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ahofmann

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contact me: hn@ahofmann.org

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ahofmann··on Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you
You mean something like https://adnauseam.io ?
ahofmann··on "No, I swear I wrote this."
"It's still pretty obvious and still much worse than human prose"

You have no idea how many false positives and how many false negatives you have in your judgement. It is indeed impossible to differentiate between badly written human text and somewhat good written llm text.

ahofmann··on Thomann takes legal action against Fender
They didn't sued Thomann and they didn't show up. They sued some Chinese guy who didn't show up and used that default judgement against everyone including Thomann.
ahofmann··on Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners
They don't seem to understand, that there is no way out of it except giving the guy all the Lego sets or 200k dollars and saying "we are very sorry" multiple times. They're still trying to save their face and money and it might ruin the whole franchise.
ahofmann··on macOS needs its grid back
I switched to MacOS a few months ago from sway and I really try to be as open as possible to the mac way of life, because I don't want to fight my OS. But, boy, mission control is unusable crap. I was really shocked how dumb everything around this feature was made. Things that were possible a few years ago, are not possible anymore. Like switching to desktops/workspaces by keyboard. Or the grid.

With the app "AltTab" I can at least switch between my apps without using the mouse and with raycast I can position windows, but it is painful how much slower switching and positioning things in MacOS is, than in any tiling window manager.

ahofmann··on My wife tried to log 1k phone-free hours but quit. So I vibe-coded an app
Great Idea, thanks for building it!
ahofmann··on Vivaldi 8.0
Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.
ahofmann··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
I have kind of the same architecture. I host multiple dedicated servers and vps instances in the Hetzner "cloud", but all of these connect to a few hosted databases by Hetzners web hosting packages for like 20 bucks a month. It sounds insane, but the one thing that absolutely needs to stay online, is the database, so not hosting this myself makes sense. And since Hetzner is apparently tuned their dirt cheap databases pretty well, we can hammer them pretty hard without any problems.
ahofmann··on LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design
The services, I ran didn't care about decisions "the industry" made. They worked just fine.
ahofmann··on LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design
To me this makes no sense. Nothing in web development changes because of long running requests, there are plenty of solutions for this. The most easy one is to just listen long enough on a http request for the answer. The routing problem can be mitigated with session pinning. Http2 and 3 have solutions for streaming data, websockets can be used, and pub/sub also. Heck, we could push the LLM response in a k2v system/redis and read it from there. "State is in the DB" is running strong and will be for decades to come.
ahofmann··on AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever
This project looks very interesting. Unfortunately, the fact that only new accounts are praising the tools reeks of astroturfing.
ahofmann··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Putting on my tinfoil-hat: Sooo, the guy who runs the test and delivers the report could just have removed the more interesting bugs and delivered those to any three letter agency?
ahofmann··on AI Skills as loader spec, not prompts – why the architecture changes everything
I'm sorry, but this is unreadable to me. It's long, it's very repetitive and it feels very over the top. Just tell me, what a skill.md is and what to look out for, that I would happily read.
ahofmann··on Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
You mean like this? https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison
ahofmann··on [dead]
This, and "don't be evil" was replaced over ten years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

So stop calling the Google people out for being evil. They are officially evil since 2015.

ahofmann··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
In 20 years of hosting all kinds of web services, some of them serving over 200m requests per month, a crashing single server was twice a problem.

Dealing with over engineered bullshit, that behaved in strange ways that disrupted the service was far more often a problem.

So, yes, redundancy is something that can be left away, if you're comfortable to be responsible for fixing things at a Saturday morning.

ahofmann··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
They do, it's called B2 and is another product of them.
ahofmann··on Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result
Sadly so. In the last decades it was just normal for almost all countries. It's kind of maddening how low Trump lowered the bar for politicians.
ahofmann··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Resizing the context window seems like a very good idea to me. I noticed a decline of productivity when the 1M context window was released and I'd like to bring it back to 200k, because it was totally fine for the things I was working on.
ahofmann··on Am I German or Autistic?
It's always funny to see people try speaking/writing german and screw it up in four words/14 characters :-)

I got 38% german, 58% autistic btw.

ahofmann··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
I loved that time. Websites, or "apps" that don't change every second time I want to use them, are great.
ahofmann··on Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard
I think the "overboard" part is that the developer was doxxed and received death threats.
ahofmann··on Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology
I managed once to complete the maze, but then it went into "checking" and a spinner forever.
ahofmann··on We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
Well does it? If I would be able to break SHA2 and make myself rich with it, I would need to be sure that nobody would find out, that Bitcoin can be manipulated. The second anyone is aware, I wouldn't be rich anymore.
ahofmann··on Local LLM App by Ente
Sorry, English is not my first language and I tried to look clever.
ahofmann··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
While I would have the same reaction, in this case I think it is a sane decision. Ente is cornering the privacy market and I think they're doing a great job. They have a lot to lose (trust) and it would be stupid if they did something shady with the data entered in the 2FA app.
ahofmann··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
I have the same questions. After installing the app, it downloads 2.5 GB of data. I presume this is the model.
ahofmann··on Is it a pint?
I remember watching the cornetto trilogy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto ) and always wondering why on earth they fill up the glasses up to the brim. It is uncomfortable to transport this way and not spill beer.
ahofmann··on FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
Just a follow up: I wrote nexi germany via some contact form, that I will avoid using their services because of that story. They called me back and told me, that they asked the fsfe for a test account only. They also made an internal investigation, if someone asked for passwords of real accounts, which is a clear no-go for them.
ahofmann··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
Because you long forgot how confusing it was, that you can't see if your keystrokes are accepted by the machine. This is a change for people, that are new to Linux/Unix
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