Hacker News: RvdV

New comment by RvdV in "Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview"

RvdV — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:43:51 +0000

Adding '-ai' to your search also removes the AI summaries from search results.

New comment by RvdV in "Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes"

RvdV — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:58:58 +0000

I like it! Very fun! Few ideas:

- The "submit" box isn't clear on whether it needs the name or the suspect id for the first case

- It would be nice to have a "copy to notes" button in the output

- It would be nice to have some docs on what functions are available / which dialect this is.

I think this very valuable, it's so much more easy to learn if you actually have a small project to work on

New comment by RvdV in "Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid"

RvdV — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:13:15 +0000

Yes good point! We only had the idea of making this site a few days ago so the UI could use some tweaks. Thanks for the feedback.

UPDATE: made a small PR and fixed it. For now it's most consistent to just use dot separators everywhere.

New comment by RvdV in "Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid"

RvdV — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:54:23 +0000

Yes, they are already keeping the link at 0MW transferred for a while and will now disconnect it. You can read more on Elering's website: https://elering.ee/en/synchronization-continental-europe

New comment by RvdV in "Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid"

RvdV — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:44:45 +0000

On Saturday (8th of Feb), Baltic countries will disconnect from the Russian power grid and synchronise with the Continental European electricity system. They will operate in "island mode" for 33 hours, and then synchronize with the European grid frequency.

The frequency is a key parameter of the grid. If there is too much load, it goes down, and if there is too much production it goes up. A lot of critical grid infrastructure relies on the frequency being in the 49.5-50.5 Hz range.

I built a tool together with some colleagues to track the grid frequency in real time during this operation over the past few days to follow this process in real time!

If you're curious for more details, there is also a great post on the Estonian TSO's website about the process: https://elering.ee/en/synchronization-continental-europe

Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid

RvdV — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://baltic-grid.sympower.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973131

Points: 130

# Comments: 65

New comment by RvdV in "Open Insulin Foundation"

RvdV — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:21:30 +0000

> and defacto pushing that globally?

There is no need for a global push; prices outside the US are substantially lower already. See https://pharmanewsintel.com/news/insulin-prices-8x-higher-in...

New comment by RvdV in "Git undo: We can do better"

RvdV — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:20:52 +0000

New commands 'git switch' (git switch -c for new branch) and ' git restore' address exactly that issue and are available on newer git versions, so it's being worked on!

I do agree with the second example. Pulling and merging with remote after a rebase makes a terrible mess!

New comment by RvdV in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

RvdV — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:03:37 +0000

I didn't know of tools like this and I like this one! Well done, I'm bookmarking it :)

New comment by RvdV in "Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository"

RvdV — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:18:03 +0000

Ah, that makes sense, thanks!

New comment by RvdV in "Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository"

RvdV — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:14:06 +0000

Wow, that's a cool idea! I wonder, how do you handle bad responses (e.g. HTTP 400/500) from the server? It might mess up the logs twice if it's committed...