Hacker News: ei8ths

New comment by ei8ths in "Drivers May Soon Pay Taxes Based on How Much Their Car Weighs"

ei8ths — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:25:40 +0000

wouldn't miles driven matter as well? i could drive under 5k miles a year but pay more because my car weighs more then my neighbor who drives 20k miles a year and lets say he has a lighter weight car...

New comment by ei8ths in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

ei8ths — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:57:27 +0000

I like taking my code, especially sql stuff and asking AI a better way to write this and it actually is making me better at SQL because of sql methods i didnt know i could do before. I also like it in vscode to just quickly do the redundant things with auto-complete. now i have 15 years of programming behind me. If i had AI starting out, it would be very bad, I would lack understanding and be a incompetent programmer.

New comment by ei8ths in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ei8ths — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:28:31 +0000

have you seen our school systems, k12. Its terrible and in dire need of a revamp. No child left behind really screwed kids over that want to learn. We cant just let kids pass because of feelings. Made schools better, have alternative paths for kids that are not excelling like some of their peers and find school hard to sit through.

New comment by ei8ths in "Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

ei8ths — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:46:49 +0000

I work in Perl daily, in k12 as a sys admin / network engineer. I have it do all my automation, some internal web apps.

I started on Java, PHP, C++ and during my php years i discovered Perl because we needed it at work for systems. I just love it.

New comment by ei8ths in "jQuery 4"

ei8ths — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:40:26 +0000

so true, 15 years of jQuery for me, it's my go to.

New comment by ei8ths in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

ei8ths — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:55:30 +0000

How about we stop companies from buying up properties to turn into airbnb/short term rentals, unless its a company that flips homes. Those we need.

New comment by ei8ths in "Unifi Travel Router"

ei8ths — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:46:25 +0000

these are awesome, i just take my old wifi router tp-link, its big though. I might have to get one of these little guys.

New comment by ei8ths in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

ei8ths — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:48:45 +0000

I've built something similar, not as cool as certkit, but using acme.sh i generate a wildcard and then internally my servers can pull the wildcard generates an md5 so i can track if it changes, put the certs where they need to be and restart the services they need that use it. Linux and Windows. It works.

New comment by ei8ths in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

ei8ths — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:40:51 +0000

I hope OP can get his account unlocked. This is a good reminder for everyone else, backup your cloud data to a local drive. But thats just one part, the social / email OAUTH side of things, phone accounts etc..., terrible situation. It should be easy enough to walk in a HQ / office and show credible ID and get your account unlocked.

New comment by ei8ths in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

ei8ths — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:45:54 +0000

I'll pay 5-20% more knowing my fellow americans made it

New comment by ei8ths in "Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

ei8ths — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:31:52 +0000

thanks proxmox!

New comment by ei8ths in "SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language"

ei8ths — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:15:44 +0000

this whole thing is sus...

New comment by ei8ths in "U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years"

ei8ths — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:07:59 +0000

its been bad, weeks of work missed, my kids 2 weeks missed. literally throwing up day after day, sickness. its been really bad, and we dont get sick often.

New comment by ei8ths in "Half My Life with Perl"

ei8ths — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:26:54 +0000

Use what you are comfortable with, I write Perl backends in Mojolicious, its great.

New comment by ei8ths in "Gokapi: Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative with AWS S3 support"

ei8ths — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:10:32 +0000

I need something like this but allows users to upload and send files. I don't want to make everyone admin.

New comment by ei8ths in "Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution"

ei8ths — Sat, 18 May 2024 18:52:22 +0000

dont call this a network routing solution.

New comment by ei8ths in "Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs"

ei8ths — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:40:55 +0000

depending how light weight, my go to on old computers would a xubuntu or xfce flavor. that DE is awesome.

New comment by ei8ths in "Fcron Is the Best Cron"

ei8ths — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:54:50 +0000

i cant say much about cron, i use it for simple scripts on systems. When i have a lot of jobs that need to be scheduled routinely and i need alerts if they dont, i use jenkins, it works really well.

New comment by ei8ths in "US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks"

ei8ths — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:18:41 +0000

this is great, i think veterans should get the same treatment.

New comment by ei8ths in "Ask HN: Anyone Using the Epson EcoTank or HP Smart Tank Printers?"

ei8ths — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:12:28 +0000

I think it is, just spec the one you can use, mine can't do card stock paper and so im a little bummed after finding that out. but have had it for years and the ink doesnt empty, its great.