Hacker News: Daniel_sk

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Signal Is Down"

Daniel_sk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:35:58 +0000

iOS app seems to be coming back to life.

Signal Is Down

Daniel_sk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:15:10 +0000

Status page shows it's up (https://status.signal.org).

Edit: status now updated to "Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.")

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872909

Points: 41

# Comments: 9

New comment by Daniel_sk in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

Daniel_sk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:19:28 +0000

Dissolving an LLC is a in ideal case a multi month process. It's often easier and cheaper to just keep the LLC as zombie instead of trying to dissolve it.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "LLM Year in Review"

Daniel_sk — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:03:27 +0000

I don't even see much reason to use Cursor. I am used to IntelliJ IDEA, so I just downloaded the Claude Code plugin and basically now I use the IDE only for navigating in the code, finding references and reviewing the code. I can't even remember the last time I wrote more than 2 lines of code. Claude Code has catapulted my performance at least 5x if not more. And now that the cost of writing test is so minimal I am also able to achieve much better (and meaningful!) test coverage too. The AI agents is where the most productivity is. I just create a plan with Claude, iterate over, ask questions, then let it implement the plan, review, ask to do some adjustments. No manual writing of code at all. Zero.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari"

Daniel_sk — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:07:03 +0000

Same here, I have a lifetime license. And it works on both MacOS and iOS. It's a small indie app (1-2 devs I think).

New comment by Daniel_sk in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:11:53 +0000

I am pretty sure in this case even Claude or ChatGPT would give them the correct answer quickly or at least it would point them to the right direction (the busy-timeout pragma) with 5 minutes of work.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

Daniel_sk — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:26:57 +0000

This is not the case of debit cards in Europe. Debit cards are tied to bank accounts. Most people only have a debit card or don’t even know what a credit card is (or what the difference is). We just call them “cards”.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "How modern life makes us sick"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:05:58 +0000

I have a 10km walk with some elevation in the nearby woods, I do it several times a week if possible (it takes me ~2 hours). I listen to podcasts during the walks. A few times a months I try to do a fast pace ~20km walk in mountains. Currenly I don’t have issues going 30km fast pace without stopping. A few times a year I do multi-day long distance walks (with some 50-60km days). It seems to bring me a lot of inner peace and better sleep.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:54:33 +0000

I don't think it's either "vibe coding or nothing" choice you have to make with AI. I am part of a team working on a complex Kotlin backend. I have been experimenting with Claude recently and I have been amazed how well it can pick up the existing patterns used in the project and create new code if given reasonable instructions. And it writes great tests too (something that would take me a lot of time and kill my motivation). It has been a great productivity boost for me. Of course we review the code in PRs, we test it but in the end it does the job in less time and saves me from doing tedious work.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "How much information is in DNA?"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:51:12 +0000

Exactly. The compression level of DNA is magnitudes better than anything we can even come close to. DNA usually doesn't even contain specific counts (like 5 fingers on hand) or sizes of organs and so on - these are given by the processes that run in parallel and cause the cells to hit spatial / chemical / electrical or other limits. It's like putting lots of house builders on specific places where the house should be and each one would just keep building a wall until the he hits another one. There is no compressed house plan, it's a compressed "engine" that builds the result.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)"

Daniel_sk — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:42:59 +0000

That brings back memories of me using an XPS 13. In theory it was a great notebook, but in real world it has lots of annoying issues. I then bough a Macbook and never looked back.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "A primer on the current state of longevity research"

Daniel_sk — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:48:35 +0000

Death is by design and is a vital part of evolution. I don't have issues with trying to make our human lives a bit longer (and preserving same quality of life), but achieving biological immortality would open a lot more problems.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer"

Daniel_sk — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:45:44 +0000

I don’t think that’s true for modern isolated (passive) houses built in EU standard. And heat pumps don’t need to be air based, a lot of them transfer heat with water radiators inside the floor.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "How to prolong lithium based batteries"

Daniel_sk — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:40:26 +0000

iOS will not fully charge your battery during the night - it will top off the battery just before you usually take it off the charger in the morning (it learns your usual schedule + it probably also makes sure the battery is ready based on your alarm settings).

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it"

Daniel_sk — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:30:33 +0000

That's the theory of Panpsychism.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Stoßlüften: Shock Ventilation"

Daniel_sk — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:34:40 +0000

Minimal. Most houses have thick walls and there is a lot of accumulated energy - the air reheats quickly after closing the windows.

New comment by Daniel_sk in "EU Digital Identity Reform: The Good, Bad and Ugly in the EIDAS Regulation"

Daniel_sk — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:42:29 +0000

Instant transfers are the default method and there is no charge in Slovakia. But if it’s over few hundred Euro then it will usually downgrade to regular SEPA (usually next day).

New comment by Daniel_sk in "A video of the transformation of a single cell into a salamander"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:06:18 +0000

As far as I understand it there are multiple levels to this. One of the mechanisms is that the cells don't necessarily know where to stop or where to fold - but as everything is being done in decentralised manner the cells reach boundaries of other structures and this will then "shape" the structure. It's an extremely efficient data compression where the instructions many times don't include specific measures or counts (e.g. of fingers) but are more about just timing or symmetry breaking. Imagine construction workers being told to just keep making a wall until they can't build anymore because they will hit another wall (and the other wall is being built with similar instructions). The limits can be spatial, chemical, probably bioelectric...

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Imaginary problems are the root of bad software"

Daniel_sk — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:58:46 +0000

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — 'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'

New comment by Daniel_sk in "Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)"

Daniel_sk — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:41:05 +0000

Capacity to suffer.