<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: john01dav</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=john01dav</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:20:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=john01dav" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They claim that they can automate development, so their backlog should really be ~0. /hj</p>
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<p>> you will use for a very long time. Very non repairable tho<p>This seems moderately contradictory, because as the time that you use something increases the chance of some physical damage increases, especially for a portable device where dropping, an imperfect bag holding, or someone else bumping it, and the like, are all more likely than a stationary device (like a desktop).<p>This is a huge reason that I don't use many Apple devices, so if they somehow effectively addressed this without reparability, I'd be interested to know. However, I suspect that that's impossible because just making it durable only delays the need to repair, so you end up up shit creek maybe 2 years after buying it instead of 1 year (made up numbers).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733365</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are other reasons that an employee may comply with a leader's instructions than some highly subjective and deeply irrational notion of social status. For example, they might comply because they're paid to, or because they want company to succeed (for stocks, or for other reasons). Some performance of authority isn't a perquisite for humans choosing to organize.</p>
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<p>> Why a TUI is the best thing we pipe through ssh?<p>`ssh -XC` (look up SSH X forwarding). You can also easily tunnel remote desktop over ssh.<p>> Why I cannot watch a 4k movie in the terminal or browse the web using pinch to zoom ?<p>Kitty, sixel, and iterm2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726927</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Too much work? Tough...<p>Making justice available only to people with monetary (and in US courts at least, wealth is a strong predictor of outcome) and other relevant resources is not the kind of thing that I want society getting worse on.<p>DMCA enforcement of copyright is thus fundamentally a good law, and in my opinion should only be tweaked to deal with the pathological cases on platforms like YouTube, and even more so what's happening in YouTube.<p>Some mild disincentive against incorrect DMCA takedown requests being filed seems reasonable to me, as long as it scales with the level of inflicted damage. A few dollars per false claim seems like a good starting point to consider from. That makes a legitimate mistake by a human not a major issue, but also maked unleashing inaccurate mass bots and performing extremely overly broad blocking deeply unprofitable.<p>Of course, the broad EU blocks aren't governed by US's DMCA, but the basic incentive argument applies there too I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726852</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One option is to get home prices to stop rising faster than wages by having wage growth speed up while real estate value growth slows down (not necessarily becoming negative). Then, no one is underwater on their mortgage, but buying a house becomes more accessible year over year. Of course, you'll need to eventually stop to address the normal problems with deflation, or address those in some other way.<p>What specific policies achieve this is also a separate question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:39:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605429</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While this is true, for many customers who aren't technical (in a computer sense, since they may have significant highly technical expertise in another field, such as agriculture), "tech" (meaning computers) just means what we'd call anti-features since from their vantage point everything with a computer (or with "tech") isn't respecting their ownership rights. And, even among people who understand the distinction, there's a reasonable expectation that computers embedded in products that don't specifically market otherwise will have such anti-features.<p>So, even if computers in and of themselves are completely valid in such product categories saying "No Tech" (which means "no computers") is a great way to market to people who really just want to avoid anti-ownership anti-features.<p>Lastly, I find it mildly amusing that a tractor (which is very clearly a form of technology, in the traditional definition of the word where fire and printing presses are technology too) is now being marketed as having no technology.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:08:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391333</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why isn't self hosting (even just renting a GPU server, not necessarily on premise) at large companies or hosting via something like together AI to run the open weight models not more common? I've tried the open weight models and the premium models like Opus and Gemini Pro, and I find that the latter are a little better, but not nearly to the degree to justify the extreme price difference, since the differences largely don't matter for what I've tried them for, and I expect that many other users likely have similar use cases.</p>
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<p>What's the purpose of using EC2 over something much cheaper, like OVH, digitalocean, or Hetnzer?<p>Usually the argument is for scalability, but a single VM for personal use doesn't need that, and even if you do want that, you'll need more than a bare repo.</p>
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<p>Everything about matrix is cumbersome and glitchy. I have last tried to use it a few years ago and it seemed that Riot/Element had the only decent clients, and those were all Electron on desktop and also seemingly for profit. Signal has the electron problem, as well as many others (like the backup UI being abhorrent), but at least the core functionality works without fuss.</p>
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<p>More practically, this means (in America) that you need a JD degree (4 year grad school), to pass an exam, and pass a(n oftrn horrifically thorough) character background check.</p>
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<p>> I like it when different producers select a different subset of priorities for their offer. Competition at work. One of the reasons we witnessed such an awesome evolution in the smartphone market.
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> I hate it when a bureaucrat dictates a set of demands with absolutely zero regard to the cost or the tradeoffs involved in product decisions and market competition.<p>I generally agree with that sentiment, except we don't have a vibrant market of many options with many different trade offs. Finding headphone jack, solid reparability, user swappable battery, easily replaceable USB port, and all the other things that one might want is basically impossible. The vast majority of phones are highly unrepairable, have no headphone jack, have everything soldered to a tiny number of internal boards, and are full of anti repair dark patterns.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011010</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Such phones with removable batteries are incredibly rare, such that finding one is quite likely to fail if you have any other concerns at all.<p>If a truly well made phone was common and made by many people, then there'd be much less argument for this regulation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:31:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010966</link><dc:creator>john01dav</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by john01dav in "Why TUIs are back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I have no doubt - if it hasn’t already happened - that some apps will unironically embrace the most ridiculous option by shipping as electron apps that implement a TUI layer as their front-end.<p>Claude code is almost there<p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/theres-a-react-app-running-in-your-terminal-right-now-31a22d8da2f6" rel="nofollow">https://levelup.gitconnected.com/theres-a-react-app-running-...</a></p>
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<p>Whoever ends up using these devices second hand will be in for a rude awakening, which is  bad for that person (even if it means that it just ends up going to ewaste and they get nothing) and bad for the environment. It's also bad for anyone who orders one new and isn't aware of the changes, although I agree that that is less bad than with phones due to the fact that a pi largely mitigates it.</p>
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<p>This attitude is widespread enough to hold the world back by forcing everyone who interacts with the public Internet to support ipv4 (some technology), "for free". So, either way, we're forcing one of them. So, we might as well lean towards supporting the one that isn't hard capped at 4 billion addresses in a world with at least 2x as many devices. Have you ever tried to deal with NAT punchthrough? That's way more difficult to fix than having to properly configure your server.</p>
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<p>I suspect that if that ruling was made, then <i>many</i> other drugs being made at home for personal use might become legalized, at least unless states decide to go and ban it too. Note that I am not taking a position here on if that's desirable.</p>
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<p>I just put this into YouTube search and got results that contraindicate your claim¹:<p>> "sanic" the hedgehog<p>The quotes seem to shut down autocorrect<p>1: there's nothing that I see about the T-shirt, but the first result is titled "Sanic DA hedgeh0g". I will not be looking at what this video is. Several other results also include the word "sanic" in relation to the hedgehog.</p>
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<p>Just stick XFCE on a modern minimal-ish (meaning not Ubuntu, mainly) distribution and you'll have this with modern compatibility. Debian and Fedora are both good options. If you want something more minimal as your XFCE basd, there are other options too.</p>
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<p>I have seen things approved by those sort of organizations that were extremely dangerous, such as a listed fire alarm that when installed has a significant chance of becoming silently deactivated.<p>With that said, it can be even worse when it isn't listed.</p>
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