Hacker News: treesknees

New comment by treesknees in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

treesknees — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:51:41 +0000

Location is used for tracking distance/speed for certain activities and measuring VO2 max levels, and for finding a lost ring.

New comment by treesknees in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

treesknees — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:44:49 +0000

I was stuck between the two, Oura won for its better sleep tracking and battery life.

I suppose one option would be to enable data syncing to Apple Health, and periodically delete/create new Oura accounts to purge historical health data. Not a great workflow, but would let you benefit from E2EE with Apple Health while using Oura (assuming Oura’s “delete account and all data” does what it claims)

New comment by treesknees in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

treesknees — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:37:48 +0000

>Microsoft was effectively paying Anthropic for thousands of seats. Switching to internally-developed tools eliminates that cost while strengthening Microsoft's own AI product portfolio

This is just shifting the cost around. At the end of the day, whether developers are using Claude models through Claude Code or Copilot, Microsoft is still paying Anthropic.

New comment by treesknees in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

treesknees — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:24:25 +0000

For the price, they could buy an exact replica bare metal server and still save money.

New comment by treesknees in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

treesknees — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:22:01 +0000

Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by treesknees in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

treesknees — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:36:48 +0000

I don’t think it’s API costs. Their Sonnet 4.6 is just 1x premium request which matches the 1x cost of the various GPT Codex models.

New comment by treesknees in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

treesknees — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:32:40 +0000

You’re not locked into vscode. There are plugins for other IDEs, and a ‘copilot’ cli tool very similar to Claude Code’s cli tool.

I also wouldn’t say you’re locked into Microsoft’s ecosystem. At work we just have skills that allow for interaction with Bitbucket and other internal tooling. You’re not forced to use GitHub at all.

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

treesknees — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:27:55 +0000

I thought, good thing I've already hit my 5-hour session limit.

New comment by treesknees in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

treesknees — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:35:35 +0000

Because systemd isn’t an operating system. It’s just providing a mechanism for the OS to store/lookup the user’s birthday. It’s up to individual distros to do the verification (should the law stand and OS vendors choose to comply)

New comment by treesknees in "Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors"

treesknees — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:31:24 +0000

In what context are people saying this? I’ve never heard anyone proclaim that electronic devices are more reliable than mechanical devices. See for example how people desire cars with “no computers”.

New comment by treesknees in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

treesknees — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:17:16 +0000

I’ve used it quite a bit, but just as a natural language frontend to their search engine. I don’t see it as a true alternative to generic chat bots like Claude or ChatGPT, and certainly not a coding tool. I would likely not subscribe to Assistant.

New comment by treesknees in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

treesknees — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:51:46 +0000

Maintainers of "small web" servers are not being forced to use TLS. If you want to put a plaintext HTTP server on port 80 on the Internet, you can totally do that today with no issues. Sure, modern browsers like Safari and Chrome will show a "Not Secure" message in the address bar, but users are not prevented from getting to the website. Perhaps your site won't be listed on Google, but I think for small web that's acceptable.

That said, there's more to the web than just blogs and recipes. If I want to run a small web forum for enthusiasts of some hobby, I think it'd be irresponsible of me as a webmaster to run that from a microcontroller if it prevents my users from being able to securely authenticate without their password being revealed to prying eyes.

New comment by treesknees in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

treesknees — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:59:15 +0000

It could be a move to have parity with TikTok, where they claim it’s for safety reasons. I’ve been seeing advertisements for Instagram touting their child/teen protection features. Seems like they’re really trying to beat the allegations that Instagram is bad for children’s health.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817

New comment by treesknees in "Anthropic has strong case against Pentagon blacklisting, legal experts say"

treesknees — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:04:09 +0000

It’s not all about the government contract itself. By being labeled a supply chain risk, other companies cannot use Anthropic products if they want to work with the government. So it’s worth having that distinction by a judge, even if it takes some time to get it.

New comment by treesknees in "Yahoo Scout Beta"

treesknees — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:06:47 +0000

It’s essentially a middleware between Bing search API and a (custom?) Claude model.

New comment by treesknees in "Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?"

treesknees — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:54:15 +0000

I’ve been using the Kagi Assistant with various models. It’s more of a glorified search summarizer but it’s essentially free with my existing subscription.

New comment by treesknees in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

treesknees — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:46:47 +0000

I completely agree with this. I'm playing through Leaf Green, and I'm around 8 hours in with just a single badge. I don't think I'd get through it without the boost of nostalgia for the GBC/GBA games. The newest games are nothing like the slog we went through as kids.

New comment by treesknees in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

treesknees — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:56 +0000

In my experience many middle eastern companies tend to only operate out of the Middle East AZ’s. They’re not backhauling their data and customers to us-east-1. If the goal is to severely disrupt middle eastern rivals, then you don’t need to hit every possible AWS datacenter.

New comment by treesknees in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

treesknees — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:08:28 +0000

I’ve read the article. Sounds like you don’t understand the difference between MQTT and Bluetooth.

New comment by treesknees in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

treesknees — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:38:45 +0000

It’s been like that for several years.