>I have a GitHub Pro subscription, renewed for the 2nd year, and I just found out I can no longer use Opus with it. Opus was one of the reasons I had a subscription in the first place.<p>Opus 4.6 had a 3x multiplier in Pro. Now the new Opus 4.7 model has 7.5x in Pro+, which offers 5x more requests, but costs 4x more than Pro. So now Opus is essentially 2x the price it used to be.<p>It’s likely that Sonnet 4.7 will be the new 3x model in Pro — <a href="https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-gi...</a><p>This whole thing is a massive asshole move, and probably illegal in all countries with a minimum set of consumer protections.</p>
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<p>Specifically Google Analytics cookies, but I found you can uncheck the box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821068</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Elected leaders must tax us, the super rich. We'd be proud to pay more."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://proudtopaymore.org">https://proudtopaymore.org</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067706">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067706</a></p>
<p>Points: 9</p>
<p># Comments: 23</p>
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<p>On a reasonably large project, you accumulate sufficient dependencies that you end up doing all of that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:18:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640157</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New SARS‑CoV‑2 variant BA.2.86 has 30+ mutations, causes concern]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/new-covid-variant-ba286-causing-concern-among-scientists-detected-in-london">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/new-covid-variant-ba286-causing-concern-among-scientists-detected-in-london</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177962">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177962</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:24:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/new-covid-variant-ba286-causing-concern-among-scientists-detected-in-london</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Am I the only one suffering from bullet points fatigue?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I (tech worker) am not sure if I'm the only one, but I'm getting a bit tired of bullet points at work (tech company). I don't know if it's because I'm getting older (30+) and maybe crankier, or my eyesight is getting worse, but I'm finding I'm skipping over bullet points more and more. The problem is bullet points is all there is.<p>I don't mind bullet points per se. When I'm taking notes for myself, or writing requirements, I tend to start with a list of all the raw and dumb ideas that cross my mind. Then I iterate over it and give it form and structure until, at least in my mind, it's reasonably readable: text is clear; flow is logical, uninterrupted; document has a clear outline; things are easy to find etc. I do use actual lists when it makes sense to do so e.g. things to do, steps to follow.<p>It seems other people don't do that. Mails, memos, requirements, tickets, more often than not the entire thing's a list of lists of lists. Sometimes you get a skinny-fat, 13 pages long document with bullet points 7 levels deep. Literally each sentence is an item on a list, and it's all expertly decorated with tables and improperly formatted code examples. I'm finding it very difficult to read that. It has no structure, no direction, no flow, no logic, no nothing. Oftentimes there's not even a summary introduction, the document jumps right into a list. You have to read the whole thing 2-3 times before you get the basic idea, then another 2-3 times to be able to ask for explanations and do so coherently. And the subjects are very far from sending rockets to space.<p>I sometimes get so exhausted that I just give up trying, and seek to understand the problem intuitively i.e. WWID. I've seen other colleagues employ a different strategy. They simply dive into coding regardless of whether they got it or not. After several rounds of code reviews by seasoned engineers, multiple testing sessions by at least a tester and the PO, and a couple of weeks later, they will eventually get it. Paradoxically, business is often frustrated about folks not getting it, though doesn't seem to mind this style of working. It's their fault, after all, but I suspect they don't imagine things could be any different. I don't know if it's because they don't have the time, don't know how to do it, don't know how to write, don't think clearly enough, or simply don't care. I'm talking about people with academic degrees, some MBAs, and I'm disapointed. And tired.<p>What are other people's experiences?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088839">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088839</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088839</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is about inflation in Europe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:23:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486054</link><dc:creator>alexaholic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alexaholic in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484267">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484267</a><p>> I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sales. After all, when virtually all prices are going up, where are consumers going to go?</p>
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<p>I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sales. After all, when virtually all prices are going up, where are consumers going to go?</p>
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<p>> Companies can't arbitrarily raise prices<p>The article suggests this is false</p>
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