Hacker News: letier

New comment by letier in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

letier — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:32:50 +0000

My absolute favorite quote:

Loss of objectivity

The challenge: Ask an AI tool for evidence supporting what you already believe, and it will find it. Confirmation bias now comes with a research engine.

New comment by letier in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

letier — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:35:06 +0000

You can add any address as a backup email address for a google account. And for some reason there are a number of people that just attached my email address, possibly by mistake.

New comment by letier in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

letier — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:01:07 +0000

I have a very early gmail address. A very common first name plus two letters. It is almost unusable by now. Invoices, subscriptions, important documents about some persons real estate dealings. They all end up in my inbox.

I have around 20 or 30 google accounts attached where i am the backup email address. Those people forget their passwords or stop using their accounts and i get email notifications about that. No confirmation from my side necessary.

I set up a new address that is less likely to end up with this problem. But migrating away from the old one is not easy…

New comment by letier in "Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript"

letier — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:57:03 +0000

The extraction prompt would need some hardening against prompt injection, as far as i can tell.

New comment by letier in "Claude Code conducts A/B tests on core features"

letier — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:49:06 +0000

They do show me “how satisfied are you with claude code today?” regularly, which can be seen as a hint. I did opt out of helping to improve claude after all.

New comment by letier in "Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16"

letier — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:59:10 +0000

Wow. I didn’t know about this.

New comment by letier in "Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16"

letier — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:46:25 +0000

You need to be 16 to drink beer or wine, so you will be able to do both at the same age.

New comment by letier in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

letier — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:16:00 +0000

It is my impression that topics like this one trend up more often today, then they used to a couple of years ago. I guess hacker news is changing over time.

New comment by letier in "Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes"

letier — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:01:29 +0000

I know it’s a technicality, but the wave is at the very beginning of the park. Not the middle. I can very much recommend walking at least until the lake, if you happen to be visiting Munich. That would be about 1 third of the park.

New comment by letier in "The god mode vulnerability that should kill "Trust Microsoft" forever"

letier — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:41:11 +0000

It’s on archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250923130941/https://tide.org/...

New comment by letier in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

letier — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:36:09 +0000

I wonder how it interacts with life expectancy.

There is a huge difference between Mississippi and the UK: 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females in the UK in 2020 to 2022. 68.6 years for males and 75.2 years for females in Mississippi in 2020 and 67.7 years for makes and 74.3 years for females in Mississippi in 2021. Might go up a bit if you have 2022 numbers, but the difference is huge.

New comment by letier in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

letier — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:52:55 +0000

The imperative install is as many lines of code as the flake itself. That’s what’s bothering me. But a meta package would be a step in the right direction.

Thank you!

New comment by letier in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

letier — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:20:43 +0000

How do you do the initial setup? I'm concerned with anything that happens before activating the dev shell.

Right now I wrote a bash script to check for nix, direnv, git, gpg, etc. But it feels a bit clumsy, compared to the flake that contains the dev shell.

For my own system I set up home manager. But I don't want to make the use of home manager a requirement, as it can be quite opinionated. (e.g. setting up direnv will be done by generating a .zshrc, which can be limiting to some)

New comment by letier in "Are rotary mixers better?"

letier — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:13:29 +0000

I actually have a Taula 2 and a Xone 92 at home. I prefer the Taula 2, due to the simplicity and the fact that it has an isolator. The Xone 92 has a four band IQ and a filter, which I like a lot, but I have the impression that all the bells and whistles take a toll on the quality. At least in a home listening setup.

Anyways, it’s not the knobs that make the sound…

New comment by letier in "13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted"

letier — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:37:23 +0000

How do you bypass the paywall with it? I can only read the “newspaper version” on their site it seems.

Edit: Just read your comment again. I assume that’s exactly what you meant.

New comment by letier in "13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted"

letier — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:32:39 +0000

I just checked and the Berlin public library offers press reader as well. Will need to check that out.

Thanks for the tip!

New comment by letier in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

letier — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:40:45 +0000

What do you consider the start date of global warming?

New comment by letier in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"

letier — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:08:25 +0000

This is quite interesting. I'd be interested in more information on this.

New comment by letier in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

letier — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 06:46:48 +0000

My absolute top would be Nicolas Jaar.

https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/csp06-nicolas-jaar...

New comment by letier in "Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook"

letier — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:38:23 +0000

I managed to remove activation lock by proving that I was the original owner (invoice) of the MacBook.

Was that no option?