Hacker News: fernandotakai

New comment by fernandotakai in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

fernandotakai — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:32:58 +0000

the main things are:

1. pin dependencies with sha signatures 2. mirror your dependencies 3. only update when truly necessary 4. at first, run everything in a sandbox.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

fernandotakai — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:58:34 +0000

i do the same thing, but not for typewriter, but because back in my leopard/snow leopard days, i setup -- to transform into —.

the thing is, i never setup it again but i kept typing --.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Layoffs at Block"

fernandotakai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:03:20 +0000

i've been using twitter/x since 2007 and it has not gotten way worse -- specially if you try comparing to truly bad era of the #failwhale.

New comment by fernandotakai in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

fernandotakai — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:23:45 +0000

i've always used double dashes -- because i once i setup a osx shortcut to change those into em-dashes, but i never bother to setup this again in other computers.

so now, i just use double dashes for everything.

(shit, i wonder when llms will start doing this instead of normal em)

New comment by fernandotakai in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

fernandotakai — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:46:51 +0000

same. i still remember how painful it was to setup services without systemd.

having to manually deal with daemons was so painful, to the point of being exoteric.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

fernandotakai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:25:24 +0000

i've been to a bunch of concerts here in the netherlands and they do the most basic checks.

last time, they checked my wife's purse without a torch (so she could've hidden anything inside) and didn't check anything on me so i got in with two 1g edibles.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

fernandotakai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:23:17 +0000

for people that don't get the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj8DzA9y8ls

New comment by fernandotakai in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

fernandotakai — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:03:12 +0000

>I wonder who they actually tried to impress with that?

investors?

New comment by fernandotakai in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

fernandotakai — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:47:28 +0000

yup, same. slack thread with a lot of comments with people praising it.

others were quite skeptical, specially the ones that actually perused the code.

New comment by fernandotakai in "STFU"

fernandotakai — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:09:06 +0000

sure. he wasn't beaten to death.

but:

1. do you really wanna get into a fight because of this? because dude, i have a family to take care, so i would rather just not say anything.

2. you can easily die from a single punch

New comment by fernandotakai in "STFU"

fernandotakai — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:07:16 +0000

i've seen people get beat up because they asked an anti-social c-words to turn the volume down.

some people just cannot be reasoned and the amount of people like this is growing HARD.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

fernandotakai — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:24:12 +0000

>Do you know of anyone declining to work on a project For ethical in their view ( non military non killing) ?

i was offered a high paying job, with relocation to a 1st world country (at the time, i was living in a 3rd world country with high murder rates), to a industry that i consider quite shady (and it's not military and not around killing -- i have no issues with both of those). i politely refused.

most of my friends, at the time, told me that they would've have accepted without even thinking, but for me, it's just not worth it.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

fernandotakai — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:11:43 +0000

and i honestly would rather parse json inside ipython and then move to a script, than keep invoking `| jq` time and time again.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

fernandotakai — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:47:55 +0000

i did this exact thing literally 15 years ago with a simple django app -- there's no way they are using this kind of example in 2025 year of our lord.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

fernandotakai — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:03:18 +0000

most people don't even know how to properly hone a knife since there are specific movements.

i would recommend anyone sending their knives to a professional for sharpening -- you will feel much more confident cutting, and everything will be safer.

New comment by fernandotakai in "996"

fernandotakai — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:44:33 +0000

some social media grifters are boasting this amount of work -- mostly young ai startup founders.

the trouble is, for the amount of work these people claim they are doing, i'm not seeing actual things being shipped.

New comment by fernandotakai in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

fernandotakai — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:55:22 +0000

orbstack is absolutely amazing. not only the docker side works much better than docker desktop but their lightweight linux vms are just beyond great.

i've been using an archlinux vm for everything development over the past year and a half and i couldn't be happier.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian"

fernandotakai — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:40:24 +0000

almost the same reason i started using arch: i wanted to install linux into my macbook, and the only wiki with enough info to make it work was arch's.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Happy 20th Birthday, Django"

fernandotakai — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:48:34 +0000

django is the framework that made me fall in love with software development 18y ago.

everything just worked out of the box (compared to using java + spring and their endless xml config files), the orm was (and still is!) lovely compared to other solutions, and there were so many things included, that i never really had to go integration hell.

New comment by fernandotakai in "Mullvad Leta"

fernandotakai — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:40:10 +0000

kind of of topic, but i had to google to find out which female part rhymed with dolores, because it made no sense to me (as an ESL).

(for people wondering, it's clitoris).

https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Junior_Mint

https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Dolores