Hacker News: mhitza

New comment by mhitza in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:17:29 +0000

The claim is that 150k is the baseline that is often exceeded. I don't know the region you're looking for on LinkedIn, but what I see for European jobs is that they barely crack 100k for developers. At least the senior, non highly specialist, jobs I'm seeing.

New comment by mhitza in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:14:57 +0000

Thanks for the data, 117500 CHF converted today is around 148k USD, and that means being in the top 25%

New comment by mhitza in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:09:05 +0000

Interesting claim, where do you gather that data? The quick results I got where from a 2024 report on TheNextWeb claiming its around 90k USD equivalent in Switzerland https://thenextweb.com/news/european-cities-highest-salaries...

New comment by mhitza in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:03:07 +0000

Never heard of them, and this page doesn't tell me what they do, but I've laughed at this line

> In most markets Senior developers often command salaries exceeding $150,000 USD per year

Not really, there's basically a single sub-market in the US market where that is the norm.

New comment by mhitza in "Claude mixes up who said what"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:48:17 +0000

If you self-host an LLM you'll learn quickly that even batching, and caching can affect determinism. I've ran mostly self-hosted models with temp 0 and seen these deviations.

New comment by mhitza in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:56:03 +0000

> EU law also stipulates that you must give the consumer a minimum 2-year guarantee (legal guarantee) as a protection against faulty goods, or goods that don't look or work as advertised. In some countries national law may require you to provide longer guarantees.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...

Unless there is something I'm missing on consumer protection legislation. I've seen in the past regional sellers that claimed that their provide a shorter guarantee. They sold their products on a marketplace platform, and once I reported them they changed their claims.

New comment by mhitza in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:53:10 +0000

Wasn't Thunderbird Pro the avenue for extra project financing? Why does it take so long to launch an email service?

New comment by mhitza in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

mhitza — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:06:26 +0000

Pretty cool. This is the glitchy userscript I use on Firefox mobile[1] (with screenshot) to make tap targets bigger and move navigation at the bottom of the page + collapsed.

[1] https://gist.github.com/mhitza/0956d7e2c11d3102cbd4cba7f6d06...

New comment by mhitza in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

mhitza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:59:30 +0000

Of course it's nothing, but it's also not a set it an forget kind of thing, which in many ways for hobbyists is why cloudflare/github pages are nice.

New comment by mhitza in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

mhitza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:42:52 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn't offer free hosting for hobbyists. Even for superficial traffic you'll have pay 1 euro a month (plus VAT).

Not many DNS management providers (that I'm aware of, please correct me) support CNAME flattening. That is having your A record point to a CNAME.

Every time I purge the pull zone cache, I do it twice, cause once from my CI isn't enough. My CI does individual page cache invalidation during deployment, but there needs to be some kind of delay (with no feedback) when assets are distributed across.

New comment by mhitza in "Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge"

mhitza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:34:48 +0000

1. They could export the surplus. No?

2. Isn't cheaper electricity a good thing for the manufacturing industry?

New comment by mhitza in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

mhitza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:53:22 +0000

Giving even a modicum of care of what Evan has to say in 2026 is a good joke. Only thing he's known outside the Elm community (aside from Elm) is how to antagonize your own community.

New comment by mhitza in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

mhitza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:54:09 +0000

> A spokesperson for the group says, “Let’s face it—if truth isn’t flashy, it’s kinda lonely.”

Was the spokeperson human or just chatgpt?

New comment by mhitza in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

mhitza — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:44:11 +0000

Still. Until you have to prove your age to social media websites, for which you'll be nudged to use a digital id.

Unless you'll want to make your face available to third party verification services.

New comment by mhitza in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

mhitza — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:47:31 +0000

It's stated as conflict of interest, not some bureaucracy.

Things are still vague, due to some legal liability, probably. Sounds to me like for some grants/tenders received by the non-profit were contracted out to Collabora. Which in turn, profits from the base project.

New comment by mhitza in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

mhitza — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:44:43 +0000

They weren't always evil, not in my opinion.

Back in the day they bought Feedburner, and merged it with their internal equivalent. In that process, my subscriber list was affected. They apologized and even sent out some swag. That was nice, for a small inconvenience at the time.

Today? humans don't even seem to be involved.

New comment by mhitza in "Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse"

mhitza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:29:45 +0000

> Sam Altman gets accused of lying and cheating the board and gets ousted.

I haven't seen this claim made before. The reason for his ousting where never cleared up.

New comment by mhitza in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

mhitza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:21:32 +0000

You are, but it's a shit law and surprising to still exist in Germany. Per the article it's not a new law, has been in effect since the 80s, and there have been no repercussions for violating this law.

Instead, my 2c, should have changed it to a notice you have to send the military, at most.

New comment by mhitza in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

mhitza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:59:28 +0000

I've heard and read it from various sources already that output isn't copyrightable, and hinted as such recently in a comment. Now I've went to look up some sources.

> Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements.

> Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

PDF https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

New comment by mhitza in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

mhitza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:15:13 +0000

> The anti-ICE protesters have been well organized, well equipped,

Civilians being well organized and well equipped (?) is a problem why?

> and sometimes violent

And yet the videos coming out of the US, of protesters being shot by ICE where non violent.

> for the purposes of collecting intelligence on their targets (who are federal law enforcement agents).

What does "target" mean exactly, I haven't read anything other than doxxing agents, annoying, and verbally harrasing them?

Also, I'd be more wary about the state if things when there's plethora news circulating of US law enforcement buying up all kinds of data for flagging undesirable citizens. More so when Palantir is involved and the developed tech is any authoritarians wet dream.