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hkonon My website is one binary (2022)

sigh

hkonon How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers

Yes

You are trying to deconstruct something, keeping part of it and calling it the same. You seem to be making my argument for me, so I have nothing to add.

hkonon The Promised LAN

I think your definition/setup is the wrongest as it does not capture the spirit. You have a cyber café.

hkonon Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base

It's either an attack on Replit or the VC is an idiot.

hkonon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

To say I was surprised when I finally checked the status page of cloudflare is an understatement.

hkonon putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers

Seems like a correct assertion.

hkonon Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?t=205

A good time to link this classic

hkonon I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

Cool, how can this be used for taxation purposes?

hkonon AI is eating our brains. MIT study: Your brain on ChatGPT

I don't remember phone numbers.

I remember where I can get information on the internet, not the information itself. I rely on google for many things, but find myself increasingly using AI instead since the signal/noise ratio on google is getting worse.

hkonon I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

now do it in minecraft

hkonon What the hell are rare earth elements?

Am I the only one who wanted to see a list of names?

Anyway: cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, lanthanum

hkonon Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)

I've used caprover a bunch

hkonon Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now – anyone else noticing this?

For a very short timespan they felt organic. But very quickly became something where companies could get value for free or very low cost.

hkonon Accountability Sinks

I see, but this is unfortunately the rational behavior in many cases, as being nice will get you a sorry and a goodbye.

I have worked in places where customers expected some kind of service provided and the nastier behavior got rewarded the most.

While for some this behavior come naturally, I think there is also an element of conditioning to this behavior.

Also, people are not calling because evertyhing is great. Some level of frustration and anger must be expected in such a job. But my impressions is most companies don't train their workers to handle such scenarios.

hkonon Accountability Sinks

Having lived it seems to me that nice people never get anything.

hkonon Accountability Sinks

If you are helping, why would they be assholes?

hkonon 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

You can just create a new company. There is an asymmetry there which your tit for tat approach does not take into consideration. And no, creating a new channel requires far more work.

hkonon 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

Dead internet moves forward one step

hkonon All clocks are 30 seconds late

I show seconds in windows clock

hkonon Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat

Have you considered just eating two separate dinners?

hkonon Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub

But then you can have it in memory in your app.

hkonon Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart

is typing... zzz

hkonon What is the point of an online conference?

Physical conferences are more like paid vacations.

The best talks I've seen, I watched on stream.

hkonon Nothing Left to Solve

Now it will become a question of keeping the things we are used to having, for instance adblock (chrome) and privacy (recall).

hkonon Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

You can have a dumb phone. If you require one for 2fa. Just have one in addition for that purpose. But you can also sms 2fa on many services

hkonon Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

Companies dealing only with new features, products and other things that are meaningless in the greater picture manage to keep secrets for years all the time. Why wouldn't more nefarious things also be able to kept secret. Before Snowden, plausible deniability existed. But not anymore.

hkonon We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours

No, in Norwegian we make words by joining multiple word together (closed compound) in this case sky(cloud) and vern(protection).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

hkonon We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours

Literally means cloudprotection in Norwegian. Thought for a second we had gotten our own cloudflare.