Hacker News: V__

New comment by V__ in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

V__ — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:48:19 +0000

I can imagine this being really helpful for beginners and kids. It's hard to grok what windows and tabs are etc. without any context.

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Opensidian"

V__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:08:30 +0000

I don't think we disagree that much. But the repo in question had basically no human input, at least no substantial one. It will be interesting where the courts will decide the boundary lies though.

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Opensidian"

V__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:10:09 +0000

This project has zero chance of being eligible for copyright:

> Nearly all of the code, the design docs, and this README were written by Claude

The only way courts will deem LLM output to be copyrightable is if there is substantial human input. Just orchestrating agents won't be enough.

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Opensidian"

V__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:16:23 +0000

No, LLM output isn't copyrightable.

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Opensidian"

V__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:47:43 +0000

However, Obsidian isn't a saas, it can't just disappear. As long as you have the installer you are fine.

New comment by V__ in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

V__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:30:21 +0000

They are liable. In Germany the seller of a product is responsible not the producer.

New comment by V__ in "Time Travel in Braid (2015)"

V__ — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:21:28 +0000

That purchase really ruined my expectation of future bundles.

New comment by V__ in "The death of web development education"

V__ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:34:31 +0000

This implies that you know which question to ask. If people don't know about accessibility, security etc. How are they able to learn? Also, most people don't use AI to learn but to do it for them.

New comment by V__ in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

V__ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:49:08 +0000

There is no value for a government in long-term thinking, if the electorate only votes on short term issues.

New comment by V__ in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

V__ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:09:44 +0000

> AI has the ability to be impartial, and immutable.

Which AI has this ability? LLMs definitly don't.

New comment by V__ in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

V__ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:48:53 +0000

I assume there are a lot of Canadians and Europeans (myself included) on HN, who like some positive news for a change.

New comment by V__ in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

V__ — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:38:32 +0000

Fingers crossed it doesn't burn your house down when your out and about. At least put it somewhere outside.

New comment by V__ in "Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?"

V__ — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:58:30 +0000

A non-profit I help out sometimes, was affected, and I have to say the emails were not that clear. Because it's hard to figure out what is part of a license, the free tier etc. I let it lapse, because we migrated of Office, but apparently the license also applied to Intune.

Fine, so I bought licenses but apparently Microsoft deletes "some" of the data. All groups were still there, users and the device ids.. but not the devices themselves. I could see all devices associated to a user but couldn't recreate or restore them in device management. Thus, I had to re-enroll multiple devices. Will migrate off Intune in the future, since it's garbage but haven't found a good alternative for Android devices yet.

New comment by V__ in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

V__ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:42:17 +0000

"protect your freedom" does a lot of work here..

New comment by V__ in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

V__ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:52:16 +0000

> They also ate less overall,

I can't look it up right now, but calorie restriction also shows this correlation, so maybe it is not sugar at all.

New comment by V__ in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

V__ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:28:24 +0000

I understand the sentiment, but think about the non-technical user. Every time I use my mothers or any elderlies phone there are a lot of screenshots in the gallery, because they accidentally click the combo. How many people get scammed using screen sharing? It isn't that unreasonable to prevent this vector just to be more safe, especially if the bank might be partially at fault if a scam happens.

New comment by V__ in "Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature"

V__ — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:35:11 +0000

Samsung has had this for about ten years now. Switch to the app switch view, hold the icon at the top and pin the app. If I remember correctly, on some versions this had to be enabled once in settings.

New comment by V__ in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

V__ — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:43:30 +0000

For anyone curious, it's the CLOUD act:

> The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops"

V__ — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:12:57 +0000

This looks really close to what I need. I manage a few laptops for a non-profit. For now, it is all done by hand, since I haven't found a good solution for Linux and I will kill myself before using Windows and Intune again.

I would love to see configurations for Linux Mint's Cinnamon. Is there a way to execute custom scripts? How does the user mapping work exactly? Could I create a user in Authentik with a laptop-permission and this would map to a Linux user account?

Nonetheless, this is really great work so far, and if you keep it as nice and tidy as it currently looks, then you might make a nice niche for yourself. I can't wait to try it out.

New comment by V__ in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

V__ — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:30:13 +0000

The question now becomes: Will the AI bubble pop before we get sea datacenters?