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hellcowon Beyond Meat fights for survival

> 'we can do it and it may get more people to eat vegetarian.'

That's a noble goal in and of itself. Every step to reduce environmental impact and animal cruelty has value.

Beyond and Impossible were my "off-ramp" from eating meat every meal to exploring vegetarianism and veganism. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

hellcowon Beyond Meat fights for survival

Sad truth is there isn’t a real substitute. You just eat it less and desire it less over time.

Unrelated to cheese but MyBacon is fantastic if you can get it near you.

hellcowon Beyond Meat fights for survival

This is too bad. Beyond and Impossible opened up the door to me gradually becoming vegan. It was similar enough to real meat that I didn’t miss meat anymore, and from there I found other substitutions which were healthier. Without them I’m sure I never would have started a plant-based diet.

hellcowon Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

For what it's worth, when Cursor downgraded their Claude limits in the middle of my annual subscription term, I emailed them to ask for a pro-rated refund, and it was granted. You may be able to do something similar with Claude Code.

Changing the terms of the deal midway through a subscription to make it much less valuable is a really shady business practice, and I'm not sure it's legal.

hellcowon Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions

15j is easier than 4879gg. It’s a little bit quicker on big files—not a huge difference.

hellcowon On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

Absolutely. To add to this, the fact the author doesn’t take photos in their home town is a surprise as well.

You understand where you live better than visitors. As a photographer you know what’s interesting about a place. You see things that everyone else walks past and doesn’t notice. While everyone else walks away with generic tourist shots of Chapel Hill, you can capture snapshots of daily life over years that really showcase your friends and neighbors and town, and in so doing create a body of work that’s entirely unique to you and your perspective.

It’s an odd thing to be proud of—a photographer not capturing the place they know best.

hellcowon Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead

A general rule of thumb is that you have 3 board members at the seed (1 non-CEO founder, the CEO which is typically another founder, and the lead investor). So you have 1 seat available for investors, whereas you may take 5-20 checks. Not everyone is getting a seat.

At the A you usually expand to 5, adding the lead of the A round and an independent board member. Beyond that, it’s common for the earlier investors to get replaced on the board in future rounds and maintain observer rights.

hellcowon Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

The app crashes I found were always due to the additional security hardening features in GrapheneOS. You can toggle these individually for each app.

hellcowon Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition

I don’t know. I’m hoping that after their attempts at building an ad network fail, they pivot back to developing a browser by focusing on features their users actually want. Or maybe by the time Mozilla fails another alternative springs up, like Ladybird.

To your point, cloning Proton is such an obvious path forward to generate revenue while staying true to their values. Even selling a Firefox Pro with an annual fee offering some developer-specific or power-user features would be great.

hellcowon Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

The phrase "we don’t sell access to your data" has been removed, gated behind a feature flag connected to this TOS change. Their FAQ was updated to remove the "Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise" as well. [0]

Combined with their blog posts from the CEO saying "we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term." [1]

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

hellcowon Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

Since Mozilla removed all mention of not selling my data in a recent PR and seems hellbent on an ad-based future, I've deleted my Firefox account and moved to Librewolf across my devices, and I'll encourage everyone I know to do the same.

It's a sad end to my literal decades of support for them.

hellcowon Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

I’m throwing a +1 your way. Hiding development for a year to launch a get-rich-quick coin isn’t the way a trustworthy FOSS organization should behave.

As someone who got their whole network to switch to Signal before that happened, it was absolutely disgusting watching that all play out.

hellcowon OpenBSD Innovations

https://justine.lol/pledge/

While not the same, this is a SECCOMP-based Linux alternative (and it can even be used to restrict pre-compiled binaries).

hellcowon Growing Mozilla – and evolving our leadership

The absolute last thing I want from Mozilla is advertising. Blocking ads with uBlock Origin is the entire reason I use Firefox today.

I don’t know how you can be this out of touch with your users.

hellcowon Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns

Stacked PRs with multi-branch rebases are effortless. Conflicts are actual things in the history that you can come back to later. Everything is automatically committed, so I don't lose work from a bad reset/stash pop.

Maybe these don't help you with your workflow. But in my case these solve the biggest problems I had with git while still being fully compatible.

hellcowon Vim Roadmap 2025

tmux solves for this.

hellcowon Every HTML Element

This is a great approach. Just to add to it, you can also use custom elements in lieu of classes, such as:

<my-product>...</my-product>

Any tag with a hyphen is considered a custom element, which is completely valid HTML -- even without defining the element in JS.

This gives you a more descriptive `div`, and then instead of classes like `product-primary`, you can use semantic attributes, like `<my-product primary size="large">`. In combination with CSS nesting, you can get some great looking HTML and CSS with minimal markup/visual noise and no build step.

hellcowon Every HTML Element

Is it? I don't see any such warning or notice on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/hg.... It's still listed here: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110405/sections.html#t....

Perhaps it was re-added?

hellcowon Every HTML Element

PicoCSS uses them well, as an example: https://picocss.com/docs/typography#heading-group

hellcowon My Impressions of Gleam

I'm more interested in the language after hearing this. There's plenty of negativity in the world, I don't need more of it in a niche programmer forum of enthusiasts. It reminds me of MINASWAN from Ruby.

hellcowon Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations

Americans get no drugs covered--at all--unless you're over 65, have insurance through your employer, or pay thousands for insurance yourself (and often thousands more to meet your out-of-pocket deductible each year).

I would take the default of "some" coverage over "no" coverage any day.

hellcowon I ditched the algorithm for RSS

Not a single mention here of FeedFlow, available on F-Droid. An absolute gem of an app.

hellcowon Ask HN: What logging SaaS solution do you use?

I used Google Cloud's logs, which were quite good. Things worked as you'd expect and logs were easy to query. It was also very cheap.

When my company was acquired we started using Sumo, which is enormously overcomplicated and extremely expensive. I would rather gnaw off my own leg than use Sumo in a new project.

hellcowon Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

The combo of data exports and open-sourcing your code is a great solution to this problem. If you vanished tomorrow customers could easily migrate to a different vendor or even self-host. That carries much less risk than betting on any early stage VC startup that might vanish overnight, even with more people involved.

hellcowon Fun facts about SQLite

Interesting. So it's an "open core" model.

hellcowon Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API

I'd recommend transforming protobuf types to domain types at your API boundary. Then you have domain types through the whole application.

hellcowon From where I left

Mongo was AGPL until 2018. The AGPL didn’t stop Amazon from abusing the open source social contract, hence why Mongo modified the license.

hellcowon Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

I've been using `Null[T any] struct { V T, Valid bool }` for this, as the pattern comes from database/sql. Works fine.

hellcowon PSA: The Kagi search engine directly funds Yandex –- and refuses to stop

This is really disappointing.

Vlad, it’s not a “geopolitical issue.” You’re directly funding—even a small amount—the extermination of the Ukrainian people. Please stop.

— A family plan ultimate subscriber

hellcowon ChatGPT Pro

I noticed this too! It's dramatic in the same chat. I'll come back the next day, and even though I still have the full convo history, and it's as if it completely forgot all my earlier instructions.