Hacker News: forty

New comment by forty in "Small programming tricks"

forty — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:18:18 +0000

> In NodeJS, you can keep a connection open to an external resource by creating an https.Agent and then providing it to your http requests: fetch(url, {method, agent}). This can have a dramatic impact on latency.

Is it true that you can pass a nodejs agent to fetch ? I don't think so

New comment by forty in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

forty — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:01:16 +0000

Here in France there are also heat pump using R290 (propane) which has greenhouse effect close to R744

New comment by forty in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

forty — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:15:10 +0000

They are in my list with mailo and mailfence. Mailbox have the benefit of allowing monthly subscription so I can easily try them

New comment by forty in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

forty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:15:31 +0000

And (Gen. 6+) is even worse now...

New comment by forty in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

forty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:57:46 +0000

Also as you probably noted, I'm quite enthusiastic about their products and have convinced a bunch of my surrounding to purchase fairphones when they had to change phone (models 3, 4 and 5 so far). I never had any of them tell me they regreted following my recommendation and as far as I know they still use their fairphones.

New comment by forty in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

forty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:52:45 +0000

This doesn't match my experience at all. I'm writing this from my fairphone 3 purchased in 2019 the day of release. I purchased one for me, one for my wife. I replaced the battery on mine once, my wife never had to change it. Her phone started so show sign of age a few month ago, she switched to the FP6. I will switch to the FP6+ soon as the support come to end this month for the FP3 (I could switch this one to eOS, but performance wise, it's not in it's prime, so I figured I could afford an upgrade after 7 years ^^). I reached out to support quite a few times for my wife or I (for order reasons, issues with operators, bugs, etc) and they have always been excellent for me.

New comment by forty in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

forty — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:30:41 +0000

I have been using fastmail for a few years (not coming from gmail) and the service is good indeed (I don't need much tbh). I'm considering switching at some point anyway as I'm trying to move the last parts of my digital life back to Europe, but I have not found an alternative I liked so far

New comment by forty in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

forty — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:47:13 +0000

A good commit message needs to explain why this change was needed/done rather than what is the content of the commit. Unless Claude also has access to the context via for example the associated issue, it simply cannot write a good commit message since it cannot generally guess why something was done from just the change. This is also the case for humans and the reason why you need to include this in the commit message.

New comment by forty in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

forty — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:21:24 +0000

Anecdotally, I don't use a screen reader and also couldn't care less on the visitors on the site. I doubt anyone but you is interested in this, and probably this number is slightly lower just because of that popup

New comment by forty in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

forty — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:32:51 +0000

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein (allegedly :))

I always thought that the quote was with "5 year old" and that it was the reason for ELI5 :)

New comment by forty in "TFTP Honey Pot Results"

forty — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:25:04 +0000

If I'm not mistaken, it's not a prompt injection attempt, but a training data pollution, in order to prepare for a prompt injection later :) great idea

New comment by forty in "Chatto is now open source"

forty — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:41:01 +0000

I'm not sure what you are complaining about, AGPL is doing nothing against commerce and you are free to fork and sell a service using that fork. Just make sure to provide the code source of your fork to your user so they can also make their own forks, potentially making their own commercial services with them. It might be to most pro commerce licence I know.

New comment by forty in "[dead]"

forty — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:50:19 +0000

I'm going to assume this is satire and move on...

New comment by forty in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

forty — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:14:51 +0000

You insist on calling it legacy connectors, but they are just perfectly good current day connectors to connect a keyboard, a video game controller, a USB drive, a printer, a scanner or the Bluetooth dongle for your Bluetooth mouse. I think only Apple decided that it was deprecated for them because it did not allow them to make their laptops thin enough to their taste. Meanwhile the rest of the world is perfectly fine with it for many use cases. You might also not believe it, but I also still use HDMI cables for screens, like a caveman ;)

New comment by forty in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

forty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:48:42 +0000

There are still new USB-A devices being sold, it's not like it's deprecated or something

New comment by forty in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

forty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:18:34 +0000

Looks like all the USB-A devices purchased over the past 30 years have not been trashed and some people still use them.

New comment by forty in "wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack"

forty — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:46:17 +0000

Moving to something else that JSON for this kind of thing is reasonable given the issues with parsing JSON which can cause 2 implementation to interpret it in 2 different ways.

https://seriot.ch/security/parsing_json.html

New comment by forty in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

forty — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:32:46 +0000

I don't think it's very reasonable to use claude code on a computer that have credentials without some kind of sandboxing or validing every command it does, at which point I'd rather do things manually

New comment by forty in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

forty — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:34:32 +0000

I'm not sure why it shouldn't be cloudflare job to make sure they don't host illegal content. If my super market keeps distributing illegal goods, even if they remove it after a court order, they will end up having to close the whole market.

Either they should police the content they serve themselves or they accept the right holders to do it (which sucks for everyone).

Also they certainly willing take all their customers as hostage, as they could certainly split their network into legitimate customers and shaddy ones so the blocking is not so impactful, but I guess they prefer to make it as impactful as possible to be able to complain.

New comment by forty in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

forty — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:51:20 +0000

As far as I know it was successful for the gendarmerie and assemblée nationale for exemple. There are many public entities and apparently each migration is news worthy