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gregman1on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

It is really fun to watch how a baby makes its first steps and also how experienced professionals rediscover what standards were telling us for 80+ years.

gregman1on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe

Iirc many countries decided to not participate in this. Does anyone know why?

gregman1on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Afaik Hetzner has a couple of server locations in the USA. Is it correct to say that Hetzner has to comply to US CLOUD Act and therefore give away any data requested?

gregman1on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

I’d start with govs. Governments are mostly running Microsoft. Like your and your friends and family’s health, tax, ownership, pension and other data.

gregman1on Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://digitaliziran.si/ Do your worst :)

gregman1on Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

The $15 price tag for Typora seems a bit steep considering the fundamental features it provides.

gregman1on Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

It’s closed source but yeah - electron all the way.

gregman1on What to Do When Everyone Can Do Everything

Now everyone can make anything - and everyone does.

gregman1on Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s

Me as well, but this could be a great addition to Obsidian (idk about ux part) but [automatic] timestamps are awesome.

gregman1on POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

Idk, looks like IP squatting

gregman1on AlphaDec: A human-readable alternative to ULID/Snowflake IDs

Cannot agree more! AlphaDec is a great example of why we should consult existing standards before spending so much time and resources to develop something inferior.

gregman1on Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

While it's important to steer clear of political debates, it's also crucial to acknowledge that the European Union, like any other political entity, has its strengths and weaknesses.

gregman1on Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat (2012)

The article, while informative, is somewhat outdated as it was published in 2012.

gregman1on Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat (2012)

Put (2012) in the title please.

Additionally, there are hybrid vehicles available in the market that utilize exhaust heat for climate control functions. Like Prius and RAV4.

gregman1on Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation

Extreme hike in energy prices was about four months before the war began. It’s when EU decided to abandon long term gas contracts and turned to spot prices (~11.2021). The war started in 02.2022.

gregman1on The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands

Wow, this technology is quite fascinating! It's possible that they might consider updating it to a more established version with greater capacity, which has been known and is operating since 1961.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BE...

gregman1on Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

The decision of Microsoft to withdraw from Russia has had a significant impact as well, particularly due to the emergence of government-supported Linux distributions that are gaining popularity among various organizations and companies in the former USSR and BRICS nations.

gregman1on MiniMit – Bringing Minitel back to life

> That was shutdown over bureaucratic disputes.

> What a monumental waste

So French.

gregman1on Ask HN: Pecedent for all Reddit 3rd party apps redirecting to a competitor?

I asked Christian (Apollo) about it and he decided to ignore that question. It would be cool to have an open source “plugin” for Apollo to translate, for example, lemmy to Apollo’s internal API. I expect it to boost lemmy development as well.

gregman1on Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat

There are no software patents in EU (maybe even in the whole Europe) with exception for specially designed hardware. Idk how that works.

gregman1on Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks

Unfortunately this ground breaking technology exists only in China.

gregman1on Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy

The lost generations of nuclear engineers in Germany is a concerning issue. Training a nuclear engineer requires a long-term commitment, from sparking interest in the field to building new plants in Europe. Without a new generation of nuclear engineers, Germany will struggle to maintain its nuclear power plants and develop new ones. It's crucial to invest in education and training programs to attract and retain young talent in the nuclear industry. Doing it today may result in a new power plant in like… 60-100 years.

gregman1on Show HN: Open Fire Serverless CI

Oh yes, Openfire is a very popular and reliable XMPP server that has been around for many years. It has a lot of features and is highly customizable, making it a great choice for both small and large chat applications. Openfire is a great choice for anyone looking for a powerful and flexible XMPP server.

And what is this? This is an expensive security breach. How can it be cheaper to have a runner elsewhere? And how hard is to self host a runner?

gregman1on ‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water

All supermarket vegetables in Europe are coming from Spain or Netherlands. All water goes to fields that are practically deserts. Same for Hungary, France and Netherlands.

gregman1on Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

Could you please add news.ycombinator.com to the feed?

gregman1on Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

Well at least they did not jump on blockchain bandwagon which is a very good sign!

gregman1on Is there a reason for C#'s reuse of the variable in a foreach?

Paolo Moretti comment:

In C# 5.0, this problem is fixed and you can close over loop variables and get the results you expect.