Hacker News: Nux

New comment by Nux in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

Nux — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:36:07 +0000

Yes and no, with `find` I know I'm getting "live" results from the filesystem, whereas plocate (and s/locate) merely searches through a database updated god knows when, assuming it's even installed and the bulk of the files indexed.

New comment by Nux in "Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]"

Nux — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:51:27 +0000

Smartphones.

New comment by Nux in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Nux — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:25:31 +0000

Gives new meaning to "homo ludens"..

New comment by Nux in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

Nux — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:30:11 +0000

Started reading the post on Cloudflare's side, but halfway through I ended up against it.

It's a little bit scary that guy is the CEO, his post sounds crazy and unprofessional.

The fact he's posting on X to begin with is a warning in itself.

New comment by Nux in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

Nux — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:57:33 +0000

I have noticed exactly the same myself re keto. Also it's probably the easiest diet or regime you can do.

UPF is the new devil as far as I can see, alongside refined sugar.

Also the size and sugar contents of some fruits nowadays is just insane and many still think they're "healthy".

New comment by Nux in "US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover"

Nux — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:10:24 +0000

My gut feeling is that it won't happen.

It will antagonise not only Denmark, but the whole of Europe - govs & people - to a point where USA might find it's all alone in the world.

That'll be the beginning of the end for the empire.

New comment by Nux in "UniFi 5G"

Nux — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:02:55 +0000

Hear hear!

New comment by Nux in "Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage"

Nux — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:39:26 +0000

GPUs yes, but there'll be no HDDs making it alive, they'll get destroyed to protect whatever rubbish they had on.

New comment by Nux in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

Nux — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:15:03 +0000

Make it so!

This is making me hopeful and wish to see this implemented in UK (and everywhere) yesterday..

What we can be certain of: there's going to be a hell of "lobbying" against it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump himself comes out crying how this is undermining USA commercial and business intetests! :)

New comment by Nux in "Making a micro Linux distro (2023)"

Nux — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:35:35 +0000

Make an image with virtio drivers for network and storage, save it or convert it to qcow2 then register it into Digitalocean etc, it's quite easy.

New comment by Nux in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

Nux — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:07:13 +0000

Got compensations relatively easily out of both Wizzair and Ryanair and I loath bureaucracy.

New comment by Nux in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

Nux — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:00:30 +0000

Nothing like VC or IPO to ruin a perfectly good product...

New comment by Nux in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

Nux — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:53:48 +0000

Microsoft gaining the most I reckon.

Kind of sad seeing businesses getting screwed by closed source proprietary software, then making the same choices all over again.

Nutanix also seeing huge demand.

Not everyone is repeating their mistakes, with Proxmox and Xcp-ng seeing huge new level of business, as well, which is nice.

I'm part of the Apache CloudStack project and that too is seeing unparalleled levels of demand. The KVM hypervisor has sort of become the de facto choice, thanks to virt-v2v tool which can help migrate VMware guests.

New comment by Nux in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

Nux — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:43:36 +0000

White noise is key here. Luckily I do not have tinnitus, but I have small children and they sleep great with this on. And so do their parents, especially handy when going on holiday in noisy hotels etc. I can't go on holiday without it now! :)

I've just downloaded this audio track with yt-dlp, placed it on an sdcard and I play it in a loop on a small speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfPqeZjc2c

New comment by Nux in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

Nux — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:13:25 +0000

He may or may not have been right, but it's besides the point.

The 3-2-1 backup rule is basic.

New comment by Nux in "The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign"

Nux — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:10:16 +0000

In Romanian we used to call it literally "monkey's tail", but most people now just use "at" instead.

New comment by Nux in "Greenland is a beautiful nightmare"

Nux — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:05:04 +0000

Cojones ;-)

New comment by Nux in "Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]"

Nux — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:16:15 +0000

Through IRC in Internet cafes I discovered Linux/unix and also met my wife.

Cheers IRC! I'm still connected to this day, albeit Liberachat, not Undernet.

New comment by Nux in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

Nux — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:00:11 +0000

Dacia Spring has a higher clearance. I think it's also the cheapest EV currently (new).

New comment by Nux in "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]"

Nux — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 05:50:07 +0000

In practice yes, but it's good to know the smtp rfc does support domain literals, ie user@IP.