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New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:04:54 +0000

What I would find lovely is to connect my already existing Thunderbird profile that exists locally. I have 5 email accounts connected and there is no real need to sync them twice on the same machine.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:26:44 +0000

Matchmaking is a real problem in most games because of smurfing.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)"

thunfischtoast — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:37:57 +0000

In my written will I have defined a clear timeframe. If I have not recovered by a measurable amount (GCS) in a timeframe of 4 weeks, it's time for me to go.

Edit: note this might be different for you. You are the only one who can make that call. You can also decide that you want to be kept alive as long as possible. But then at least your loved ones know that that's what you wanted.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)"

thunfischtoast — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:23:48 +0000

I feel you, I also unfortunately have experiences with that. It has profoundly changed my view on living, especially how I want to be treated when someday I'm heavily sick.

A family member in a coma takes a heavy toll on you, emotionally and financially. They are simultaneously there and not there. If they did not write down how they want to be treated you can never make a decision where you are sure what's right, or if they even want to be kept alive while not living. Eventually, when all your savings are burned through, when you might need to sell your house, you really wonder if that's what they wanted and if all that was worth it.

For me, the decision is clear: when I'm not able to make my own decisions turn everything off and let me die.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:06:27 +0000

When the pirated version is truer to the original contract than the official version. What a time to be alive.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

thunfischtoast — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:24:11 +0000

AI makes it apparent that the only value some people bring to the table is that they have access to information that you do not. If now they fold that one advantage by just delegating everything to AI (which is in the same position as you informationwise), they will remove themselves from the worker pool soon.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:53:31 +0000

Annas Archive is blocked in some countries (like mine, Germany)

New comment by thunfischtoast in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:00:51 +0000

Results may vary, but for most people the body takes multiple hours to calm down completely after a activating workout.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:37:18 +0000

So India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:29:50 +0000

I'm nitty picking now, but for most people you can't cure lactose intolerance because it's not a disease. It's more like the default state that adult mammals have. You might be able to rebuild some tolerance, but it's much easier to just take the artificial lactase and manage intake. One could argue that, biologically speaking, lactose tolerance is the off state and just so happens because we keep consuming breast milk well into adulthood (just not our own mother's).

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:39:39 +0000

Adding onto that: the app is open source. Finding possible weak points was the very reason of this exercise.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:15:14 +0000

> The best was when she barely unscrewed one of this big DIN connectors so at quick glance it looked fine, but wasn’t fully connected.

That's evil haha. It's the case where you unplug and plug again everything, changing seemingly nothing, but then it works

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:12:13 +0000

I've been working on https://game-pick.eu , a website for friends to easily decide on games to play together. It is voting-based and can show who has which game in their library to see who would yet have to buy it. I'm planning on adding features for finding new friends to play with also. It's my first real web project, so I'm excited how it will go.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:44:12 +0000

The issue and update comment are also clearly generated. I'm not condemning this in general, I prefer a well written generated issue over a badly written manual one. But in this case it has just lead us off track.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:04:38 +0000

From the issue author:

> Update: Root cause found — this was a bug in a tool I built that was running locally for testing, not Claude Code.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:33:04 +0000

The argument is that vibrations of the wind power plants at sea disturb the whales.

Paying for the gas itself would not be an externality. Externalities are for example the worldwide damages caused by extreme weather which is caused by climate change, health problems caused by air pollution or the usage of clean water for cooling

New comment by thunfischtoast in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:08:37 +0000

Call me incompetent, but I don't get it.

> I switched the build to SWC, and server restarts dropped to under a second.

What is SWC? The blog assumes I know it. Is it https://swc.rs/ ? or this https://docs.nestjs.com/recipes/swc ?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:32:10 +0000

The project life cycle cost: yes. The birds and whales: no. But neither do the fossil power plants.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:27:16 +0000

It's a word play

New comment by thunfischtoast in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:51:30 +0000

Chip of Theseus