Hacker News: vachina

New comment by vachina in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

vachina — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:12:33 +0000

If you think this is egregious wait till you experience Apple products.

New comment by vachina in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

vachina — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:28:54 +0000

They started out good and then cranked the engagement trap to the max when they realize value of a captive audience.

New comment by vachina in "Protect your shed"

vachina — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:02:53 +0000

Yeah ideal employee indeed. Learning things at home to add value to the employer.

But the skill and experience stick with you for lifetime.

New comment by vachina in "Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos"

vachina — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:02:04 +0000

New comment by vachina in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

vachina — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:51 +0000

There’s local file system as an option for storage provider.

But then you still need a bazillion dependencies and a db just to manage files already on your filesystem.

New comment by vachina in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

vachina — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:10:59 +0000

This sounds like a problem already solved without the need for proprietary clients.

New comment by vachina in "Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi"

vachina — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:32:24 +0000

Still none of your business

New comment by vachina in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

vachina — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:18:01 +0000

Don’t turn vibe coding into your day job (because the vibe won’t keep vibing). Write code (that you own) that can make you money and hire real developers.

New comment by vachina in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

vachina — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:53:18 +0000

> reposting a flagged and deleted comment to this comment (why?)

The big difference before was that america commit war crimes, but it did so in a socially acceptable way and was able to keep a polite face in important company. It's like how being a manager at tech companies is 95% speaking affluently and sounding like you know what you're doing (and also like 80% being white). We used to sound like we knew what we were doing. Now we don't.

New comment by vachina in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

vachina — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:50:52 +0000

It is despised for the same reason web based UI is despised today. Firefox OS was also “too early” and failed.

New comment by vachina in "Cursor 3"

vachina — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:40:39 +0000

There's also Eclipse.

New comment by vachina in "Cursor 3"

vachina — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:40:08 +0000

Agent is where tokens are consumed, and where they can charge you more.

New comment by vachina in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

vachina — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:23:44 +0000

Precisely this. They prey on outsource-happy big orgs that have 1 million different SaaS all tied together by scotch tape (because their IT dept. is also outsourced)

New comment by vachina in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

vachina — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:47:06 +0000

This is what happens when humans give, in this case, bots full write access (via natural language) to their brains.

Humans have not evolved to block this.

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

vachina — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:17:55 +0000

Own huge swathes of land (there is plenty) and grow your own food.

New comment by vachina in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

vachina — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:42:52 +0000

> Cloudflare dns has gone back and forth.

Just tells me they are an unreliable resolver. Instead of being a neutral web infra, they actively participate in political agendas and censor things they "think" is wrong.

New comment by vachina in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

vachina — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:39:25 +0000

Proof?

New comment by vachina in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

vachina — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:37:43 +0000

I know it's petty. But don't act surprised when you find your garbage strewn all over your lawn next morning after you flipped off your neighbor the fourth time.

New comment by vachina in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

vachina — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:54:22 +0000

I signed up last year when the limits were a lot more generous.

New comment by vachina in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

vachina — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:05:59 +0000

A question. I’m due for a yearly Cursor subscription renewal, how does the credit limit look like?

Currently I’ve not hit any of the limits despite using it quite rigorously, I wonder if this will change with a renewal?