Hacker News: Akronymus

New comment by Akronymus in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Akronymus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:09:31 +0000

Werent the munich government employees quite happy with linux, but microsofts lobbying with their headquarters got them to switch back?

New comment by Akronymus in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Akronymus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:59:21 +0000

the prejudice + power statement while still ascribing veing racist to individuals is a definite motte and bailey tactic in my eyes.

Archipelago – Multiworld Multi-Game Randomizer

Akronymus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:48:46 +0000

Article URL: https://archipelago.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590133

Points: 2

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New comment by Akronymus in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

Akronymus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:05:34 +0000

I have no idea. I genuinly was asking out of curiosity on what the law actually means for that while speculating.

New comment by Akronymus in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

Akronymus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:59:24 +0000

I guess I am. I genuinly am just a layperson trying to look at what the law would say, so everything is speculation.

New comment by Akronymus in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

Akronymus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:49:22 +0000

But wouldn't that be like some company using gpl licensed code to host a code generator for something? At least in a legal interpretation. Or is that different?

New comment by Akronymus in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

Akronymus — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:47:47 +0000

those preroll "ads" are the alternative to mid stream ads.

New comment by Akronymus in "Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety"

Akronymus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:45:23 +0000

My guess: to discriminate whether traffic is from a humam or bot to improve ad delivery metrics.

New comment by Akronymus in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Akronymus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:57:04 +0000

Missing a few things there: Reviews and working on linux, for example.

New comment by Akronymus in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

Akronymus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:16:46 +0000

What is a hexagon if not 4 triangles in a trenchcoat?

New comment by Akronymus in "Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?"

Akronymus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:49:34 +0000

Locks you out from viewing the site for a specified duration after looking at HN for up to a specified amount of minutes.

from the FAQ:

In my profile, what is noprocrast?

It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.

New comment by Akronymus in "Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?"

Akronymus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:19:45 +0000

HN actually has an anti addiction feature, namely noprocrast, in the account settings.

New comment by Akronymus in "Good Bad ISPs"

Akronymus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:16:49 +0000

also, archive.org only verifies the current owner of the domain for takedowns. So if a site was hosting content, that content was archived the site then shut down and someone else acquired the domain, the new owner could request the removal of the old content.

New comment by Akronymus in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

Akronymus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:21:46 +0000

Also, it seems like piracy is still yhe superior form to watch it over YT because, quite frankly, YT's quality is crap.

New comment by Akronymus in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

Akronymus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:41:02 +0000

Mostly contained to tourist areas though. But AFAICT, it's been spreading recently.

New comment by Akronymus in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

Akronymus — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:04:48 +0000

Couldnt you just set a cookie and send a redirect back? Avoiding the need for js.

New comment by Akronymus in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

Akronymus — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:28:49 +0000

In f# you can use a single case discriminated union to get that behaviour fairly cheaply, and ergonomically.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...

New comment by Akronymus in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

Akronymus — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:07:11 +0000

Oh I assumed that was just me/because of a linux OS.

New comment by Akronymus in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

Akronymus — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:22:19 +0000

Because the default windows search actually iterates every folder/subfolder, rather than using the global file table, which "everything" uses

New comment by Akronymus in "Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite"

Akronymus — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:13:45 +0000

So you have to drop and re-add a column when adding foreign keys?