Hacker News: maineldc

New comment by maineldc in "Claude Opus 5"

maineldc — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:15:30 +0000

I am not a tokenmaxxer per se but I blow through my weekly quota on my max plan in 3-4 days… fable would make that worse.

New comment by maineldc in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

maineldc — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:49:22 +0000

So what would you recommend to your friends and family that need a password manager? Genuinely curious.

I pay for a service for my family because I need reliable and easy for my wife and daughter to use it.

New comment by maineldc in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

maineldc — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:11:09 +0000

Yes - on iOS only a few things can be done in the background but most apps are frozen eventually when the are no longer in the foreground.

New comment by maineldc in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

maineldc — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:24:02 +0000

I just went back to my Bose because the fabric o top on the max started sagging and were hurting my head. Totally bummed but something for others to know!

New comment by maineldc in "Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu"

maineldc — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:48:17 +0000

We use typescript + pulumi for this. It's pretty amazing. And Pulumi uses Terraform modules under the hood so you get the full power of Terraform with the goodness of Typescript.

Even self hosting your state management in a bucket is simpler with Pulumi since it uses lock files on S3 versus a separate DyanamoDB + S3 combo.

I have been using it in production for 4-5 years and used Terraform for several years before that.

New comment by maineldc in "Launch HN: DryMerge (YC W24) – Automate Workflows with Plain English"

maineldc — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:33:30 +0000

If the question is asked multiple times, why wouldn't they answer it multiple times?

New comment by maineldc in "As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California"

maineldc — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:34:40 +0000

If the battery is being used to address the duck curve, it cycles approximately every day.

New comment by maineldc in "My heat pump: a personal story about a broken heating industry"

maineldc — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:07:49 +0000

My theory is that heat pumps are before or right after the "chasm" in the technology adoption cycle and that's an exciting place to be! Skeptics can make good points about how over hyped they are, how the benefits are less than people think etc. Believers can feel excited about being an early adopter. It's the perfect circumstances for the people of hacker news.

New comment by maineldc in "UniFi U7 Pro"

maineldc — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:44:06 +0000

At the time I looked I couldn't find a Wifi 6E Access Point significantly cheaper than $279. Have you?

New comment by maineldc in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

maineldc — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:28:36 +0000

I just downloaded and installed and I am really impressed. I liked the concept of math blocks though it took me a few seconds to figure out how to change a new block into a math block. This note at the top wasn't clear to me:

⌘ + L Change block language

The phrase block language didn't trigger my "change the type of block" thinking. I might slightly rephrase like:

⌘ + L Change block language (Math, Markdown, etc.)

Otherwise, I think this is a great "scratches an itch" type project. Congrats!

New comment by maineldc in "Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?"

maineldc — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:20:02 +0000

I click “parent” and then collapse the thread to achieve what you want.

The nice part is the HN “remembers“ collapsed threads next time you load the thread so you can continue to ignore them.

New comment by maineldc in "EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)"

maineldc — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:34:39 +0000

That's not really true. These clients often reversed engineered other chat protocols and thus supported services that didn't support Jabber / XMPP. This was before e2e encryption was the norm so it was easier to do.

New comment by maineldc in "Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years"

maineldc — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:02:10 +0000

I really wanted to buy one of these. I created a steam account to buy one, made the purchase, but then I got stuck in their fraud loop. They required me to send a picture of my drivers license and I wasn't comfortable with that. Such a bummer because this is my ideal device! I want this more than any gaming device I have ever encountered.

New comment by maineldc in "Ask HN: Was I pwned? [resolved]"

maineldc — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:15:40 +0000

Older versions of Unifi controller were subject to mining hacks because of the Log4J compromise. I would check to make sure you are running a recent version of the Unifi Controller.

New comment by maineldc in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"

maineldc — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:39:18 +0000

I believe what you are saying is possible for “Shipped by Amazon” not “sold by Amazon”.

New comment by maineldc in "Zim – A Desktop Wiki"

maineldc — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:58:52 +0000

I hear you on this problem and it took a while to find a solution I like. Ultimately, I went with https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop and file syncing tool of my choice. It seems to work well, but you can have issues if you simultaneously edit.

New comment by maineldc in "Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence"

maineldc — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 15:50:01 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I use started using bookstack when I realized that I wanted a place for long form / long term storage of documents separates from my Notes / To dos. I love it and I deeply appreciate your hard work.

For others that haven't tried it, here's what clicked for me:

  - An opinionated hierarchy of Book -> Chapter (Optional) -> Page
  - Great search
  - WYSIWYG OR Markdown supported
  - Great integration into Diagrams.net

I love it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

New comment by maineldc in "Gitlab from YC to IPO"

maineldc — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:09:29 +0000

I think the grandparent is referring to Azure DevOps which is a Git / Issues product like Github and Gitlab, not Azure Cloud. Azure DevOps is "fine" though I feel like MS is pushing Github and will deprecate DevOps at some point in the coming years.

New comment by maineldc in "Dems pitch $100B broadband plan"

maineldc — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:49:34 +0000

Actually they often don't. In the US, we had the Rural Electrification Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act) that brought electricity into rural areas, but these places often still have wells, septic tanks, and gas tanks.

New comment by maineldc in "Ask HN: Who has been laid off?"

maineldc — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:43:56 +0000

> I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse.

Still shop as you will get a refund from your current insurer when you cancel. Just because you paid doesn't mean that money is gone!