Hacker News: andylynch

New comment by andylynch in "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"

andylynch — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:47:09 +0000

Windows is too at this point; it’s just a little less obvious.

New comment by andylynch in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

andylynch — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:08:47 +0000

I think Jetbrains did that already; the Kotlin LSP server is derived from the (also open source) IntelliJ plugin

New comment by andylynch in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

andylynch — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:13:49 +0000

Curse Apple and their planned obsolescence /s.

New comment by andylynch in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

andylynch — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:14:43 +0000

I’ve seen bugs like this in prod systems. The notional value of the error tends to make the people concerned anything but silent.

New comment by andylynch in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

andylynch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:13:41 +0000

They do. You just seem to expect that it will somehow be free.

New comment by andylynch in "Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration"

andylynch — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:01:52 +0000

This always irritates me, because it used to be just like that. First time we bought Jira, it was like a (small ) one-off charge on someone’s card, and included full source code to let you build it yourself.

New comment by andylynch in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

andylynch — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:20:38 +0000

Sure it does.

Just tap ‘More Info’ to show them

New comment by andylynch in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

andylynch — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:37:54 +0000

This is kind of an interesting contrast with BSH (Bosch and Siemens home appliances ), who are also German.

They appear to have seen making their Home Connect platform open as at least in part a matter of compliance with EU data transparency and portability laws.

New comment by andylynch in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

andylynch — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:27:05 +0000

Retaliating against someone for asserting their legal rights also gets way riskier what they have already won in litigation.

New comment by andylynch in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

andylynch — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:31:40 +0000

Why are you misrepresenting about UK law?

Yes, it can be a criminal offence. But the maximum tariff for this under RIPA 2000 is five years. If it’s not about nation security or CSAM, it’s two.

(Incidentally, the USA is a real outlier in this topic)

New comment by andylynch in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

andylynch — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:27:53 +0000

> Nothing (reasonable) can protect against direct lightning strikes

This is one reason why you bury power cables.

New comment by andylynch in "The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video]"

andylynch — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:44:41 +0000

I knew this would be PICK.

My uncle, a very tech-savvy accountant type, used it a lot back in the day and always had nice things to say about it.

New comment by andylynch in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

andylynch — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:07:34 +0000

It is said be way of comparison to modern platforms. Which seems pretty accurate.

New comment by andylynch in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

andylynch — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:45:06 +0000

I think it’s a few things

- lots of places kind of Teams by default - or Slack or discord m, even WhatsApp - or in intensive cases, things like Refinitiv, Bloomberg, and, Symphony , which is kind of federated, but adds all the automation and also governance stuff needed for 100MM trades via IM and the like.

New comment by andylynch in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

andylynch — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:39:47 +0000

I can't speak for how effective the process is, but this is the idea behind the EU/UK GPSR's Authorised Representative framework - though not exactly local (that would be excessive, since GPSR also applies to much smaller sellers too)

New comment by andylynch in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

andylynch — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:14:39 +0000

Nope.

Regulation of cars , like anything, is expensive. It’s worthwhile for cars for safety reasons, but bikes are cheaper, and also way less dangerous in general, so need a lighter hand.

The current cutoff in EU is probably right, above a certain power level, e bikes are l, broadly, treated an motorcycles (licensing, type approval, insurance etc) , below that and with non-e bikes, is really just about the basics, eg are the wheels firmly attached and do the brakes and lights work?

New comment by andylynch in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

andylynch — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:04:33 +0000

More practically, it’s about if someone hits you or someone you care about with their car or the like.

Aggregation of data like Flock does is a different matter and can be handled separately. Like I mentioned in my other comment, other countries tend not to have things like Flock, since they understand unregulated data processing such as that is problematic for all sorts of reasons; the US is a big , big outlier in this area.

New comment by andylynch in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

andylynch — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:36:54 +0000

Counties with effective privacy laws focus on the control and processing of the data.

Regulating data processing like this is common and should not be controversial.

New comment by andylynch in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

andylynch — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:32:50 +0000

That’s kind of the point of license plates though.

They are there firstly so that when a driver damages something or hurts someone, they can be held responsible. What’s so bad about that?

New comment by andylynch in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

andylynch — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:41:55 +0000

Observe how you have to scroll down past the other senses mentioned to reach this one; dictionaries usually put the common senses first.