Hacker News: polyamid23

New comment by polyamid23 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

polyamid23 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:48:56 +0000

This indeed is annoying. Burn it down. This year is the year of moving away from services pushing this nonsense. I am looking at you PayPal.

New comment by polyamid23 in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

polyamid23 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:25:05 +0000

Codeberg is a decent option.

New comment by polyamid23 in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

polyamid23 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:07:47 +0000

They should tell copilot then! It seems to disagree.

- ‚Are you for entertainment purposes only?‘

-‚Not at all — unless you want me to be. The short version: I’m not “for entertainment only.”‘

Edit: Ok I see it is legal framing to not be held liable, but can they just do that via ToS and let the tool itself promote something else?

New comment by polyamid23 in "Show HN: Will AI take my job"

polyamid23 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:33:53 +0000

„Model AI is starting to change parts of this job, but a lot of what Models do still needs a real person…“ … also: „What This Means For You We don't have this exact job in our database — this is our best guess“ :D Nice try?

New comment by polyamid23 in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

polyamid23 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:46:01 +0000

What new EU-Office thingy?

New comment by polyamid23 in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

polyamid23 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:35:56 +0000

I wonder if setting my OS age to let’s say 10 would protect me from ads…

New comment by polyamid23 in "Coding is when we're least productive"

polyamid23 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:41:45 +0000

„Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev teams produce, and so they maximise the time devs spend writing code.„

Never seen that happen. Do not know anyone who experienced this. Where and who are those managers?

New comment by polyamid23 in "Web development is fun again"

polyamid23 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:28:31 +0000

I hope you are joking.

New comment by polyamid23 in "The DuckDuckGo duck changes to Gaquacktus when you search for Galactus"

polyamid23 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:19:23 +0000

Oh sorry my bad. Now I see what happens. Batman, spiderman, superman, darth vader and donald duck also work (probably even more)! I am impressed.

New comment by polyamid23 in "The DuckDuckGo duck changes to Gaquacktus when you search for Galactus"

polyamid23 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:20:14 +0000

For me it is not changed to gaquacktus. Sad.

New comment by polyamid23 in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

polyamid23 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:00:30 +0000

Thanks! I will try it out. Looks awesome. Bruno also supports grpc, though. Also, in what way is Yaak more open source than bruno?

New comment by polyamid23 in "Ohno Type School: A (2020)"

polyamid23 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:54:29 +0000

Not too long ago there was a submission of a font-editor[1] and I gave it a shot trying things out, just to realize, that my creations looked off and ugly, not really understanding why. This helps a lot. So much nuance to so many things....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347072

New comment by polyamid23 in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

polyamid23 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:25:30 +0000

For this you do not need to own the property / house / flat, though.

New comment by polyamid23 in "VibeCodeFixers – Expert Developer Network"

polyamid23 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:02:56 +0000

.bg-card { height: 100%; }

New comment by polyamid23 in "Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games"

polyamid23 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:44:55 +0000

In yahtzee you should get the bonus when you have 63 points OR over.

New comment by polyamid23 in "Tiobe Index for October 2023 – C# is getting closer to Java"

polyamid23 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 08:30:22 +0000

Found this in a related article from infoworld:

"Tiobe’s index is based on a formula that assesses language popularity by tallying the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors pertinent to each language, based on results in search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo."[1]

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3708688/c-sharp-challenges...

New comment by polyamid23 in "Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem"

polyamid23 — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:15:40 +0000

Is there a consensus on how correct browser market share calculations are? Google does apparently not even know what OS I am using.

New comment by polyamid23 in "Rethinking Window Management"

polyamid23 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:51:36 +0000

If you use gnome, I can recommend Pop-Shell

https://github.com/pop-os/shell

New comment by polyamid23 in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

polyamid23 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:58:55 +0000

They do not know about it (those I spoke with), so they are not "comfortable" in discussing it. Especially since it's existence changes the dates of all other signs, their sign is not their sign anymore. I do not push on them too hard though. Just eager to hear their thoughts on it.

New comment by polyamid23 in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

polyamid23 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:21:18 +0000

From time to time I mention the 13th "Ophiuchus" star sign to astrology inclined people. It is quite interesting how they react.