Hacker News: Kvarnek

New comment by Kvarnek in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

Kvarnek — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:15:25 +0000

Guess those multi-AZ promises have an asterisk when actual missiles are involved. Makes you double-check your own off-site backups.

New comment by Kvarnek in "A beginning for mathematics"

Kvarnek — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:39:57 +0000

Always fascinated by how foundational math concepts built up. Euclid's Elements still blows my mind for its logical rigor.

New comment by Kvarnek in "Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?"

Kvarnek — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:12:46 +0000

Offloading the boring parts is fine, but the satisfaction has to come from somewhere. When the agents do the interesting work too, the job becomes supervision.

New comment by Kvarnek in "Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War"

Kvarnek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:14:45 +0000

Cold War era computing is fascinating. The scale they achieved with 1960s technology is impressive.

New comment by Kvarnek in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

Kvarnek — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:40:39 +0000

The visible watermark toggle giving users a false sense of control while the invisible GUID persists regardless is the worst part. People who turn off the watermark think they opted out.

New comment by Kvarnek in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

Kvarnek — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:43:51 +0000

The single-writer limit was always the awkward part. Quack finally addresses it.