<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gigatexal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gigatexal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gigatexal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I admit I posted this to just find a reason to dunk on this admin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:35:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762479</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big beer head Kavanaugh and Kegseth are probably jumping for joy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:35:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753532</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone asking was this vibe coded should calm down. Instead we should just have automated ways to audit the code to see if it’s secure, see if it’s going to steal our keys, etc.<p>If it provides value who cares?<p>I mean we could read the code to see if it does anything nefarious. Or have a bought do a check or checks.<p>But asking every time there’s a show HN is it vibe coded is such gatekeeping elitest nonsense it makes me angry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:19:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728613</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah bombing as a counter to cyber attacks is a last ditch Pandora’s box thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665189</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ethics and morality are not interchangeable are they?<p>anyway individuals willingly give to teh state some autonomy in return for the safety of governance... that's the social contract free people have with government<p>"doxxing" a Russian ransomware group is the kind thing to do. bombing them out of existence is within the remit of the range of ideas a government could resort to...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662197</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want a vscode port to native. think zed but with the rich ecosystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659176</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good. I’m glad. It’s a great editor but the whole electron backend is so bloated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:52:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657715</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has been my experience as well, Qwen via Ollama locally has been very very impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:09:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654455</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what a well written article.<p>makes me very much consider moving to Switzerland. I'd be happy with symmetric 5Gbit internet. Anything more would be overkill imo.<p>I hated working with ISPs in the states. Ever try cancelling Comcast? You literally get routed to a department whose sole reason for being is to talk you out of it.<p>I really like the idea, share the lines compete on execution.<p>One thing the article doesn't mention is in Germany the electricity and gas lines are more or less this approach. I can switch electricity providers like the article author can switch ISPs. It's a common practice to do so about 1x a year to take advantage of customer acquisition incentives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:08:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654436</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>good. just like the Claude model. getting the pricing to be in line with costs is the only way this remains sustainable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651784</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>every *Overflow site other than the main one for asking coding questions has been very good to me. StackOverflow was a terrible experience. What LLMs got right was when asking seemingly stupid questions, or simple questions, or RTFM-answerable questions didn't get responses of "RTFM", or "Duplicate", or the like.<p>If for want of the Astronomy overflow and math overflow and others to remain I will not wish that StackOverflow go the route of Ask Jeeves (and wither away into irrelevance) but I'm hoping they take a look inside and see why they failed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:49:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650627</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Add klickety clackety sounds to your Mac keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hahah use it with headphones, it's cute!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642227</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Add klickety clackety sounds to your Mac keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't create this but I found it randomly and it's hilarious. I love its whimsy.<p>go to about 28 seconds in here to see it in action: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHZw284thA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHZw284thA</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640260</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add klickety clackety sounds to your Mac keyboard]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/klack/id6446206067?mt=12">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/klack/id6446206067?mt=12</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640255">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640255</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/klack/id6446206067?mt=12</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Donald Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As if I couldn’t admire the man more and now I do!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636717</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Vim bindings I’m in!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636695</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "GraalVM and Java and Native Images, compile Java to standalone executables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Idk, would be really interesting if it could. I have been wanting to get into Clojure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:29:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632541</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I largely subscribe to the use boring tech ethos ... but php? come on man.<p>and yet... successful people have used it to build really successful things: Facebook, Tumblr (I think), the things Marco's been involved with.<p>I just dunno outside of meta should we really be pushing php with all its flaws? or is it still flawed and I need to update my priors?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629522</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For what it’s worth out the gate with ollama I can’t get it to work right in codex or claude. Seems to die after planning.<p>Other models “just work” out of the box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:23:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628634</link><dc:creator>gigatexal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gigatexal in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah heard him talk about that. 48 or so 16GB m4 Mac minis. Insane. The Beowulf lives</p>
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