<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: manacit</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=manacit</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:22:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=manacit" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience the downtime tends to coincide with peak PT timezones. If you're in PT, it's very inconvienent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939811</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're welcome to take an MIT-licensed project, fork it, and relicense it as GPL. The inverse? not so much.<p>Hard to sell it as anything but an upgrade if you care about open source.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:10:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612768</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is, I'm sorry to say, simply not true. Anthropic and Open AI are materially ahead of every open source model out there at this time. The best they can hope to do is be Sonnet-adjacent, and even then I have not seen it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:53:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446818</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that's in kg</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:27:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250814</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Grid-connected PV in Texas has grown between 33% and over 100% every year since 2008, which outpaces the growth of solar in the US in the same timeframe.<p>California's percentage of solar generation as a share of the entire solar generation in the USA has shrunk every year since 2016.<p>It's not been accurate to say that California is dragging the rest of the country with them for a long time when it comes to energy generation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159241</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "TeraWave Satellite Communications Network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's interesting that people have a hard time visualizing this. The area in Earth's LEO is, definitionally, bigger than the Earth itself.<p>The SEA parking garage fits 12,000 cars in it. Two of those spread over the entire planet would be an imperceptible amount of space. You could drop a pin on a map your entire life and probably never hit one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711488</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it looks like it definitely was: <a href="https://x.com/eslischn/status/1104542595806609408" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/eslischn/status/1104542595806609408</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506238</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cargo ships have very few crew as-is, I'd imagine there isn't a huge need to lower that from where it is now.<p>If something breaks in the middle of the ocean, it's probably better to have a few people on board who can fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:57:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189584</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't say it's closing to completion - it looks like it's in the very early stages development according to their repo. I don't see any evidence they've gotten as far as even running a single query through it.<p>Even when it's done, it's going to be a lot of work to run. sure, it's not guaranteed to be hard, but if it's not your core business and you're making money, having someone else do it gives you time to focus on what matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694759</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "iPhone Air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personally, I really like being able to use lightweight MagSafe batteries instead of having a thicker iPhone. I used to agree with you, but the tech has gotten ridiculously good the last couple of years.<p>With something like <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HRY02LL/A/anker-maggo-power-bank-5k-slim" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HRY02LL/A/anker-maggo-pow...</a>, you get a magsafe battery that doubles the life of an iPhone and can be independently recharged, and is so slim that I can put it in my pocket attached to my iPhone and not notice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:39:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45189610</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45189610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45189610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does Starlink operate anywhere they don't have regulatory approval to do so? It's not like this is serving a website. There's physical spectrum licensing involved in operating anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062234</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read this as the parent complaining about other car manufacturers selling you crappy default stereos so that you'll upgrade, not that Slate is excluding a stereo on this truck to upsell you.<p>In fact, I would be rather surprised if you could buy $4,000 worth of stereo equipment for this car, given their promo materials seem to include a $100 bluetooth speaker below an iPhone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:05:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798961</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Microsoft quantum breakthrough labelled unreliable and 'essentially fraudulent'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I fully admit to not knowing about this space, but is there any indication useful quantum computers are going to be a thing any time soon?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344621</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked on a project about 4-5 years ago that required operating in a FIPS 140-2 environment and this was a huge problem, happy to see there's multiple different investments into doing this right. Same with OpenSSL offering an easy-to-snag FIPS-certified implementation.<p>We had to buy what felt like bootleg Canonical OpenSSL binaries, and Go looked like building some speculative forks that clearly had not been designed to be released.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965993</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Cash App migrated 400TB of data to PlanetScale's cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just to address the core of your comment, 20 magnetic disks would combine for about ~2,000 IOPS of capacity, provide for no redundancy, and allow only one machine to process the entirety of the queries coming in to power the application.<p>Even a full 60 disk server filled with magnetic disks would provide less I/O capacity for running a relational database than a single EBS volume.<p>It's might not look like a lot of data if you're talking about storing media files, but it's quite a bit of relational data to be queried in single-digit milliseconds at-scale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122204</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've upgraded my Kindle once, to get USB-C charging and a waterproof device. For the price, extremely worth it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866057</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gambling? Porn? Sex?<p>These are all things that we acknowledge are possible to be addicted to to that are not substances. Not to mention that coke has caffeine which is a chemical substance just as much as anything.<p>You can pin addiction to anything as a personal weakness, including drugs. Why are some people able to smoke a few cigarettes or do a little bit of cocaine without ever getting addicted, when others are hooked on day one?<p>If there's one thing that's been fun to see as the outcome of GLP-1 drugs, it's that a lot of people seem to have a real problem seeing people better themselves the "easy way".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813806</link><dc:creator>manacit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by manacit in "Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with reduction in alcohol addiction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's exciting to see when we're so early in the journey of GLP-1 drugs.<p>The dual action tirzepatide and the next generation retatrutide that has shown massive ability to reduce the long-term harm from obesity: <a href="https://www.vcuhealth.org/news/retatrutide-wiped-out-fat-in-liver-of-obese-patients" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcuhealth.org/news/retatrutide-wiped-out-fat-in-...</a><p>I'm sure there will be many comments here discussing how awful the side effects are, but from what I can see they're almost all primarily associated with rapid weight loss in general - muscle mass reduction and whatnot seem inevitable when someone drops 100+ lbs of total body weight.</p>
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<p>I was going to say the same thing as well, I've used macOS for over a decade on-and-off with multiple monitors and Spectacle and now Rectangle are essential. I even use them when I'm just using my laptop screen.</p>
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<p>6.1.1 is the latest build from the 6.1 release channel, which was the latest up until about 4 or 5 hours ago when a new major release was cut.<p>Not at all the same as running a 4.x release.</p>
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