Hacker News: Neikius

New comment by Neikius in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

Neikius — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:11:19 +0000

School system was created to increase productivity.

It is also and equalizer. Unschooled kids from bad backgrounds now start even lower.

New comment by Neikius in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

Neikius — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:07:57 +0000

Just ban the phones from schools. Because with that you cannot compete. Instant gratification vs hard work?

New comment by Neikius in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

Neikius — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:34:10 +0000

As you yourself said. Your load is so light you keep it in free tier. Their entire business model is for them to capture you while your load is light and then when you scale the price goes up.

New comment by Neikius in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Neikius — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:19:43 +0000

Leaking school or medical record can have serious personal consequences that cannot even be enumerated

New comment by Neikius in "The smelly baby problem"

Neikius — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:24:00 +0000

Haha I love explaining things. It gets challenging and sometimes you have to stop the train...

What kills me is when I have to convince them of sometand they just are incapable of listening to any kind of reasoning. Sometimes you can let it slide but some issues are just too big like road crossing for example.

New comment by Neikius in "The smelly baby problem"

Neikius — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:19:35 +0000

I find smelly things easy to deal with as the solution is clear and the path to it is simple.

Other problems may not have a clear path to solution and are not as simple.

New comment by Neikius in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

Neikius — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:29:20 +0000

This.

And alternatively just making hydrogen but storage is a problem with that.

So simple with negative peak energy prices...

New comment by Neikius in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Neikius — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:13:56 +0000

Just moved our stuff from gitlab to forgejo. Gitlab is fine. Just too much stuff for a small org. And I hated the upgrades. And they kept adding things and none of those were what I wanted :) guess a different audience or something. very good to have some options though!

New comment by Neikius in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

Neikius — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:04:44 +0000

Oh I don't know. It's a vision of java if java tried to supplant C and not C++.

I guess jit is bad for a micro service that scales constantly or a lambda. But java does have all of these options now. They just are not useful for most people.

New comment by Neikius in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

Neikius — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:02:17 +0000

I disagree about rust.

I would say Rust is a successor to C/C++ for specific use cases.

No real successor to java yet so just keep using it, works fine and has finally evolved.

Point of java was always ease of use. Rust is... Not so.

Maybe golang is kind of an Evolution but into a very specific slightly different direction.

New comment by Neikius in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

Neikius — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:00:31 +0000

I once found a very interesting definition of engineering. It is about making something that just barely does the job. Doing it better costs more usually and doing it worse costs lives.

Not much different in software. There is always many ways of solving problems and that is typical of any engineering. Contrary to sciences.

New comment by Neikius in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Neikius — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:20:02 +0000

Trying to reduce idle power use of a simple esp32 based project I did a while back... Yeah it is indeed tricky. Apple having full control of their hardware supply chain, firmware and software helps a ton. And PC standardization issues do no good either.

On the other hand framework is actually in a good position to do something about it. Similar to valve. I think they do have more control than a regular PC vendor when also using Linux ad they have a very limited portfolio of devices and can actually upstream software fixes.

New comment by Neikius in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Neikius — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:09:13 +0000

Ah ofc I forgot. But iirc not everything works and battery life will probably suck, no? So not really a consideration in this case of price comparison. It is an option though :)

Personally I also can't stand the exterior design, albeit overall hardware of MBP is good. Guess if I land an old MBP this is what I'd do with it.

New comment by Neikius in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Neikius — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Does MBP run Linux? That would be the selling point for me ... But I guess I am not in a big group.

Also MBP is not really repairable at all.

New comment by Neikius in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

Neikius — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:20:11 +0000

Or just let us set our age in the OS profile? Works for adults and kids.

New comment by Neikius in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

Neikius — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:24:49 +0000

Best hiring systems I saw were when actual engineers hiring for their team were doing the bulk. You get a gauge of what you can expect and them too.

New comment by Neikius in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

Neikius — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:34:51 +0000

There was some cheat software that did the same back in the windows 9x/XP days. Dont remember the name but there were many I am sure.

New comment by Neikius in "Why Japan has such good railways"

Neikius — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:33:25 +0000

Density is not that important. It's the distribution. Japan for example has most of the population concentrated close to coast.

Italy has a few major population centers south of dome but sparsely populated otherwise.

And so on...

New comment by Neikius in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

Neikius — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:08:33 +0000

Very well hidden. Ugh. So close to a really good solution but ofc there is always a rider somewhere.

New comment by Neikius in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

Neikius — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:04:35 +0000

As a parent this is perfect. I am baffled why this is not a standard yet. So setting an account age in Netflix works but the child can access anything. Make new accounts even. So I have to block half the internet. Somehow. On a shared computer. And all companies would have to get your ID and track that. It's crazy.

This compromises 0 privacy until it requires an ID. EU solution actually does and only supports specific devices.