Hacker News: on_the_train

New comment by on_the_train in "GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction"

on_the_train — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:05:04 +0000

What's the deal with anthropic? Their models aren't better. They're just multiple times more expensive. We're about to disable all anthropic models because of the colleagues who waste 15$ on a opus call to write a markdown file.

New comment by on_the_train in "Save GPT-5.5"

on_the_train — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:59:56 +0000

> No AI helped in the writing of this message

Yeah maybe it should have. Because this is super incoherent and all over the place. Hard to parse what this is even about

New comment by on_the_train in "Codex Resets"

on_the_train — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:21:48 +0000

Here it's only Microsoft (ghcp) allowed, and 39$ per month is considered ludicrous with no way to increase. Ah Europe

New comment by on_the_train in "In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you"

on_the_train — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:12:22 +0000

Even more fun: if you say the title of this post in Germany, that's illegal. Because all comparisons with Nazis are.

New comment by on_the_train in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

on_the_train — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:36:44 +0000

What a strange example, as c++ did get Pythons enumerate, but in c++23

New comment by on_the_train in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

on_the_train — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:03:38 +0000

People who call in sick by phone aren't sick

New comment by on_the_train in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

on_the_train — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:01:35 +0000

Interesting. I've been gifted that book at just the right time in my life as a teenager. It captured me. I read it the to end many times. Not understanding everything or course. But it created a spark which laid the groundwork for my entire career.

I've never seen cosmos.

New comment by on_the_train in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

on_the_train — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:18:42 +0000

I knew instantly that it's him. No one is even remotely as hungry for attention as him.

New comment by on_the_train in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"

on_the_train — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:12:36 +0000

They do, literally and explicitly so. Yes, really.

New comment by on_the_train in "Modern C++ Programming: Busato"

on_the_train — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:05:02 +0000

Nothing did more damage to c++ code bases than people not understanding this. People hear "smart pointers are good" and use them for everything. Not understanding that it's just the lesser evil and still extremely rarely needed (vs just stack memory or variants)

New comment by on_the_train in "Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example"

on_the_train — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:51:38 +0000

And one of my favorite examples how fancy names impact popularity. Also see Mersenne Twister.

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

on_the_train — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:59:25 +0000

Bingo. Ghcp is the only allowed llm solution at our big well known semiconductor corp. It'll take years to get approval for anything else. We're stuck with it and will pay whatever price we have to.

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

on_the_train — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:58:43 +0000

Because Copilot is the only thing allowed at our corp

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

on_the_train — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:20:50 +0000

But I don't want to change vaults, I want to work in both. I want to search for something and get results from all vaults. Or rather: I want to select which folders to sync - that would effectively be the same for me.

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

on_the_train — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:47 +0000

I'm just so bummed that multiple vaults are pretty much unusable. I can't sync my sensitive work notes. But I want to sync general programming notes between work and other PCs. But multiple vaults hardly work. The just open in a new window.

Other than that, I love so many things about the program. Just linking and graphs are weird and strangely overrated. Search and tags still rules over everything imo

New comment by on_the_train in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

on_the_train — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:39:18 +0000

Because it's a clickbait title

New comment by on_the_train in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

on_the_train — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:58:02 +0000

No they don't? You keep working for 2-10 months until you can leave whatever your contact says

New comment by on_the_train in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

on_the_train — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:10:27 +0000

Being German lol

New comment by on_the_train in "Windows native app development is a mess"

on_the_train — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:56:52 +0000

All my work experience with guis was mfc. And all modernizations were web based. The in betweens are usually not considered worthwhile.

But imgui is a breeze of fresh air for internal stuff

New comment by on_the_train in "German police probe student poster slur against Merz"

on_the_train — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:37:03 +0000

Politicians literally have their own paragraph with insane protections, it's §188. You don't ever want to say something negative about a politicians in Germany. The police will kick in your door within days.