Hacker News: Epskampie

New comment by Epskampie in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

Epskampie — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:03:22 +0000

All the more reason to block vital stuff going to the US. They cannot be trusted anymore.

New comment by Epskampie in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

Epskampie — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:32:29 +0000

Read/write access should be frozen, data should be saved for 1 month so you have time to react to warning emails. If you didn't upgrade in that time, it should be deleted.

New comment by Epskampie in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

Epskampie — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:30:50 +0000

I've got a framework 13, pretty happy with it. Everything works as expected under the newest ubuntu. Build quality is good enough for me.

New comment by Epskampie in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

Epskampie — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:25:08 +0000

And then it's slow again to finally find a correct answer...

New comment by Epskampie in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

Epskampie — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:26:45 +0000

They are, as far as "Have one source of truth" is concerned. That is what parent is talking about.

New comment by Epskampie in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

Epskampie — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:39:19 +0000

Doesn't have to be. Here in the Netherlands it's actually illegal to (permanently) film public space, and people can and will point that out to any offenders.

New comment by Epskampie in "Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce"

Epskampie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:36:59 +0000

Horrifying read. I recently read a book about a girl who was pressed into prostitution, and this reads much the same. [1] Before I was convinced that slavery was mostly a thing of the past, how awful to find out this isn't true.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515858-slave-girl

New comment by Epskampie in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"

Epskampie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:24:03 +0000

Starting in 2025, the European Commission is implementing a "mini-wallet" app (an Age Verification App Blueprint) designed to allow users to prove they are over 18 without disclosing their identity or exact age.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

New comment by Epskampie in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"

Epskampie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:23:11 +0000

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

New comment by Epskampie in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"

Epskampie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:17:24 +0000

Even Meta's OWN research indicated social media is actively harmful to teens. That means, the people with the most to lose couldn't even escape this conclusion.

Sure, you may be able to find 1 or 2 counterexamples, big tabacco also had a lot of "doctors" who found smoking not that bad.

https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-shows-more-eating...

Investigating the First Solid State Battery [video]

Epskampie — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsi-TS8PX7U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538924

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Epskampie in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

Epskampie — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:32:32 +0000

Would be interesting to see this kind of analysis on youtube comments.

It seems to me they made an algorithmic change a few years back where positive comment are greatly boosted. Since then then the "top" comments are always over-the-top exuberant.

First All-Solid-State Battery in Production Vehicles – Donut Battery [video]

Epskampie — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aPS2AwMbc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512857

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Epskampie in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

Epskampie — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:47:18 +0000

This is only good advice if you're good at soldering and know details about cells like which ones have in-built protection.

Otherwise you're just creating a fire hazard.

New comment by Epskampie in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

Epskampie — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:12:31 +0000

Same experience here. I tried it a few months ago and even on simple use I quickly ran into so many bugs & issues I quickly gave up. I'm willing to learn a new UI, but the tool must be reliable, and it simple was not.

Hopefully they've improved a lot recently?

New comment by Epskampie in "PHP 8.5"

Epskampie — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:52:08 +0000

The three dots in trim(...) make a callable out of a function, that was already in, so seem best to re-use that syntax, at least for now. [1]

As for the partial function application, there is already an RFC to add that, but it's not decided on as of now. [2]

1: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.first_class_callable...

2: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/partial_function_application_v2

New comment by Epskampie in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

Epskampie — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:43:42 +0000

Well, it's also what has enabled foreign nations to spread misinformation, what enabled people to disappear into their own bubbles filled with falsehoods, etc. Since these things are now tearing at the fabric of democracy, I wouldn't say it's a clean win for the internet so far.

New comment by Epskampie in "Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too"

Epskampie — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:26:59 +0000

https://xcancel.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164

Learning coordinated badminton skills for legged manipulators [video]

Epskampie — Fri, 30 May 2025 18:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYuxOVQXVt8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44138592

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Epskampie in "docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable"

Epskampie — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:50:56 +0000

> Requirements on the executing device: Docker is required.