Hacker News: _mitterpach

New comment by _mitterpach in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

_mitterpach — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:53:01 +0000

Wouldn’t that necessarily mean that if the US keeps making enemies of allies, then the premium required for these countries to give US money would be higher? Sure, I’ll lend you some, but I don’t trust you that much, you’ll have to pay me more.

New comment by _mitterpach in "Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab"

_mitterpach — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:13 +0000

Github Actions runner can be self-hosted as well! Microsoft tried to curb it for a while by making self-hosted runner minutes paid as well, but quickly walked that back.

Do note that Github Actions have been the target of like 50 different attacks and I would not combine publicly hosted code with your own runners, as without proper sandboxing it can lead to anybody executing any code on your machine just by opening a PR (might have been fixed since last I heard, but the general vibe stands).

New comment by _mitterpach in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

_mitterpach — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:30:18 +0000

As someone working in aerospace, orbital data centres are almost certainly impossible or very impractical, at least at the scale being sold by the AI salesmen.

What would they be cheaper on? Solar panels are a little bit more effective and they will have a 24/7 coverage if placed in the correct orbit.

However, they would be much harder to cool (space is cold, yes, but heat transfer in vacuum does not work easily and most large structures, such as ISS, require dedicated cooling radiators that take up a large amount of space.) The launch costs would be still very high, maintenance impractical and the large, large surface area of solar panels and radiators would just be primed for being struck by debris.

What orbital data centres are though, is a good dream to sell, a fine way to dismiss environmental concerns of data centres on the ground - “We’re soon going to start putting them in space, but just for now we have to build them on earth. Please approve our requests.”

New comment by _mitterpach in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

_mitterpach — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:15:37 +0000

That’s a really good article, thank you for sharing. Has anything in the field changed since 2019, or is the situation still roughly the same?

New comment by _mitterpach in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

_mitterpach — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:18:56 +0000

Couldn’t the dreaming be done even without betting? This feels like an excuse to me to be completely honest.

I’ve personally had thoughts about what I would do if I were millionaire, and given the amount of stories of people coming into a large sums of money and their life getting significantly worse, I’d prefer to actually not win it.

New comment by _mitterpach in "Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi"

_mitterpach — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:00:26 +0000

This might be completely wrong, since my understanding is based very much off of Truck Simulator games, but isn’t one of the reasons aerodynamics as well? The US is huge, and trips can take several days at high speeds, so aerodynamic improvements can save quite a bit of money, whereas EU is smaller, the trucks do not go at large speeds for as long and have to navigate tiny city streets, thus being more compact is an advantage there.

New comment by _mitterpach in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

_mitterpach — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:10:28 +0000

Maybe try running your services in docker, I don't know how difficult that would be to implement for you, but if you run it in containers you can get it to start up after an outage pretty reliably.

It's looking more likely that NASA will fly the Artemis II mission

_mitterpach — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:32:00 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/as-preps-continue-its-looking-more-likely-nasa-will-fly-the-artemis-ii-mission/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473174

Points: 2

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New comment by _mitterpach in "[dead]"

_mitterpach — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:28:23 +0000

"OpenAI’s models are trained to not replicate works for consumption by the public. Instead, they learn from the works and extract patterns, linguistic structures, and contextual insights," OpenAI claimed. "This means our AI model training aligns with the core objectives of copyright and the fair use doctrine, using existing works to create something wholly new and different without eroding the commercial value of those existing works."

What do you think? Do they have a point and is their alleged law-breaking simply for the greater good of pushing civilization forward, or is this just a desparate comment of someone who based their business on illegal material?

New comment by _mitterpach in "Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died"

_mitterpach — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:08:04 +0000

So many tragic plane incidents lately. Is there any reason for this increased occurence, or is it actually within normal margins?

Gmail gains Gemini-powered "Add to calendar" button

_mitterpach — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:31:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/gmail-gains-gemini-powered-add-to-calendar-button/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344318

Points: 1

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Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year

_mitterpach — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:46:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/despite-everything-us-ev-sales-are-up-28-this-year/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340777

Points: 3

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Jeff Bezos brings Amazon work culture to Blue Origin

_mitterpach — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:24:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/jeff-bezos-brings-amazon-work-culture-to-blue-origin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337760

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

What's behind the recent string of failures and delays at SpaceX?

_mitterpach — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:00:47 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/after-years-of-acceleration-has-spacex-finally-reached-its-speed-limit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336440

Points: 11

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is the New Leader of Relativity Space

_mitterpach — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-is-the-new-leader-of-relativity-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330535

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by _mitterpach in "Diolkos"

_mitterpach — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:14:25 +0000

That's fascinating, and there seem to be so many sources to confirm this, I wonder if there are any areas in the world where a system like this would be viable.

New comment by _mitterpach in "The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?"

_mitterpach — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:53:33 +0000

I think it’s different to move fast in terms of your product vs. moving fast in terms of your tooling and equipment.

The article rightly points out that for most companies, there is simply no need to move to SQL Server 2022, the 2019 suffices and has LTS for another five to six years.

Infrastructure should be boring, tools should be boring . The more boring they are, the better support they usually have, the more stable they are.

New comment by _mitterpach in "Steve Wozniak says Tesla 'is the worst in the world' at improving its technology"

_mitterpach — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:24:27 +0000

One often doesn't.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91227786/teslas-latest-tragic-fi...

Four friends died on October 24 in a Tesla Model Y that caught fire after crashing into a safety barrier on Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto. After the crash, it appears the car’s electronic opening mechanism stopped working, preventing the occupants and others from opening the doors.

New comment by _mitterpach in "Romania Bars Candidate from Presidential Race"

_mitterpach — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:30:16 +0000

Romania has certain laws pertaining to running in an election, which this candidate has broken. Regardless of any connections to Russia, you have to declare your spending, you have to be transparent about how much you invested into your campaign and there are limits as to how much you can spend.

If a candidate ignores the law, they are barred from running. That is the basis of democracy.

I do agree that it should be noted that this was the winning candidate from the first round, and so a lot more care should be placed into making sure the case is airtight and no errors were made in the investigation.

Do you think there should be no such laws? Or do you think the courts have made an error in their judgment?

New comment by _mitterpach in "Gender stereotypes often accurate, magnitude varies depending on the criterion"

_mitterpach — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:25:44 +0000

I have failed to access the actual paper written (what wonders of open science), so if anybody could elaborate a bit more, what kind of questions were actually given to participants of the survey?

People tended to underestimate gender differences in areas such as cognitive abilities, occupational distributions, and academic performance (e.g., GPA in different college majors). In contrast, they overestimated differences in personality traits, behaviors, and social attitudes.

Would a question be something along the line of "Which gender has better grades in STEM?" or "Which gender works more often as a nurse?". If so the results do not surprise me much, but I would be definitely interested if there are any actual findings from this research.