<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: hoechst</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoechst</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:12:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hoechst" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a free dns service? wow that's insane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:56:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657920</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "How to turn anything into a router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tl;dr:<p>echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward<p>iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:55:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575881</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Where are we on XChat security?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i though this is about <a href="http://xchat.org" rel="nofollow">http://xchat.org</a> and got nostalgic :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:47:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656499</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i'm still using postman v9 from 2022, which is pre-bloat and good software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656484</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Show HN: A better Hacker News front end"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>idk how you would define "no tracking", but this is using vercel insights, a tracking tool.<p>altought i prefer the default HN interface, i think the ui is generally fine and you did a good job and avoided overengineering.<p>with a text heavy page like HN, the most important thing is imo to carefully choose a font family and font properties (line-height, letter-spacing, etc.).
as is, the default HN does a better job with this but leaves a lot of room for improvement as well.<p>personally, i'm using a few lines of css to add dark mode to default HN and zoom in to 125% cause the default font-size ist too small for me (an old person).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633315</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Much of it is just "put this magic string before your prompt to make the LLM 10x better" voodoo, similar to the SEO voodoo common in the 2000s.<p>just remember that it works the same for everyone: you input text, magic happens, text comes out.<p>if you can properly explain a software engineering problem in plain language, you're an expert in using LLMs. everything on top of that people experimenting or trying to build the next big thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:46:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551113</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>documents like <a href="https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/skills/testing/test-driven-development/SKILL.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/skills/testing...</a> are very confusing to read as a human.
"skills" in this project generally don't seem to follow set format and just look like what you would get when prompting an LLM to "write a markdown doc that step by step describes how to do X" (which is what actually happened according to the blog post).<p>idk, but if you already assume that the LLM knows what TDD is (it probably ingested ~100 whole books about it), why are we feeding a short (and imo confusing) version of that back to it before the actual prompt?<p>i feel like a lot of projects like this that are supposed to give LLMs "superpowers" or whatever by prompt engineering are operating on the wrong assumption that LLMs are self-learning and can be made 10x smarter just by adding a bit of magic text that the LLM itself produced before the actual prompt.<p>ofc context matters and if i have a repetitive tasks, i write down my constraints and requirements and paste that in before every prompt that fits this task. but that's just part of the specific context of what i'm trying to do. it's not giving the LLM superpowers, it's just providing context.<p>i've read a few posts like this now, but what i am always missing is actual examples of how it produces objectively better results compared to just prompting without the whole "you have skill X" thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550550</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just because a popular new tool runs in the terminal, doesn't make it a shining example for the "Unix philosophy" lol.
the comparison makes no sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds and is hacker news clickbait you and i fell for :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:51:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442517</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>I personally use 0TB per month across 6 CPX21 servers (I know I’m over-provisioned; that’s not the point).</i><p>Kinds of is the point tho, you're hogging resources you don't actually need (not talking about traffic here ..).<p>People probably spam-provisioned cheap CPX boxes to get cheap bandwidth.<p>Also, complaining about a "large 27.52% price increase" is kind of absurd when the absolute value of the increase is just under 2€.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:38:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269452</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "All you may need is HTML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So you'd write (presumably a big) admin web interface in straight XML + CSS by hand? I don't know the details, but that sounds like a very long and painful process which will end up being hellish to maintain, plus a huge amount of training time for new devs to get familiar with the system.<p>If you even find new devs who'd want to work on this. Who wants to acquire very niche domain knowledge that you can't apply anywhere else?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:20:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999558</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Self hosting in 2023"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Similarly, the bare metal solution consisting of nginx with manual Let’s Encrypt cert setup was too much of a hassle.<p>It's not a hassle. Setup once and then forget about it. It's dead simple, easy and there's a million tutorials on it online.<p>But it's boring (this is where I'm going to old-man-ramble about things, so better stop reading now). Imo, that's why we have so much bloat, complexity and overkill use of containerization that requires orchestration in software and devops. We don't go the easiest possible route, but the one that seems interesting and most fun.<p>I totally get playing with new stuff and going totally over board just to host a static html file for a personal project, with the goal to learn something new.
But it's not just personal projects, it's whole companies that adopt this kind of approach, not even thinking 2 years ahead, when the "cool new software" you used is now not only not cool and new anymore, but abandoned and unmaintained.<p>I get that this is just a random "i did a thing" blog post, but this just annoys me :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866610</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "LLM discourse needs more nuance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>content warning: crypto/web3 bro</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:49:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34611187</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34611187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34611187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really a script, but a `.ssh/config` to automatically deploy parts of my local cli environment to every server i connect to (if username and ip/hostname matches my rules).<p>On first connect to a server, this sync all the dotfiles i want to a remote host and on subsequent connects, it updates the dotfiles.<p>Idk if this is "special", but I haven't seen anyone else do this really and it beats for example ansible playbooks by being dead simple.<p><pre><code>   Match Host 192.168.123.*,another-example.org,*.example.com User myusername,myotherusername
      ForwardAgent yes
      PermitLocalCommand yes
      LocalCommand rsync -L --exclude .netrwhist --exclude .git --exclude .config/iterm2/AppSupport/ --exclude .vim/bundle/youcompleteme/ -vRrlptze "ssh -o PermitLocalCommand=no" %d/./.screenrc %d/./.gitignore %d/./.bash_profile %d/./.ssh/git_ed25519.pub %d/./.ssh/authorized_keys %d/./.vimrc %d/./.zshrc %d/./.config/iterm2/ %d/./.vim/ %d/./bin/ %d/./.bash/ %r@%n:/home/%r</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:04:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468605</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:12:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929702</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if you use excessive language ("economic armageddon") and figures ("10 billion euros") like this and don't provide sources, i assume trolling.<p>i see he posted the bloomberg article now. imo, reading "Supply cut would rip through Germany’s industry within weeks" and interpreting that as "if Russia cuts of the gas, there will be economic Armageddon in Germany" is pretty extreme, but i guess people interpret stuff differently.. that's fine, just let me form my own opinion about your statement by citing a source.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:35:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585816</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yea, the OP article is a few weeks old and very much out of context. HN doesn't care though.. bunch of tech bros discussing headlines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:45:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579926</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where do you get "tens of billions of euros of economical damage" and "economic Armageddon in Germany" from? are you a russian troll bot?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:05:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578966</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it does _not at all_ mean "new nuclear"..<p>that was never up for discussion and would certainly not help with the problem that the whole discussion is about: a potential short term energy shortage related to russias invasion of ukraine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:51:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578837</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fuck off</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27660620</link><dc:creator>hoechst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27660620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27660620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoechst in "Cloudflare Network Performance Issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How cares whose fault it is? In the end, you're not able to provide service to your users and you potentially lose money.</p>
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