Hacker News: ada0000

New comment by ada0000 in "France Floats Nuclear Deployment Across Europe"

ada0000 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:35:43 +0000

I saw RT was already speculating/fearmongering about France giving Ukraine secret nuke components. This all seems like it could get quite bad.

New comment by ada0000 in "Stack Overflow Beta"

ada0000 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:09:10 +0000

Horrible.

New comment by ada0000 in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ada0000 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:15:17 +0000

In UK, was redirected to russia today. Cannot recall which domain(s).

New comment by ada0000 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

ada0000 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:40:23 +0000

Tax breaks, operations of state owned industry, other incentives etc are guided by five year plans implemented by a party bureaucracy.

New comment by ada0000 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

ada0000 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:13:53 +0000

If the size of state and bureaucratisation are the main issues, one wonders how China got so far :-)

New comment by ada0000 in "Can you slim macOS down?"

ada0000 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:01:10 +0000

I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)

New comment by ada0000 in "Can you slim macOS down?"

ada0000 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:34:40 +0000

macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.

New comment by ada0000 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

ada0000 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:15:21 +0000

OpenAI aren’t using their cloud directly, but have signed data center partnerships with them that are effectively huge amounts of debt not backed up with revenue. That’s all liability that Google doesn’t really have because they have revenue from other areas.

New comment by ada0000 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

ada0000 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:43:38 +0000

don’t forget oracle!

New comment by ada0000 in "GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013)"

ada0000 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:31:57 +0000

> vying with Microsoft for the “worst maintainer of links on the entire Web” trophy

Anybody who has tried to read Microsoft’s dev blogs know they’ve earned that trophy. Raymond Chen’s articles are excellent, but go back a few years and every single link is broken. They’re using WordPress at the moment but don’t use slugs and never bothered to rewrite old URLs from whatever they used to use.

As an aside, I also worry that a software company can’t make a working cookie banner for WordPress.

New comment by ada0000 in "Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call"

ada0000 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:09:18 +0000

The Expanding What We Measure section was very nice to see. Thank god somebody is attempting to measure more qualitative metrics like the experience of contributing rather than annoying people into clicking around more.

New comment by ada0000 in "Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage"

ada0000 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:36:08 +0000

asked it who it was

> jeff epstein, financier > just chillin rn lol > u?

hilarious project, an awkward omegle chat with a dead pedophile

New comment by ada0000 in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

ada0000 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:42:39 +0000

They would want to learn Winforms/WPF/WinUI/whatever if microsoft could settle on one and use it. I suppose part of the react native stuff is that Microsoft hasn’t done a good job of making people, even in Microsoft, bet the farm on any of their “native” toolkits.

New comment by ada0000 in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

ada0000 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:48:28 +0000

Microsoft has the resources to train people.

New comment by ada0000 in "Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?"

ada0000 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:33:19 +0000

+1. even blocking keywords could be nice, e.g. i don’t use AI for coding and don’t care much for news about claude code.

captcha would make it more of a hassle to post comments.

New comment by ada0000 in "All of Apple's services are abysmal"

ada0000 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:45:39 +0000

Apple maps was the only GPS app that correctly routed me in rural England; others would occasionally tell me to drive straight through a no entry sign. It’s an interesting exception to the rule.

New comment by ada0000 in "Linux kernel security work"

ada0000 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:31:23 +0000

> almost any bugfix at the level of an operating system kernel can be a “security issue” given the issues involved (memory leaks, denial of service, information leaks, etc.)

On the level of the Linux kernel, this does seem convincing. There is no shared user space on Linux where you know how each component will react/recover in the face of unexpected kernel behaviour, and no SKUs targeting specific use cases in which e.g. a denial of service might be a worse issue than on desktop.

I guess CVEs provide some of this classification, but they seem to cause drama amongst kernel people.

New comment by ada0000 in "Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)"

ada0000 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:48:33 +0000

What exactly does “one shot” mean here?

New comment by ada0000 in "Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker"

ada0000 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:20:36 +0000

even when there are alternatives, sometimes it makes sense to use a library like Qt in its native language with its native documentation rather than a binding - if you can do so safely

New comment by ada0000 in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

ada0000 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:31:35 +0000

windows 11 for ARM, as bad of an OS it is in many aspects, is an incredible experience for backwards compatibility. I can run a 32 bit game built for windows xp in parallels and not have to think much.