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sixhobbits··on Presented by Stripe
> Do I get anything out of this deal? > > This is the part I’m most excited about: I am going to invest the revenue from this deal into making more and better products.

I mean you do you but this whole line of argument just seems kinda insulting to readers? "Yeah I am planning on making even more money but it's really for your benefit"

Rather just say that you're doing it to make more money? When mcdonalds puts up their prices they say it's for shareholder profit not "we'll be using our increased profits to develop new mcNewThings"

sixhobbits··on PHP 8.2.35
Yeah this, I always see so much hate towards businesses for finding tax loopholes or not donating etc but people forget that businesses are made of individuals with their own often conflicting subgoals, but overall has to try to maximize profit so they will never voluntarily pay more tax than legal minimum or be philanthropic if they do not have to or do not benefit explicitly.
sixhobbits··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
yep, run a small non-tech business too (new for me) so I got to learn all about 'normie' FB marketing and it's absolutely trash from a business perspective

- we had this link limit for a few months already

- every business portal to upload content etc is super buggy, just shows loading spinners, you never know if a post has worked or not

- we're locked out of our instagram account as we took it over from old owners who don't know password and none of the reset options arrive even though they have access to them

- we finally got an email 2fa to go through to recover the account and that then asked for the SMS too, which never arrives

- there is of course absolutely no way to contact support

Unfortunately it's the only platform all our customers are on. They don't even have Google accounts, it's all WhatsApp, Facebook and phones.

sixhobbits··on Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities
They had already shut down when this server was seized I think

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-huma...

> We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.

So it's human/political distribution rather than infrastructure now

sixhobbits··on I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
Yeah it's awful they keep coming months after you post anything as a Show HN now, definitely discourages me from doing it
sixhobbits··on Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev
Well yes but then you'd have to manually code every set of expectations, the point of using a model like Jev is it can flag a "something is wrong here" entry without needing someone to define every thing that could go wrong
sixhobbits··on Firefox Enterprise
every announcement I see from Mozilla makes me happier that I switched to WaterFox last year and don't have to deal with their shit any more
sixhobbits··on Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
Definitely intentional, they're fun
sixhobbits··on Mistral Large 4
if it's not available yet why have a 'try it today' header at all?

> "Try it today" > > There is still more to come. As we work toward releasing the weights, we will share further details on the model architecture, additional benchmarks, and our post-training methodology.

sixhobbits··on OpenAI has a LOT of work to do if they think Luna can compete with Jev
Is decisions api even rolled out yet?
sixhobbits··on I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
I also did it and thought I was smart and they told me it's a right of passage because everyone does it and thinks they're the first
sixhobbits··on Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
Ha I totally forgot about inbox until right now.

But yes enshittification has hit gmail and workspace in a huge way and seems to be accelerating. I'm also looking for a new home after being a heavy user since 2005

sixhobbits··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Grammatically an emdash is fine in most places a comma is fine. It adds a bit more emphasis to the bit after the dash.

I went to the grocery store, and bought tomatoes.

I went to the grocery store---and bought a Ferrari.

The second one has a bit more of a dramatic pause.

"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" is a fun book with a great chapter about the dash with many good examples.

sixhobbits··on old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
Difficult on mobile I wish hn would allow ``` blocks and not insist on blank lines to show new lines as I always forget to double space my bullet points too
sixhobbits··on old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
I started getting this occasionally months ago. I added these ublock rules and haven't been bothered since but I suspect they will change to a hard wall in future

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sixhobbits··on Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding
Management is following a defined repetitive process to coordinate a team across some or all of projects (who should do what and how long should they spend on it), skills (is their work up to scratch and how can they improve) and HR (do they need to be paid more to not quit and do they need to be told to take sick leave to recover).

"Leadership" is more LinkedIn thought leadership BS but I think it's a useful distinction to make from management and is more about inspiring people to work towards a common goal, making difficult decisions with imperfect information and finding creative solutions to business problems.

To me working with AI does feel more like the latter, there isn't yet a clear path and set of processes for everyone to follow and getting the agents to do what you want does take similar skills in terms of inspiration (finding the right prompt) and creativity (figuring out how to join all the shiney new toys into reliable systems)

sixhobbits··on Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command
This happened to me too. Not 'Claude code' as such but I was doing some I guess slightly grey area scraping (of an undocumented public API) and got my IP address blacklisted. I signed up for some rotating residential proxies to get around that, and then noticed that the scraping system Claude had built for me 'helpfully' added my email address as a user-agent.

It mentioned that it decided to do this so that they could reach out to me and ask questions instead of blocking me again, but still probably one of the strongest cases of misalignment I've seen from an AI

sixhobbits··on Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices
Not sure why people are so negative about this, macbooks only really last a few years under heavy use anyway and most small businesses would love to pay $100/employee/month to make sure they all have hardware they need rather than trying to manage depreciation accounting and cash flow.

Eg often hardware over $1000 gets depreciated over 5 years but employee laptops get replaced every 3 years so subscribing can have a huge positive effect on cashflow

sixhobbits··on Taste Is All That's Left
yes this is 100% AI, the article and the 'post mortem'. People are so gullible. Anyone who has read a lot of AI can spot it instantly, but Pangram also says 99% of this is AI. So many signs, and no there were no human authors who wrote like this

"What it actually is"

"Here is the uncomfortable mechanism"

"Let me be plain about it"

"The floor"

"Everything downstream of the verdict"

I'll eat my hat if this isn't AI.

Very similar style to my AI 'utopia' https://aiking.dwyer.co.za/utopia

I don't even think all AI writing is bad, but lying about it definitely is.

sixhobbits··on The AI Demand Bubble
[off topic] I'm a writer too and I know people have to make their money but

- Huge subscribe CTA at top

- In-text subscribe CTA

- scroll through that get pop up in your face full page subscribe CTA

- close that and continue scrolling to yet another subscribe CTA

was enough to make me close the page and ask my agent for a summary rather.

sixhobbits··on Show HN: Elevators
they change the elevators configuration depending on peak hours, or if one of the others is out of order then the express becomes a normal one again.
sixhobbits··on Elevators
Not sure how common it is but Bern train station has 3 elevators, usually 2 are set to normal and one to "express" which means all middle floors (mainly parking) are locked and you can only go ground to top (outside so a lot of people going to/from the station on foot)

It's super efficient for people who understand the system at the detriment of people who don't, as they get in and mash the middle buttons and get confused that they don't activate

sixhobbits··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Yes the prompt "only output ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English" does the same thing as the skill.

But it's very useful and skills is a good way to share promots, so whatever.

Try the skill or the prompt. It will likely improve your experience interacting with agents

sixhobbits··on Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
I've been running k3 on a single bigger hetzner dedicated machine to power https://demo.opensuite.online, a work-in-progress open source replacement for Google Workspace, a distribution of what the Dutch government is trying to switch to but they seemingly don't care about UX at all so I wanted to try build on their foundations (which in turn are basically just nextcloud, element, and some others).

Anyway can definitely recommend, it feels like a real cluster but it's all on a single piece of hardware which makes snapshots etc super simple.

sixhobbits··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
This seems kinda backwards, as far as I know charities and donation schemes are overwhelmed by clothing donations. Our problem isn't that we are destroying clothes that could be used somewhere else, the problems are manufacturing low quality clothing that lasts 2-3 wears, and fast fashion where people buy clothing for a specific event.

If they want to achieve their goals they should be aiming for demand destruction on _new_ clothes, once the clothes are unwanted it's too late.

But seems better to somehow incentivize fabric recycling and higher quality clothes. Even expensive clothes fall apart these days.

sixhobbits··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Loved my oneplus2, the rest were mediocre at best.

Went from great value hardware with open, minimalist software to overpriced hardware and shitty bloated software.

Great example of how chasing short term wins can bleed you dry over a few years

sixhobbits··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
We already have tags for PDF and Video so I could definitely see one for [LLM] working!

Generally I'd appreciate a top level comment from the submitter saying this is LLM generated but I read it and found it interesting because x,y,z because I'd rather read slop someone vouches for than slop someone hasn't

sixhobbits··on GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps
because if you don’t put this disclaimer the top comment is always "Acthually this isn't real science because you didn't publish your P value" so you can't win.

also the article itself is clearly LLM generated though

sixhobbits··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
This is a scene in Catch22 IIRC where they decide to stop training the soldiers who need to parachute behind enemy lines because the fatality rate of training was so high that mathematically it made more sense to send in untrained soldiers.
sixhobbits··on EU's five regulations that will change how we live, drive, and use the internet
non-english, twitter, and probably LLM-generated, and still on the front page. So either people really care about this issue or it's artificial as usually any one of those is enough to get ignored or flagged

Anyway here's an English translation for ease (google translate)

Wild West @dziki_zachod The EU is simultaneously working on five regulations that will change how we live, drive, and use the internet.

Here's what's currently in the legislative process—and what's already in effect.

Advanced Driving Cameras (ADDW)—in force since July 7, 2026. Every new car must have a camera tracking the driver's face and eyes. Officially for safety. The data is supposed to stay in the car. For now.

Active Speed Limiting (ISA)—in force since July 2024. New cars automatically limit their speed to the limit. It can be disabled, but the system resets itself.

Chat Control—still under negotiation. The project involves mass scanning of private messages for illegal content. Criticized by cybersecurity experts as the end of end-to-end encryption. Blocked several times, it's back in new versions.

Online KYC/age verification – just announced. Von der Leyen presented an app requiring ID to access certain platforms. The Vice-President of the European Commission announced that VPNs will also be regulated to ensure this cannot be bypassed.

Hate speech as an EU crime – The Commission wants to expand the list of EU crimes to include hate speech. Critics warn that the definition is so broad that it could criminalize simple political criticism.

Each of these regulations officially has a noble purpose. Together, they paint a picture of a Europe where you can say anything you say in front of a camera – and someone records it. 10:00 AM · Jul 8, 2026 32.6KViews

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