<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: purrcat259</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=purrcat259</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:12:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=purrcat259" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate.<p>Common metrics to track how coarsely or finely accurate voice AI is</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335585</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been doing the same for over a year. I think single node kubernetes is very underrated, both for running a single project or for multiple.</p>
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<p>I agree. I saw the same.<p>Hold up... We saw it at the same place :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:01:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984839</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>_laughs in maltese_</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861443</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in ""Stop Moralizing AirCon": How Institutions Shift Responsibility onto Individuals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment makes me think you don't live in a warm country.<p>Where I am from it is currently 24-25C at 3am. It will likely go up to 27C in August. We keep our AC on overnight in some evenings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794364</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I used a head tracker (homemade infrared one), I just got used to shifting my head but keeping my eyes on the screen. Having a wider screen helps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369016</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a great video trying to understand the artistic side of 2b2t as a persistent world (rather than the anarchy its more well known for): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m5BAkkOtw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m5BAkkOtw</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 15:24:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181131</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some amount of micro-electronics. <a href="https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/manufacturing-at-st/our-facilities/kirkop-st-site.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/manufacturing-at-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 08:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176721</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The coasts will definitely be wiped in 100 years but underwater is a bit of an overstatement</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 06:00:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166391</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Literally no one I know in the 30+ years I have been here collects rainwater on their roof. Whats your source, r/malta?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:58:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166381</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maltese population are historically price sensitive. €20 a month isn't something you easily justify especially with recent cost of living increases.<p>So the fact that you get it free after doing some basic due diligence is actually a big deal in the local context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 21:18:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163911</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Citation needed. I haven't heard of this.<p>I'm Maltese so feel free to be as detailed as needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163756</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:58:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163749</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunate thats the reputation we have :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163732</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Cloudflare Email Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scaleway TEM offer pay per use. I moved off of resend when my side project went beyond their free tier and now pay <0.5€ a month</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797990</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good luck sticking within limits, I have been burning up my baseline limits insanely fast within a few prompts, a marked change from a few weeks ago.<p>There's a few complaints online about the same happening to multiple users.<p>Otherwise anti-gravity has been great.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651654</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Basically no one who has a life outside of work, or a household to upkeep or a family to take care of.<p>Your criteria heavily biases towards very performative and obvious signs of hard work in a commercial setting, completely oblivious to hard work and character outside of it.</p>
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<p>An easy correction is to only merge PRs from folks who are on the on call rota.<p>Those not on rota can either join or have their PR receive heavy scrutiny</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243432</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not doing 996 is a feature not a bug</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:00:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187102</link><dc:creator>purrcat259</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47187102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by purrcat259 in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OP discovered the state of Malta's InfoSec culture the hard way.<p>TLDR: infosec is screwed in Malta. The only people who benefit are malicious actors.<p>Some missing historical context is that there was no real legislation other than computer misuse up until the recent case known as the FreeHour case. A group of students discovered some pretty nasty vulnerabilities in an app aimed at matching student schedules. One of these vulns was exposing RW API keys for hundreds of student's google calendars, hanging out to dry on the open internet.<p>The students involved, together with one of their lecturers, sent a standard vuln disclosure notice via email to the company. Instead of what you'd expect, the students were arrested, strip searched and charged with computer misuse.<p>This really threw the entire local infosec scene off, with some very vocal voices saying how draconian the situation was. Finally they all receieved presidential pardons [1] although last I heard they don't have their hardware back yet. FreeHour and their tech supplier (never publicly mentioned but if you ask around you can find out who they are) never saw any consequences.<p>I've done two public disclosures [2] [3] which worked out well but only because I knew how to go about it. In such a tiny country is about who you know and how you know them, so in both cases I established contact via trusted intermediaries, both times ensuring I found someone who would know what I was talking about whilst also not immediately reach for the police.<p>I'm sitting on another issue I discovered because after a long conversation with CSIRT about it we figured the only way I can actually anonymously report it is by snail mailing it to them. I can't pull together the energy to complete it because I don't have the time right now in my life for another legal melodramatic situation.<p>Despite this, MITA (the government IT department) annually runs cybersec award ceremony [4]. I had once planned to nominate the students for the award but the nomination criteria forbids nominations for individuals who have "averse media publications" about them.<p>This is very much a deep socio-political problem in the country: we don't handle candour or bluntness of any kind in the public sphere. Being a very blunt person, it got me in all kinds of trouble growing up.<p>[1] <a href="https://timesofmalta.com/article/pardon-issued-students-lecturer-ethical-hacking-case.1112315" rel="nofollow">https://timesofmalta.com/article/pardon-issued-students-lect...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.simonam.dev/accidental-pentest/" rel="nofollow">https://www.simonam.dev/accidental-pentest/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.simonam.dev/total-account-takeover/" rel="nofollow">https://www.simonam.dev/total-account-takeover/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://ncc-mita.gov.mt/cyber-awards/" rel="nofollow">https://ncc-mita.gov.mt/cyber-awards/</a></p>
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