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New comment by copirate in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

copirate — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:47:18 +0000

Same here. That’s probably because the number of websites that actually harvest email addresses from User-Agent headers to send spam is small, and Claude would need to have actually fetched one of them.

New comment by copirate in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

copirate — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:48:44 +0000

Why do these tools never have the equivalent of sketch contraints in FreeCAD? That's how I build my models and it avoids a lot of math.

I'd really like a "CAD as code" tool that's basically the FreeCAD Part Design workflow but with code. I know FreeCAD has a python interface but it's far from developer friendly.

New comment by copirate in "Why I love NixOS"

copirate — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:19:31 +0000

One thing I love about NixOS is how easy it is to run packages from different sources. For example, I needed an old package that's been removed from nixpkgs several years ago. To run it I just had to add an old release of nixpkgs as input to my flake.nix and add the package from this input. It pulls all its dependencies from that old release and there's zero conflict with the other packages.

New comment by copirate in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

copirate — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:50:05 +0000

So if I have to reinstall my phone it won't be usable for 24h because I won't be allowed to install my F-Droid apps?

New comment by copirate in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

copirate — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:22:16 +0000

> After all, real humans – even geniuses – are trained on much much less data than the whole Internet.

It's certainly different data, but one could argue that real humans have been trained on 3.5 billion years of evolution data.

New comment by copirate in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

copirate — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:10:45 +0000

I'm not saying they invented anything. I'm saying it's a different workflow than what what I've seen on HN.

I don't care about Visual Studio, I don't use it, but the page you've linked seems to describe yet another workflow (not very detailed).

New comment by copirate in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

copirate — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:07:04 +0000

Making the model write a research file, then the plan and iterate on it by editing the plan file, then adding the todo list, then doing the implementation, and doing all that in a single conversation (instead of clearing contexts).

There's nothing revolutionary, but yes, it's a workflow that's quite different from other posts I've seen, and especially from Boris' thread that was mentioned which is more like a collection of tips.

New comment by copirate in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

copirate — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:59:15 +0000

A detailed workflow that's quite different from the other posts I've seen.

New comment by copirate in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

copirate — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:54:41 +0000

They are different Boris. I was using the names already used in this thread.

New comment by copirate in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

copirate — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:36:13 +0000

But the author's workflow is actually very different from Boris'.

#6 is about using plan mode whereas the author says "The built-in plan mode sucks".

The author's post is much more than just "planning with clarity".

New comment by copirate in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

copirate — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:37:35 +0000

Sure, I was not talking about Signal. Something like Bitmessage[1] can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage

New comment by copirate in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

copirate — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:13:16 +0000

It can protect the identity of the members, though.

New comment by copirate in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

copirate — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:49:02 +0000

There's also this issue[1] with about 300 participants about limits being reached much more quickly since they stopped the 2x limit for the holidays. A few people from Anthropic joined the conversation but didn't say much. Some users say they solved the issue by creating a new account or changing their plan.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157

New comment by copirate in "Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI"

copirate — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:27:45 +0000

If it's the same author they can reuse the code. They can copy the code but they can't link it.

New comment by copirate in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

copirate — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:23:53 +0000

But my config files (/etc, ~/.config, etc.) are either managed by nix (and no program can modify them), or they are not and in that case nix will never touch them. In what situation would nix overwrite a file?

New comment by copirate in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

copirate — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:44:15 +0000

This problem may be specific to Darwin because on NixOS I've never had a file overwritten by nix (even with home manager). When a file is managed by nix it's a symlink to a read-only filesystem (/nix/store), so no program can overwrite it. If the symlink is replaced by a regular file, nix refuses to reapply.

New comment by copirate in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

copirate — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:06:44 +0000

No, I'm saying it's not clear at all who is in a better position. I'd even argue that the miner hiding his block is in a worse position.

But I'll stop discussing that with you. It's pointless and you're way too condescending.

New comment by copirate in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

copirate — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:02:49 +0000

But yesterday's jackpot is still running, here. If you find a block on the public chain while the other miner kept their block secret, your block becomes the main chain. If they publish their block after you, both blocks compete for the head, but it's usually the first published one that wins.

New comment by copirate in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

copirate — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:59:22 +0000

What advantage does it provide vs not withholding? If you don't keep your first block secret and find a 2nd block, you get the same rewards.

On the other hand, if someone finds a block while you're keeping yours secret, it's very likely you'll lose the reward of your block.

So, you get a chance to discard the block of another miner, but you have to put your own block at risk of being discarded. Maybe there's a gain here, but it's not clear.

New comment by copirate in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

copirate — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:53:36 +0000

Yes, but when you find that block you don't know whether you will be 10 blocks ahead in the future. You have to make the decision to put the reward of this block at risk before you know you'll be able apply your strategy. That's what I meant here. It is very costly on average because of the potential loss of the withheld blocks.