Hacker News: avh02

Phone tracking shows how Colombian mercenaries backed Sudan's RSF

avh02 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:08:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4vk13wgwwo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861002

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by avh02 in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

avh02 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:56:21 +0000

nah, i generally agree with you on single points of failure, i just don't agree that it would go on as long as 2 weeks. 24-48 hours i can believe, but at the absolute worst case I'd also expect anyone with minimal competence to have a plan to spin things up from the latest offsite backup somewhere else. (minimal competence is a big statement though). Even redundant setups can go down altogether from a fatfinger or automation gone wrong (see almost any outage from FAANG)

> stop a solar-storm

never heard of those taking out a data center, but i'm not highly educated on that one.

> A war on infrastructure

government datacenter will be first in line for fuel, generators, etc. A destroyed gov. datacenter would be the start of much more serious things to worry about.

> Just look at the Berlin outage where people had to go to hotpots

yeah, this one _is_ a little embarassing, but people who have to go to hotspots != datacenters

The original statement stands.

New comment by avh02 in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

avh02 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:25 +0000

yeah, everyone knows every European website is eventually down for 2 weeks. only the FAANG know how to keep websites up.

New comment by avh02 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

avh02 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:26:24 +0000

Cool, now justify the things happening in the west bank. Israel so peaceful, coexists with neighbors.

Toqan AI for Restaurants

avh02 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.restaurants.toqan.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123514

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by avh02 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

avh02 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:26:05 +0000

well now you can have both simultaneously.

New comment by avh02 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

avh02 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:21:05 +0000

so many left-leaning politicians on fox news /s

when do they get the kind reminder?

New comment by avh02 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

avh02 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:19:55 +0000

is that really the point? you don't see the rest of it all as a little... disturbing?

New comment by avh02 in "Pebble Production: February Update"

avh02 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:45:04 +0000

I still wish other smart watches behaved like a pebble, the interface was so intuitive you could use it to do the basics without looking at it most of the time.

It's like trying something so good it ruins every other one for you. The UX was just so well thought through i don't know how to explain it.

New comment by avh02 in "I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored"

avh02 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:23:08 +0000

Then don't violate it, you won't get fined.

New comment by avh02 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

avh02 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:50:54 +0000

was talking to a friend about this, there's wero but i haven't really seen it around (Germany).

New comment by avh02 in "European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal"

avh02 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:47:46 +0000

> “Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.”

– Drax, Guardians of the Galaxy

New comment by avh02 in "European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal"

avh02 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:41:46 +0000

Yes yes there's not a single soldier in all of Europe. Every soldier, tank, and airplane is American. No other military technology exists. America great.

Seriously, I'll grant the most advanced stuff is American but you really think everybody else only has sticks, stones, and water pistols?

New comment by avh02 in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

avh02 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:30:18 +0000

This is about way more than a few tariffs. Think Venezuela, think madman jizzing over the idea of invading greenland, or just throwing tantrums on an international scale.

New comment by avh02 in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

avh02 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:11:39 +0000

Tall people don't choose their height, fat people (mostly) choose their weight.

Edit: also, if the airline can't deal with a certain percentile of the population under their normal product, they should figure out how to make it happen. It's discrimination to not account for tall people

New comment by avh02 in "Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic"

avh02 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:46:08 +0000

We're talking in different timeframes

New comment by avh02 in "Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic"

avh02 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:48:46 +0000

Then don't cosy up to saudi kings either

New comment by avh02 in "Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic"

avh02 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:44:11 +0000

Until the chain of incompetence slowly gets replaced top down by bootlickers and the military degrades over the years.

New comment by avh02 in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

avh02 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:59:42 +0000

ah yes, the polish that keeps begging you to give them your address for your "own safety"

the polish that can't even delete your entire spam folder half the time

the polish that asks you to verify you own your own email address via email if you want to add an alias to send an email from your own domain (e.g: if you have wildcard inbox and want to reply from one of the addresses you used)

the same polish that gives you no results if you search "one" and the email actually contains "oneword" - you know, search, the thing google is known for.

such amazing polish.

New comment by avh02 in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

avh02 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:36:28 +0000

They've done great with those Epstein files. Totally published everything./s