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New comment by vander_elst in "Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust"

vander_elst — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:13:19 +0000

It would seem in this design that all the tools should be called through a wrapper that understands the vault and provides the credentials to the tool in the right way. How otherwise can curl use the credentials? Curl has no idea that there's a vault somewhere

New comment by vander_elst in "We Will Not Be Divided"

vander_elst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:55:06 +0000

What's crazy here is that a government I'd requiring de-regulation while companies are trying to keep stricter rules. What a time.

New comment by vander_elst in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

vander_elst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:52:45 +0000

Subscribers should be aware what they are supporting. I think that keeping an OpenAI account can be considered an active support of this decision, at least for private people who can easily change providers.

New comment by vander_elst in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

vander_elst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:45:38 +0000

> I don't see how OpenAI employees who have signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter can continue their employment [...]

Sometimes money is more attractive than morality. So I guess money is the answer here.

New comment by vander_elst in "Sizing chaos"

vander_elst — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:58:16 +0000

I would have said that this is covered under vanity sizing. I have the feeling some consumers might be more inclined to buy a product if it has size M instead of XXL, even if the product is exactly the same. So my take is that, in the name of profit, companies lie about size.

New comment by vander_elst in "Sizing chaos"

vander_elst — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:53:20 +0000

> bring it to your neighborhood tailor. Most alterations are simple and not very expensive.

I think, this is a misconception, some "simple" things like resizing a shirt, when done properly, might require multiple hours + a decent amount of skills and the alterations might be cheap because they are performed by underpaid workers. Nonetheless, I like the idea of supporting local tailors and I'd be in for paying premium for a local premium product.

New comment by vander_elst in "OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up"

vander_elst — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:52:28 +0000

I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait for them and just want to go out and drive, fast, even if everything points towards the fact that that's not a good idea. If someone really wants to touch the fire after everyone stated multiple times that they shouldn't do it, I guess it's ok to let them go fo it.

New comment by vander_elst in "OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up"

vander_elst — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:20:25 +0000

I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's more effective to learn like that rather than reading stuff upfront and take necessary precautions and maybe these will be cautionary tales also for others.

Thanks to the reports, hopefully, with time, some additional security measures will also be added to the product.

New comment by vander_elst in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

vander_elst — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:25:24 +0000

I think that Google has some partnership with Deutsche Telekom where they provide the software and Deutsche Telekom Runs it because Google doesn't have the encryption keys. In that case Google even if they want they cannot provide the data. Anyway that is still not digital sovereignity as Google might decide to stop providing updates or add a backdoor...

New comment by vander_elst in "ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors"

vander_elst — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:39:43 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by vander_elst in "ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors"

vander_elst — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:22:36 +0000

> 504MiB shared L3 cache

What CPU are they using here?

New comment by vander_elst in "US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional"

vander_elst — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:20:13 +0000

At least in certain countries there are high taxes on cigarettes and alcohol probably also to cover such costs

New comment by vander_elst in "US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional"

vander_elst — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:50:52 +0000

If you kill someone when drunk driving you face more serious consequences than if you weren't drunk. There should be similar consequences here you get a disease you could have vaccinated for? You pay 4 times the amount for the cure.

New comment by vander_elst in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

vander_elst — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:15:45 +0000

Germany is incredibly under developed in the digitalization plus the amount of red tape to do even basic things is also very large as well. Getting rid of these things takes a lot of will power and at the moment there is very little.

New comment by vander_elst in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

vander_elst — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:37:32 +0000

Well from my experience on a Mac or in iOS you either adapt to their workflow or you leave the platform, I don't think there's a middle ground there. From my experience Linux is actually on the total opposite side, which might be even more confusing: it will allow you to create any workflow you want, if you are willing to sacrifice your sanity to get there. Btw Linux user here who already lost part of their mental health.

New comment by vander_elst in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

vander_elst — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:27:09 +0000

> Any other operation will be written on paper in a step by step well phrased manner.

Same exact experience, I cannot get my parents to think about what they are doing, they just follow the steps; if an icon changes or if the button is in a different place the whole workflow stops until I help them. Any suggestions here on how to improve the approach?

New comment by vander_elst in "Every data centre is a U.S. military base"

vander_elst — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:56:30 +0000

Probably yes at least to a certain level. At the moment to many countries are relying too heavily on a single point of failure, there should be independent alternatives so that is possible to have more and better competition and in case the administration of the current single point of failure goes nuts it's possible to switch over to something else.

New comment by vander_elst in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

vander_elst — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:59:38 +0000

I had a couple of Pis that I wanted to use as a Media center, I always had some small issues that created a suboptimal experience. Went for a regular 2nd hand amd64 with a small form factor and never looked back, much better userspace support and for my use case a much smoother experience, no lags no memory swapping and if needed I can just buy a different memory bank or a different component. I have no plans to use a raspberry pi any time soon. I am not sure these days if they really still have a niche to fill and if yes how large this niche is.

New comment by vander_elst in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

vander_elst — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:23:05 +0000

Why cannot cloudlflare just apply a filter to the incoming requests and if the IP is belongs to am Italian AS they just drop it?

New comment by vander_elst in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

vander_elst — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:17:42 +0000

If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, system programming, wine tasting, carpentry, sport, traveling etc... There are *so* many interesting things to do and so little time. I guess time will tell but at the moment I have a hard time imagining myself getting bored.