Hacker News: andix

New comment by andix in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

andix — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:15:52 +0000

But their VLANs still only support ipv4, which makes it hard to route external ipv6 traffic through the VLANs. You need tunnels.

New comment by andix in "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users"

andix — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:11:46 +0000

I stopped caring for outlook.com and hotmail users. If they don't receive an important message and get back to me because of it, I just blame their spam filter configuration, and tell them to get a proper email provider ;)

New comment by andix in "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users"

andix — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:27:36 +0000

My email server is permanently flagged as spam in SNDS. No way to unblock it. I've tried everything. Its not sending any marketing or automated emails.

Microsoft just wants you to use O365 and happily blocks a lot of smaller email senders. Not even gmail is that strict. They've only greylisted my server for a few months and then unblocked it fully.

New comment by andix in "What being ripped off taught me"

andix — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:20:45 +0000

> That's a case where you need to get paid up-front

Or at least in very small batches and with very short due dates.

New comment by andix in "What Being Ripped Off Taught Me"

andix — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:17:42 +0000

In such a situation (startup with unclear financial situation, foreign country) I would demand weekly payments. And if it is more than a week late, I would just leave.

New comment by andix in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

andix — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:35:24 +0000

I would've expected worse. :)

New comment by andix in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

andix — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:42:41 +0000

It doesn't work. I have the laptop next to my screen and an external keyboard. The cat always chooses the cold external keyboard instead of the warm laptop, because that's the center of my attention.

New comment by andix in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

andix — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:40:27 +0000

Exactly. Contrary to popular belief cats don't sit there because a laptop keyboard is warm. They also sit on external keyboards or even in front of a tablet without a keyboard (blocking the view to the screen). They just want your attention.

New comment by andix in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

andix — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:04:15 +0000

Donald Trump has one big advantage over many other members of the administration: He will be long dead before the justice system can act on him.

Also something to keep in mind in the future: Old people have no reason to fear prison, they will die before they can get convicted.

New comment by andix in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

andix — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:01:16 +0000

People got exactly what they voted for. It would be hilarious, if it wasn't so serious.

New comment by andix in "Migrating to the EU"

andix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:47:57 +0000

It's happening in the EU too, just not at such a fast pace than in other regions. And it's still far away from authoritarianism.

Currently it's just smaller pieces and no bigger agenda is visible (or even exiting). But there are constantly new regulations that would make an authoritarian coup (like currently in the US) easier.

New comment by andix in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

andix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:01:52 +0000

My iPad Air with M2 can run local LLMs rather well. But it gets ridiculously hot within seconds and starts throttling.

New comment by andix in "Migrating to the EU"

andix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:20:47 +0000

No system is perfect. It's more a theoretical risk for now, if you're not running a shady business.

New comment by andix in "Migrating to the EU"

andix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:17:27 +0000

Is there a good tool to automatically (and continuously) mirror all GitHub repositories to another provider? Something with GH API integration that also catches newly created projects/repos?

Issues and PRs would be a bonus, but not a requirement in my case.

New comment by andix in "Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence"

andix — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:57:56 +0000

$600 is the reason why the RMA process is a nightmare ;)

New comment by andix in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

andix — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:58:27 +0000

They finally managed to get feature parity with the Windows start menu :)

For around a decade typing "word"+return into the windows start menu search box usually opened Edge with a search result of "ord". Recently it opens Word most of the time.

New comment by andix in "WSL Manager"

andix — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:18:41 +0000

I haven't heard anyone talk about Windows containers in years, and that was actually a good thing. Let's just pretend they never existed.

New comment by andix in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

andix — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:38:23 +0000

> When an agent can generate a "scalable event-driven architecture" in 5 minutes

Currently they can't. Anyone with a basic understand of sw engineering will find numerous issues with the result of such a prompt within minutes.

New comment by andix in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

andix — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:34:44 +0000

If I would be the interviewer in this kind of situation, I would just follow up with something like this: "that might be a good option, but let's assume you need to build a tool to replace those excel sheets, ..."

New comment by andix in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

andix — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:33:02 +0000

I'm sometimes wondering if the AI content here really starts trending organically, or if it is somehow pushed by AI companies.

Not necessarily with bots, just posting a few links in a company Slack with the request for everyone to upvote it from their personal account could be enough.