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Previously cyber security, now private equity intelligence. Follow my Hacker News bot: @hnfeed.bsky.social

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I suspect there’s a big S3 bucket with append to file just hooked into protocol. Despite that, this is cool. Posting should by nature be ephemeral.

08.03.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thumb workout

06.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WebHaptics – Haptic feedback for the mobile web. Haptic feedback for the mobile web.

this is so cool
haptics.lochie.me

02.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 14

Sure thing. Have a nice rest of evening πŸ™‚

02.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Natural disasters unless explicitly stated etc etc… it’s all in the wording.

Point still stands, they’re not a burden on the UK system. If they want to be flown β€˜home’ they can pay for it. Think we can agree to disagree.

02.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I moved to NL. But I have no issue if someone moves there and does their own thing. Good on them.

Live and let live.

02.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They legitimately aren’t residents here, they pay for roads, council and police elsewhere, so why tax them as such?

02.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same here, I used to be the guy writing the car insurance models πŸ˜‚

Same logic applies to you if you take an extended holiday or sabbatical elsewhere. You’re not a resident there, you’re paying tourist taxes.

02.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My health insurance that I pay for does indeed use the NHS + private hospitals. It also pays them when I use it.

When you visit a country for holidays, the locals there also pay for the police, roads, council. So whats the difference?

02.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So that’s exactly why I pay for travel health insurance and VAT on goods when I visit.

02.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah, screw those guys haha.

02.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So then charge them a fair rate for services provided and let them live their lives abroad? Seems fair πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

02.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed, so to bring it back to the initial topic, why are we going after every day people moving abroad for a better life, rather than the James Dysons and Starbucks?

Why is it always bashing the neighbour trying to make their life better or the kid moving abroad for more opportunity or avo eaters?

02.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Passing the blame here won’t change much, we all had the same vote that day. We’re now at the β€œfind out” stage of things.

02.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not especially. Every day people are leaving for a better life elsewhere. Good for them.

02.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not especially, I'm on a higher tax rate (49.5%) living in NL than I was in the UK 🀷 The UK has just gotten worse and more expensive over the years, with nothing to show for it.

Quality of life is a big thing.

02.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Other countries are simply more attractive. The UK used to be very attractive, can't say the same now.

Brexit, sewage into the sea, poor roads, awful government, the royal nonce, student fees, housing, cheaper to fly via another country than to take the train across the country. The list goes on.

02.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The British ability to always hate on the successes of others is astounding. If they want repatriation, they can pay for it. But they left for a reason.

02.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At a previous job we had an auto deletion rule in place for anything > 6mo. If it’s not been actioned in that time, it clearly wasn’t important enough.

02.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, this. Build first, get your customers. Then consider if it’s really a move you want to make.

02.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.

Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
www.ft.com/content/31bf...

01.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 466 πŸ” 210 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 21

The ability to have AI create unit and integration tests is a huge game changer. Bowling with the guard rails up just became easier!

27.02.2026 10:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What Claude Code chooses
https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
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27.02.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cancelled: Oxford Street Pedestrianisation Westminster nixes plans.

Had to dig a little, but:
* Sadiq pushed for it in 2018, rejected by Westminster council (londonist.com/london/news/...)
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* At the time the council was controlled by Conservatives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_We...

26.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure last time they attempted this the conservatives in power blocked it one way or another. Now it’s labour in control of London and the government that roadblock (lol) is no more.

26.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

AI is huge for indie devs. Your velocity just increased.

That 1 hour in the evening where I used to do nothing because it wasn't enough time to code is now more than enough to make a change. I love it!

24.02.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Eating early, setting an alarm to start winding down.

23.02.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like log4j to me.

22.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Set up second server with Hertzner πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί - that means 3 servers behind the load balancer. Going to give it a day or so, then destroy the DigitalOcean box.

22.02.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve taken a β€œsecond mover advantage” approach towards AI and I feel I know what’s maturing.

My aim is to Ask NanoClaw to write a feature, I & AI review, I accept, then auto deploy to servers via CI pipeline.

Lots of work and trial and error and securing before that.

22.02.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0