Hacker News: boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boukHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:11:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"]]>$800M in 2009 Apple stock would be about $24B today!

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:58:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269151boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269151<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength"]]>Bluetooth now has something that does this more accurately on a protocol level: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enha...

]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:30:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243422boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243422https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243422<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]>I've built this website which shows the land registry data (Kadaster) information of The Netherlands but with nice vector graphics and much more performant than other websites I found: https://kadaster.club

Turns out there's an incredible organization here (of course) that publishes many geospatial datasets: https://www.pdok.nl

]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:26:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240454boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240454<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Vite+ Beta"]]>I think that used to be the idea but then they got acqui-hired

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:37:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760555boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760555<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "NixOS 26.05"]]>We use NixOS for all of our robots and servers at https://www.monumental.co, hard to imagine how we would do constant updates of our robot fleet without it.

If you're working on cloud systems it's easy enough to just throw away VMs all the time but you can't really do that with physical hardware that's on a construction site for months on end, where you only have a shared 5G connection. NixOS makes this all manageable!

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:20:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723835boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723835https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723835<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"]]>The alternative firmwares give you a lot more options in this, stock is OK in layout

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:46:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664122boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664122<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Incident with Actions and Pages"]]>We could still deploy manually but it's suboptimal! And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:18:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280998boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280998<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Incident with Actions and Pages"]]>Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:09:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278621boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278621https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278621<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"]]>iDeal is an enormous success in the Netherlands so if banks implement it as well in other countries then it will definitely be competitive with credit cards for online payments

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:30:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207434boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207434<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Zig → Rust porting guide"]]>No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it

]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:24:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020029boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020029https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020029<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"]]>I highly recommend anyone to look at jq's VM implementation some time, it's kind of mind-blowing how it works under the hood: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/src/execute.c

It does some kind of stack forking which is what allows its funky syntax

]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:56:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540749boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540749https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540749<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Apple Business"]]>Hopefully some actual competition against GSuite (or whatever it's called these days)

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505014boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505014<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"]]>Wow I've heard pieces of this but never the full thing, incredible

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:27:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355130boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355130<![CDATA[Minimal NixOS systemd-nspawn containers]]>Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/nixos-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309911

Points: 1

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]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:51:39 +0000https://bou.ke/blog/nixos-containers/boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309911<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Redefining Go Functions"]]>Wow 11 years ago, takes me back...

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:16:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967741boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967741<![CDATA[Tsexec: Run a command inside your Tailnet without root]]>Article URL: https://bou.ke/blog/tsexec/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704867

Points: 1

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]]>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:40:36 +0000https://bou.ke/blog/tsexec/boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704867https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704867<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"]]>Sure, but getting this far would be inconceivable just half a year ago. It will only get better as time passes

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:27:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633841boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633841<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>My website: https://bou.ke/

I should blog more, and so should you!

]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:02:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623360boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623360https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623360<![CDATA[New comment by bouk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]>It's not available in my region (NL) :(

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:24:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578153boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578153<![CDATA[Nexperia got caught between two world powers]]>Article URL: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/30/nexperia-in-no-mans-land-how-a-chip-company-became-caught-between-two-world-powers-a4916395

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442199

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]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:37:05 +0000https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/30/nexperia-in-no-mans-land-how-a-chip-company-became-caught-between-two-world-powers-a4916395boukhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442199https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442199