Hacker News: Boltgolt

New comment by Boltgolt in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

Boltgolt — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:48:55 +0000

I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago

New comment by Boltgolt in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

Boltgolt — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:35:13 +0000

> Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension.

Okay LLM

New comment by Boltgolt in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

Boltgolt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:34:52 +0000

> So many tech writers seemed to suddenly decide this was a possibility at the same time

Wonder if any large geopolitical rifts happened eh. I soul would not host my application in Russia either for instance

New comment by Boltgolt in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

Boltgolt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:49:48 +0000

For a specific group of people in the world anything but "USA nr1" is hard to image, I understand. Can the nuanced take be: Europe does it better sometimes? Not the best slogan but you're not in marketing

New comment by Boltgolt in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

Boltgolt — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:20:33 +0000

We can all run this through our LLM if choice, why post this?

New comment by Boltgolt in "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

Boltgolt — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:32:18 +0000

When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN

New comment by Boltgolt in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

Boltgolt — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:12:33 +0000

Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"

New comment by Boltgolt in "New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes"

Boltgolt — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:03:40 +0000

This is like being in the 2000s and saying "Why would I use anything but IE5, everything works with it"

The market share is what makes those circumstances exceptionally rare. Meanwhile we're having to use safari specific fixes and refrain from using he newest standards just because of safari

New comment by Boltgolt in "I Accidentally Finished a Filesystem"

Boltgolt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:24:26 +0000

"No X, no X, no X, just Y"

New comment by Boltgolt in "Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973"

Boltgolt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:44:24 +0000

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New comment by Boltgolt in "A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall"

Boltgolt — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:46:45 +0000

...only to find out they invaded the wrong country! (Nobel peace prizes are awarded in Oslo)

New comment by Boltgolt in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Boltgolt — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:39:35 +0000

I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot

New comment by Boltgolt in "Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth"

Boltgolt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:35:22 +0000

Kessler Syndrome mentioned in the first line? With the air resistance at 400km that seems unlikely

New comment by Boltgolt in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

Boltgolt — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:37:30 +0000

A table is a grid, but a grid does not have to be a table

New comment by Boltgolt in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

Boltgolt — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:08:08 +0000

This is what working in a toxic working culture does to a person. "Because I only have one week of PTO a year and have to be constantly add afraid of being fired, everyone should be!"

New comment by Boltgolt in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

Boltgolt — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:53:57 +0000

If hospitalized on that specific day: Sign the back of the voting card and give your ID to a family member, they can cast your vote

New comment by Boltgolt in "Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways"

Boltgolt — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:15:35 +0000

I feel like if I wanted to read LLM output I could ask it myself

New comment by Boltgolt in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

Boltgolt — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:32:33 +0000

This is happening everywhere, making a quick buck and completely ruining your reputation. The main Amazon competitor in The Netherlands bol.com has gone down the exact same path

New comment by Boltgolt in "Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in first open-water swim in nearly a century"

Boltgolt — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:07:32 +0000

Also known as the "kiddy pool" that SpaceX slaps cameras and a starlink dish in on top of to record landings in the middle of the ocean

New comment by Boltgolt in "IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025"

Boltgolt — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:36:21 +0000

Isn't PFAS, created by the production of teflon, the real issue?