Hacker News: midasz

New comment by midasz in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

midasz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:56:30 +0000

America first. The Netherlands, second?

New comment by midasz in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

midasz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:53:14 +0000

> Does anyone really think the Trump admin wouldn't consider seizing foreign gold reserves as part of such a move?

There has to be an adult in the room there to tell them this is a really bad idea. I mean I didn't think Putin would invade Ukraine so my track record is iffy but there's a reason the Belgians refuse to use Russian frozen assets - no one would ever put money there ever again. That'd be the end of their banking sector basically.

New comment by midasz in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

midasz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:49:58 +0000

Where does it end though? The most optimistic (or pessimistic, depending on your viewpoint) say that AI will be able to replace or displace lots of professions. Is there enough work for everyone? Is there enough meaningful work for everyone? A software engineer or accountant making ~150k a year will find another job that pays less, so he will also pay less taxes. What's going to happen in the short term, inbetween this shift? A bunch of unhappy unemployed people leaning on social systems. That seems pretty devastating. Who is going to come out as winners?

New comment by midasz in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

midasz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:40:22 +0000

The crux of this entire issue surrounding replacing people with agents, is that agents should pay taxes. If we're losing people that pay taxes our social safety nets will crumble. Maybe that makes the math more in favor of actually using humans too.

New comment by midasz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

midasz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:01:15 +0000

I've had a lot of side projects but I'm finally actually finishing some, and it's sort of useful so that's fun. Wanted to make it easy to see the difference between the Xbox Gamepass tiers, maybe you only need essential or premium - saving a few bucks. With Claude it's been pretty fun to add new features. Since there's no API for Leaving Soon I built a scraper, content gets parsed through an LLM call and matched to games. There's a swipe mechanism to favorite or trash games, so you comparison doesn't get cluttered up by fifa's or cod's. It's just been a fun playground, I host it on https://gamepass.fyi

New comment by midasz in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

midasz — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:18:31 +0000

I'm guilty of creating a fork that just goes off the rails, but still needs to keep up with upstream. I do it via a skill and seems to work good enough for now: https://github.com/midasvo/findroid-ce/tree/main/.claude/ski...

New comment by midasz in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

midasz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:04:44 +0000

I pay for games because it's more convenient than pirating them. For movies and tv however... They make it so difficult to be a customer.

New comment by midasz in "Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client"

midasz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:50:30 +0000

This looks fine to me? In long threads it gets a bit hard to follow, only thing I'm missing is a jump to next root comment. https://i.imgur.com/8e1Syyf.jpeg

New comment by midasz in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

midasz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:40:06 +0000

You also don't really need LLM's, we still have software engineers too. Everyone is focusing so heavily on the speed gain producing code, but in my experience clients of established products aren't really waiting for massive changes and gigantic features to be added. We aren't taking the time to think things through anymore.

New comment by midasz in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

midasz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:39:58 +0000

So as a European, I'm being blocked from all new models apparently. I'm a big fan of using Claude Code for my sideprojects and for those I don't really care about sharing context. Is there aything that comes close to Claude Code and is still affordable?

New comment by midasz in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

midasz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:09:20 +0000

I think the comparison TikTok and Philip Morris tracks. Both spent insane amounts of money and talent optimizing the bad choices the addict could make.

New comment by midasz in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

midasz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:24:47 +0000

We made that world. There are very smart people who spent their talent making the most addictive social media as possible.

New comment by midasz in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

midasz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:45:48 +0000

Here it is, the true hacker mentality.

New comment by midasz in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

midasz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:17:27 +0000

Same - but mine are open source in the sense that they're public on my own Forgejo instance. So no one's gonna bother with em, but technically they are open source.

One exception: I was using an opensource Jellyfin client called findroid but the maintainer had been busy for a long time so a lot of features I wanted had stale PR's. Instead of bugging him I forked & renamed the project and together with Claude built in all the features I personally needed. Just keeping up with upstream now and enjoying my enhanced app. Once the initial dev gets those features in I might switch back. Claude made this really easy. If the maintainer wants my code he's free to take it. Here's the repo https://github.com/midasvo/findroid-ce

I actually got an email from someone who was using it who found a pretty bad bug I hadn't encountered yet and I quickly fixed it. All that time I was still under the impression I was the only user haha.

New comment by midasz in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

midasz — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:22:32 +0000

Great news. Would have been devastating to have such an integral part of our society at the whims of not just another nation, but an unstable and downright hostile one.

New comment by midasz in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

midasz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:05:03 +0000

It's genuinely hilarious how the same leadership pushing for RTO because getting people together creates magic, seems to have no issues trading those same people out for LLM's churning at specs.

New comment by midasz in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

midasz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:01:25 +0000

n=1 but i don't really discover new projects via github, it's mainly here, reddit, or via colleagues. then again, i selfhost forgejo so don't have a real presence on github

New comment by midasz in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

midasz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:46:00 +0000

Same - also installed a forgejo runner via docker so i've got CI. Forgejo has it's own artifactory/registry so the apps I make get a docker image and I just run that docker image. All on my own hardware.

New comment by midasz in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

midasz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:03:57 +0000

I'm in my happy space selfhosting forgejo and having a runner on my own hardware

New comment by midasz in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

midasz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:21:40 +0000

It's just abhorrently slow, it does a lot but I always thouhgt TUI were fast but the amount of times it doesn't register my input is way too much.