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dan_can_code··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Enforcing culture is not something I believe is possible. Nobody is going to listen to the C suite suit over their own experience with their colleagues. People just end up saying the right buzzwords to appear that the culture has been adopted, but it will be mostly met with malicious compliance. If the culture is driven by incentives and rewards for behaviour,then that's a whole different ball game.
dan_can_code··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Not OP, but Monumental is a registered sponsor for highly skilled migrants, which is applicable for the roles listed. So in short, if you got an offer you could be sponsored.
dan_can_code··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
What value do you get from installing tailscale on your robot vacuum?
dan_can_code··on A modern 35mm film scanner for home
Looks interesting but €999? Is that a placeholder value?
dan_can_code··on You should write an agent
But that didn't use the H100 I just bought to put me out of my own job!
dan_can_code··on Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK
That's the UK in a nutshell this past decade. Privatise all of the public services for a quick buck, and slowly but surely the service decays whilst the prices for consumers increases. The trains in the UK are a great example of this.
dan_can_code··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
Not op but raycast is for sure an improvement on the stock finder.

https://www.raycast.com/

dan_can_code··on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
Voron would be my recommendation. It ticks all the boxes of what you need it to do. The only caveat is you need to build it, screw by screw (unless you buy a pre-assembled one such as siboor). It also requires printed parts which can be ordered via Vorons PIF program (high quality, printer-verified parts).

Depending on how easy you find it, it will take at least 10 hours to build. But that is part of the fun.

Software and repairability are there. Spares are cheap and klipper is open source. It can work offline but it works better paired with tailscale. You can upload sliced models OTA.

Slicing models will be the easiest part. I'd recommend the basic orcaSlicer set up for the printer of choice and go from there.

Good luck and have fun. 3D printing has become the most addictive hobby I have ever taken up. Be careful with your time!

dan_can_code··on Fight Chat Control
I think the point was that the law is not in effect just yet.
dan_can_code··on Ask HN: What problem would you solve with unlimited resources?
Climate change.

Why?

Because it's already killing people every day. And is slowly but surely making our environment entirely unstable. But as a typical consumer we don't have much power to stop it.

Do you need unlimited money? Not necessarily, but there are so many different possibilities when it comes to dealing with it. Carbon capture, green energy, (fusion?!), energy storage, planting more millions of trees, phasing out fossil fuels, holding companies accountable for their use of fossil fuels, the list goes on.

Looking at any one of these would be an expensive endeavour. Hopefully we can find small but very impactful methods in dealing with our climate troubles. Because as someone who turns 30 this year, it isn't looking promising for the next 30 years.

dan_can_code··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
great app, I like the adaptive style, but one piece of feedback is that, sometimes it is not clear what the goal is. For example, the language "Brilliant queen win ahead!" tells me, right, I am going to checkmate for the win with the queen in this game. But, actually the puzzle is to instead win the queen piece. "win" in chess to me always means checkmate.

Overall great app.

dan_can_code··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs
The website is down?
dan_can_code··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
Damn. That ruins my retirement plans
dan_can_code··on We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
Next.js has introduced some keywords such as 'use server' and 'use client' that you enter in the file at the top. Much like 'use strict'. If you attempt to use server code in a client file for example, it will get caught by the ts compiler / Linter.

But for sure the lack of clear lines for where the server ends and the client begins has always been a pain of these kinds of framework offerings.

dan_can_code··on Native visionOS platform support
Thank god they brought back MagSafe charging recently.
dan_can_code··on Solid (formerly Wise) files for bankruptcy
I'm glad it's not Wise, formerly transferwise, which proves to be a pretty useful product when moving money if you're moving countries.
dan_can_code··on Liquidity worsens in $29T Treasury market as volatility soars
Why do you say that?
dan_can_code··on Boarding passes and check-ins could be scrapped in travel shake-up
I really don't think this is a good idea. There's already enough digitisation with physical back up in this situation. I think this is a case of not fixing something that isn't broken.

This is also quite scary.

> airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.

dan_can_code··on BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets
British-born here. Standing on a plug is somewhat a rite of passage that each kid goes through at least once. It's a meme in the UK.

The flat back of most plugs increased the risk of standing on this type of plug. It's similar to the experience of standing on Lego, except it will dig much deeper into your foot, and falling over is better than putting all of your weight on it.

It can be a common occurrence, because using an extension cord or an appliance you don't always need to have plugged in can just be laying around. And kids aren't known for being tidy. If you managed to get past being a clumsy kid and had the self awareness to avoid it, props to you.

dan_can_code··on Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
Very cool options here. I'm always looking for options to throw something on a spare raspberry pi and this looks like a great tool to self-host.
dan_can_code··on The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
This reminds me of the time I just learned how to write .bat scripts for Windows, when I was a teenager.

The power of being able to send this file via msn to a friend, convince them to open it, and then get a full message in capitals of "YOU HACKED ME! MY COMPUTER IS BROKEN!" Before watching them go offline (the script shut down their computer after 30 seconds) was a real heart racer. I am sure it contributed to my interest in computers in the following years.

This was a lot of fun to read and really tells the story well. I am thoroughly amused. Thanks for sharing this!

dan_can_code··on Managing People You Can't Fire
This article taught me nothing about managing people I can't fire and I was really hoping to take something from this. I've had this happen before (and it may happen again) so I'm disappointed that this just ending up being "if you want to fire someone, and your boss doesn't let you, you'll probably quit".
dan_can_code··on Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died
A yearly reminder of the most painful and beautiful moments that can happen in a human life. Damn.
dan_can_code··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Damn it Bosch. They usually make great tools and appliances and it looks like they're instead following the path of "subscribe for the basic features" scams.

I can't help but think my solution to this would be, to start hand washing the dishes, out of pure spite.

dan_can_code··on 'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await
> Egg prices are finally falling.

Indeed but the next sentence in the same title is

> But they’re about to spike again

dan_can_code··on 'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await
This is definitely baffling. Just stop eating eggs until the issues are solved.
dan_can_code··on Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing
Could you maybe explain this a bit more? I'd like to understand better what the value is.
dan_can_code··on Posthog/.cursorrules
Works just fine for me
dan_can_code··on Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
For the average user, absolutely it's voice and game streaming. But I've found the more I've used discord, is that a lot of online communities, that typically would exist on Reddit or a forum, also have discord servers for communicating and community management.
dan_can_code··on Should managers still code?
To "lose face" with a team shows a lack of trust. I think it's fine if you don't have a perfect solution, but require some eyes on your work. But you're right, if you don't have people your level (or better yet, more experienced) reviewing your work, getting an honest code review is challenging.
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