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New comment by stefandesu in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

stefandesu — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:29:47 +0000

> 53 is required because instance runs its own authoritative DNS server.

Are you planning to offer alternative solutions for this, e.g. pointing a wildcard A record at the server running the instance? I'd rather not run a publicly accessible DNS server.

New comment by stefandesu in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

stefandesu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:44:17 +0000

I've deleted my PayPal account last year and haven't regretted it. Admittedly it helped a lot that I live in Norway now where everyone uses Vipps (which is so much better), and PayPal is not a thing at all.

New comment by stefandesu in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

stefandesu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:41:36 +0000

Has anyone been able to steer Claude so that it doesn't use this kind of vocabulary and super verbose code comments? We use it at work and the language and verbosity has been one of the most annoying things.

New comment by stefandesu in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)"

stefandesu — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:44:32 +0000

> Sunrises would be 9am-10am for about three months.

At least you'd get some sun after work. Here in Norway, the only way to get sunlight during a workday in winter is to go out during lunch break. While I do acknowledge that getting sunlight in the morning is more important than in the afternoon, I feel like subjectively I'd have more use for a little bit more sunlight after work than before work.

New comment by stefandesu in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

stefandesu — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:23:24 +0000

How many of the learnings over the past two years went into the prompt that you gave the model? Is it possible that you wouldn't have been able to prompt it so well without those learnings?

New comment by stefandesu in "State of Homelab 2026"

stefandesu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:27:04 +0000

Can you point us to the service that offers a 1€ VPS?

New comment by stefandesu in "Apple Just Lost Me"

stefandesu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:43:07 +0000

> I do think the glass effects do look great in certain areas, like pulling down Notification Center

This is one of many things that really bother me in iOS 26, after just having updated from iOS 18. It just looks wrong that it's fully transparent until you fully pulled it down, and then suddenly everything flies away. Very strange effect.

Another thing is the border effect on the icons and widgets. I wish there was a way to turn those off completely, but either you get the motion effect or you have permanent borders.

So many strange decisions.

New comment by stefandesu in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

stefandesu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:27:12 +0000

My sweet spot is the same. I like being at the office (because I like my colleagues), but with almost an hour commute each way, going every day is very draining. I'm glad my employer is giving us pretty much total flexibility.

New comment by stefandesu in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

stefandesu — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:00:21 +0000

Finally deleted my PayPal account last summer and have not regretted it. Though I now live in Norway and everyone uses Vipps here anyway.

New comment by stefandesu in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

stefandesu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:56:51 +0000

Work is forcing us to upgrade to Tahoe end of January, not looking forward to it.

New comment by stefandesu in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

stefandesu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:00:38 +0000

I moved from Germany to Norway and it would be awesome if they could integrate with each other. I have yet to find a way to transfer money between my Norwegian bank account and my Revolut account without substantial fees (on top of currency conversion fees).

New comment by stefandesu in "iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA"

stefandesu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:38:43 +0000

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. Third-party app calls don't go to the Watch. It's so annoying, I have to tell people to call me using regular phone calls or FaceTime instead of using Signal or WhatsApp because I always miss the latter ones.

New comment by stefandesu in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

stefandesu — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:36:11 +0000

I knew that ~/Applications exists, but never really used it until I started at my new job where I didn’t have admin permissions by default. Now I’ve configured Homebrew to install casks into ~/Applications and it works for almost all applications.

New comment by stefandesu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

stefandesu — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:35:19 +0000

Great idea! One other thing that annoys me is the inability to trim workouts, mostly walking workouts which I forgot to stop. Even when the Apple Watch asks you if you want to end the workout, it doesn’t cut off the end where nothing happened anymore. It should be possible to do this (semi-)automatically using the heart rate and movement data.

New comment by stefandesu in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

stefandesu — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:10:47 +0000

Yes please. My new job just provided me with a new phone, but all the models are just too big. I guess I’ll get used to it, but I’d rather have the current features in a Mini body.

New comment by stefandesu in "Forced to upgrade"

stefandesu — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:54:48 +0000

I'd be happy with a new mini even every third generation. My 12 mini is still great except for the battery life (even after getting a new battery less than a year ago).

New comment by stefandesu in "The 'Return to Office' Lies"

stefandesu — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:22:59 +0000

How do you like biking 3 hours a day? I'm starting a new job next year that requires me to be at the office most days. It's 40-50 minutes each way by bus or about an hour (if you're fast or with an e-bike) by bicycle, and I'm already considering getting an e-bike for the summer months for this. (It would be only 20-25 minutes by car, but I'm not willing to commute daily by car I think. I also just don't want to own a car in the first place.)

New comment by stefandesu in "Looking for a Job Is Tough"

stefandesu — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:54:49 +0000

I guess Europe isn't nearly as bad as the US. My portfolio (and probably my actual skills) are nowhere close to what some of those in the comments that can't find a job are offering, but I was able to secure a job in Trondheim, Norway (where I'm about to move in January) with a single application and interview. I assume there weren't too many people in the Trondheim area who were willing to work at an office and who already know Vue.js pretty well.

New comment by stefandesu in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

stefandesu — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:07:34 +0000

I've been using my Suri toothbrush for about 2 1/2 years I think (I had one on preorder before it came out). It's nice, compact, brushes well (according to my recent dentist visit), great battery life (usually over a month of twice per day brushing), and great USB-C charging case (that's the best part IMO).

What I don't like:

- Automatically turns off after 4x 30 seconds - I usually need a little more time than that.

- Proprietary replacements heads - I'm worried that they'll go out of business and I won't be able to get replacement heads anymore. (I could buy them in bulk now, but what if the toothbrush itself breaks and I can't get a new one?)

New comment by stefandesu in "Show HN: Wispr Flow – A new voice dictation experience"

stefandesu — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:35:49 +0000

Hi, I had your intro video suggested to me on YouTube and it looks pretty cool. However, neither the videos nor the website answers my most critical question: Is it fully local, or is there a cloud involved? Thanks!