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icar··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Whatever I need it to do for my current project. Right now, a crawler for a relatively niche search engine.
icar··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
If you open a terminal in their IDEs, top right button, Claude Code, enable MCP. For me, it's the best mix of the two worlds.
icar··on An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
I had to unsub from search after a year. Catalan searches are worse than Google's, unfortunately.
icar··on Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

  You cannot currently edit files in Whiteboard. If this is something that you find yourself wanting to do, please file an issue!
Do you still consider this an IDE? Curious
icar··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
This is something I always had in my mind: sign at photo taken, at least you know it comes from a phone and it's not AI generated
icar··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
CC with Jetbrain's IDE MCPs. get rid of those greps, seds, awks, heads and tails!
icar··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
I have been having huge success with CC and HTMX+Go. Not even tailwind. It made me never want to touch React again; it eased my way into the simpler stuff.
icar··on Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
I remember doing this at uni, networking labs
icar··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
They seem to be a top brand in sailing for now, still. But they did move to a subscription for their Navionics charts.
icar··on How I use HTMX with Go
Oh my GOSH (GoSqliteHtmx) stack.
icar··on CarPlay Is Additive
Bluetooth + phone mounted next to the wheel worked nicely (and still does in older models). I wish I had this option still. Better, AUX instead of Bluetooth. It would be so fast to plug&play...
icar··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
All coastal zones are. Mallorca is the same, for example. Eivissa as well. Many parts of València, etc. And that's just the ones I know.
icar··on Rsync and outrage
> for the people saying things like “I’m a PhD from xyz uni and I’m telling your LLMs are just stochastic tools that make everything up and the world will fall apart if you use them”, I’m here to tell you that you are out of date. The world of software engineering has changed dramatically in the last few months.

It indeed has. I now review code written by machines that sucks the life of me, read reports written by a machine, and overall have a miserable life as a software engineer. The pay is good so I'll keep on it for the time being, but you are damn right it changed, for the worse.

icar··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
The bubble keeps getting bigger!
icar··on Leave Me Behind
You are right, until you are to review PRs at work that you know were 100% generated by AI.
icar··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
I don't use Spotify. Will people that do and are fans of the same bands have priority over me?
icar··on Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
This feels like reinventing Tailwind, but worse.
icar··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
I know I will be flagged, and it doesn't add anything of value to the conversation, but: From every single private server WoW player out there, a sincerely Fuck You Blizzard is in place. This sentiment is shared among all of us, and it's been there for decades. Keep shutting us down, more will come.
icar··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
I wish Adobe adopted Jetbrain's model. You pay for a version of the software. You then keep it forever. Then offer additional stuff like using their AI or some cloud save stuff.
icar··on France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
What about https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix, though?
icar··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
icar··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
It changes permissions nicely and it's nice for my Fedora NAS Jellyfin Torrent server management. It comes preinstalled. Everything that I listed would make the software better.
icar··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Instead of spreading FUD about a protocol, one could stay in X11. If you don't need fractional scaling, HiDPI, real multi monitor support, mixed refresh rates, HDR, VRR, no tearing, and trust all your apps to not keylog everything, you can keep using any XOrg DE.
icar··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
PSA: The file browser plugin can't move files (you need to copy, paste, and go back and delete the original file). You can't select multiple files without a keyboard. You can't upload multiple files at the same time. Mobile screen has lots of usability issues, specially with long paths or filenames.
icar··on Store birth date in systemd for age verification
Having this in userdb is not bad per se. We already have a bunch of PII in there.
icar··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
I am working on getting the sailing Captain license (I started sailing when I was 8), and move my life there. I hate how things work nowadays. I feel like I am a police officer vs my friends/coworkers AI code. And I don't want to do that
icar··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
One can only hope this trend is big enough to make phone manufacturers bring the 3.5mm jack connector back.
icar··on Daily Driving GrapheneOS
I use GBoard without internet permission.
icar··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Didn't they announce a partnership with Google Gemini?
icar··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Curve works on GrapheneOS. I use it weekly.
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