Hacker News: number6

New comment by number6 in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

number6 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:27:52 +0000

Obviously it it no longer in the environment

New comment by number6 in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

number6 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:38:45 +0000

At least it is the plot of a lot of movies of this era: Dr. stragelove, wargames, colossus.

New comment by number6 in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

number6 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:39:19 +0000

Reminds me of "the front fell off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

New comment by number6 in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

number6 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:33:59 +0000

Ten more years and our tricks become the ancient practices and rituals of the olden hack0rs; stuff like apt update and apt upgrade on a fresh server. Some of the most ancient even use apt-get, while the really old ones will scold you for using Ubuntu

New comment by number6 in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

number6 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:59:20 +0000

This is also my first impulse. The second was, if this happened to me, I would not be able to recover it. All the custom c tool talk... If you ask Claude Code it will code something up.

Well that he recovered the disks is amazing in itself. I would have given up and just pulled a backup.

However, I would like to see a Dev saying: why didn't you use the -- which we created for this Usecase

New comment by number6 in "The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)"

number6 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:59:46 +0000

Es gibt den auch als Film. Der ist auch nicht für schwache Gemüter

New comment by number6 in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

number6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:44:04 +0000

This would have greatly helped me. I always was at a loss which trick I had to apply to solve this exam problem, while knowing the mathematics behind it. Just at some point you had to add a zero that was actually a part of a binomial that then collapsed the whole fromula

New comment by number6 in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

number6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:40:45 +0000

But can it count the R's in strawberry?

New comment by number6 in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

number6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:38:05 +0000

Programming will become like knitting. You buy most of your cloth of the shelf, but there is a quality to a hand made pullover, well you wouldn't want to wear it, but you love to make it.

New comment by number6 in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

number6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:34:21 +0000

Last year I got two coworkers. My first in terms of coding. First I looked at everyone code request, but it soone overwhelmed me. We got a third and there was no way I could oversee everything and since I got a team of three management gave me other responsibilities on top.

I have no idea what they code and how they code it. I only go over the specs with them. Everything got quicker but the quality went down. I had to step in and we now have e2e-Test for everything. Maybe it's too much, but bugs got squashed and catched before we shipped.

So that's a win. Before I could test everything by hand. I worked more on things like creating a working release cycle and what tools we should use.

With or without AI the situation would have been similar.

I became a manager. We move the needle. I don't really get to code anymore and I don't see much of the code. It's strange.

New comment by number6 in "The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead"

number6 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:40:15 +0000

AI can't hold copyright (as for now) how will this affect licencing?

New comment by number6 in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

number6 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:33:54 +0000

Or kubernetes, the factorio for Ops

New comment by number6 in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

number6 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:33:04 +0000

Well you have to keep it at operating temperature

New comment by number6 in "Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books"

number6 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:06:47 +0000

Great, how did you build it? Also I have to read the books

New comment by number6 in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

number6 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:16:54 +0000

Thank you for your service

New comment by number6 in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK"

number6 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:14:54 +0000

Did any of the taxes came to fruition? Weren't they cancelled by the US high courts?

New comment by number6 in "Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files"

number6 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:00:43 +0000

I think it's valuable to help my users if something like this happens to their office app and I have to find out how to turn it off

New comment by number6 in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

number6 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:23:59 +0000

And since AI knows every Tailwind page, you probably do not need the paid offer for a decent looking page.

Well you always could just read the docs instead of using the paid offer. Took longer. Not anymore.

New comment by number6 in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

number6 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:40:39 +0000

How close is Odoo to the Django Stack? In my mind, since both are python, I always thought it was some kind of Django fork,l. I bet I am wrong. So how came Odoo into being?

New comment by number6 in "Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"

number6 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:07:00 +0000

On good days you could use a solar collector to boil water and generate electricity with it