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Manozcoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

I'm working on a platform for selling event tickets (kind of an alternative to Ticketmaster or weezevent). I'm working on it on my free time for now (I am also using it to test working with AI tools ). Not sure yet if I want to build a company or not.

Manozcoon GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

I'm not a Hurd contributor ( or any OS kernel / library ).

I'm not sure this holds today. One example I can see is related to crypto. We used to have specific hardware for computing cryptography functions but it's now handled directly in standard hardware and the software has not evolved ( but it's been faster and faster to compute checksum functions )

Manozcoon 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

Maybe by providing a unique email to the user that he/she will use for the company. Be sure to forward emails to the user also :D

Manozcoon Claude Code Unleashed

I got a patch rejected (rightfully so IMO) a long-time ago from libvirt (RedHat) because I was using (and mentioning) code taken from StackOverflow.

Manozcoon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

I've bought cars that cost me less than a nVidia card (and they were running).

Manozcoon Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

I am not a Lawyer, or a US resident but I highly suspect this behavior is completely illegal in Europe (and rightfully so in my mind).

Manozcoon Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

This is like 90% of what I need to setup on a server for my personal usage. Issue is I don't do front dev at all so I never really start working on it. Any chance you've open sourced it ? (Or if not opensourced but you're willing to privately share the code, you can reach me at hn [at] manoz [dot] co)

Manozcoon VirtualBox KVM Public Release

I've contributed in the past to libvirt in order to support some Virtualbox features because some of our customers used VBox. It would have been handy to have this in the past, and have all of our customers use some KVM VMs ;)

Congrats for the work!

Manozcoon Blender 4.0 release notes

Hum that might explain the situation here. I'm on Ubuntu with KDE

Manozcoon Blender 4.0 release notes

It looks like Chrome is doing the pro software then.

Parent said blender was opening the menu onPress, which according to your comment is OK for pro software, Chrome is also doing the menu onPress

Manozcoon Blender 4.0 release notes

I've not used blender but it seems to me that Chrome is doing that too (at least it's doing that on my machine )

Manozcoon When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

Maybe you should not be the one representing your company at a Congress hearing if you have this behavior..

Manozcoon Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday

You can fix it by creating the file `/usr/local/bin/xdg-open` and putting this inside:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    if [[ "${1:-}" = slack://\* ]]; then
        exec /usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-crashpad "$1"
    fi

    exec /usr/bin/xdg-open "$@"

Granted it's not perfect, but at least it fixes the issue on KDE

Manozcoon Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals

Does it mean that every form of life on Earth (right now) evolved from the "Parent" of the Comb Jelly ?

Manozcoon The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop

PoP Os! seems to use a 6.2 kernel in their jammy version (https://apt-origin.pop-os.org/release/pool/jammy/linux/4a8cd...) while Ubuntu still ships with a default 5.15

It is however quite easy to migrate to a 5.19 using hwe packages in Ubuntu but I don't think they ever shipped 6.x for jammy

Manozcoon Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API?

We use Mangopay (https://www.mangopay.com/) at $DAYJOB as a payment provider. They have a working API (in python at least) and a functionning sandbox environment.

Manozcoon Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...

Manozcoon Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

It could make for an interesting server for homelab if we can easily install Linux on it. Does anyone know if there is some kind of lock that prevents installation of another OS ?

Manozcoon Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Regulator says no, riling tech sector

Maybe because some of us are really Engineers (with a degree in Engineering) It's not because I specialized in Computer Science at the very end of my studies that I'm not an Engineer.

Manozcoon Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers

Citroen high-end cars got hydraulic systems that decoupled the steering wheel from the wheels in the seventies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI

Manozcoon “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

It sure as hell doesn't work like this for the newspaper Le Monde (in France). Sure you can sign/resign with Apple/Google but if you sign with e-mail, you have to mail a physical letter to resign (8Euros one with proof of delivery and all)

Manozcoon “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

I got this issue with the newspaper "Le Monde" in France a couple of months ago. Had to send them a 8Euros letter to cancel the subscription.

Manozcoon Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?

It's even in the Monopoly ;)

Manozcoon Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

Given that you can enter in life with HIV "given" by the mother, it does not seem too crazy to administer it to some babies (given there is no counter indication for that obviously)

Manozcoon How to end up with 500k commits in your log

git commit --allow-empty-message

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit...

Manozcoon GitHub was having issues

Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D

Manozcoon Deno 1.10 Release Notes

Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

So it's probably a rust wrapper around a C++ project (unless they reimplement V8 in rust... )

Manozcoon To upgrade the SSD in a Mac Pro, you need a second Mac computer

I don't think I ever managed to create a working bootable Windows disk on linux. The hardest part was to fetch the image (from Linux).

Manozcoon WyHLL: The most accurate 3-bits HyperLogLog

This article by antirez helped me understand HyperLogLog a couple years ago http://antirez.com/news/75

Manozcoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

I'm a Developer/Sysadmin with 8+ years of experience. I am currently doing some Sysadmin work (1 year now) but I'd like to return to development. I only work on UNIX systems, and ideally I would like my new role to be related to cyber-security ($PREVIOUS_JOB was in this field).

  Role: Senior Developer/Architect
  Location: Rennes, France
  
  Remote: Yes (If not the only one)
  
  Willing to relocate: Not now
  
  Technologies: C++/Qt, Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, Docker, AWS, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, Rust, NodeJS
  
  Résumé/CV: Request via email
  
  Email: hnh@manoz.co