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t0mas88

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Founder of AppHaven.eu
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t0mas88··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
There are, but I've seen several of those price increases in a row so you may be moving a lot. And mail deliverability to Outlook and Gmail from those hosts isn't always great.
t0mas88··on Build Plugins for Claude
I hope so.

The plugin is for AppHaven to allow Claude to deploy containers and databases, check their build status and logs etc. So it can take all of the devops work for AI coded applications out of your hands.

Here is an example of what it does: https://apphaven.eu/#how-it-works

t0mas88··on Build Plugins for Claude
The portal feels very vibe-coded.

I have a Claude plugin on there, but I now see it twice, once with an empty version number and once with 1.0.0 while the latest is actually the 1.1.0 version. Then when I click the 1.0.0 listing under versions the 1.1.0 version appears. Feels like no QA happened on this thing :-)

It is still one step better than the last six weeks, since nothing from their pipeline went live at all during that time: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/issue...

t0mas88··on The Year of Internal Tools
I think we're going to see a huge number of small internal tools that simply wouldn't have been worth building before coding agents. Even more so in SMB, because they have less budget.

The part I don't think you can leave to the agent is everything around the application: backups, authentication/access control and vulnerability scanning. Those things aren't rocket science, but getting them wrong can have a much bigger impact than a bug in the application itself.

That's what I'm building with https://AppHaven.eu My bet is that vibe-coded apps will become cheap and almost disposable, while the platform underneath them needs to provide those boring safety guarantees automatically.

t0mas88··on Saving Jet Fuel
Nice idea, but this is not how flight planning works. The optimization algorithms that airlines use consider a broader range of variables than just fuel, since you also have cost per hour that the engine is running, cost per hour for the crew, and overflight fees for different airspaces.

And the output still has to be a valid flight plan route. You can't just file a flight plan for "I want this zig zag line at this altitude".

Commercial flight planning software does this optimization as well, but it only selects routes that are valid. For example you have to be at a certain altitude to go one way on a route and another altitude to go the other way. ATC can't do their job if you have planes pointing at each other in opposite directions doing 1000+ km/h.

t0mas88··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I'm working on a hosting platform for AI-written apps: https://apphaven.eu/

The idea is to make it easier for not-so-technical users to ask their Claude Code or Codex (or similar) agent to deploy the app. And then the platform handles backups, login/access control, vulnerability scanning etc.

A Claude Code plugin is under review at Anthropic to make it very simple to use. For now you can also install it from Github: https://docs.apphaven.eu/agent-integration

t0mas88··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
That's not really how it works.

The industry does not treat a go around like an error. You'll only ever get questions when you don't go around while procedures clearly require it, like what seems to have happened in this case.

On autopilot use: The pilot is always responsible for the approach. You can definitely have an unstable approach on autopilot if you configure it wrong or ask it to do things that can't be done within the stable approach criteria. A common example is trying to slow down and descend at the same time, most jets can't really do that.

But "responsible" does not necessarily mean to blame in aviation. The industry as a whole follows the Just Culture principles (see: https://www.caa.co.uk/general-aviation/general-aviation-at-t... ) The purpose of a report is to learn from it and improve safety, not to blame the crew.

t0mas88··on Java 27
When building boring web applications with a sizeable team that need to run for a long time. Hiring developers is easy since there are many, there is nearly no magic and the language is quite strict and type safe so it works well with a large team.

And that "team" nowadays may also consist of many AI agents. In my experience Claude Code for example works very well with a typed, slightly boring language with lots of framework and library support. Because it doesn't compile when you get something wrong, instead of getting a vague runtime issue that Claude can't always see.

t0mas88··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
No, a go around is not a pilot error and it's not punished.

It's almost the opposite. There is automatic monitoring for stable approach criteria (simplified: you must be at speed X with flaps selected etc by altitude Y). So this example would cause an automatic report from the aircraft to the airline, because they were too fast (not within stable approach criteria) and still continued the approach instead of going around.

However even in those cases it's not meant for punishment but for safety improvement. In most professional operations these reports are made anonymous, and only for example someone from a union committee gets to know who the crew were and could have a talk with them if necessary.

t0mas88··on A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on
AI slop to the max, what a bad article.

Now on the issue itself: Why doesn't Tesla report the version and whether it was FSD or Autopilot?

t0mas88··on Site Is Closed on Sundays
There is also a baby products online store in the Netherlands that for religious reasons is closed on Sunday. You can browse the site but you can't buy anything.

The page is in Dutch, it explains that they're closed because get believe Sunday is a day for rest: https://www.babypark.nl/zondag/info-bp.html

t0mas88··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
Their goal isn't only safe storage, it's also being able to sell when needed.

You can't quickly trade with the gold that's in their own safe storage facility in Zeist, because you would need to physically transport it. The reserve at the Bank of England is put there because there is a large market for gold trading there. So you can use the gold immediately to influence the markets.

Putting it in a safe place in another European country wouldn't have added value over storage in Zeist.

t0mas88··on Selling Software Worldwide from Europe
Selling to the US is equally complex, every state has their own sales tax rules and whether they apply to your type of product. Some exclude SaaS, some don't. And then for B2B you also have to apply the tax unless the business presents some kind of exemption certificate.

EU VAT within the EU for B2B is easy, make an API call to validate the VAT ID of the customer and you're done.

t0mas88··on 9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes
The visualisation is nice to compare with different engine types as well: https://random.ma.ttias.be/boxermotor

My only complaint would be that there is no inline-6 while that does have some interesting properties in terms of balance compared to an inline-4 or V6.

t0mas88··on Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
If you have the right authorisation on a business account you can "direct debit" from any account. It let's you charge a bank account in a similar way as a US creditcard can be charged by number and expiry date. Technically the contract with your bank says you need to have a signed authorisation from the account owner to charge their account, but you don't have to show it to the bank before charging.

The money you get that way isn't guaranteed, the account owner could do a charge back. And if that happens you have to show the signed authorisation from the account owner. If you don't have it, expect your bank to terminate the direct debit ability.

t0mas88··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
They will have moat in the satellite launching business, which is not useful in the AI datacenter market.

You can put AI chips in datacenters in the desert for far less than $100/kg. With lots of solar power available, the option to easily access your hardware and far less radiation issues.

The datacenter in space story really only exists to make it possible for Musk to sell X to SpaceX and make more money from the IPO. That's all. There is no engineering reason.

t0mas88··on Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
I've created a simple project for that, except that by default they open PRs on Forgejo/Github/Gitlab. It's open source and the workflows are config files, so you can configure it to allow you to pull from them instead of creating a PR. Source: https://github.com/smithy-ai/smithy-ai

One way I use it that is similar to what I think you want is to run a local Forgejo instance (just like OP) and have the Dockerised Claude instances work in that, then pull from there to my local git repo, review, test etc and push from my local repo to a remote like Github.

t0mas88··on Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
It's a joke, Claude AI calls everything load bearing. Once you see it it cannot be unseen.
t0mas88··on Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
I agree, the color was great, and also in general Windows 2000 was very good. I used both the desktop and server versions for years. After that Windows XP made me switch to Linux. Since then I've only really used Debian and Mac OS.

I recently tried installing Windows 11 on a PC to run some games. The contrast with Windows 2000 is crazy, what a mess. Even just the control panel has three different UI frameworks mixed in one application. The whole thing is slow on a modern CPU with 64gb ram.

How did they get from Windows 2000 which arguably may have been ahead of Linux in terms of kernel and at least on par if not better than Mac OS in terms of UX to todays version of Windows 11?

t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
With a boat, as far as I know the sides aren't good fishing spots. There is a website about it: https://www.vissenoploosdrecht.nl/fotos/
t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
Yes lots of people swim in both the lake and the narrow parts. The lake also has a few sand beaches that are popular in the summer. And designated swimming areas with shallow water for kids like this: https://share.google/5bko4Xpb0tzkfEChJ

There is an app to check water quality. In general it's fine to swim in, but at high temperatures sometimes algae form. That's common in lots of these kinds of lakes in the Netherlands.

t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
There is electricity now, but it's quite new. Before that ours used to run on solar + batteries, you don't want a noisy generator in the middle of a nature area. A holiday home doesn't need that much electricity, warm water and heating use gas.

Prices are typical for this side of the country.

t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
Yes but those mostly live landside, there are holiday homes at the edge of the lake as well. There was a plan to allow permanent use, but I think it now changed to only allowing it for people that already live there and no new cases.
t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
Water levels in this area are tightly managed by pumps. Also in normal times they pump water in and out to keep a specific level. All of this is lower than the Amsterdamrijnkanaal, so without pumps it would flood, water doesn't naturally flow out of this place only from evaporation.
t0mas88··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
People don't really live there, these are holiday/recreational homes. My family owns two of those islands with a holiday home.

Typically you use them for the weekend. My mom for example lives in a busy city and has a small garden, she uses the holiday home as a weekend getaway and a place to keep the sailing boat.

The Netherlands are small and this area is very central, about 20 minutes drive from Amsterdam or Utrecht. So most owners use it in the same way.

t0mas88··on The Water Footprint of AI
The water use is for cooling and sometimes includes indirect use for electricity generation. But before you call it "insane amounts of water" consider that the 700.000 liters quoted for training GPT-3 is less than 1 time spraying a 9 acres field, which is the size of a tiny hobby farm not a real farm.
t0mas88··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
They even do that to large transmission lines. First shutdown/isolate, then connect to ground or short circuit. If anyone then accidentally turns something back on it will fail immediately.

A few years ago a transmission line in the Netherlands was energized while it shouldn't be, during maintenance work, which resulted in the whole line starting to smoke, sag and spark: https://youtu.be/nyjCrP38ICc

t0mas88··on New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Luckily the Trump administration has just paid over a billion dollars for the second time to stop a renewable energy project...
t0mas88··on New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The overall American economy is going to pay the price in the long term. And current foreign policy is reducing trust in America as a reliable and stable partner, which will make things even worse.
t0mas88··on The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
This is the only reason I still want a Voron. I don't need the extra speed, I don't print that much, but building it is a great project.
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