Hacker News: 1over137

New comment by 1over137 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

1over137 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:39:40 +0000

It has a purpose: to be ready when/if needed.

New comment by 1over137 in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

1over137 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:41:59 +0000

>But without access to a big-endian machine, how does one test it? QEMU provides a convenient solution. With its user mode emulation we can easily run a binary on an emulated big-endian system

Nice article! But pity it does not elaborate on how...

New comment by 1over137 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

1over137 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:04:31 +0000

> It started out as something good

No it didn’t. That was just like the first free sample from the drug dealer. Give a “good” free service to rope them in, always with the next steps in mind.

New comment by 1over137 in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

1over137 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:32:32 +0000

Which is still foreign from the USA's perspective. Remember, this new rule is not just against China, but against all foreign-made.

New comment by 1over137 in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

1over137 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:24:18 +0000

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New comment by 1over137 in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

1over137 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:17:38 +0000

>They’ve been preparing for this day for 5 decades...

So have the USA & Israel I suspect.

New comment by 1over137 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

1over137 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:29:24 +0000

Lots of what Trump says is utterly ludicrous. But he does lots of what he says (though not everything), so the rest of the world is right to prepare.

New comment by 1over137 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

1over137 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:27:17 +0000

>It is not so much about whether the USA could do this and expect to win, of course they can. Nobody has any doubt about that.

Um, lots of us have doubts about that. The USA couldn't win against Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; why do you think it could win against Greenland? Greenlanders actually have a lot of guns; and likely most of Europe and Canada would also go to war against the USA.

New comment by 1over137 in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

1over137 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:51:35 +0000

Cleanup? They literally make machines that wash your dishes!

New comment by 1over137 in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

1over137 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:47:55 +0000

> I've seen able-bodied young people spending a fortune on delivery services

Because they can do it from the smartphone, and they only know how to live via their phone.

New comment by 1over137 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

1over137 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:28:35 +0000

Curious why this article is written into divided up chunks?

New comment by 1over137 in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

1over137 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:05:54 +0000

I never understood this with cable TV either. You could use an antenna and watch TV over the air (with ads) or you could pay for cable and still watch ads!

New comment by 1over137 in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

1over137 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:04:15 +0000

Now wrap it all in an Electron app!

New comment by 1over137 in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

1over137 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:37:34 +0000

> Emails aren’t getting through to one of your email addresses

Do you block remote image loading? They are probably measuring via tracking pixels.

New comment by 1over137 in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

1over137 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:28:41 +0000

>I would prefer to live in a free country…

Well if you’re in a country Trump has threatened to invade, or already invaded, having a free country might require banning these American companies.

New comment by 1over137 in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

1over137 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:00:25 +0000

Of course it's new! Now it's "AI"! /s

New comment by 1over137 in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

1over137 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:41:52 +0000

"ever" is a long time. But for years/decades indeed. Certainly the case where I live.

New comment by 1over137 in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"

1over137 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:05:48 +0000

>I want an OS distro where all C code is compiled this way.

You first have to modify "all C code". It's not just a set and forget compiler flag.

New comment by 1over137 in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

1over137 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:51:50 +0000

If you're under 25ish, you probably had a smartphone while still in diapers. When/if you later learn to use a desktop, it being like a smartphone makes it familiar.

Sucks for us geezers that learned things the other way around though!

New comment by 1over137 in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

1over137 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:17:33 +0000

But we're talking about the USA here. Was such a thing ever done to someone of analogous stature in history?