<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zenapollo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zenapollo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:34:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zenapollo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Contabo, an even cheaper alternative to Hetz, raised prices this month as well by 30-35% as well. Just noting it here because i couldn’t any info elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542752</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how aws handles this in bedrock. Do they use Anthropics classifiers? Or their own? Or none? Would their data policing be different in bedrock than their other services?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234549</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How i know Masley is trash:<p>> Jordan is suspiciously lurching to the extremely high energy end of the light spectrum when we know that the low energy end (comparable to infrasound) doesn’t have negative impacts on us if we can’t detect its presence.<p>Masley spouts the falsifiable propaganda that any photon (light/emf) below ionizing radiation energy can only cause “heat” and can have no other possible harm effects.<p>Many science-minded people (though more accurately in this case, billiard-world materialists) have become quite militant defenders of this idea (ostensibly fighting off the hoardes of tinfoil hatters and quantum aquarians sensitive to 5g).<p>This point is very plausible military industrial propaganda. There were numerous studies with evidence (starting from the 60s) such as - non ionizing radiation (eg hv powerlines) might cause lots of cancer, and it’s weaponized (sub-thermal) usage can microwave the brains of enemy spies. THOSE studies have come out in declassified and leaked docs.<p>Now we have several plausible and serious theories of mechanism for low-f light disrupting biology that lean into quantum biology. While the iceberg of quantum biology understanding is still in its early decades, the mounting downstream evidence of health and medical issues are established public knowledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 08:37:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219563</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Workspace Agents in ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing of the spontaneous hallucination that sneaks in from time to time, especially when the model gets silently lobotomized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:04:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870824</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That idea was minorly present during Clinton and Bush, by the time Obama was in office I think it was clear that was never going to happen. The book covers the period from 2016 on, so long after that neocon dream.</p>
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<p>I don't think Cook gets enough credit for this [0] - Book: Apple in China. (Author Interview [1])<p>It's an undisputed damning account of how Cook was used by China to train millions of Chinese electronics manufacturers, managers, and engineers. The US took the most advanced industrial electronics manufacturing tech, and handed the expertise on a silver platter it to a long term strategic enemy.<p>Frankly, he shouldn't legally have even been able to do this. But that he was, he ought to be crowned one of China's greatest champions of this century.<p>0. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China</a>
1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SerbnYhhw7s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SerbnYhhw7s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:57:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848912</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Never buy a .online domain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cute. That is the commenter’s whole point about monopolies. Google is on record making their product worse to squeeze revenue. We’ve been living in the enshitification economy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153324</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Zulip.com Values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed! not having a dedicated voice message button is the one feature holding me back</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037314</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Show HN: OpenWhisper – free, local, and private voice-to-text macOS app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought i had tried this but no it’s a massively crowded app name. I’ll check this out soon, but honestly this one has been great.<p><a href="https://github.com/Starmel/OpenSuperWhisper" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Starmel/OpenSuperWhisper</a><p>Though it seems like the dev stopped work on it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010502</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Despite Trump being a huge footgun for the economy and middle class prosperity and general stability, I listen to the work ofPeter Zeihan on macro economic and geopolitical analyses. He has a YouTube channel and was recently on Modern Wisdom podcast for a deeper dive. He makes a strong case that, in the long run, US is still poised to be winning competitively for many reasons. Access to nat resources from Canada, and labor from Mexico are two big ones. The will likely always have food and be a reliable exporter of food, due to luck of climate and soil. The birth rate is less bad than in other developed economies. And we still have great tech and universities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:49:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470470</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Umbrel – Personal Cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm very pleased that it seems like there is a real movement happening in the self-hosted space. I've been self-hosting for about 6 months and actually started with umbrel because the UI looks so polished, which is comforting for people like me who didn't live in the CL. But there's a reason dev and eng tools always have the CL fallback, the GUI limits customization and hacking. And I hit those limits super fast on Umbrel. Then I moved to dokploy, then coolify, and finally `ssh homelab "cd /opt/<homelab>/stacks/<app> && docker compose up -d"`, and I couldn't be happier to tinker to my heart's desire.<p>The biggest upgrade of this movement is privacy & data sovereignty, so I hope it continues growing, and hope Umbrel has success in being a gateway for a lot of selfhost-curious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279905</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645849</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yah fair enough. I'm very beginner, and using python lib fabric to push ssh commands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485814</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been working on doing this with Coolify. There are very few coolify settings to backup, and then all the application configs are stored in /data/coolify. And I use kopia to backup all the volumes. It’s not pretty, and a little hacky, but workable for disaster recovery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:02:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482596</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dokploy ergonomics I found just a bit lacking, and switched to Coolify instead. I daresay the feature that swayed me was force “pull latest images” button on coolify (convenient way to update any app), that was weirdly not available on Dokploy.<p>What’s missing in both, and would liked to hear from hn, is docker-native backup solutions,  for backing up select docker volumes. Currently I’m using some tricks with duplicati, but I wonder if there’s anything better.<p>Also this is the first I’ve heard of coreOS, the author says nothing about it, though it’s in the title. I wonder why someone choose it over Debian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:17:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922603</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> isn't room for doing it arbitrarily as from my perspective it is a suboptimal strategy towards accomplishing one's goals.<p>One’s goals? And if my goal were to enslave a nation of people to enrich myself and maintain power for as long as possible?<p>> I am not interested in making an emotional argument. I would be willing to hold my belief regardless of what a system is made up of.<p>You cannot discuss governance and civilization design without emotional arguments - i mean i guess you can you can if you lean psychopathic. I don’t mean to name call so please correct my assumptions here what you mean.<p>Closed societies are tolerable in theory - but in theory people should be able to opt-in or opt-out. If they aren’t free to opt-out such as with a national closed society it’s not civilization, it’s slavery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:21:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578941</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Show HN: A gallery of ChatGPT image styles for inspiration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is awesome. I was literally looking for this exact thing like two weeks ago.<p>Suggestions: A few categories/tags might be nice for filtering. A few more anime styles would also be good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681421</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Doge's attack on social security causing 'complete, utter chaos', staff says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607835</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Finding the Best Sleep Tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice article but I with there was something more authoritative to compare it to. I know controlled in-lab sleep studies are expensive but this would be the key data to have in the mix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536524</link><dc:creator>zenapollo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zenapollo in "Show HN: Pyper – Concurrent Python Made Simple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I stumbled on grequests for this use case and it just works.</p>
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