Hacker News: Abekkus

New comment by Abekkus in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

Abekkus — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:47:41 +0000

How about the truth that most communities are built around some kind of nonsense, and maybe you can deal with a bit of nonsense to enjoy the benefits of community?

New comment by Abekkus in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

Abekkus — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:21:38 +0000

family link is not enough, try disabling gemini and news access with it, and you cannot block shorts

New comment by Abekkus in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

Abekkus — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:02:46 +0000

Those landscape photos are a crappy hypnotic effort meant to try and dissociate Microsoft from the feeling most people have when they have to login on a Monday Morning.

New comment by Abekkus in "How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet"

Abekkus — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:50:32 +0000

This CSS is specific to the article. Not the same across the site.

New comment by Abekkus in "A new AI winter is coming?"

Abekkus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:30:56 +0000

If you're using cloud AI assistants, they're being heavily discounted to you by investors, for now. Those discounts won't exist forever.

New comment by Abekkus in "FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours"

Abekkus — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:11:54 +0000

We can’t trust general use self driving cars yet. Air traffic control is a bit riskier than that

New comment by Abekkus in "Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction"

Abekkus — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:31:42 +0000

....There's no trigonometry in common roof-slope-area calculations and designations, only pythagoreans. Rise over run, 6ft for every 12ft, etc.

I do feel your pain about vetting "professionals", especially living in a place that tries to prevent me from making my own improvements.

New comment by Abekkus in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

Abekkus — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:10:17 +0000

I'd say the API can take up to half a minute to propagate, so API updates every minute is running up against their own performance. If you're a free customer, they may block you after a while, but first they'd have to notice you, and I doubt one update per minute would bother them.

New comment by Abekkus in "Get the location of the ISS using DNS"

Abekkus — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:08:07 +0000

Cloudflare does this with an API. If you have any money, I'd suggest dnsimple.com instead.

New comment by Abekkus in "Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity"

Abekkus — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:36:36 +0000

Strange. This sounds like something Hurricane Electric specifically limited. There’s nothing in CGNAT that would naturally break such a tunnel

New comment by Abekkus in "Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas"

Abekkus — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:41:43 +0000

Fomenting nativist rage was exactly why Russia created the migrant crisis by destabilizing Syria. Im guessing you have a biased corporate media environment like America, too?

New comment by Abekkus in "The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved"

Abekkus — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:55:32 +0000

TikTok and Fox News and twitter and friends working as intended, sapping ambitions and attention spans and political wills.

New comment by Abekkus in "Human Civilization at critical junction:authoritarian collapse or superabundance"

Abekkus — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:25:41 +0000

Ask Bernie and AOC how that’s going

New comment by Abekkus in "Rite Aid's 'Zombie' stores take over America"

Abekkus — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:34:17 +0000

What you're seeing is capitalism, what you're dreaming of is a "free market", which can only exist under the right regulation.

New comment by Abekkus in "OpenERV"

Abekkus — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:31:41 +0000

Is there a link to the big quiet fan project?

New comment by Abekkus in "’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024"

Abekkus — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:09:42 +0000

Enshittification was an indictment of for-profit social media, but they're already irrelevant as they've been out-competed by state-sponsored social media like tiktok and twitter.

New comment by Abekkus in "I'm a developer not a compiler"

Abekkus — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:13:14 +0000

I could imagine a team that needed it, but most professional programming work does not require this level of memorization, I'd have to see the job description to know which side to take in this argument.

New comment by Abekkus in "The EdTech Revolution Has Failed"

Abekkus — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:03:10 +0000

I sympathize with this goal, but I'm not seeing what to do instead of screens for kids. I've been looking, hard. Suburbia makes this really hard. try getting three kids to sports with two working parents, and thats only half the time you're trying to fill. Try to get any kind of regular playtime with other families who are busier than you. We kid ourselves we're keeping them off of algorithms, but craft materials only take them so far, and the rest will be filled with TV and video games when we are stuck working.

New comment by Abekkus in "US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case"

Abekkus — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:43:10 +0000

If they are actually nominally offering privacy over bing and yandex, while selling anonymous ads on that sticker, that is a valid USP.

New comment by Abekkus in "Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR"

Abekkus — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:18:42 +0000

I, actually run a 6 inch snorkel out from the basement with fine metal mesh clamped onto the intake. Reduces to 4 inch through the wall, then through a filter box, then through a 200cfm fan. You want 15cfm per person in the building to flush enough CO2. After the two filters, a 200 cfm fan will not be pulling what it’s rated for. You can either use a bathroom exhaust fan in reverse, or you can get quiet enough fans from “indoor gardening companies”. The dehumidifier is standard, nothing fancy.