Hacker News: Propelloni

New comment by Propelloni in "Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support"

Propelloni — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:58:10 +0000

I actually like curved adges. They make phones wider than 70 mm usable for me, within limits of course. Otherwise those are to wide.

New comment by Propelloni in "Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust"

Propelloni — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:17:31 +0000

Minimalist web browsers written from scratch in C (Nordstjernen, Northstar) or Rust (Southstar).

Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust

Propelloni — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:17:31 +0000

Article URL: https://nordstjernen.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380170

Points: 59

# Comments: 36

New comment by Propelloni in "WTF Ubuntu?"

Propelloni — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:35:33 +0000

You are kidding, are you not? https://www.debian.org/download

New comment by Propelloni in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

Propelloni — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:50:30 +0000

You clearly have not followed the thread. This is inane.

New comment by Propelloni in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

Propelloni — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:11:00 +0000

Well, people are not trying to take Fox News off the air for their many incidents of amplified disinformation, so maybe people think freedom of speech should be protected, even if people disagree with said speech?

Now consider that one is a comedian and the other is a news outlet, what does that tell you about your argument.

New comment by Propelloni in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

Propelloni — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:02:36 +0000

It is flabbergasting, indeed. I'm no friend of China, because it is an evil dictatorship, but as a business man I prefer dealing with China over the USA nowadays. At least China is predictable, even in its corruption.

New comment by Propelloni in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

Propelloni — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:35:09 +0000

Oh, come on. HN complains about excessive data hoarding all the time. Now it's wrong to not hoard data? This is just another damned if you do, damned it you don't situation and, predictably, the outrage option is voted to the top.

New comment by Propelloni in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

Propelloni — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:27:44 +0000

No, I'd look at IP addresses before validating zipcodes, true ;) What I'm thinking is, if someone wants to deceive a service provider about her billing address, that's a social problem. Social problems are insanely hard to fix with technology, if at all.

So what is reasonable to request from the service provider here? Checking billing address and IP is reasonable, but beyond that? Maybe bank account? But in Europe a German can have a bank account in France, it is not even a big deal. Maybe taxation should follow bank accounts? I have an account in Luxembourg, so I'm set ;)

New comment by Propelloni in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

Propelloni — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:56:22 +0000

Why so complicated? Ask yourself how you find out if someone is living in country foo. By looking at the postal address, of course. If the shipping or billing address is in country foo, e.g. Germany, the shipment is subject to country foo's law. Just block potential customers from addresses in countries you don't want to deal with. It's really easy.

New comment by Propelloni in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

Propelloni — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:32:07 +0000

Why do they have to choose? That's not a problem of inflation, but of wealth distribution or, if you will, our system of economy.

McDonalds has AI estimate "customer willingness to pay" at each restaurant

Propelloni — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/inside-mcdonalds-push-have-ai-price-your-big-mac-2026-09-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904386

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by Propelloni in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

Propelloni — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:54:05 +0000

People make it sound as if Munich flip-flopped on Linux. The then ruling social-democrats and the greens started the LiMux project in 2003! The social-democrats and the conservative christians ruling in 2020 switched back to MS Windows. The current administration is mandating open source but not specifically Linux.

I use Linux since the year 2000 and it has been ruff in the early days, no doubt. The desktop competition were MS Windows 2000 and XP, often lauded as peak MS Windows. Apple had all but disappeared. But 2020 I'd wager that average KDE desktop vs. average MS Windows 10 desktop would be a draw. Today it would be a KDE desktop win, but that's more due to MS Windows 11 suckiness than the leaps and bounds Linux made.

New comment by Propelloni in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

Propelloni — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:15:13 +0000

So, Excel is just the poor man's shadow IT? I like that picture.

New comment by Propelloni in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

Propelloni — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:09:39 +0000

Oral exams don't scale at the beginning with hundreds of students per course, agreed. So make them in-person written exams, German universities managed that just fine a few decades ago. Oral exams were reserved to advance from Grundstudium (basic) to Hauptstudium (main).

In my very limited experience (I have German major degrees in Informatik and Philosophy, I was a TA for Logic in Philosophy) the more advanced the topic the thinner the attendance anyway.

New comment by Propelloni in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

Propelloni — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:00:47 +0000

Maybe the Germans were right? One in-person test, preferably an interview, at the end of the semester should be enough to motivate the smarter part of the bunch to make sure they understand the issues at hand. The rest is chaff anyway. Don't optimize for chaff.

New comment by Propelloni in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

Propelloni — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:16:49 +0000

> other renewables

Nuclear power is not a renewable power source in the technical correct meaning of the word. Fission material is "only" abundant, in that we can win nuclear fission material from many sources, including recycling spent nuclear material, but it is not available and spent without human intervention (otherwise we could argue fossil fuels are renewables, too).

As an aside, nuclear fission power differs from renewable power in many other ways, too. It is not clean, it is not easy to harvest, it is not safe, it is not cheap, it is not a mass job engine, it is not low-maintenance, it has less utility, and it has less flexibility.

New comment by Propelloni in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

Propelloni — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:49:40 +0000

I see what you did there :D Good one, thank you!

New comment by Propelloni in "I said no and Apple said yes"

Propelloni — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:21:17 +0000

Not only that, Spanish is the second most spoken language of the world, behind Mandarin and before English.

New comment by Propelloni in "I said no and Apple said yes"

Propelloni — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:11:27 +0000

For both you can just call your local PC shop, which are much more common than Apple stores, at least around here.