Hacker News: gpvos

New comment by gpvos in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

gpvos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:08:04 +0000

I'm no expert, but I think that in principle you'd legally be okay. But the 10 years makes it more difficult on a personal level; many, likely most people will have forgotten about you and the permission they gave. Hence my earlier advice.

New comment by gpvos in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

gpvos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:51:14 +0000

Wow, what an air of superiority.

New comment by gpvos in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

gpvos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:51:49 +0000

If a company sends me mail and I don't remember allowing them to, I will not trust them and will not use the unsubscribe button, because using it signals to the sender that my address is valid. I will mark as spam.

The onus for clearly communicating that you are going to mail me anything other than transaction updates is with the sender, not the receiver.

New comment by gpvos in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

gpvos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:46:16 +0000

Don't do that, it will be disastrous for you.

Instead, send them a politely worded one-time announcement with an invitation to subscribe. Clearly mention that if they don't, this is the last mail they'll get from you, and keep that promise by deleting their address. You'll still get some pushback, but I think most people would find that acceptable.

The Maintainers

gpvos — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://themaintainers.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744101

Points: 1

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New comment by gpvos in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

gpvos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:17:45 +0000

Maybe it is. But the comments complaining about it are worse than the posts themselves. And as I wrote, many of them are wrong. Downvote or ignore, and move on, please.

New comment by gpvos in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

gpvos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:24:01 +0000

Most often, what is happening is that people are groundlessly accusing others of writing AI slop.

New comment by gpvos in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

gpvos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:22:11 +0000

Ah yes, good old

    |sort |uniq -c |sort -nr |head -20

I use it often.

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

gpvos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:38:47 +0000

Partially, yes. But it was also an honest question.

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

gpvos — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:34:58 +0000

My bank is now doing this: for a few newish and not-quite-essential services you can only use their app, the rest you can still do via the web.

The same has been going on with radio and podcasts for a while: e.g., the BBC, or my newspaper, wants me to install their app to listen to their streams or podcasts, while I much rather concentrate all my listening in one central radio or podcast app for all my sources. Note that a system for paid-only podcast subscriptions via generic podcast apps actually exists, but I've never used it since no podcast maker I listen to actually uses it.

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

gpvos — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:10:50 +0000

I actually don't know what you mean by PWA. Is that a mobile web site? And by installing it, do you mean installing a link to it on a phone's launcher?

New comment by gpvos in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

gpvos — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:01:02 +0000

Obviously, OpenClaw is now more important than anything else.

New comment by gpvos in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

gpvos — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:32:49 +0000

Earlier:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866 (6 days ago, 208 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650569 (15 hours ago, 8 comments)

New comment by gpvos in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

gpvos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:48:49 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by gpvos in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

gpvos — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:32:48 +0000

It only accelerated what was already happening. But yes, Trump accelerated it by a lot. He's a madman.

New comment by gpvos in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

gpvos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:50:17 +0000

That's not very informative. Who invented them then?

New comment by gpvos in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

gpvos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:47:24 +0000

Absolutely. But France may well have been the first country to have them.

New comment by gpvos in "[dead]"

gpvos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:49 +0000

MCP = Model Context Protocol, a framework that lets LLMs talk to external tools and sources

New comment by gpvos in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

gpvos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:56:33 +0000

They're still functioning after ten times of the Voyager's projected lifetime, I can't call that an error.

New comment by gpvos in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

gpvos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:37:04 +0000

What do you mean with trajectory? Also, a simple github search will show you many hits for the Raycast text, proving that this is quite real.