Hacker News: NKosmatos

New comment by NKosmatos in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

NKosmatos — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:03:45 +0000

It should be called Ouroboros ;-)

No Three-in-Line Problem

NKosmatos — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-three-in-line_problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589100

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

NKosmatos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:20:12 +0000

Very well written! Now let’s wait to see what happens with the rights to Calvin and Hobbes when Waterson is not around. I’m sure we’ll see a reboot/re-run with merchandise, series and perhaps a movie, when the heirs take the rights.

New comment by NKosmatos in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

NKosmatos — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:59:34 +0000

Not playable on iPad, will try it on PC.

New comment by NKosmatos in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

NKosmatos — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:29:46 +0000

TLDR (conclusion from the paper): "By a combination of these techniques the satellite Cosmos 2546 (NORAD ID 45608) was identified with high confidence as one source of the interference. Further analysis pointed to the Russian Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema, an early warning constellation to which Cosmos 2546 belongs, as collectively responsible for the wide-area transient interference causing GNSS degradation across Europe since 2019."

What's left of a €100k salary after tax across Europe

NKosmatos — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/27/whats-left-of-a-100000-salary-after-tax-across-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314693

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Telescope That Got Shot (2023)

NKosmatos — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/04/the-telescope-that-got-shot.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199611

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Astroberry – OS for controlling astronomy equipment

NKosmatos — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:13:31 +0000

Article URL: https://astroberry.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073020

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

NKosmatos — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:40:00 +0000

> I thought this is technically impossible

Actually it's not impossible, but very very improbable.

P.S. You should play a lottery/powerball ticket

P.P.S. Whenever I use the word improbable, the https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_D... comes in mind

Rufus 4.14 pre-debloats Windows 11 installation

NKosmatos — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://rufus.ie/en/#changelog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021425

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Hofmann Typeface (2023)

NKosmatos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:52:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/nguyen-gobber-hofmann-graphic-design-project-111223

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869144

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

NKosmatos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:28:27 +0000

I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR. Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!!

More about Razor 1911 and Future Crew for the young readers of HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew

P.S. Too many groups to mention, but these two hold a special place in my mind ;-)

P.S.2. Extra mention to the most famous Greek demo group - ASD (Andromeda Software Development) - https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317

New comment by NKosmatos in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:20:07 +0000

Is this a joke? Is this guy for real? And he calls himself a REAL engineer? He’s a manager doing damage control because all this time Microslop is greedy and has stopped caring about power users.

We’re not first time users, we don’t want Microsoft BOB as our UI, we don’t want ads and internet search “functionality” in our Start menu, we don’t want AI everywhere and we don’t want things hidden from us.

Make Windows 11 Pro for real pro users and 11 Home for new users. I hope a few people from MS are reading this, especially Mr Engineer.

I’m going to get downvoted for this, but I don’t care.

P.S. Yeah yeah guys, I know about Linux ;-)

New comment by NKosmatos in "Places to Look for Alien Life"

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:03:54 +0000

Direct link to the paper: “ Probing the limits of habitability: a catalogue of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone” - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/547/3/stag028/8526432

Places to Look for Alien Life

NKosmatos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/best-places-look-alien-life-scientists-identify-45-earth-worlds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452945

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What Happens When We Die

NKosmatos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/05/alan-lightman-death/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267007

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by NKosmatos in "Layoffs at Block"

NKosmatos — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:33:30 +0000

I totally agree. In this strange era we're all in, it seems that not using proper capitalization is a sign of "importance". Other high ranking people/CEOs/technologists don't use the correct rules, especially for important announcements like laying off 4000 people. O tempora, o mores!

New comment by NKosmatos in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

NKosmatos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:59:53 +0000

I agree 100% with the author, clean, easily readable and well structured URLs make the web a better place. URL is a hierarchical structure as introduced in the RFC1738 by a guy you might have heard, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web :-) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738

Easily readable URLs is something I learned in the 90s and I still try to enforce in everything I create.

First public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years

NKosmatos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UT2004Patches/releases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039661

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NKosmatos in "Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?"

NKosmatos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:02 +0000

AI is here to stay but not in the way big corporations dream of it. People will continue using AI but when the AI bubble pops, sooner than later, things will stabilize and adapt to real usage with a different business model.

As you correctly state, the cost of AI as a Service (AIaaS) will increase for end users, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It will allow the "real" users to continue having access to it and sieve out the ones who are just playing around. Prices for RAM, GPUs, SSDs will normalize a lot and more people will move towards local models.

Similarly to what happened with the dot-com bubble (I saw it happening), it doesn't mean that everything will disappear, but that it will change/adapt. All of us AI realists are currently being treated like technophobes when we say things like that ;-)