Hacker News: flemhans

New comment by flemhans in "Factories are just rooms"

flemhans — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:32:44 +0000

It's all about what transports well and what doesn't.

New comment by flemhans in "Ukraine disguised Nord Stream sabotage mission as a 'porn film'"

flemhans — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:36:18 +0000

Wtf what a bad website; first it coerces me to accept cookies (or pay!) if I wish to continue reading. After this, it let me scroll a little bit before presenting its next move: create account if you want to continue reading.

Why wasn't that just part of the original modal? I wonder what would be the third modal, does it want all my children too?

New comment by flemhans in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

flemhans — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:50:11 +0000

I am now notoriously fast at speedrunning the various airlines and ticketing sites.

Wonder if that could be a YouTube Channel

New comment by flemhans in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

flemhans — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:44 +0000

Supply md5 hash of first name + last name + seed when buying, computed manually by yourself.

Upon arrival at the venue you show photo id and a sheet of DIN A4 paper containing the hash and seed, and the Ticket Man will verify.

Side joke: One of the German ticket sites, maybe eventim, stated on the PDF that it must be printed on DIN A4 paper.

New comment by flemhans in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

flemhans — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:26:25 +0000

We had maximum word counts

New comment by flemhans in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

flemhans — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:55:38 +0000

I see it the other way, I can do whatever creative and fun stuff I like, and the agent does the boring debugging or finishing up my loose ends.

New comment by flemhans in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

flemhans — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:18:52 +0000

Which countries are you already blocking?

New comment by flemhans in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

flemhans — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:19:44 +0000

I also found it super gross but after a few weeks of tough endurance, the chemical taste subsided and disappeared. It comes back after a week or so without Diet Coke.

But yeah I could hardly swallow it in the beginning.

New comment by flemhans in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

flemhans — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:16:43 +0000

For me it was a persistence thing. Keep drinking and you don't really notice it any more. If anything sugared drinks now feel overly sticky or caramel-like to me. I can no longer enjoy non-diet coke.

Soldier on!

New comment by flemhans in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

flemhans — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:03:21 +0000

I don't see why not

New comment by flemhans in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

flemhans — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:19:47 +0000

I'm already having lots of success letting the agent loose on the arduino or rpi and figuring out all the annoying i2c bits and having me try different pinout and wiring combos until it works. Even with a human in the loop agents are useful right now for electronics. On one occasion I did give it a camera feed so it could check for itself if the LEDs were doing as expected.

New comment by flemhans in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

flemhans — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:09:44 +0000

I remember my friend Peter, in 1999, on campus networking with 100 Mbit internet saying: I think this will be enough for many years to come. And he was kinda right — 100 Mbit is still "almost good enough" 27 years later for internet access.

New comment by flemhans in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

flemhans — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:04:26 +0000

Or just include a $0.03 pd negotiator in the circuit

New comment by flemhans in "GPT-5.5"

flemhans — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:22:41 +0000

Provided you believe LLMs cannot perform research.

New comment by flemhans in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

flemhans — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:19:49 +0000

Couldn't you say that both ways are "upload queues"? A specifically declared upload queue is also just some kind of dep cooldown.

But as others have noted, people having different cooldown settings means a nice staggered rollout.

New comment by flemhans in "Claude.ai down"

flemhans — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:42:42 +0000

They aren't declaring 99% of their degraded service, reduced performance, token consumption bugs etc.

One of the least transparent companies I've been a customer of.

New comment by flemhans in "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz"

flemhans — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:28:10 +0000

Brings back memories of Gammu hooked up to a Nokia 6150 over serial. It was already questionable back then but never got caught by the telco

New comment by flemhans in "Flighty Airports"

flemhans — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:05:54 +0000

Happy to see Kyiv doing so well! Not a single delayed flight.

New comment by flemhans in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

flemhans — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:27:16 +0000

Disconnect its modem

New comment by flemhans in "Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit"

flemhans — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:26:03 +0000

I remember that existed way back then.

And MacSaber... MacSaber!!!