Hacker News: alphax314

New comment by alphax314 in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

alphax314 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:12:38 +0000

Its not about the recall. Every car manufacturer has many per model. Its about the wheels about to fall off

New comment by alphax314 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

alphax314 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:05:56 +0000

This is the discussion I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673264

New comment by alphax314 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

alphax314 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:53:16 +0000

There was a post here a while back saying that Microsoft will eventually switch to Linux instead of maintaining Windows. Given all the negativity around Windows this seems more and more likely (I haven’t used Windows myself for over 20 years so I have no idea what its like now. Last time I used it, it was XP)

Pwn2own: Escaping VMware Workstation

alphax314 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/on-the-clock-escaping-vmware-workstation-at-pwn2own-berlin-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773003

Points: 33

# Comments: 4

Shipping at Inference-Speed

alphax314 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:25:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2005451576971043097

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772434

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alphax314 in "Bye Bye Gmail"

alphax314 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:28:48 +0000

I used to do the same for many years woth dovecot as well. Its not too difficult plus now with the llms it can probably be easier to maintain the configuration fires (I havent tried).

However I did have issues with the VPS provider I was using getting blocked and not just my VPS’ IP but the entire block. So at some point it became tok tedious to have to follow the unblock process.

And so I switched to fastmail and have been using it for over two years. No major complaints.

Would I self-host again? If I have the free time I think its fun and you can learn a lot. However, if you have young kids and are too busy with life I would say go with a provider you trust with your data.

New comment by alphax314 in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

alphax314 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:44:17 +0000

Looks great!! I had the same idea a few days ago and am so glad you posted this now! I will be using it and will let you know of any feedback. So far works great on my network!

New comment by alphax314 in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

alphax314 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:39:13 +0000

Am I the only one who has setup notifications in the terminal so when claude is done and asks for a permission or whatever else it might need the terminal has a red dot and is bouncing? I go back to it respond in two seconds and then switch back to whatever I was doing. It doesnt feel that disruptive that I would want to run it with the —dangerous flag.

New comment by alphax314 in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

alphax314 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:51:25 +0000

Is this also a problem when buying and the seller is amazon.com or only affects third party sellers?

New comment by alphax314 in "Provide agents with automated feedback"

alphax314 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:13:24 +0000

Running all shorts of tests (e2e, API, unit) and for web apps using the claude extension with chrome to trigger web ui actions and observe the result. The last part helps a lot with frontend development.

New comment by alphax314 in "The longest Greek word"

alphax314 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:45:47 +0000

Even as a native Greek speaker it is hard to parse it.

New comment by alphax314 in "jQuery 4"

alphax314 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:28:51 +0000

Amazing oss library, glad its still being maintained!