Hacker News: YarickR2

New comment by YarickR2 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

YarickR2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:58:52 +0000

Oh come on. Not even driving anywhere in Europe; higher difficulty levels would be Turkey , India, Russia, Egypt. Add countryside for extra points. Add harvest season in countryside for unique achievement. Add rainy/snowy season in countryside to master this game.

New comment by YarickR2 in "New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue"

YarickR2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:00:37 +0000

Human breast cancer, in mice.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

YarickR2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:57:15 +0000

Every joke has a bit of a joke, as they say. I'm proudly ape-coding two of my current projects.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last"

YarickR2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000

So, we have a chance to reduce our usage of volatile hydrocarbons. Silicon-based chemicals should not burn as easily as CH-based ones.

New comment by YarickR2 in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

YarickR2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:15:50 +0000

Just got a loaf out of the oven. The smell, the crust, the whole feel of something very much tangible and enjoyable . I'm very much considering opening a small bakery.

New comment by YarickR2 in "OpenAI should build Slack"

YarickR2 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:12:59 +0000

Orthogonal: OpenAI should build decent mobile and desktop Jabber/XMPP clients.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

YarickR2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:55:51 +0000

> Because Starlink was so cheap and easy (and stable for the last 4 years of the war), a lot of people in Russia stopped using any other form of internet access.

What are you smoking ..err.. any source to your claim ? (Which is between bizarre and just plain wrong).

New comment by YarickR2 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

YarickR2 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:54:35 +0000

This line shows either he does not get how wrong he is, or I do not understand the deepness of his enlightenment. "A simple Makefile covers 100% of my needs for 99% of my use cases". We've come a long way to replace simple Makefile with autotools (incredible monstrocity), cmake, ninja etc. I hope he does not propose to ditch *libc.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

YarickR2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:22:35 +0000

Reading this while doing emerge @world on my personal workstation, and preparing a fresh annual portage cut for our IT infrastructure (some 600+ VMs, 400+ bare metal servers), running Gentoo.

New comment by YarickR2 in "AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies"

YarickR2 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:50:02 +0000

s/emancipated/emaciated/ ?

New comment by YarickR2 in "Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal"

YarickR2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:19:52 +0000

Tell that to my gardener I'm communicating with over WhatsApp regarding lawn. Or to general contractors ; we're discussing some remodeling there too. Or to a hair stylist, doing her business (managing appointments, collecting feedback etc) over the same WhatsApp for the last three years. Sometimes I wonder if privacy crowd is living in some kind of an impenetrable bubble, separating them from the real life and real people. Sometimes I'm very much convinced they are .

New comment by YarickR2 in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

YarickR2 — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:57:48 +0000

And what would increasing the income do for changing the state of mind, or for better time management ?

New comment by YarickR2 in "Bring Back Shortwave"

YarickR2 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:20:39 +0000

Yes , please, yes ! Having the world on your fingertips under the dial knob (ok, I'll settle for synthesized frequency receiver) is a feeling of discovering something not polluted by a countless hordes of opinionated ..persons of no interest. Many teenage nights spent catching voices from the other side of the planet.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Push Notifications for Decentralized Services"

YarickR2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:48:02 +0000

They are doing that by polling private servers, which is sometimes less efficient power-wise, and sometimes notifications are being delivered slower than in case of using Google-provided mechanism (FCM). We've been using ntfy for alerting, using our private server and running ntfy client in polling mode, and I do not see significantly increased battery usage by the ntfy client; Android 15.

New comment by YarickR2 in "XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support"

YarickR2 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:35:47 +0000

What monitor do you use ? 24" 4K is such a rare thing these days ; I'm using cheapo LG , but I always look out if there's something better

New comment by YarickR2 in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

YarickR2 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:07:11 +0000

Biggest advancements ? Give me a break. Voyagers, Hubble, ISS, James Webb, upcoming Europa mission - SpaceX has nothing on that level of sophistication and cooperation between dozens of countries. I'm very much fond of SpaceX, but giving Elon too much credit does not feel right .

New comment by YarickR2 in "NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues"

YarickR2 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:33:57 +0000

Or using Russian Soyuz craft. Not politically viable, but a choice nonetheless

New comment by YarickR2 in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

YarickR2 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:59:18 +0000

Perfect line spacing, other fonts have it way too wide between lines, screen feels half-empty. Great font, switching to it . Medium weight would be lovely, though

New comment by YarickR2 in "Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries"

YarickR2 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:22:41 +0000

Just wait until Lennart pushes his idea of doing linking entirely via dlopen() in systemd (see the story from a few days ago). Last bits of sane and efficient means to track dependencies will be gone forever after that. Good luck creating any lean Docker/k8s images without pulling in systemd-based stack after that.

New comment by YarickR2 in "Wayland breaks your bad software"

YarickR2 — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:49:40 +0000

Bunch of bu... rather unsubstantial claims. Just installed fresh KDE 5 + Plasma , running Wayland session, with two displays having different DPIs (96 and 185), and Plasma menus on HiDPI display are blurry until I'm moving a mouse over them, then they magically are getting refreshed with proper resolution. Tell me about how Wayland is great and works out of the box, sure