Hacker News: Lukas_Skywalker

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Show HN: I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript"

Lukas_Skywalker — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:30:13 +0000

Very cool! There's a bunch of tools I regularly use, but usually just pick the first result of the search engine. Might warrant a bookmark :)

Nitpick: the image compressor page seems to show the instructions for the IP address converter.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:48:33 +0000

This is a pretty good resource for some basic tuning (mostly buffer sizes and connection count): https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:17:07 +0000

The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:34:20 +0000

Lazy commenters need to look at the README to see that the bloom filter is mentioned as a next step. The hacker is indeed clever.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Immich 3.0"

Lukas_Skywalker — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:05:00 +0000

I have synced ~9000 photos from my phone in february. That worked pretty well. I was done in about 10 hours. I don't remember whether the originals were downloaded, or whether they were deleted automatically afterwards. Felt like a smooth process though.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:30:21 +0000

Maybe the confusion stems from the word "chip". Creating a chip usually means designing and producing a microcontroller or a processor, not a printed circuit board that you populate with existing chips.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:13:12 +0000

The demo shows exactly that with the density dots, no?

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

Lukas_Skywalker — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:35:54 +0000

Bought the Framework 13 in March 2022 with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for about $1000. Later, I upgraded RAM and SSD to 32GB/2TB (for about $180), which made it a breeze to run multiple VMs and Docker containers in parallel. Meanwhile, the Macbook M1 Pro I got from work half a year earlier cost more than $2500 for 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD and crashes when I dare to open Docker or the Android Simulator and keep a browser open for too long. I really like the M1, but it is unusable for my current workloads, and there is no way to adapt it.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

Lukas_Skywalker — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:22:36 +0000

I have both the Framework 12 and the Framework 13. While I agree that the 12's display is not the best in class, it has one of the nicest touchpads I've ever used. It's hard to describe what makes the difference, but your fingers can glide nearly effortlessly across it. Both my Macbook and the FW13 have touchpads that feel a bit more "sticky".

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

Lukas_Skywalker — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:18:05 +0000

They did notify Collins Aerospace in the past, so I assume they do report internationally.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Does anybody like React?"

Lukas_Skywalker — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:04:12 +0000

While I understand the advantage of using the built-in language features (and I know why it is required to be done that way), I still think using

    {enable && }

for conditional rendering, or

    {collection.map(x =>  }

for looping are not the most obvious choices. If you ask people how conditionals and loops are written in JS, you will get 'if' and 'for' or variants of 'while'. So I get where the v-if and v-for are coming from.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

Lukas_Skywalker — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:03:56 +0000

Now that I looked closer, you seem to be right. Hotmail does it as well. But Gandi didn't back when I used it, and MxRoute doesn't. That's probably why I was surprised.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:17:35 +0000

I did the same and am a big fan of their services. Still, a word of caution: their policy states that they delete emails in folders named „Trash“ and similar after 30 days. It is documented, but I realized it too late. And the list of folder names in the docs is „non-exhaustive“.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2351/understanding...

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:28:40 +0000

That's probably unrelated. The date of a commit in git can be modified to whatever you want. I once backdated commits because my timezone was off, and I wanted the timestamps to match the ticketing system. Github displays the date stored in the commit, since there is not really a way to verify it.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:26:08 +0000

I understood it as a phishing page imitating their own system, targeting their own employees. Nothing related to AWS, except for being hosted there.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

Lukas_Skywalker — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:18:13 +0000

But the Ubuntu update servers are necessary to serve the update. Taking them down prevents the users from downloading the update. I don't know whether the update servers were affected though.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:21:00 +0000

I have a Prusa MK3S and it has been very very reliable. There's also a ton of mods you can download and print, which modify or extend the printer for specific use cases. They are a bit more expensive then their Chinese counterparts, but in my opinion, it's definitely worth the extra cost for the peace of mind.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Rotten Dot Com"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:20:58 +0000

People who want to see it can search for it, but posting without a disclaimer is unnecessary.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "The Physics of GPS"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:08:21 +0000

True. But the GPS receiver doesn't know whether you are on the surface or not (and at what elevation), so it must always assume 3d space, hence a sphere.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "The Physics of GPS"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:54:31 +0000

The explanation about the spheres is slightly inaccurate. With one satellite, you won't get a circle on the earths surface, but a sphere.

GPS is not constrained to earths surface (or the oblate spheroid approximating it), luckily.