Hacker News: Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RygianHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:53:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"]]>The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:35:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675166Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675166https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675166<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"]]>Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:59:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673846Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673846<![CDATA[How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003) [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672314

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]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:41:15 +0000https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdfRygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672314<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"]]>The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633001Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633001<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Migrating to the EU"]]>Valid question, which must be put in the context of US-based providers willingly satisfying US out-of-jurisdiction search requests for EU data without even letting the EU know about it. (And when the providers are not willing, they can be forced by U.S. Cloud Act)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro...

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:30:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488004Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488004<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"]]>Your statement is wrong.

The report describes that there was no mechanism to dispatch the reactive power of renewables separately from the active power.

In page 452, item numbered 1 states "RES power plants follow fixed power factor" (RES = Renewable Energy Sources). The source of this finding is in section 4.2.1.

In page 208, footnote 35, the reference is given to Royal Decree 413/2014 of 6 June, which mandates this fixed power factor. The Article 7, section e), states that renewable energy sources must follow the instructions given by the operator to set power factor, and only if the distribution lines support it.

And footnote 36 describes how this worked in practice on the date of the outage: renewables were told, by email on the previous day, which fixed power factor correction to use the following day.

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This lack of dynamic dispatch of reactive power was a known problem, already reported in 2022 [1]

[1] https://www.eldiario.es/economia/competencia-reconocio-julio...

]]>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:04:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470736Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470736https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470736<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"]]>Obligatory read: https://how.complexsystems.fail/

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:19:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455858Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455858<![CDATA[Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout]]>Article URL: https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452955

Points: 223

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]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:03:27 +0000https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452955https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452955<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"]]>Any company where this happens is being mismanaged.

The whole point of having companies is to overcome limitations of humans acting individually.

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:59:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436621Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436621https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436621<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"]]>I'll do you one better: stealing the signing key was not even necessary.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ent...

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:39:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427139Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427139https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427139<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"]]>Pike: strongly typed logic is great!

Perlin: stringly typed logic is great!

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:55:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425210Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425210<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking"]]>If each node has its own warmed-up VM awaiting from startup, there's no need to clone across nodes.

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:12:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423710Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423710<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"]]>I'm looking for:

- a watch face to show the next seasons

- a watch face to upload/download data (using the photoresistor diode to receive, and the led and/or chirp-fx to send)

- how can I increase storage? I can't upload the astronomy face!

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:53:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423263Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423263https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423263<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"]]>The "surprising way" is by using a derivate of LSD.

I'd argue that the surprise is rather on this: "In clinical trials, a single dose significantly outperformed standard treatments, offering hope to those who have found little relief elsewhere."

]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:33:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397659Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397659<![CDATA[Moltbook / the LOL Wut Theory]]>Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/on-moltbook.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396335

Points: 3

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]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:18:28 +0000https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/on-moltbook.htmlRygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396335https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396335<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak"]]>Actual punitive measures taken against entities who e.g. manipulate personal data in a negligent way. [1]

Which was much harder to achieve before.

[1] https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:20:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348660Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348660https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348660<![CDATA[Do *you* understand ISO? (ISO setting explained to clear misconceptions) [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSvHBG7X0w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342315

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:34:39 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSvHBG7X0wRygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342315<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "We automated everything except knowing what's going on"]]>The title reminds me of the single lesson I retained from a training for upcoming people managers: "You can delegate everything except accountability."

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:49:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232273Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232273https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232273<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck"]]>Surely that's a thermodynamic waste? Use the energy in the fuel to extract hydrogen from the fuel to them use the energy in the hydrogen to generate electricity to turn the wheels.

Is there a chemical process that achieves this with a better efficiency than just using the fuel to turn the wheels?

]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:55:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178261Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178261https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178261<![CDATA[New comment by Rygian in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"]]>According to the Wikipedia article, it is still significantly worse than Just Using the Electricity (~21 to 48% efficiency just on the hydrogen production part, not counting distribution and consumption).

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:31:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138423Rygianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138423