Hacker News: on_the_train

New comment by on_the_train in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

on_the_train — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:04:13 +0000

In Germany, a lot of things related to these themes are illegal to say.

New comment by on_the_train in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

on_the_train — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:07:26 +0000

This submission is against the guidelines. And several comments are illegal. But no one cares of course.

New comment by on_the_train in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

on_the_train — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:43:51 +0000

There is no evidence supporting this statement and a lot of evidence directly countering it.

New comment by on_the_train in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

on_the_train — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:04:53 +0000

We've had a bunch of these acts of terrorism in Germany in the recent years. Mostly power, but also train and industrial targets. They all came from the same source, which is very much not Russian.

New comment by on_the_train in "Coding Is Over. Get over It"

on_the_train — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:01:30 +0000

I guess should low-key be happy that even expenses of 50 dollars per month for AI are being seen at ludicrous. Combined with our Microsoft only policy (i.e. ghcp), there's still hardly any serious ai use going on. Ah yes EU high tech companies...

New comment by on_the_train in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

on_the_train — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:46:14 +0000

I'm confused. Google has done this for several years already. I have a Firefox extension installed that reverts it - it's several years old.

New comment by on_the_train in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

on_the_train — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:40:05 +0000

I found it to be less annoying in that regard then sol. Might just be that it better listens to what I instruct though.

But yeah, it's really expensive, at least in relative terms.

New comment by on_the_train in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

on_the_train — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:40:15 +0000

Most would applaud that as Sol has quite a reputation for over engineering. Not every software needs to go to the moon.

New comment by on_the_train in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

on_the_train — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:39:41 +0000

Yes.

New comment by on_the_train in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

on_the_train — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:20:33 +0000

Ah yes the old "I have it but you don't"

New comment by on_the_train in "You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It"

on_the_train — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:08:03 +0000

I'm a European citizen. I hate the EU.

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.