Hacker News: tsak

New comment by tsak in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

tsak — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:39:25 +0000

Second that. Our garage is full of their 50L boxes with the XL lid, perfectly fitting those industrial shelves. Very versatile and long lasting. Even after nearly ten years, they look pretty much the same, and we live in harsh climate near the coast.

New comment by tsak in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

tsak — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:06:43 +0000

That's not very punk, is it?

New comment by tsak in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

tsak — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:15:38 +0000

But aren't those the same startups that think they need to run on AWS EKS instead of using a single cheap server? The cheapest used Hetzner server currently is €39.24 / month:

- Intel Core i7-6700 - 32 GB - 2 x 480 GB Datacenter SSD - 1 GB/s - 20 TB traffic

Their VPS are even cheaper. And you can run a lot on this.

New comment by tsak in "Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason"

tsak — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:04:19 +0000

I did, almost a month ago: https://tsak.dev/posts/der-tag-zieht-den-jahrhundertweg/

(despite the German title, it is written in English)

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

tsak — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:19:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121956

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by tsak in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"

tsak — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:46:36 +0000

Furthermore, this petition should be written in German as well...

New comment by tsak in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

tsak — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:49:23 +0000

iPify | Legal Tech | Remote (EU or UK) | Full Time

Do you want to build the leading platform for the intellectual property industry? We want you to join us, a team of seasoned industry professionals growing an ambitious project in a niche market.

Bring your enthusiasm and expertise to help us build the B2B collaborative ecosystem supporting patent and trademark legal specialists with their business network management, legal workflows and financial flows.

Job description: https://ipify.notion.site/Senior-Python-Developer-37de517efa...

Company website: https://www.ipify.app/

New comment by tsak in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

tsak — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:09:36 +0000

Thank you for your thought experiment. As I was slowly typing a response into the HN response form, I had a feeling that my thoughts on this would be better suited as a blog post:

https://tsak.dev/posts/der-tag-zieht-den-jahrhundertweg/

Werner Vogels Is Right

tsak — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:10:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tsak.dev/posts/werner-vogels-is-right/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337162

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tsak in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"

tsak — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:38:51 +0000

That was my first thought as well.

New comment by tsak in "Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation"

tsak — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:07:08 +0000

The hat!

> The term fedora was in use as early as 1891.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora#History)

New comment by tsak in "Perl's decline was cultural"

tsak — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:31:00 +0000

Before I eventually switched to PHP, I ended up writing multiple CMS-like solutions that would run via `cgi-bin` but write contents to the webroot (what we would now call a static site generator). As I was quite limited with the standard shared hosting at the time, I ended up inventing my own single file database format (it was a simple text file) to keep state. It worked quite beautifully and kept me afloat for the first few years of my life as a web developer around the early 2000s.

I was aware of ActivePerl and quite liked Komodo. Thankfully I could keep myself from doing things on Windows/IIS apart from a brief stint writing a single file CMS in ASP.

Deezer claims 18% of all new music uploaded to streaming is fully AI-generated

tsak — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom-deezer.com/2025/04/deezer-reveals-18-of-all-new-music-uploaded-to-streaming-is-fully-ai-generated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715639

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by tsak in "The best programmers I know"

tsak — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:40:33 +0000

> Really Read the Error Message and Try to Understand What’s Written

This is a surprising stumbling block for a lot of developers when they encounter a problem. Most times the solution is hiding in plain sight (albeit at least one level of abstraction lower sometimes) and reading what the error was can help to quickly solve an issue.

Anecdotal evidence: We use `asdf` for managing Python, Go and NodeJS versions for our main project. On a fresh Fedora/Ubuntu install, running `asfd install` fails to compile Python as it is missing a few dependencies that are required for Python's standard library. The output that is provided when the `asdf` command fails is pretty self explanatory IF you care to read it.

New comment by tsak in "AI Product Management"

tsak — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:16:44 +0000

Do AI customers next!

New comment by tsak in "Devin is now generally available"

tsak — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:55:16 +0000

Is it just me that finds it ironic that you're looking for software developers?

New comment by tsak in "Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again"

tsak — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:23:20 +0000

Can you spec a N100 system with 8GB of RAM and at least 32 GB of (slow) SSD and land around the £100 / $120 price point of a Raspberry Pi 500 with 27W power adapter?

Not to mention the GPIO header.

New comment by tsak in "Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life""

tsak — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:42:36 +0000

My eBay account of 20 years got cancelled because I followed their customer support's suggestion of opening a new one. And now I can't sell on eBay anymore:

https://tsak.dev/posts/the-decision-is-final-and-we-cannot-r...

Deploying Metabase as a Quadlet: A Rootless Podman Journey

tsak — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://tsak.dev/posts/metabase-quadlet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685713

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tsak in "Movies directed by Andrey Tarkovsky (YouTube playlist)"

tsak — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:09:28 +0000

Thank you, much appreciated.