Hacker News: Faaak

New comment by Faaak in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

Faaak — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:55:52 +0000

I had a T420s which is a bit smaller than the T430 and I really loved this thing. Did my whole scholarship with it, even bought a second hand to have as a fail-safe. Really nice machine for its time

New comment by Faaak in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

Faaak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:41:31 +0000

More pretty, which would signify that the sample has less impurities -> better value

New comment by Faaak in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Faaak — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:58:38 +0000

In practice, it's also to help vision impaired people

New comment by Faaak in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Faaak — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:06:55 +0000

Resources are finite though

New comment by Faaak in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

Faaak — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:34:31 +0000

Tinfoil hat mode: a competitor wants to exploit copy.fail on some ubuntu servers, and is DDoSing canonical so that they can't update and thus patch the vuln

New comment by Faaak in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Faaak — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:34:28 +0000

not all of them do

New comment by Faaak in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

Faaak — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:18:15 +0000

> I SSH into that server with key-forwarding

Almost back to point A then. If the server is compromised in some way, they can use (not copy) OP's keys and use them to clone repos/inject code/etc..

New comment by Faaak in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

Faaak — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:28:34 +0000

In sway + Wayland, these UI scaling bugs are fixed

New comment by Faaak in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

Faaak — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:47:22 +0000

Heat pumps help quite a lot, thanks to Carnot's law

New comment by Faaak in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Faaak — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:22:21 +0000

A bit indiscrete, but how much does the licence cost? Is it around hundreds, 1k, 10k?

New comment by Faaak in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

Faaak — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:12 +0000

You can use AI because you know its good for you, but still think it won't make all people better off

New comment by Faaak in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

Faaak — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:38:03 +0000

That doesn't take into account the profit generated by selling the mac in itself

New comment by Faaak in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

Faaak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:30:16 +0000

New comment by Faaak in "Covering electricity price increases from our data centers"

Faaak — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:50:01 +0000

That's for the spot price. If you have bought futures then that won't impact you

New comment by Faaak in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

Faaak — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:57:20 +0000

AFAIK that's why leaded paint is bad for children: it tastes sweet so they continue licking it/eating the chips of paint that fall off the wall

New comment by Faaak in "xAI joins SpaceX"

Faaak — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:45:31 +0000

Sure, and copper, and aluminium

New comment by Faaak in "2025 was the third hottest year on record"

Faaak — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:10:11 +0000

Even if we stop all emissions right now, we'll exceed the 1.5C target, so...

New comment by Faaak in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

Faaak — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:38:56 +0000

Makes no sense IMHO: produce can last more than a week in the fridge

New comment by Faaak in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

Faaak — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:59:59 +0000

Holy cow. In France it's like 3 times less (https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr/medicament...).

New comment by Faaak in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

Faaak — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:08:38 +0000

What about separate, atomic, commits? Are they squashed too? Makes reverting a fix harder without impacting the rest, no?