<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: kenmacd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kenmacd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:34:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kenmacd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you moved it anywhere else? I checked codeberg and didn't see it there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324647</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watch the video. They worked around this by selling lego sets to 10 different people (as it was still owned by the lego owner), then the 10 different people all opened separate $10k suits, which they all won.<p>Then corporate shut down the location to avoid paying the suits they lost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315622</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not true of non-US companies. I had also added money to Deepseek, and it was still there (and Z.ai and Moonshot are the same). I'm reasonable though, if it's been 5 years or something I might have understood, but it was 1 year and the account was in use during that time.<p>Where I live (in Canada) it's actually illegal for gift cards to ever expire, and there's lots available from US companies, so if it's an accounting issue other companies have figured it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968892</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> scamming from the literal money<p>That's par the course for Anthropic. I added some money to my account before I really had a use case for product. A year later they said my money had expired and when I contacted support they basically told me to pound sand.<p>This while they have the audacity to list one of their corporate values as 'Be good to our users'. They'll never get another dollar from me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966123</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a 5 hour difference between the replies, and new data that came in, so the posts aren't really in conflict.<p>Also it doesn't sound like they know "there's a model issue", so opening it now would be premature. Maybe they just read it wrong, do better to let a few others verify first, then reopen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675087</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not to use the cli tool. You can install it and change the settings to point to pretty much any other model.<p>It's an okay-enough tool, but I don't see a lot of point in using it when open sources tools like Pi and OpenCode exist (or octofriend, or forge, or droid, etc).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:45:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655159</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>@eieio: whatever email protection you're running is triggering on the extension info. For example I see:<p>> And they’re sent to servers that advertise the availability of the [email protected] extension. What if we just…don’t advertise [email protected]?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:34:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724785</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "UniFi 5G"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you avoid Chinese-branded devices you should doubly avoid US-branded devices. See National Security Letters and Room 641A as a small subset of why.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:12:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164158</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are systems (like the sanco2) that use an indoor/outdoor pump.<p>> This sounds terrible for efficiency in winter, as you will need to reheat the room<p>Sure, but lots of people have some point of the year they want cooling.<p>Even during the heating season it's only worse if you're heating the living space with something _worse_ than what you're using to heat the hot water. If you have a heat pump for room heat then you're moving heat from outside, to in the house, to in the water heater.<p>If you're heating the room with electric then in the winter it's no different than using an electric water heater (100% efficient).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:21:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941403</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If I’m gone on a trip for 2 weeks my hot water bill is zero<p>You mention other advantages, but money isn't one. You're limited to 100% efficiency with tankless.<p>Although an idle hot water tank can waste ~70W (~1.7kWh) of power, this is way more than made up for by using a heat pump. Plus tankless strains the grid a lot more than any system with a buffer built in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941360</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you care what size it is though? It's only the capacity that matters. For example a tankless only has a few gallons inside, but that doesn't limit how long of a shower you can take.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941304</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Library creates double bound copy of 1984"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Borrow? I want to buy a copy!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:30:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700697</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is rather unfortunate. I haven't seen them mention moving manufacturing or their 'Arduino offices' (have you?), but even still I'd rather not support a country threatening to annex my homeland.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508225</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Oh no: There's metal satellites falling from orbit! Also: wanna buy a metal coin, they were sent to the edge of space!". I find the juxtaposition more amusing then I probably should.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503091</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's really more of a "Want to pay more than your fair share of taxes? Help them commit tax fraud".<p>Cutting Google out of the mix can be seen as a net positive for the community. The same can't really be said for taxes that go to your local services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406533</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Find SF parking cops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+11 and +4 seem check-digit-y<p>From the limited dataset it looks the last digit comes from:<p>last digit = (<sum of previous the digits> + 2) mod 7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351574</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can spare a USB port you can use one of their Nano keys that just stays plugged in.<p>Even if someone/malware was to steal my yubikey pin they'd still need to convince me to tap the thing over 1,000 times to steal all my passwords.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240565</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "US warns hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems a little sparse on details. If the radios are actually cellular it seems it would be trivial for an entity like the US government to at least determine what SIM (and even data) any of these modules was sending.<p>Rather than anything malicious I'm thinking it's probably just a common module made for signs that can be updated over-the-air, and that feature just isn't enabled in the US signs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:59:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197812</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Ask HN: What would you look for in a hobbyist alternative to IDA Pro?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My suggestion: asking for sacrifices for non-commercial users is the wrong approach. You want users to ask their employers to get licenses and adding a bunch of limitations will just make them more likely to use/learn something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:46:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014449</link><dc:creator>kenmacd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kenmacd in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure on the reputation, but I personally haven't had any issues emailing people using gmail or microsoft. They have a good DNS Diagnostics page that checks all your domains DKIM/SPF/DMARC settings.<p>I've been using identities created in the admin panel, but they do have subdomain addresses where everything to *@user.domain goes to user@domain, and you can configure a 'Catchall' address (and of course 'plus addresses'). I haven't used either though.</p>
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