Hacker News: domh

New comment by domh in "Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com"

domh — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:35:54 +0000

Yeah I'm getting a CF error on /login but the session still appears active if I just try again?

New comment by domh in "In Rainbows"

domh — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:44:29 +0000

I still listen to it a lot. It's one of my favourite albums of all.

New comment by domh in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

domh — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:28:49 +0000

Slack flickers a lot for me, no idea why. I haven't updated macOS yet because I don't love the look of the new liquid glass stuff. I think this makes me 2 majors behind now...

New comment by domh in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

domh — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:03:08 +0000

Fairly common in houses with the space for them, but they often come in washer/dryer combos if you don't have the space. These are about as effective as using a hairdryer to dry your clothes and take about 3hrs after the initial wash.

The tumble dryer I had in the US could do a full load dry in about 25-30 mins. Maybe it was significantly more wasteful in terms of energy.

New comment by domh in "Thunderbird for iOS"

domh — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:20:27 +0000

Ahh yes. Anything in the user section of the email, not the domain. This was not possible to do on protonmail.

New comment by domh in "Thunderbird for iOS"

domh — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:56:23 +0000

Ahh yeah it was probably a protonmail limitation then. Or maybe needing to manually add to both proton and Thunderbird was the friction I remember.

New comment by domh in "Thunderbird for iOS"

domh — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:55:11 +0000

It definitely does for me in both web and android. You can setup specific hardcoded aliases for routing purposes but I have a wildcard/catchall and I can put anything in the From when I compose or reply to an email.

New comment by domh in "Thunderbird for iOS"

domh — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:10:02 +0000

Editable from field is also the only reason I was using it with protonmail. I can't remember if it was a protonmail limitation or a Thunderbird one that meant I had to pre-add any email addresses before I could send any messages from them though.

Now I'm on fastmail, the from address is an input box that I can put anything into.

New comment by domh in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

domh — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:31:08 +0000

I've been doing this as well! It's always 6pm-7pm for me which is when my Cosy tariff has the peak rate anyway, which I try to not use. So for no behaviour change I normally get 1-2hrs of free electricity on a Sunday morning! I got 15kWh for free this week by having the immersion, heat pump, washing machine and tumble dryer running. Not bad for 0 effort on my part.

New comment by domh in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

domh — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:55:55 +0000

Why does this site need JS at all? It appears to inject all of the other languages via client side JS. Why can't they all just be served from the server?

New comment by domh in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

domh — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:40:04 +0000

Yeah I was wondering this also. I had no idea they had some shared blob (or maybe they have source code access) that runs in all of their cars. Would love to read more about how this process works if anyone knows!

Wonder if they all get given a thumb drive at the start of the weekend with the latest patch. Release notes saying "library updates and bug fixes, now go drive 200mph around a track! Have fun!"

New comment by domh in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

domh — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:52:05 +0000

> The PS5 may be my last console.

I'm in agreement with this. I'll likely do some kind of Steam Machine or self-build version running SteamOS. Would lose some exclusives but I don't think they're worth losing my freedom. Paying the money for a computer that I can't actually use leaves a poor taste.

New comment by domh in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

domh — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:55:02 +0000

Ironically Larry David always seems to be at dinner parties in Curb. Maybe it's a wealthy person activity or maybe it's just comedy gold coming up with a new reason why he pisses off the host and gets kicked out again.

New comment by domh in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

domh — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:55:15 +0000

Same as UK farmers voting for Brexit whilst being beneficiaries of EU subsidies for farming.

New comment by domh in "Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey"

domh — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:32:02 +0000

The longest alliance still in force is the Anglo-Portuguese alliance which was signed in 1386!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance

New comment by domh in "I said no and Apple said yes"

domh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:15:12 +0000

Just curious... Would Asahi Linux allow me to run llama.cpp on my m1? I have a spare laptop with lots of memory, wondering whether performance could be improved by using Asahi over running models on macOS?

New comment by domh in "Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side"

domh — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:23:19 +0000

Also Alt-J, whose logo Δ can be obtained by pressing alt+j on a Mac:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-J

New comment by domh in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

domh — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:53:46 +0000

It feels like (to me at least) that the pendulum is swinging back the other way. But maybe this is just my preference.

New comment by domh in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

domh — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:21:37 +0000

I would've actually thought AI would slightly improve upon this situation. At least in my experience claude seems to write a lot more little utility functions itself rather than reaching for a package from npm to do something. Requiring an `npm install` before getting something working risks triggering a permissions gate.

New comment by domh in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

domh — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:59:48 +0000

These packages are basically memes at this point... Those download figures cannot be accurate for real production usage.

I don't believe any programmer is actually using these. isarray and left-pad are at least functions that didn't used to be in the standard library, to slightly excuse them.