Hacker News: number6

New comment by number6 in "The AirPods Effect"

number6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:37:54 +0000

They have a situational awarenes mode

New comment by number6 in "Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today"

number6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:03:50 +0000

Thanks you for your work!

New comment by number6 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

number6 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:34:45 +0000

Even their Office Suite runs okay in the Web. For heavy lifting, like getting an md file into our Corporate Design, I still use libreoffice combned with our template.

New comment by number6 in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

number6 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:26:06 +0000

Starfish ... It's very good bit also very hard on the reader very devastating

New comment by number6 in "Please Use AI"

number6 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:24:17 +0000

Will there be a point where hand crafted does end you somewhere like the Toaster Project [1]

[1]https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

New comment by number6 in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

number6 — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:02:11 +0000

It's central vs decentralisation.

The electricy is consumed in the houses and not on the empty land.

Parking lots become a win-win with electric cars. They also keep the cars cleen and sun protected.

New comment by number6 in "Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks"

number6 — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:32:25 +0000

It is very methodical. Starting out on why you shouldn't kill yourself, as a real debate. And yes all the arguments have been made before. He tries to build up from first principals. I think he tried to walk a fine line between the physical suicide and the philosophical suicide.

New comment by number6 in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

number6 — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:01:30 +0000

There is the kritis (critical infrastructure law) law, which trys to enforce some standards to make things not as brittle.

New comment by number6 in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

number6 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:52:10 +0000

shamless self plug: https://emdashmanifesto.org/

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?