Hacker News: EdiX

New comment by EdiX in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

EdiX — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:08:40 +0000

Yes, nuclear power regulations are unreasonably strict because that was the method we used to soft-ban it.

New comment by EdiX in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

EdiX — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:46:31 +0000

> ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root

That started in 2010, a bit more than 5-10 years.

New comment by EdiX in "Layoffs at Block"

EdiX — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:52:43 +0000

Cry more.

New comment by EdiX in "Layoffs at Block"

EdiX — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:49:23 +0000

> And twitter hasn't launched one single meaningful anything since.

Longer tweets? Analytics? Premium? Grok? AI autogenerated news summaries? Livestreaming? I honestly have a harder time trying to think of features launched between 2011 and 2022, besides spaces.

New comment by EdiX in "DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'"

EdiX — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43:36 +0000

If you can use a criteria to finance academia [1] you can use the reverse to define what DEI is. Every major corporation had DEI departments and yet it doesn't exist, it's a ghost.

I really hope the backlash to this bullshit finally reaches europe.

Same song and dance for 14 years straight, there is no SJW you're just imagining them, it's just called being a decent human being, they say as they kick me repeatedly in the face.

[1] https://archive.is/UmkH3

New comment by EdiX in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

EdiX — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:52:29 +0000

It used to be that annoying noobs were aggressively told to RTFM, their feelings got hurt and they would go away. That probably was too harsh. But then came corporate OSS and with it corporate HR in OSS. Being the BOFH was now bad, gatekeeping was bad. Now everyone feels entitled to the maintainer time and maintainers burn out.

It's a trade off, we made it collectively.

New comment by EdiX in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

EdiX — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:06:26 +0000

Why does this say it's been posted 8 hours ago but on hn.algolia.com is archived 2 days ago, also I'm sure I already saw it yesterday.

New comment by EdiX in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

EdiX — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:54:06 +0000

If they didn't say it they heavily implied it to the point that journalists were fooled. For example you can read about it in this very quaint 2018 article that went with a woke "it's your fault I'm disfunctionally paranoid" angle: https://www.cnet.com/culture/amazon-go-avoid-discrimination-....

    No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black?

Turns out people did care what she was doing.

New comment by EdiX in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

EdiX — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:48:16 +0000

Nothing has been "proven". The original story was The Information (paywalled article) reshared by Business Insider [1] and claimed that 70% of the transactions were reviewed by an indian. The source was an anonymous source.

Business Insider also reached out to Amazon at the time and a spokesperson denied that actually reviewed any transactions.

This "proven false" thing is just another anonymous source claiming that actually it was only 20%.

So you actually have no proof of anything, you just have three persons claiming three different things (0%, 20% and 70%).

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual...

New comment by EdiX in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

EdiX — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:05:44 +0000

Declining industrially and demographically, no innovation, soaring energy prices, and our share of the world economy has shrunk for ten years straight and is projected to continue shrinking in the future. By all metrics us europeans are losers.

New comment by EdiX in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

EdiX — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:08:44 +0000

She Just Did It™

New comment by EdiX in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

EdiX — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:06:31 +0000

AFAIK Rob Pike has been retired for years.

New comment by EdiX in "Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers"

EdiX — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:54:14 +0000

This is completely wrong. First, disabling overcommit is wasteful because of fork and because of the way thread stacks are allocated. Sorry, you don't get exact memory accounting with C, not even Windows will do exact accounting of thread stacks.

Secondly, memory is a global resource so you don't get local failures when it's exhausted, whoever allocates first after memory has been exhausted will get an error they might be the application responsible for the exhaustion or they might not be. They might crash on the error or they might "handle it", keep going and render the system completely unusable.

No, exact accounting is not a solution. Ulimits and configuring the OOM killer are solutions.

New comment by EdiX in "X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules"

EdiX — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:57:47 +0000

What they should do, actually, is sue the EU for harassment in the US, like 4chan and the kiwifarms did with the UK. And then the EU can start firewalling X. Firewall everything bad, age gate everything, throw up the great firewall of the EU. I need Brussels to protect my freedoms.

New comment by EdiX in "The fate of "small" open source"

EdiX — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:38:57 +0000

> why is 70kb of source code a problem?

It isn't but then everyone does it and then everyone does it recursively and 70kb become 300MB and then it matters. Not to mention that "well constructed, well tested, well distributed" are often actually overengineered and poorly maintained.

New comment by EdiX in "YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations"

EdiX — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:08:10 +0000

Where were you in the last 6 years? Ah, I see, people you didn't like were being censored so you didn't care.

New comment by EdiX in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

EdiX — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:56:06 +0000

Version 1 was never licensed to anyone. Version 2 was only licensed to universities for an undiscolsed price. Version 3 was sold as a book, I think this is the version you are referring to. However note that this version contained a license that only allowed non commercial uses of the source code. It also came with no support, no community and no planned updates (the project was shelved half a year later in favor of inferno)

More than the price tag the problem is that plan 9 wasn't really released until 2004.

New comment by EdiX in "Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown"

EdiX — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:45:47 +0000

Ask yourself who is more legitimized to take such enforcement actions: a handful of privately owned corporations acting in concert or a democratically elected government?

No, the "first amendment only applies to government" is cope of the highest degree, it was always a cope.

You accepted that an oligopoly could dictate what you could do with devices you owned because it suited your preferences and now that you are on the other side of the sword you squirm.

The correct answer was neither all along.

New comment by EdiX in "Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown"

EdiX — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:57:47 +0000

Hopefully this will give people pause the next time they think about linking to https://xkcd.com/1357/.

New comment by EdiX in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

EdiX — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:42:39 +0000

> 2800 day streak here, primarily in Finnish. I haven't been a fan of the app for a long time, but the problem I've always had switching is the question: What else?

Something from this list https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Finnish or reading with lute if everything there is too advanced.