Hacker News: tacker2000

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...

New comment by tacker2000 in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

tacker2000 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:17:27 +0000

That's... not quite right :)

React Router, which belongs to Remix, which was acquired by Shopify, is here: https://github.com/remix-run/react-router

Tanstack Router is an entirely new router.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

tacker2000 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:11:02 +0000

Its quite nice, there is a so called "article mode", where you can set a zoomed portion of the PDF, and configure how it "jumps" to the next page.

See video here: https://youtu.be/vQxlGIR8LE4?t=835

New comment by tacker2000 in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

tacker2000 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:09:51 +0000

TanStack started out by providing a very good JS table library. Now they offer a Router, and some more libs. They are definitely an up and coming name in the JS space.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

tacker2000 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:02:50 +0000

The Kindle hardware is great, but the software and ecosystem are just crap, and Amazon is making it shittier every year.

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 "Software never had a soul"

tacker2000 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:31:29 +0000

Lots of early internet users were also “gate-kept” in some weird AOL CD land.

Also, you dont need to consume the algo content. You can choose to disengage.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

tacker2000 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:40:48 +0000

I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much.

SpaceX IPO is the next in the long grift chain.

New comment by tacker2000 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

tacker2000 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:06:43 +0000

It excites me, since I am finally going to replace my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro!

New comment by tacker2000 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

tacker2000 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:59:50 +0000

So now all the open source projects that use this walled off closed platform (even though scores of people complained and warned about it) can go back to hopefully using something open and searchable.