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Trump did something very wrong. Bushart is sarcastically "quoting" him to point that out - or do I have it the wrong way around?
Re:The Joy of Folding Bikes on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:02AM (#47909299)
Technically yes, but the batteries on bikes are better protected, higher up, and usually of better quality than cheap scooter batteries, that are low to the ground. It's more of a statistical decision.
Re:Do I belong in tech anymore? on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:42AM (#47908571)
Thank you for the detailed response! My background is Ruby on Rails web development, but I started vibe engineering add-ons to my wife's dental practice software lately. Tools to reconcile payments and open invoices, by reading straight from DBF database files of the ancient Windows desktop app. Windows tray apps cross-compiled in Go from my Mac. Things that would have taken me weeks to learn the boilerplate previously. Only possible since about December. Wild times.

Good luck!

Re:Do I belong in tech anymore? on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:58AM (#47907506)
> I'm literally building little vibe-engineered tools for local companies.

Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

Re:LLM Writing Tropes.md on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:19AM (#47295033)
This changes everything.
I have had sporadic problems with Vodafone Germany’s IPv4 routing for months, sent detailed analyses and refused in advance to pay for any technicians they might send because the problem could not be on my property. They sent two technicians who confirmed my view. Then they charged me 160 EUR for them without fixing the issue.
Re:A receipt printer cured my procrastination on Friday June 13, 2025 @07:43AM (#44267637)
What a great color scheme! Changing colors over the course of the article makes it all a bit more fun and quirky and stand out against common templates.
Re:Introducing passkey support to Fastmail on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:32AM (#41242878)
Bitwarden is open source and has a free option. Granted, the app store app is a binary blob outside your control, but you have options.
But then alcohol kills or shortens life span in many more ways than drunk driving.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are self employed? on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:01AM (#39262562)
Thank you for taking the time to respond with so much detail! Good on ya!
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are self employed? on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:17AM (#39260912)
I want one of these so bad! Without spilling secrets: was it luck or a systematic process that gave you the idea for your company?
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are self employed? on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:32AM (#39260566)
Self-employed freelance developer since 2010.
Re:The artificial glacier growing in the desert on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:26AM (#38431044)
I remember those but can’t find them.

They added different food colors to theirs, making them look like giant frozen rainbows.

Does anyone remember the name or URL?

809 in Bitwarden. Collected and migrated over the years from lastpass to enpass to bitwarden.
„Shortcuts“ are a feature in iOS

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

Anki (and Mochi) are great for names of neighbours, other kids‘ parents at daycare, and people you don‘t meet often. My wife just remembers any name she‘s heeard once. I can cheat.
Re:You didn’t just do that, Heroku on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:36AM (#35610669)
Not sure if you have done this already but: If you rotate your database, redis and email provider passwords/tokens, the zombie process might still be running but will not have any effects any more.
Re:Thinkpad X210 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @12:22PM (#19414762)
By far the best onscreen „hacking“ I know of. He does use Linux Mint as daily driver though...
Re:V Programming Language on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:54PM (#19409479)
No virtual machine, but maybe you‘re thinking about https://nim-lang.org ?
Re:Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using? on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:28AM (#19244252)
PIA (Private Internet Access) for years now. Everything just works.
Michael E. Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited

Changed my view on business and reproducible business systems forever. Fun to read, too.

Re:LED Strain on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:03AM (#18646085)
I was impressed by how fast and uncluttered this site is. In case someone else is wondering: It seems to be running https://flarum.org/, a PHP forum with a Mithril JS front-end
Re:JIRA is an antipattern on Sunday December 09, 2018 @04:40PM (#18643451)
In case it helps you to see OPs point, please contact this person for a spreadsheet to import.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608294

It needs half a terabyte of RAM to open.

Re:FizzleFade on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:20AM (#15123501)
What's a "p90 use case"?
Re:300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:05PM (#14922693)
Why pipe to md5sum?
Re:Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async on Thursday June 08, 2017 @06:35PM (#14517688)
Bur this would still only start rendering things for the user after the slow lookup is done, so it would not help in this situation.
Re:Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:03AM (#13499249)
Citation needed
Re:Container Tabs on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:39PM (#13451110)
Qubes OS does exactly this: www.qubes-os.org

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