Hacker News: jcrben

New comment by jcrben in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

jcrben — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:29:32 +0000

If you hammer their free tier with lots of nonsense queries that also probably doesn't help them. Definitely don't pay them

With that said, for the free tier I tend to use grok - another provider I will never pay

Anthropic does get money from me for now

New comment by jcrben in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"

jcrben — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:22:46 +0000

Generally I'm using 'e' to go forward and 'b' to go backward

New comment by jcrben in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

jcrben — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:42:31 +0000

I'm not involved in the initiative so I can't answer the question definitively? I provided one of the major reasons that projects get switched from C. I think it's likely to be a major part of the motivation.

New comment by jcrben in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

jcrben — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:36:48 +0000

As a user, you may not be aware that C makes it relatively easy to create https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow which are a major source of security vulnerabilities.

This is one of the best reasons to rewrite software in Rust or any other more safe by default language.

New comment by jcrben in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

jcrben — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:12:24 +0000

C is unsafe.

New comment by jcrben in "Anaconda Raises $150M Series C"

jcrben — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:04:30 +0000

362 downloads over 20 hours isn't that impressive. Not saying Anaconda isn't great. Don't have much experience with it but I hope the devs get paid for all the value delivered, which I think is largem

New comment by jcrben in "Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?"

jcrben — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:08:04 +0000

I listen to a ton of audiobooks on oreilly which I have a subscription to from work.

New comment by jcrben in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

jcrben — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:26:33 +0000

What was the actual risk of using SpringBoot tho?

New comment by jcrben in "The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets"

jcrben — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:05:59 +0000

The point is that we know the weathering process will shed microplastics.

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-ever...

New comment by jcrben in "The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News"

jcrben — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:01:29 +0000

Snapshot for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20250326005255/https://refactori...

New comment by jcrben in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

jcrben — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:13:56 +0000

I use monkeybrains with the same ipv6 problem. One workaround is to run a VPN. Planning to switch but haven't gotten around to it

New comment by jcrben in "Announcement: S3 Default Integrity Change"

jcrben — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:01:37 +0000

The issue is also discussed in the linked issue.

Maybe this will trigger a rethink in how s3 compatible storage systems work.

New comment by jcrben in "US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods"

jcrben — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:07:22 +0000

Technically it appears red dye no 3 was banned due to cancer and Delaney clause, however, keep in mind that I think the primary reason it was banned in California last year was all the studies correlating it to deleterious cognitive impacts on children

https://www.additudemag.com/red-dye-3-ban-adhd-news/amp/

https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/potential-impact...

New comment by jcrben in "US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods"

jcrben — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:03:11 +0000

I think the primary reason it was banned in California last year was all the studies correlating it to deleterious cognitive impacts on children

https://www.additudemag.com/red-dye-3-ban-adhd-news/amp/

https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/potential-impact...

New comment by jcrben in "Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment"

jcrben — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:43:46 +0000

Probably. Mentioned a couple manufacturers working on greener tires: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273418

New comment by jcrben in "Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment"

jcrben — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:35:01 +0000

Michelin is at least looking into it: https://www.michelin.com/en/media/magazine/michelin-is-takin...

Nokia is also working on green tires with more biodegradation

https://www.nokiantyres.com/about-us/news-article/nokian-tyr...

New comment by jcrben in "Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently"

jcrben — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:01:18 +0000

add `ssh_pwauth: false` if you can edit the cloud-init configuration - that's what I'm doing

New comment by jcrben in "The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve"

jcrben — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:54:23 +0000

Interesting summary - what's your take on opensuse? Seems like solid system but hasn't seemed to grow the way I'd expect

New comment by jcrben in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

jcrben — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:41:08 +0000

Where did you see this documentation?

New comment by jcrben in "Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive"

jcrben — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:03:10 +0000

I don't think so. This is just for Aptiv's investment. Looks like Aptiv (APTV) will remain separate.