Hacker News: ahoka

New comment by ahoka in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

ahoka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:49:47 +0000

Dying of FOMO.

New comment by ahoka in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

ahoka — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:31:57 +0000

I'm waiting for someone to actually name something "Torment Nexus", which is the name of this phenomena.

New comment by ahoka in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

ahoka — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:45:30 +0000

I think this is the worst part about it. Some company making a profit selling my data should be illegal.

New comment by ahoka in "CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)"

ahoka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:10:27 +0000

But 700 euros almost gets you a microfreak and an sp404.

New comment by ahoka in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

ahoka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:19:09 +0000

Maybe check their employees linkedin feed?

New comment by ahoka in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"

ahoka — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:49:50 +0000

Daylight saving changed the UTC time, because opening hours were always in local time.

New comment by ahoka in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

ahoka — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:42:42 +0000

I've seen a product where they used UTC to store opening hours. They had to rewrite all dates via a script twice a year.

New comment by ahoka in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

ahoka — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:31:11 +0000

Ah, the classic tyranny of structurelessness.

New comment by ahoka in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

ahoka — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:20:00 +0000

I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to hack others.

New comment by ahoka in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

ahoka — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:08:02 +0000

I scrolled through the landing page and even the "Get started" page and I have still no idea what is this. Is this a managed db? Something I can run myself? No idea.

New comment by ahoka in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

ahoka — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:24:51 +0000

I really like the inverted version, where it's almost guaranteed to splash yourself as a deterrent.

New comment by ahoka in "Learn Programming with OCaml"

ahoka — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:29:17 +0000

Why learn an instrument when you can just press play?

New comment by ahoka in "IBM Bob"

ahoka — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:36:25 +0000

It's Nokia again now, bought out Siemens' share more than a decade ago.

New comment by ahoka in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

ahoka — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:58:42 +0000

It's distributing malware, do not use any of the "TPB" sites.

New comment by ahoka in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

ahoka — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:23:04 +0000

This is not true. For example not every citizen can vote (people under guardianship or criminals) and not citizens can vote in local elections in the EU, if they came from another EU country.

New comment by ahoka in "True Rate of Unemployment"

ahoka — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:06:16 +0000

People could use the fifth day to go to school.

New comment by ahoka in "Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT"

ahoka — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:33:25 +0000

Oh fun, we have used it in school to etch PCBs. Right outside of the class room with no protective equipment of course. It was in a bucket.

New comment by ahoka in "Microduck"

ahoka — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:45:34 +0000

Finally an AI slop I can keep as a pet. I hate this dystopia.

New comment by ahoka in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

ahoka — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:32:54 +0000

It's called a private equity. :-)

New comment by ahoka in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

ahoka — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:15:16 +0000

It's the property of the display refresh rate.