<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: t0mas88</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=t0mas88</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:44:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=t0mas88" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, a go around is not a pilot error and it's not punished.<p>It's almost the opposite. There is automatic monitoring for stable approach criteria (simplified: you must be at speed X with flaps selected etc by altitude Y). So this example would cause an automatic report from the aircraft to the airline, because they were too fast (not within stable approach criteria) and still continued the approach instead of going around.<p>However even in those cases it's not meant for punishment but for safety improvement. In most professional operations these reports are made anonymous, and only for example someone from a union committee gets to know who the crew were and could have a talk with them if necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653897</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI slop to the max, what a bad article.<p>Now on the issue itself: Why doesn't Tesla report the version and whether it was FSD or Autopilot?</p>
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<p>There is also a baby products online store in the Netherlands that for religious reasons is closed on Sunday. You can browse the site but you can't buy anything.<p>The page is in Dutch, it explains that they're closed because get believe Sunday is a day for rest: <a href="https://www.babypark.nl/zondag/info-bp.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.babypark.nl/zondag/info-bp.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:35:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584133</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their goal isn't only safe storage, it's also being able to sell when needed.<p>You can't quickly trade with the gold that's in their own safe storage facility in Zeist, because you would need to physically transport it. The reserve at the Bank of England is put there because there is a large market for gold trading there. So you can use the gold immediately to influence the markets.<p>Putting it in a safe place in another European country wouldn't have added value over storage in Zeist.</p>
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<p>Selling to the US is equally  complex, every state has their own sales tax rules and whether they apply to your type of product. Some exclude SaaS, some don't. And then for B2B you also have to apply the tax unless the business presents some kind of exemption certificate.<p>EU VAT within the EU for B2B is easy, make an API call to validate the VAT ID of the customer and you're done.</p>
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<p>The visualisation is nice to compare with different engine types as well: <a href="https://random.ma.ttias.be/boxermotor" rel="nofollow">https://random.ma.ttias.be/boxermotor</a><p>My only complaint would be that there is no inline-6 while that does have some interesting properties in terms of balance compared to an inline-4 or V6.</p>
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<p>If you have the right authorisation on a business account you can "direct debit" from any account. It let's you charge a bank account in a similar way as a US creditcard can be charged by number and expiry date. Technically the contract with your bank says you need to have a signed authorisation from the account owner to charge their account, but you don't have to show it to the bank before charging.<p>The money you get that way isn't guaranteed, the account owner could do a charge back. And if that happens you have to show the signed authorisation from the account owner. If you don't have it, expect your bank to terminate the direct debit ability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:53:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476100</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They will have moat in the satellite launching business, which is not useful in the AI datacenter market.<p>You can put AI chips in datacenters in the desert for far less than $100/kg. With lots of solar power available, the option to easily access your hardware and far less radiation issues.<p>The datacenter in space story really only exists to make it possible for Musk to sell X to SpaceX and make more money from the IPO. That's all. There is no engineering reason.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:47:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422490</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've created a simple project for that, except that by default they open PRs on Forgejo/Github/Gitlab. It's open source and the workflows are config files, so you can configure it to allow you to pull from them instead of creating a PR. Source: <a href="https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai</a><p>One way I use it that is similar to what I think you want is to run a local Forgejo instance (just like OP) and have the Dockerised Claude instances work in that, then pull from there to my local git repo, review, test etc and push from my local repo to a remote like Github.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:45:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394142</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a joke, Claude AI calls everything load bearing. Once you see it it cannot be unseen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:59:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337558</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree, the color was great, and also in general Windows 2000 was very good. I used both the desktop and server versions for years. After that Windows XP made me switch to Linux. Since then I've only really used Debian and Mac OS.<p>I recently tried installing Windows 11 on a PC to run some games. The contrast with Windows 2000 is crazy, what a mess. Even just the control panel has three different UI frameworks mixed in one application. The whole thing is slow on a modern CPU with 64gb ram.<p>How did they get from Windows 2000 which arguably may have been ahead of Linux in terms of kernel and at least on par if not better than Mac OS in terms of UX to todays version of Windows 11?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:58:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337540</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With a boat, as far as I know the sides aren't good fishing spots. There is a website about it: <a href="https://www.vissenoploosdrecht.nl/fotos/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vissenoploosdrecht.nl/fotos/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314183</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes lots of people swim in both the lake and the narrow parts. The lake also has a few sand beaches that are popular in the summer. And designated swimming areas with shallow water for kids like this: <a href="https://share.google/5bko4Xpb0tzkfEChJ" rel="nofollow">https://share.google/5bko4Xpb0tzkfEChJ</a><p>There is an app to check water quality. In general it's fine to swim in, but at high temperatures sometimes algae form. That's common in lots of these kinds of lakes in the Netherlands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314090</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is electricity now, but it's quite new. Before that ours used to run on solar + batteries, you don't want a noisy generator in the middle of a nature area. A holiday home doesn't need that much electricity, warm water and heating use gas.<p>Prices are typical for this side of the country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313076</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes but those mostly live landside, there are holiday homes at the edge of the lake as well. There was a plan to allow permanent use, but I think it now changed to only allowing it for people that already live there and no new cases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312812</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Water levels in this area are tightly managed by pumps. Also in normal times they pump water in and out to keep a specific level. All of this is lower than the Amsterdamrijnkanaal, so without pumps it would flood, water doesn't naturally flow out of this place only from evaporation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312775</link><dc:creator>t0mas88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by t0mas88 in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People don't really live there, these are holiday/recreational homes. My family owns two of those islands with a holiday home.<p>Typically you use them for the weekend. My mom for example lives in a busy city and has  a small garden, she uses the holiday home as a weekend getaway and a place to keep the sailing boat.<p>The Netherlands are small and this area is very central, about 20 minutes drive from Amsterdam or Utrecht. So most owners use it in the same way.</p>
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<p>The water use is for cooling and sometimes includes indirect use for electricity generation. But before you call it "insane amounts of water" consider that the 700.000 liters quoted for training GPT-3 is less than 1 time spraying a 9 acres field, which is the size of a tiny hobby farm not a real farm.</p>
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<p>They even do that to large transmission lines. First shutdown/isolate, then connect to ground or short circuit. If anyone then accidentally turns something back on it will fail immediately.<p>A few years ago a transmission line in the Netherlands was energized while it shouldn't be, during maintenance work, which resulted in the whole line starting to smoke, sag and spark: <a href="https://youtu.be/nyjCrP38ICc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/nyjCrP38ICc</a></p>
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<p>Luckily the Trump administration has just paid over a billion dollars for the second time to stop a renewable energy project...</p>
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