Hacker News: ekropotin

New comment by ekropotin in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

ekropotin — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:36:41 +0000

> He ended up promoted to management.

I bet, with such qualities he is VP by now.

New comment by ekropotin in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

ekropotin — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:50:26 +0000

That’s the only book you need to read, really. All modern books on this topic are derivatives of it.

New comment by ekropotin in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

ekropotin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:48:36 +0000

Fascinating! Thanks for breaking it down.

New comment by ekropotin in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

ekropotin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:33:23 +0000

Not that I fan of CCP, nor I know details of this situation, but isn’t barring people under investigation from leaving the country a pretty normal legal practice?

New comment by ekropotin in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

ekropotin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:06:13 +0000

Apple innovate in hardware.

What Google innovated during the last decade?

New comment by ekropotin in "WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0"

ekropotin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:13:46 +0000

Interestingly enough, Tailscale, that is build on top of Wireguard, work flawlessly on Mac.

New comment by ekropotin in "Parallel Agents in Zed"

ekropotin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:20:45 +0000

neovim or eMacs are the best text editors as up today.

New comment by ekropotin in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

ekropotin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:25:18 +0000

The idea of blaming something you can choice not to do is quite strange.

New comment by ekropotin in "Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore"

ekropotin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:46:14 +0000

Why just don’t send books on the email associated with your kindle?

New comment by ekropotin in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

ekropotin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:12:47 +0000

Even tho I probably never will get paid for writing Rust, I have zero regrets about learning it - it tough me really think about data ownership in programs.

New comment by ekropotin in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

ekropotin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:59:29 +0000

I personally don’t see its being a case, based on my observation.

There is this town nearby where I live - super white, gives old money type of vibe, very expensive real estate. It’s full of free range kids running around on the streets.

It was shock to me to see it, after our diverse suburb, where kids pretty much either locked at home doing homework or at classes all the times.

So in my opinion there is definitely a cultural aspect of it.

New comment by ekropotin in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

ekropotin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:43:46 +0000

Was the mom Asian? Asking because my pre-teen daughter has a lot of Asian friends and I clearly see a pattern of hyper vigilance among their moms.

New comment by ekropotin in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

ekropotin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:37:10 +0000

From what I understand, macOS uses weird kernel implementation, which is almost open source, but not 100%

New comment by ekropotin in "What being ripped off taught me"

ekropotin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:33:07 +0000

Just reinforces the golden rule of not doing business with friends or family.

New comment by ekropotin in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

ekropotin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:45:21 +0000

Cold showers - good for immune system. Heat expose - good as well. I guess what doesn’t kills us - makes us stronger is true after all.

New comment by ekropotin in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

ekropotin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:41:41 +0000

Im genuinely curious what is a use-case for 25GB Internet in a typical Switzerland household?

New comment by ekropotin in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

ekropotin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:55:24 +0000

It absolutely doesn’t look as sharp as 4k, even on 22” inch screen

New comment by ekropotin in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

ekropotin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:15:10 +0000

I find the title very misleading. Linux containers typically means LXC, but when in readme you say it’s intended for running OCI-based containers.

New comment by ekropotin in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

ekropotin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:45:24 +0000

I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

New comment by ekropotin in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ekropotin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:18:52 +0000

Are we going to see a trillion dollar IPO?