Hacker News: FinnKuhn

New comment by FinnKuhn in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

FinnKuhn — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:47:02 +0000

I would have expected them to wait with ads until OpenAI starts first and users switch to Gemini. Google is probably the player that could afford to wait the longest with this and increase their market share that way.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

FinnKuhn — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:06 +0000

Only via QR codes as I understand. So no replacement for paying via Apple Watch or card.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

FinnKuhn — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:45:08 +0000

I think especially restricting endless scrolling is a good thing overall to reduce the addictiveness of social media and its harmful effects.

HN having pages instead of a feed or endless list is one of the things I really like about it.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

FinnKuhn — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:02:32 +0000

According to their website [1] only some scanners support the 2L limit while others don't so you will only know on arrival at the airport which limit is relevant for you.

[1] https://ber.berlin-airport.de/en/flying/controls/security-co...

Analysis of the DNS outage on 5 May 2026 for .de domains

FinnKuhn — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.denic.de/en/analysis-of-the-dns-outage-on-5-may-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065606

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

FinnKuhn — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:56:04 +0000

Lots of people who work in Luxembourg don't live there so anything "per capita" is a bit misleading.

Additionally a lot of the EU's institutions are based there or have offices there, some of which might count as investments as well.

Lastly, everything there is really expensive. So you need to invest a larger amount to achieve the same thing as elsewhere.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

FinnKuhn — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:01:22 +0000

A real party killer if I have ever seen one.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

FinnKuhn — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:51:25 +0000

Looks like someone got sherlocked [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked...

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:24:43 +0000

Thank you for explaining this to me. That makes total sense!

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:28:28 +0000

So, it's a French trademark. Not a lawyer, but from what I remember trademarks need to be registered in every region you want to enforce them in separately.

If the author of "Notepad++ for Mac" doesn't happen to be French as well, is there anything (legally) preventing them from using this trademark?

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:18:31 +0000

While mostly correct it is missing that not all customers in all stores want the same.

Customers in store A might have wildly different preferences to customers in store B. Starbucks can't account for that - small stores can.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:05:20 +0000

Using the trademark is one thing. The authors brazen reaction another: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

FinnKuhn — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:41:00 +0000

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

FinnKuhn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:11:11 +0000

Minimum vacation days here in Germany are 20 with many companies offering 30 so the idea that you can't take of at least a couple of weeks for a vacation is just crazy to me.

How do you travel and see the world like that?

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

FinnKuhn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:07:46 +0000

"BeReal" tried this and I thought it was pretty cool. However, it died somewhat quickly.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:19:00 +0000

> You're telling me there's no "notify me when domain X becomes for sale" service?

I looked into this a while ago and I'm pretty sure that there are hundreds of these services and even ones you can host yourself. No idea how well they work though.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

FinnKuhn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:54:20 +0000

Titles should be descriptive and in this example the blog is doing a deep dive into how the tech actually works. So the content isn't about that "Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU", but about how it did so.

As far as I can tell this is supposed to catch "How to" titles, where it totally makes sense though. I guess there is an exception to every rule though.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

FinnKuhn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:08:29 +0000

There are definitely some automatic formatting rules for titles though.

E.g. capitalization or one that removes any "How" from the beginning of a title. When I wanted to submit "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU" I had to edit it after posting or it would have said "Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU", which doesn't make any sense.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:28:09 +0000

I'm not in Asia though.

It's also normal to speak Chinese in China. That doesn't mean that I should be speaking Chinese as well.

New comment by FinnKuhn in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

FinnKuhn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:23:33 +0000

No, modern browsers are horrible at this as they are often ignoring your settings (at least Chrome and Edge on Windows do). They are basing the format entirely on the language instead of the date format configured in your Windows settings. Safari on iOS seems to not have this issue though as far as I can tell.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7372038/is-there-any-way...