Hacker News: alternatex

New comment by alternatex in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

alternatex — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:28:00 +0000

I think it's also meant to protect from potential mistakes in handling of hard disk decommissioning which presumably is a common thing with data centers.

New comment by alternatex in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

alternatex — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:23:30 +0000

Copilot cannot be behind any models because it's a harness, not a model. You can use any of the popular models through it, including Claude models. Though people have been saying that Claude CLI is a better experience.

New comment by alternatex in "Vivaldi 8.0"

alternatex — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:48:11 +0000

Same experience with UI performance, especially on Linux (Fedora). I went back to Zen Browser because of this, but frankly most browsers are performing worse for me on Linux than on Windows.

New comment by alternatex in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

alternatex — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:30:18 +0000

According to the email I initially received for this alert, zed.exe was attempting to access its own folder within the AppData directory. Nothing more normal than that, no?

No idea how that related to what I was told by the sec people shortly afterwards.

New comment by alternatex in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

alternatex — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:11:35 +0000

I installed Zed on a work machine at a well-known software company and a week later they forced me to reimage my machine because they got some alert that the app was attempting to access browser credentials :(

No shade on Zed, sometimes in-house security tools just don't like new software.

New comment by alternatex in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

alternatex — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:55:16 +0000

As with regex, querying is about not getting what you don't want as much as it is about getting what you want. And the former of the two is much more difficult to verify.

New comment by alternatex in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

alternatex — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:38:58 +0000

I don't want to paint your comment as pro-AI brigading, but in the solution to any problem, considering the collaterals is a pillar principle of engineering. You don't get praise for solving a bug infestation problem by nuking the city.

I feel some of the recent HackerNews stories start leaning a bit too much toward using AI regardless of whether it makes sense. A solution to any problem, however interesting or clever should be critiqued holistically, alternatives included.

New comment by alternatex in "Learning Software Architecture"

alternatex — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:30:47 +0000

I don't think performance advice should be part of a general architectural principles list, so I don't think that's what they meant. Otherwise might as well add "avoid nested loops", etc, and then it devolves into a general programming advice list.

Performance is and always was something dependent on the domain rules. You don't start architecting for performance before understanding requirements so why make it a pillar of all architecture.

New comment by alternatex in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

alternatex — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:38:15 +0000

Not sure if it's a joke, but twins don't have the same biometrics

New comment by alternatex in "The bottleneck was never the code"

alternatex — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:30:55 +0000

Adaptability is a virtue, flip flopping is being disingenuous.

New comment by alternatex in "The bottleneck was never the code"

alternatex — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:05:37 +0000

Bottom line is the people described as hypocritical in the comment have no principles, but rather feign passion in anything they think other people consider valuable. When devs thought coding skill was valuable, that's what they claimed to be passionate about, when the game changed and communication became key, they suddenly changed their passion. Either the timing is a coincidence, or they are hypocrites.

I don't think switching one's passion on a dime is a valid escape hatch from hypocrisy.

New comment by alternatex in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

alternatex — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:10:58 +0000

They said 2 years after purchase. So that's where the debate is. How long should we hold manufacturers accountable for in regards to waterproofing? 1 year, 2 years, forever?

New comment by alternatex in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

alternatex — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:42:02 +0000

Legal wiggle room in case the sleepy eyes cam catches some action? Disclaimer: no idea how the tired driver sensors work.

New comment by alternatex in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

alternatex — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:38:11 +0000

Isn't it mandatory in the EU if the car supports it? Mandatory as in it's opt-out and will re-enable itself every time you turn on the car.

New comment by alternatex in "Zed 1.0"

alternatex — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:57:31 +0000

Thank you for the tips. I didn't know it was possible to install other themes as extensions.

New comment by alternatex in "Zed 1.0"

alternatex — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:53:48 +0000

The only thing that bothers me about Zed is the theme. It's so bland it actually gives me reading difficulties. I'd be surprised if some of the color combinations don't pose an accessibility issue. Grey text on grey background is quite the choice.

New comment by alternatex in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

alternatex — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:18:24 +0000

MS incentivizes feature quantity, and the leadership are employees like any other. Product improvements are not on the table unless the company starts promoting people based on it. Doesn't look this will start happening any time soon.

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

alternatex — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:45:29 +0000

Hetzner was raved about before AI was cool. I know since based on those good reviews I moved half of my apps from DigitalOcean to Hetzner. My DigitalOcean droplet was lacking in RAM and it was more expensive for me to grow it than move some stuff to another small VPS on Hetzner.

New comment by alternatex in "3.4M Solar Panels"

alternatex — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:45:55 +0000

Don't you have to replace the batteries every few years though? That should be factored in the equation.

New comment by alternatex in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

alternatex — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:03:26 +0000

Was there ever a plan for an iPhone Air 2? They're struggling to sell the stock they have.