Hacker News: gonzalohm

New comment by gonzalohm in "Why weekends are under threat"

gonzalohm — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:25:26 +0000

This is such an American problem. I moved from the EU to the US so I have always been pretty strict with work hours. I finish at 17 and don't work on weekends.

I have applied the same approach in the US and I have never had anyone tell me that I have to put in more hours. However, I see a lot of movement over the weekend and at weird times (people working past midnight). But the thing is that no one is really forcing them, I think this way of thinking is embedded within the average American relationship with work.

I have observed this in my wife too. She stays past her contract hours but mostly because a lot of people in her company do the same.

I think this is a "self reinforcing peer pressure problem"

New comment by gonzalohm in "Framework: ' personal computing as we know it is dead'"

gonzalohm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:07:11 +0000

On the flip side, tiny computers like raspberry pi or esp32 are becoming more capable. If the industry doesn't want us building desktop computers we will just need to switch to raspberry pi clusters

New comment by gonzalohm in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

gonzalohm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:42:24 +0000

What kind of results are other engines censoring?

New comment by gonzalohm in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

gonzalohm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0000

Not sure where you are from but it seems that the world is okay with buying from Russia again.

The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again.

I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money

New comment by gonzalohm in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

gonzalohm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:41:34 +0000

Just create a new branch before you implement new features and if the agent messes up don't merge the branch.

That way you get the best of both worlds. The buggy code is still there in case it's needed but it's not in the main branch

New comment by gonzalohm in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

gonzalohm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:06:15 +0000

I wish. I'm tired of not owning my phone. But I don't see a push being done to get a proper Linux phone

New comment by gonzalohm in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

gonzalohm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:33:15 +0000

I loved this project. I started a similar project when covid started thinking that it would be easy to implement and I would be able to use it for the after COVID parties. I was really wrong, by the time COVID finished my project was barely working (using FFT) and it really didn't look like an audio reactive LED. I remember cloning your repo and thinking wow.

We used it for a bunch of parties, but the one I'm most proud of was an outdoor rave with ~20 people for which I got to organize everything. I had to program the raspberry pi to start your code at startup because it wasn't going to be connected to a laptop. I hooked the raspberry pi and LED to a generator and everything went crazy when the lights went on.

It was an amazing party

New comment by gonzalohm in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

gonzalohm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:37:33 +0000

The sensor is not mechanical. That's why it is digital

New comment by gonzalohm in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

gonzalohm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:35:36 +0000

But what's analog then? I don't think it's a misconception. If it's not digital (and film photography isn't) then it's analog.

CDs are digital because data is encoded as bits (square wave) that are read digitally. 0 and 1

New comment by gonzalohm in "A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed"

gonzalohm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:43:37 +0000

Analog in the sense that they are mechanical objects. I have never heard of analog CDs. Analog would be vinyl

New comment by gonzalohm in "S3 Files"

gonzalohm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:28:25 +0000

I cannot 100% confirm this, but I believe AWS insisted a lot in NOT using S3 as a file system. Why the change now?

New comment by gonzalohm in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

gonzalohm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:55:24 +0000

Yes, but if it's never enforced is it really?

New comment by gonzalohm in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

gonzalohm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:49:11 +0000

The problem with syncthing is that you need to download the whole folder to your device. Google drive is "streaming"

New comment by gonzalohm in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

gonzalohm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000

it's not a subsidy. It's predatory pricing and it should be illegal. I offer you a service at a loss to remove competition and then increase prices once you are stuck with it.

New comment by gonzalohm in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

gonzalohm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:11:49 +0000

I would be fine having an app for everything if:

1. Phone storage wasn't paid at an absurdly premium price. Sometimes the option with just higher storage may be $300 more.

2. High speed Internet was available cheaply everywhere.

If I'm in a town in the middle of nowhere. I'm not going to use my expensive data plan (because in the US mobile data is extremely expensive compared to EU) To download a 500Mb app that will take 5 minutes to download because the Internet is slow just to pay for parking

New comment by gonzalohm in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

gonzalohm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:59:15 +0000

Or Cloudfare or AWS

New comment by gonzalohm in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"

gonzalohm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:25:32 +0000

How many times are you redeploying your homelab stuff? I also run lxc containers and thought about automating deployments but in my one year running proxmox I have only deployed each container once. If anything breaks I have PBS running to recover a previous backup. I don't see myself having to repeat this process more than once or twice

New comment by gonzalohm in "ISBN Visualization"

gonzalohm — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:34:07 +0000

It's because some books are not categorized as Spanish. They are just under a publisher name. For example, search for "Don Quijote"

New comment by gonzalohm in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

gonzalohm — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:49:01 +0000

Surely they are not benefiting if people don't use their website because their browser is not supported

New comment by gonzalohm in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

gonzalohm — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:23:23 +0000

Not sure I understand the problem. Are people just letting AI do anything? I use Claude Code and it asks for permission to run commands, edit files, etc. No need for sandbox