Hacker News: hobofan

New comment by hobofan in "The End of Eleventy"

hobofan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:56:30 +0000

That's not what the article says. It's about being agnostic what kind of frontend framework/library you use, e.g. giving the users the freedom to choose between React/jQuery, etc..

New comment by hobofan in "The End of Eleventy"

hobofan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:53:32 +0000

I think that's exactly the point where the article falls flat. There is potentially a big oppurtunity in building a SSG + CMS solution despite the past failed attempts.

Every few years I go looking for something that's not Wordpress that you could hand to a marketing department, but there is no viable alternative (that's not Drupal).

New comment by hobofan in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

hobofan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:37:37 +0000

Pay 1 Euro a month... or 1000s if their kid fucks up.

New comment by hobofan in "Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany?"

hobofan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:49:33 +0000

Ah, of course. Thanks for the clarification!

New comment by hobofan in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

hobofan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:55:59 +0000

I'm not deep into electricity pricing dynamics, but based on my intuition, shouldn't that rather have a dampening effect on electrification, as the gap widens?

High gas prices + gap is small -> Big opportunity to undercut via cheaper methods like solar -> attractive investment -> more new builds

High gas prices + gap is wide and widening -> Smaller and smaller opportunity to invest in solar, as the market is already dominated by solar prices -> less attractive investment -> less new builds

Am I missing something here?

New comment by hobofan in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

hobofan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:39:23 +0000

From the title I had assumed this would be about the "old" classic "Conductor" Google Experiment by Alexander Chen[0] or a recreation of it.

[0]: http://mta.me

New comment by hobofan in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

hobofan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:31:50 +0000

It's also a barrier for education.

Almost all technological choices I made as a teen were driven by "what hosting can I get for free, as my parents sure as hell won't put down their payment information for that". Back then that usually meant PHP and a max. 50MB MySQL.

New comment by hobofan in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

hobofan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:19:25 +0000

I'm not deep into the topic, but AFAIK there generally isn't a warm connection between the CCC and the BND in Germany (in the recent years mostly due to the BNDs involvement ins spying on German citizens, but I think there is also deeper history there). If a hacker collaborates with the BND they do run a risk of many of their peers not wanting to collaborate with them anymore.

New comment by hobofan in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

hobofan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:02:28 +0000

It is a mostly pointless exercise if the goal is trying to contain negative impact of AI agents (e.g. OpenClaw).

It is a very necessary building block for many common features that can be steered in a more deterministic way, e.g. "code interpreter" feature for data analysis or file creation like commonly seen in chat web UIs.

New comment by hobofan in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

hobofan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:35:37 +0000

Because CDU is the government.

New comment by hobofan in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

hobofan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:46 +0000

Yes, the way this is being pushed online seems like there is a competitor involved. If not in the initial disclosure, then in the daily rehashing of it.

It's also still unclear to me how much fraud they actually were involved in, and how much of the fault falls on them. SOC2 Type II and ISO 27001 are not audited by them, but by actual accredited auditors (apparently mainly Accorp and Gradient), which must have been just as complicit/negligent. As customers of Delve are free to chose their auditors I'm wondering how this hasn't blown up earlier.

New comment by hobofan in "Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment"

hobofan — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:10:28 +0000

Because many people have a very narrow view of what MCP is useful for. For organizational usage there isn't really an alternative.

New comment by hobofan in "Schedule tasks on the web"

hobofan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:30:36 +0000

And if you look closely at the usernames, you see that the same engineer from link 2 that said "nah it’s just a bonus 2x, it’s not that deep" (just two week ago) is now saying "we're going to throttle you during peak hours" (as predicted).

Yes, it was FUD, but ended up being correct. With the track record that Anthropic has (e.g. months long denial of dumbed down models last year, just to later confirm it as a "bug"), this just continues to erode trust, and such predictions are the result of that.

New comment by hobofan in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

hobofan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:43:01 +0000

> If they rewrote the entire thing with $400 of Claude tokens it couldn't have been that big.

The original is ~10k lines of JS + a few hundred for a test harness. You can probably oneshot this with a $20/month Codex subscription and not even use up your daily allowance.

New comment by hobofan in "Goodbye to Sora"

hobofan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:25:27 +0000

Frontier model developers don't make money, but inference providers do. For open weight models there is a healthy market of inference providers that operate profitably without VC backing.

New comment by hobofan in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

hobofan — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:21:29 +0000

This is true specifically for actions/checkout, but composite actions can have other actions as dependencies, and unless the composite action pins the versions of its dependencies, it is vulnerable for this attack.

This article[0] gives a good overview of the challenges, and also has a link to a concrete attack where this was exploited.

[0]: https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager...

New comment by hobofan in "We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical"

hobofan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:41:22 +0000

For enterprise sales you can get a SOC 2 Type I faster than any enterprise sale goes through. Typically, most enterprises are okay if you show them proof that you are "in the process" of getting the certification by showing them that you have signed up with one of those platforms (Delve, Vanta, etc.), so you would be okay to start only when you are about to close one of those enterprise deals.

New comment by hobofan in "We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical"

hobofan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:26:50 +0000

Delve's response blog post from two days ago: https://delve.co/blog/response-to-misleading-claims

New comment by hobofan in "We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical"

hobofan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:23:29 +0000

Why not?

New comment by hobofan in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

hobofan — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:44:00 +0000

Every company operating on that basis is a busniess waiting to be disrupted by a cost-plus competitor.