Hacker News: chmars

Claude: We have discovered that some API methods are not working

chmars — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:07:46 +0000

Issues started at around 11.30 UTC today, official at 11:49 UTC according to https://status.claude.com/.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218144

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Bending Spoons Buys Harvest Time Tacking Software

chmars — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:00:17 +0000

Users of Harvest (harvestapp.com) were surprised today with the following announcement when using the online service:

«To simplify our structure and support long-term improvements to Harvest, Iridesco LLC—the company that previously provided your service—has been merged into its parent entity, Bending Spoons US Inc. Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy have been revised to reflect that your service is now being provided by Bending Spoons US Inc. and to make a few other minor updates. No action is required on your part. Everything about your account will remain the same—including how your personal data is processed. These new Terms go into effect on January 1, 2026. By continuing to use our service, you agree to the new Terms of Service and acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.»

Enshittification incoming …

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454175

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chmars in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

chmars — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:26:53 +0000

Same here.

Sunsetting Chartable

chmars — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://chartable.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669043

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by chmars in "Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production"

chmars — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:55:47 +0000

How is this different from Auphonic?

https://auphonic.com/features

New comment by chmars in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

chmars — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:27:29 +0000

It’s about 12 weeks in Germany:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4dc8

New comment by chmars in "Telegram raises $210M through bond sales"

chmars — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:32:57 +0000

They have never had a domicile in Germany. In Dubai, there is basically an empty office room used as their domicile.

New comment by chmars in "ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance"

chmars — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:29:32 +0000

How do you use Tresorit for backup?

New comment by chmars in "Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study"

chmars — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:33:11 +0000

Sub-Saharan Africa has of course also suffered greatly from SARS-CoV-2, they just have not the means to count their cases. SARS-CoV-2 does not behave differently in Africa than in other regions of the world, especially not in low-vaccination (or even no-vaccination) countries.

«Rather than an ‹African paradox,› the far simpler explanation is that COVID-19 has affected African countries just as the virus has everywhere else, but has gone undocumented.»

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/morgue-data-reveal...

In countries with a younger population, less deaths from acute COVID-19 are expected, although the number of additional direct deaths from COVID-19 is still substantial. The disease burden burden, i.e., morbidity, also remains high, maybe even more given the sub-par health infrastructure.

New comment by chmars in "Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?"

chmars — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:47:15 +0000

Do you have a source for those 'silly teams'?

New comment by chmars in "Taking a Look at Mastodon"

chmars — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:25:17 +0000

'I can actually see content from people I follow'?

On your home page, click on the star icon in the upper right corner and choose 'See latest Tweets instead'.

New comment by chmars in "How I would start my next startup in Germany without a GmbH (2020)"

chmars — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:38:51 +0000

According to German law, executives can be held responsible anyway …

New comment by chmars in "Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers"

chmars — Sat, 28 May 2022 14:52:44 +0000

In automatic mode, different ppm level should result in higher fan speeds. That is at least the case with my filters. Cooking for example can be a trigger.

You are of course right that automatic mode does not do much. At the same time, higher fan speeds are noticeable (and annoying).

New comment by chmars in "Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers"

chmars — Sat, 28 May 2022 14:50:44 +0000

The filter durability is time-based in my experience:

I set up several air purifiers at the same time in December 2021 but used them in different areas, i.e., with different filter loads. The air purifiers ran 24/7 and mostly in automatic mode, except for some hours after known possible coronavirus exposures.

Official end of filter life was reached after about five months and for all filters on the same day. The air purifiers are still running tough, that's a plus!

Xiaomi recommends to replace filters every 6 to 12 months. The recommendation, however, is based on the use in polluted Asian cities, I guess. We have rather clean air here. I therefore assume that it is safe to use the filter for an additional few months.

Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after security audit

chmars — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://protonmail.com/blog/security-audit-all-proton-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31068985

Points: 121

# Comments: 45

New comment by chmars in "Insect Hotel"

chmars — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:27:39 +0000

A company in Switzerland has an interesting business model:

You buy a bee hotel (or bee hotels). They provide you with a tube containing a few fresh bee larvae every year before the wild bee season. After the season, you return the filled tubes. They remove parasites etc. and sell the resulting bee larvae for their commercial business with farmers etc. The biannual exchange is free. There is also minimal gamification because you can compare your success with other bee hotel owners from the same company.

https://fr.wildbieneundpartner.ch/ (in French)

New comment by chmars in "Five dead as Romanian MIG disappears, and helicopter sent to find it crashes"

chmars — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:33:16 +0000

Romania is a former member of the Warsaw Pact and has therefore still MIGs in service.

New comment by chmars in "Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation"

chmars — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 08:05:17 +0000

Why does a website need to know my zoom level, i.e., why is this information even made available?

New comment by chmars in "Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy"

chmars — Sun, 09 May 2021 08:16:41 +0000

I found some similar looking LED offers by Migros, the largest (or second largest) retail chain in Switzerland:

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-special-t26-25-2700k-e1...

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-special-t26-40-2700k-e1...

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-retrofit-clas-a-60-e27

New comment by chmars in "Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store"

chmars — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:43:58 +0000

I’m wondering which legal entity has filed the complaint. Telegram has always been reluctant to provide transparency on its ownership and the legal entities in charge.