Hacker News: fnwbr

New comment by fnwbr in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

fnwbr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:35:32 +0000

money > principles is getting tired

New comment by fnwbr in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

fnwbr — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:45:07 +0000

and i'm so tired of the majority of the world centralizing and funneling their internet through either or both of these

New comment by fnwbr in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

fnwbr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:20:02 +0000

chimed in... thank you for the great documentation!

New comment by fnwbr in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

fnwbr — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:01:04 +0000

what about the data? is it locally hosted? if he drops his phone everything will be lost? or are servers and databases involved? if so, where are they being hosted? how did he manage those?

even these sorts of stories are incredibly shallow and hard to believe for me personally.

New comment by fnwbr in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

fnwbr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:02:05 +0000

yeah, honestly i'm baffled... don't they have a whole team for marketing and communications? it's a slap in a customer's face... i've been on this subscription for 9 years, and now with enshittification, scott galloway, rutger bregman and cory doctorow all shouting off the roofs to cancel US-based subscriptions it's like no one on their public comms team is reading the room; like at all.

and on top of that they added this joke of a list of features supposed to justify the decision... as if i had previously been asked about if i'd want "AI-powered item naming. wow, what a shitshow.

New comment by fnwbr in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

fnwbr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:55:32 +0000

yep, i also had the auto-cancellation included. located in germany. good job, EU! :)

New comment by fnwbr in "Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk"

fnwbr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:55:02 +0000

coming from the fact that this was a talk held at #39c3, maybe, just maybe, this was not about selling anything at all?!

i feel like that might be hard to grasp for some HN users.

New comment by fnwbr in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

fnwbr — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:00:01 +0000

why does a post from january 2026 recommend ubuntu version 22.04?

New comment by fnwbr in "Show HN: Cover letter maker with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)"

fnwbr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:43:21 +0000

duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428699, flagged as slop

New comment by fnwbr in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

fnwbr — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:26:39 +0000

> Because many people hold Apple to higher standards, that is why.

Not really; I'd have the same expectation of any other individual or company of the given size.

New comment by fnwbr in "Open Social"

fnwbr — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:02:33 +0000

I think I understand the theory. But in fact it looks like tangled.sh is indeed using a "proprietary" Bluesky API rather than... e.g. calling `danabra.mov` right away to fetch his avatar: https://tangled.org/@tangled.org/core/blob/master/avatar/src...

... or am I misunderstanding?

New comment by fnwbr in "LLM Inevitabilism"

fnwbr — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:55:36 +0000

lol it's like you didn't even read the OP...

your own blog post has the very wording the author was criticizing and you seem to be absolutely ignorant about it:

> "Future versions of my [...] will successfully address"

> "LLMs will become so good, no [...]"

New comment by fnwbr in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

fnwbr — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:07:11 +0000

I did exactly this. Got an Eve smart plug meter and it works flawlessly in HomeAssistant. I'm also pretty sure I had upgraded to the latest firmware via Apple Home app before doing so.

New comment by fnwbr in "Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source"

fnwbr — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:56:09 +0000

Can you configure SSID and password when using the access point mode? For example when I have multiple of them in my university, I'd want to name them according to the rooms they sit in, while also making sure people can only print to the ones they can actually physically see (and therefore read the password off of a sticker)...

New comment by fnwbr in "Reflections on Palantir"

fnwbr — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:08:13 +0000

> you can work on things like Google search or the Facebook news feed, all of which seem like marginally good things

lol, where has the author been in the past decade? both of those are bad, especially the feed algorithms are scientifically proven to have a strong influence on the decline of trust into democratic institutions

New comment by fnwbr in "Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure"

fnwbr — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:37:00 +0000

That's it. I'm done with Mozilla...

New comment by fnwbr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)"

fnwbr — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 21:44:57 +0000

I really do hope that the image analysis they’re doing for the military sector also ends up being lots of 404s

New comment by fnwbr in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

fnwbr — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:06:36 +0000

given this website’s name it’s incredible how deeply neoliberal posts’ contents, comments and discourse have gotten…

y’all seriously believe that the only valid reason for an engineer or a programmer to exist is to “create *bUsiNess~ value”? i’m shaking my head.

this blog post is full of ideological blindness.