Hacker News: aspect0545

New comment by aspect0545 in "Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness"

aspect0545 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:50:14 +0000

Looks interesting. But where’s the privacy policy or at least information what happens with all the sensitive stuff you enter there. Because let’s be honest, a lot of the stuff that is awkward to talk about is somewhat private.

New comment by aspect0545 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

aspect0545 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:41:19 +0000

> Lately the EU Commission came up with a plan to create an inventory of every single valuable items owned by every single EU citizen: from Magic The Gathering and Pokemon cards to jewelry/heirloom, paintings, gold and silver coins/bars, cryptocurrencies coins, watches, cars, boats, etc. Anything with some value: would go in the inventory. >The European Parliament asked the question: "Can you guarantee us this will never ever be used as a basis to confiscate these items?" to which the European Commission answered: "No, we cannot guarantee that".

Excuse me for not taking this at face value but this sounds like disinformation. Where did you get that from?

New comment by aspect0545 in "Kimi Claw"

aspect0545 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:07:12 +0000

I wouldn’t want either US or Chinese corporations to have access to my sensitive data. But if I had to choose, which I luckily don’t, I’d choose the US. That stuff I guess.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation"

aspect0545 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:12:37 +0000

Encourage Mastodon use. There’s nothing that stops Bluesky from ending up just like Twitter.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies"

aspect0545 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:01:30 +0000

Works great, my device visited over 100 times already

edit: not only that, under past visits I can now see the ip address of other visitors, together with their rough location and browser setup. You may want to remove the "gdpr compliant" from the website :)

New comment by aspect0545 in "Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time"

aspect0545 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:38:26 +0000

Starlink is Musk. That‘s not reliable

New comment by aspect0545 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

aspect0545 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:02:31 +0000

Of course there’s exaggeration. Nobody really believes this person was kidnapped by the German train company.

People do get kicked off trains, usually it’s the entire train that is being emptied. Happened to me in NRW. Happened to me in Brandenburg. When there’s a problem with the train, then sometimes it has to be evacuated.

He would have not been entitled to a cab ride by the way, he was travelling with Deutschlandticket. Your entire comment is not only pedantic, it’s also completely wrong lol.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

aspect0545 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:57:47 +0000

I’ve been thinking about going for years. What specifically was life changing for you?

New comment by aspect0545 in "'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite"

aspect0545 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:05:37 +0000

What if it’s a small apartment, but the life is a significant albeit marginal improvement over life in a shelter? Would it make a difference if it were a shelter where animals are killed after a certain period without being adopted?

Please note that I’m on purpose phrasing this to be a bit contrarian. Not trying to rattle any cages (no pun intended), just found myself initially agreeing with you and then not being sure anymore.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

aspect0545 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:22:54 +0000

Absolutely fantastic work!

New comment by aspect0545 in "Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS"

aspect0545 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:07:48 +0000

What’s up with that user name

New comment by aspect0545 in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

aspect0545 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:17:55 +0000

Chrome only, that’s too bad

New comment by aspect0545 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

aspect0545 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:55:42 +0000

Looks great, I’ll check it out!

New comment by aspect0545 in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"

aspect0545 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:30:41 +0000

This is different though. PP is saying that you require a phone number to sign up, and phone numbers are being used to match your account to your user name.

New comment by aspect0545 in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

aspect0545 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:19:33 +0000

There’s a big difference between somebody not being your friend and somebody being your enemy. I’ve had a similar experience with a sub par employee, who at some point admitted that he wasn’t doing his best at work because he was "only there to exchange his time for money, not make any meaningful contributions".

That guy was absolutely immersed in internet culture, making him less self-aware and very unpleasant to work with.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

aspect0545 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:03:42 +0000

I think it makes sense that in a country where the majority is not white the yellow emoji is picked to represent the majority.

New comment by aspect0545 in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

aspect0545 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:18:23 +0000

In German en dashes are more common than em dashes. I’ve been using them regularly for at least 20 years, both in German and English texts. I never liked it when people just threw in ordinary hyphen instead of an en dash, but few people note the difference.

New comment by aspect0545 in "WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser"

aspect0545 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:10:36 +0000

It’s a German company behind it, probably a one man show: https://docs.weblibre.eu/Legal/Imprint

New comment by aspect0545 in "Open models by OpenAI"

aspect0545 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:40:47 +0000

But was it reasoning or did it solve this because it was parting it‘s training data?

New comment by aspect0545 in "“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps"

aspect0545 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:14:32 +0000

How is reading different from doing. This is about encouraging children to read, it’s a very active process. Maybe I‘m missing something?