Hacker News: drunner

New comment by drunner in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

drunner — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:56:46 +0000

Because the yen is weak is a big reason why visiting is appealing. Its also a big reason why their population is dwindling.

The govt is just trying to point fingers at foreigners to hide their weakness. I think recently they made a big deal about foreign owned real estate then quickly forgot about that talking point when their own study showed it equated to something like .05% of their total housing.

New comment by drunner in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

drunner — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:34:05 +0000

I think the time for this space is here. The appetite to depart from subscriptions and loaning your personal data to ad/ai companies is stronger than ever.

Currently, a lot of this space is docker compose based and simply inaccessible to so many who may otherwise be interested. Whether or not it's this project or another, I hope something gathers enough steam soon to truly break the barriers to entry.

New comment by drunner in "You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters"

drunner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:40:14 +0000

It adds more context about how much of a scam insurance is and how they come off as hypocrites for liking to use one form of ai for themselves (camera detection) while disliking another (customers trying to get more fair payouts)

New comment by drunner in "Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis"

drunner — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:15:11 +0000

How about regulate plastic so it doesn't end up in the river in the first place?

Worrying about cleanup without worrying about why we have to clean it up in the first place is a losing approach. It reads as just 'recycle better' without wondering why consumers have that burden in the first place.

New comment by drunner in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

drunner — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:21:56 +0000

Can we just ban algorithms for content and go back to chronological feeds circa 2004 Facebook?

Or maybe ban all content that the user isn't explicitly subscribed to.

Those both have problems too, I'm sure.

New comment by drunner in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions"

drunner — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:12:54 +0000

You can on graphene. It's not uncommon to use Google keyboard this way for example.

New comment by drunner in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all"

drunner — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:11:42 +0000

I don't see that as an option, but I'm not a GrapheneOS power user.

New comment by drunner in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

drunner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:07:26 +0000

It's no different anywhere. Security isn't valued since it's just an email and a .01% or less income fine.

The amount of times my SSN and correlated info has been leaked and I've been offered a free year or credit monitoring is depressing.

New comment by drunner in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

drunner — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:15:59 +0000

I am glad there is some viable disruption in the auto space here, but I am also really disappointed.

A new 4wd kei style truck is ~10k, with a bigger bed. I know its apples to oranges, but damn do I hate the ridiculous regulatory capture around small vehicles and trucks we have in the US.

New comment by drunner in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

drunner — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:15:45 +0000

Did we blame the kids for smoking back in the day too, or recognize the harm and regulate it out of their lives?

New comment by drunner in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

drunner — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:47:24 +0000

Wait till you hear about how we fund roads and how much it costs to drive on most of them, lol.

New comment by drunner in "I hate compilers"

drunner — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:24:08 +0000

From what I gather you fear determinate systems will guide future Nixos dev like google steers chromium or am I way off base?

New comment by drunner in "You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough"

drunner — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:52:49 +0000

Have you been defining them directly in your flake.nix file? I too am on nixos but I keep all my configurations in their native format and symlink them with nix, that way I can take and reuse that config on a non nixos system easily.

The problem I have found is that nixos doesn't seem to pickup and run systemd timers and services placed into the ~/.config/systems/user folder and additionally things like WantedBy=default.target have no effect.

So after I restart all my services manually on reboot I agree, systems timers are cool.

New comment by drunner in "Getting arrested in Japan"

drunner — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:04:51 +0000

You think our prison system is much better? I mean hell, we're currently shipping people off to prison camps in other countries without due process.

New comment by drunner in "Why Japan has such good railways"

drunner — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:21:22 +0000

Japan railways are mostly (all?) privately owned.

New comment by drunner in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

drunner — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:52:20 +0000

Not to mention the irony that they need $17M to try and recreate/improve what Linus built in a week.

New comment by drunner in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

drunner — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:36:01 +0000

Is it all speculation still at this point for what happens next? Like are they immediately void, does the govt have to repay importers the now illegal loss?

Or is this just another "trump did illegal thing but nothing will happen" kind of scenario?

New comment by drunner in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

drunner — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:30:24 +0000

Tires cause a large amount of pollution and noise.

More so than a typical engine above 25 to 30mph.

So sure, electric helps, but as noted there is more traffic than before, which doesn't.

New comment by drunner in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

drunner — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:21:20 +0000

The reason likely here is water. It was the same with foxcon. They want access to Lake Michigan.

New comment by drunner in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

drunner — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:59:31 +0000

A human driver in a school zone during morning drop off would be scanning the sidewalks and paying attention to children that disappear behind a double parked suv or car in the first place, no?

As described by the nhtsa brief:

"within two blocks of a Santa Monica, CA elementary school during normal school drop off hours; that there were other children, a crossing guard, and several double-parked vehicles in the vicinity"

The "that there were other children, a crossing guard, and several double-parked vehicles in the vicinity" means that waymo is driving recklessly by obeying the speed limit here (assuming it was 20mph) in a way that many humans would not.