Hacker News: c16

New comment by c16 in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

c16 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:05:15 +0000

With DigiID, as with this, I never understood why countries give critical infrastructure contracts away from the country it directly impacts, provided they have a mature tech ecosystem. I thought the whole point was that it was critical?

New comment by c16 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

c16 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:12:36 +0000

Many! Mostly browser extensions.

* Highlight do-follow links.

* Spoof GPS - I live in a non-english speaking country. Sometimes Google sets my location to my gps, despite having an english vpn. This is an attempt to correct that.

* Local translate, rather than sending everything to Google.

* (non browser) An SSH selection screen, so I don't need to remember the IPs

New comment by c16 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

c16 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:00:37 +0000

My experience (n=1) is that while I'm definitely lazier on certain tasks, AI has opened up some much more complex tasks. There are many tasks which I still carry out which I don't trust AI with. Maybe it's a result of the codebase I work with being fairly complicated and math heavy, but I'd say the overall outcome for me has been: lazier application on the easy tasks, mind opening on the harder tasks.

New comment by c16 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

c16 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:23:30 +0000

A big +1 for fastmail, but their official ios app is 0/10 the last time I used it. Not a big problem if you use mail.app or their website on desktop.

Something I've done and which has been a big quality of life improvement is to set up a folder with 30 day retention, then an email rule to move any emails with `+` or apple relay there. Those are legitimate emails I want to read such as online order status, but I don't need them in my every day email.

New comment by c16 in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

c16 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:30:05 +0000

As a consumer, there are many non PE owned restaurants and pubs you can frequent. While you might not be able to change the game, you can absolutely vote with your wallet. The small guys will thank you.

Same for Amazon vs going direct to the manufacturers, which is more often than not, China.

New comment by c16 in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

c16 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:18:46 +0000

Umami isn't half bad self hosted. Been using it with Docker Compose for a few years now on a LEB and it's working great.

New comment by c16 in "Googlebook"

c16 — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:18:24 +0000

I can very clearly imagine it always going for branded products where brand is not required, unless specifically prompted not to, which the average person won't do.

> I need dishwasher tablets

Could mean buy a 30 pack for £25 which have all the marketing buzz surrounding them, or buy the own brand 45 pack for £5 which does the job just as well.

New comment by c16 in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

c16 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:34:00 +0000

This is where critical thinking needs to be a skill taught and learned. Too many people take information at face value. An AI that's 80/90% right is a great way to get duped - like the author at the end.

New comment by c16 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

c16 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:41:41 +0000

Have they? https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1428pev1n0t

New comment by c16 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

c16 — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:28:18 +0000

> and maybe someone else

From my experience "connectors" make the most friends and do the most activities.

New comment by c16 in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

c16 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:13:24 +0000

How can we prevent this? Can we not start forcing MFA for git pushes? Use your fingerprint, MFA, or yubikey - reject unsigned commits on public repos?

New comment by c16 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

c16 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:55:59 +0000

That video seems like it was made for the tiktok generation. Slow down.

New comment by c16 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

c16 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:09:20 +0000

I’ve definitely noticed in evenings it stops trying as hard to solve the issue and suggests I go find the answer. Never the case in the morning.

New comment by c16 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

c16 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:50:25 +0000

> “But it works on my machine…” Then we’ll ship your machine

Is finally possible!

New comment by c16 in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

c16 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:08:46 +0000

This was a joke about them always being incredibly late to updating their status page.

New comment by c16 in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

c16 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:35 +0000

Does the status page still show it as up?

New comment by c16 in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

c16 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:40:31 +0000

Great that MPs are apparently exempt from the scanning. As if there aren’t enough high profile menaces in power.

Either include everyone, or accept it’s an awful idea for security and exempt everyone.

New comment by c16 in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

c16 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:26:19 +0000

Absolutely the case for me. Small fun projects that would take a few hours to round off a feature can now be done in an hour. Why wouldn't i finish it off?

New comment by c16 in "They’re vibe-coding spam now"

c16 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:56:34 +0000

The only advice I give now is: If you're contacted and think it might be genuine, go direct to the website. Don't click anything.

I suspect it's the only reasonable advice now?

New comment by c16 in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

c16 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:27:31 +0000

This is pretty easy to interview for, if that is something your company cares for during the hiring process.