Hacker News: tacker2000

New comment by tacker2000 in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

tacker2000 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:05:57 +0000

"High prices shame Britain" made me chuckle

New comment by tacker2000 in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

tacker2000 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:48:29 +0000

I always use Paypal because they have buyers protection, and this has already saved me countless of times.

Would like to see if this is also offered in the Wero ecosystem?

New comment by tacker2000 in "I got into YC Startup School by hacking it"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:15:10 +0000

Why does the author keep mentioning that a one line bash command that downloads a bunch of crap is “great UX”?

New comment by tacker2000 in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:56:14 +0000

Bertha von Suttner on the 200 EUR is Austrian

New comment by tacker2000 in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

tacker2000 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:14:05 +0000

Unfortunately he has too much cash since he owns some of the largest social networks and thus receives insane amounts of ad spend… this will not end soon

New comment by tacker2000 in "The AirPods Effect"

tacker2000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:33:16 +0000

The author is a "Firm believer that humankind took a wrong turn with the invention of the smartphone." and has a new book coming out, so naturally he is trying to push some anti-tech narrative.

No, headphones don't make people antisocial. If someone is wearing headphones, respect their privacy and just leave them alone. Some people just don't like to chat to random people on the subway or at the supermarket. Some people just don't see the value of mundane conversations with strangers.

It depends on the culture and personality. Some people like it, some don't. In the US, people are more inclined to chat to strangers, and in Germany for example they aren't. These differences are actually what make us "human", so it's not a binary decision of: talking to strangers == good, and headphones == bad.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

tacker2000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:33:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip, instead of enduring any longer, i decided to downgrade, which was easier than I expected, and this old version works, doesn't have this bug.

Just delete the Outlook app from the Applications folder, and run the Outlook installer from version 16.109.3 (June 02, 2026) [1]. All data is there, no need for any backups or anything.

Then, delete (or rename) the Microsoft AutoUpdate App, which lives in: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-histo...

New comment by tacker2000 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

tacker2000 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:43:10 +0000

The latest version of "Legacy Outlook" on Mac has a huge bug now: "Replying to or forwarding an email does not include the original message in the email body in legacy Outlook for Mac" [1]

So now i am forced to use this New Outlook crapware at last. And it is crap. Its slow as a dog, every action takes 1s. Why do they rearrange all the buttons, change all the fonts... why don't they just copy the old interface 1:1 ? Who knows...

If I have to use this new version for longer than 2 weeks I am switching to some other client.

And also, who knows, maybe they are purposefully inserting these show-stopping bugs to get people to switch.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/replying-to-or-for...

New comment by tacker2000 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

tacker2000 — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:30:28 +0000

I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]).

I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens.

[1] https://shop.boox.com/products/go7

New comment by tacker2000 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

tacker2000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:17:36 +0000

To be fair marketing vibing content pages is different from managers vibing code that powers a trading app for example.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

tacker2000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:08 +0000

Yes of course, im running a few production projects with it.

Granted, its B2B Saas with not many users, maybe 100 concurrent.

80% of workloads dont need the complexity of Kubernetes and run fine with compose.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

tacker2000 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:13:41 +0000

Hofer

New comment by tacker2000 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:23:03 +0000

I would say most people are complaining about the $20 plan, which is now actually indistinguishable from the free one. I tested it and ran into limits immediately. With Max, i can work properly again.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

tacker2000 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:17:12 +0000

You are equating countries with corporations now?

How does that even remotely make sense?

New comment by tacker2000 in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

tacker2000 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:15:26 +0000

If you work there, you are part of the problem, there is no excuse for that.

Nobody is forcing you to work there.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

tacker2000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:55:11 +0000

Funny, I just signed up for Pro a couple hours ago, to check how Claude Code works using this plan, instead of using my API keys.

I got rate limited after about 30mins of coding and was thinking, who the hell i going to work like this?

So they really seem to be running into extreme capacity issued now.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

tacker2000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:53:05 +0000

Agree with you, but when was Siri ever “well-regarded”?

Its been trash since day 1.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

tacker2000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:57:52 +0000

The European Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard:

https://wastewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu/#/content/th...

Also, Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study:

https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/pods/waste-water-ana...

New comment by tacker2000 in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

tacker2000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:09:01 +0000

Actually i know an engineer at a startup that was hired to clean up the original slopcoded MVP. So there is also opportunity in this space.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

tacker2000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:55:34 +0000

In the tech world, security is mostly just a theater , it is used to push though unwanted and unpopular things, like access control, privacy invasion, etc...

All this signing business, leads to one party having the final say, and guess what, they are going to abuse that power...