Hacker News: Valodim

New comment by Valodim in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

Valodim — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:25:54 +0000

It's kind of amazing how many comments even here seem to implicitly or explicitly agree that the "optimal" number is more than zero.

Personally, I rather enjoy not having my kids shot at school.

New comment by Valodim in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

Valodim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:58 +0000

Try kagi :)

New comment by Valodim in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

Valodim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:57:03 +0000

Counter point: If it had been onsite, there would be a full layer of social sensibilities and grace from the colleagues you work with every day, helping you out.

Conversely, it is much easier, on several levels, to support and guide someone you spend your whole day and go to lunch with.

New comment by Valodim in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

Valodim — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:44:56 +0000

"Microsoft won't get very far as a business if [they do what they've been doing for decades]"

Story doesn't check out.

New comment by Valodim in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

Valodim — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:23:15 +0000

Sounds like you're just not the target audience, then. Not every product has to have an ads-based or freemium business model.

New comment by Valodim in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

Valodim — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:34:13 +0000

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm

New comment by Valodim in "pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron"

Valodim — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:15:04 +0000

This sounds promising, but the examples don't show what a report actually looks like? What information does this actually show?

New comment by Valodim in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

Valodim — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:45:49 +0000

Because "put in all knowledge of chemistry that we have, except this specific recipe" isn't how knowledge works

New comment by Valodim in "GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline"

Valodim — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:20:17 +0000

Short version: Werner Koch personally hates some people involved with the RFC9580 standardization, and cannot emotionally bear working with anything even loosely associated. He also struggled accepting anyone's opinion but his own while editor of the draft back then.

Search for "asking the editor to step down" to find the moment when the working group decided he was more trouble than it's worth (and GnuPG's support was obviously worth a lot in the openpgp community).

New comment by Valodim in "GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline"

Valodim — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:06:39 +0000

Rfc9580 is not a proposal anymore, it's a published RFC.

(I suppose strictly speaking it's still a "proposed standard" vs "internet standard", but so is basically everything else)

New comment by Valodim in "Brave Origin"

Valodim — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:28:45 +0000

People keep mentioning ladybird like it'll be a serious contender as a daily driver in the next 10 years. While I do think they're doing impressive work for a tech demo, they are a couple hundred person years behind on an incredibly big piece of software. how could they possibly catch up?

New comment by Valodim in "Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust"

Valodim — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:51:40 +0000

You don't think golang's http library is a good idea? I would have thought everyone is happy we have it

New comment by Valodim in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Valodim — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:58:59 +0000

I also did that with git, but it's no comparison in ergonomics. For instance, "move this hunk two commits up" is a task that makes many git users sweat. With jj it's barely something that registers as a task.

New comment by Valodim in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

Valodim — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:31:53 +0000

This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.

New comment by Valodim in "Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:00:35 +0000

If you read that as "we'll break the law for you", it's a you problem.

New comment by Valodim in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:47:03 +0000

That's a lot of words reiterating how intensely important the matter is. I agree, it is. But your suggestions are either doing nothing out of caution, vast fragmentation, or too small numbers to really see the effects at scale.

Mostly it's a question of middle ground for an acceptable scale of decision, but "only change something if we know for a fact it's purely beneficial" is not a realistic plan no matter how intensely important the matter is. At some point decisions have to be made.

This is one of the things that becomes harder and more entrenched the worse those decisions are democratically legitimated. I think it's not unlikely that the difference in expectations between us boils down to a general different level of trust in authority.

New comment by Valodim in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:56:28 +0000

You make it sound like there is an obvious solution to this. So what is it? No changes ever? Make 20 year experiments before rolling out any change at scale? Hold decision makers personally accountable for billions of GDP loss? Compensate the cohort monetarily for the generational inconvenience?

For some things there just is no easy way.

New comment by Valodim in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

Valodim — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:30:17 +0000

The mv3 problem was never about "does it work now". It was about "can it keep up". Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game, and the mouse is kneecapped now. You're being slow boiled.

New comment by Valodim in "Addfox: A new open-source browser extension framework"

Valodim — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:36:03 +0000

There is a faq entry about that on tfa. The main differences are use of rsbuild (not a big diff down the line I expect, since vite uses rolldown now), and design to accommodate llm agentic development.

New comment by Valodim in "Why I love NixOS"

Valodim — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:52:56 +0000

Yes. But disk space isn't exactly the most valuable resource you have as a developer/power user