<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: charles_f</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=charles_f</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:40:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=charles_f" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "The End of Eleventy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using the same version of Jekyll, using the same outdated, discontinued version of ruby, for more than 10y. I <i>refuse</i> to learn anything about ruby, or spend any time upgrading Jekyll or any of the 2 plug-ins I use, and I take a weird pride in that. It works, it generates my blog, I don't want it to do anything else. I have no idea how it works anymore. For all I know Jekyll has been abandoned. That version of ruby might be riddled with bugs and security holes, and why would I care? it's only used when I generate the website, in a docker container that doesn't talk to anything.<p>Eleventy might not receive new features, your website will still work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:21:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735873</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love aerospace, but you can definitely feel that it's a hack on top of the macos window manager. If a window starts misbehaving (like, app is frozen or sometimes even just has a top dialog) then aerospace can't move it and you lose its immersive aspects. I also keep getting floating windows lost in the outer limits of the outside wotld, and have to use the native "move to center" in this situation. Oh and that issue with tabs in ghostty or item is annoying - but once again not something aerospace is really responsible for.<p>With all that said, short of being able to use i3, this is a fantastic WM, couldn't imagine not having it. Use it in combination with karabiner to remap your caps lock key, and suddenly caps lock becomes how you move in macos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719305</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's an interesting takes. I found it quite suspicious at first, especially because it doesn't present well the myths that it's trying to debunk: are we talking abouy caffeine half life or its effects; and is that 5h half life related to the metabolism of caffeine, or related to its effects.<p>It looks like pharmacokinetics (ie how long caffeine stays in blood) is what's been studied mostly, and that's where the 5h timeline is coming from. I couldn't find papers on the timeline of pharmacodynamics of caffeine (how long it has effects).<p>That's an interesting gap this article is underlining!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719179</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Am I German or Autistic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"A moral obligation from my side, but I prefer if others don't come to an appointment with me"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703881</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair, that template resolves to a box but it's missing stuff like tabs to make the bottom properly stick ; and it's probably not optimal in its use of cardboard. Also it was design in a minute in draw.io to make a stranger on the internet chuckle, so lots of constraints to fulfill.</p>
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<p>There, designed especially for you. Don't thank me, I'm a cardboard security expert, can do that all day long.<p><a href="https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template-very-secure.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677654</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to be excited by these kind of tools, I love to self-host stuff. When I clicked on the link, I had this hesitation, suspecting "maybe it's LLM generated". And sure enough, coming back to HN, description says it is.<p>File sync can't be that hard! Enters the first 3 way conflict and everything explodes.<p>Dont misunderstand me, this is a cool idea. But if your rotation time between ideating a project and pushing it to HN is a week, you don't understand the problem space. You didn't go through the pain of realizing its complexity. You didn't test things properly with your own data, lost a bunch of it and fixed the issues, or realized it was a bad idea and abandoned it. I have no guarantee you'll still be there in a month to patch any vulnerabilities.<p>Not that any open-source project had these kind of guarantees until now, but the effort invested in them to get to that point was at least a secondary indicator about who built it, their dedication, and their understanding of the space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675841</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stop paying for banks, AI built this cardboard box that you can store in your toolshed instead!</p>
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<p>I cared about the author's opinion so it's not literal, I like the article. I didn't care about <i>your</i> opinion though.</p>
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<p>You need a job to sustain a family. From the post it seems like author accepted the sacrifice for the amount he was supposed to be paid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661585</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>4 weeks is one moon, not many moons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645349</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It will sound like finessing on details, but details are important in these kind of claims, and this seems incorrect<p>> Microsoft has 33,000 employees and a $15 billion legal budget<p>Microsoft has more than 220k employees (it's hard to follow with all the layoffs), and the G&A in which bankrolls legal expenses (but not only - it also contains basically every employee who's not engineering or sales) was only 7B in 2025 - so legal budget is much lower than that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:41:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615177</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My camera started malfunctioning lately (because tropicalized doesn't mean you can use it in tropical weather). It worked, but when I switched batteries I had to wait a minute for whatever capacitor was blown to discharge before it would boot again.<p>I sent it back for repair to the manufacturer, they gave me an "estimate" that it wouldn't be repairable, and generously offered a replacement with a refurbished one, at $10 off the price of new (plus shipping, of course). I declined the "repair" and asked for the camera back.<p>When it arrived, the stickers I had put around made it clear it hadn't even been open. Having seen enough Louis Rossmann, I brought it to a camera shop around which is doing microsoldering. They replaced a single capacitor (after making me sign papers that it would probably never work again, and charging me quite a bit - still better than wasting an otherwise perfectly functional camera). The unrepairable camera was repaired.<p>It is so disappointing and unsurprising that a manufacturer wouldn't put even remotely any effort into actual repairs, that a street shop with actual expertise will happily do. I've come to expect no expertise from any service department I communicate with. Sending something for repair is almost a sure way that it will be broken even further. When even replacing the top case in the example of that mac seems overkill, when they could probably replace the faulty key with skill and will.<p>I guess that's a matter of incentives, given that in mass market, repairability is not something people look into when shopping.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:55:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575148</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "A leak reveals that Anthropic is testing a more capable AI model "Claude Mythos""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The irony of bragging about how dangerous to cybersecurity it is with all the holes punches by the current generations</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:15:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551857</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I do agree generally, there are a couple things to note<p>1. Author was made to pay for the bureaucracy and a rigid rule, and found a way to revert that. Now Karen pays the price for the bureaucracy. In the end Author made it a 0 sum game while there was not necessarily a need... and yet fair is fair, he was entered in the game without asking, and he played it.<p>2. >  She has no power, absolutely no power<p>I doubt if this is true. In the end she said "fine we'll mark the file as updated" while having received only partially what Author sent. This shows she had permissions to change the status of their file, and agency in determining if she should.<p>In the end I'm not sure if it was worth making someone else suffer, there was probably that 2 pages file that they needed to send, which would have been enough to send everyone on their merry way. Beyond just creating suffering to someone else, that could have very well ended with "fine, we'll review those 500 pages, I'm not sure if we can do that by the deadline".</p>
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<p>It's an interesting state that you can force someone to unlock their phone with biometrics, but you can't force them to reveal a pin.<p>Anecdotally, I have been to the US a few times in the past year, and seen no change myself - where are you going and why? Thanks have a good trip. It was for short business trips, and I'm white with a number of documented entries/departures, so my experience might be very different from the next person though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:54:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519085</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm directly quoting the portion of the abstract related to anxiety and depression, tell me how that's misrepresenting?<p>> There was an absence of RCT evidence for the treatment of depression.<p>> Meta-analysis revealed higher odds of all-cause adverse events (OR 1·75, 95% CI 1·25 to 2·46) among those using cannabis versus control group<p>And my point was that the paper talks about absence of data about efficacy on <i>treatment</i> so arguing on helping vs. curing in interpreting it is moot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473465</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Beyond the semantics, this is what the meta analysis(1) actually says in the abstract<p>> There were insufficient data to meta-analyse studies of ADHD, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and tobacco use disorder. There was an absence of RCT evidence for the treatment of depression. Meta-analysis revealed higher odds of all-cause adverse events (OR 1·75, 95% CI 1·25 to 2·46) among those using cannabis versus control group<p>The paper says there's no evidence of effectiveness in treatment, and evidence of harm.<p>1: <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(26)00015-5/fulltext" rel="nofollow">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:20:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473023</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's More to Do?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://fev.al/posts/whats-more-to-do/">https://fev.al/posts/whats-more-to-do/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464175">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464175</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:14:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://fev.al/posts/whats-more-to-do/</link><dc:creator>charles_f</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by charles_f in "Molly guard in reverse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The guard itself ends up pushing the button</p>
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