Hacker News: enedil

New comment by enedil in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

enedil — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:13:02 +0000

> most annoying the cookie law

Also, the least consequential even ignoring often stated fact that cookie banners are malicious compliance. I care much less about cookie banners than about the ads, and for both of I have uBlock origin filters. So, what to be angry about exactly?

New comment by enedil in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

enedil — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:33:54 +0000

To be fair, I don't remember people complaining about cookies. The question is fairly simple, etc. Meanwhile ads? They try to steal the attention. So yeah, lots of friends complain about internet ads, not so many about cookies. I'm EU based.

New comment by enedil in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

enedil — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:04:12 +0000

Because entire point of their work is to find the issues as fast as possible, and most importantly, before others.

New comment by enedil in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

enedil — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:23:10 +0000

Why are you so sure that the effects of social media are reversible?

New comment by enedil in "I am worried about Bun"

enedil — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:30:44 +0000

I think parent commenter meant that what's insane is that js runtime is not treated as an utility which should never be monetized. It's as if GCC developers haven't figured out how to monetize, but they are willing to at some point.

New comment by enedil in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

enedil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:47:47 +0000

Or also sue in fact or demand refunds.

New comment by enedil in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

enedil — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:50:20 +0000

You can install "Hacker's Keyboard" on Android, it does have ctrl key.

New comment by enedil in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

enedil — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:11:29 +0000

L4 engineer at Google Warsaw (very popular destination across hires in Europe currently) makes ~120k USD TC

New comment by enedil in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

enedil — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:13:11 +0000

It says "Pan-European" everywhere, but would this include Belarus?

New comment by enedil in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

enedil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:49:36 +0000

Don't forget GoG which is an alternative game store with a strong anti-DRM stance (all the games there are DRM free).

New comment by enedil in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

enedil — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:49:28 +0000

I think "UK citizen" should have been replaced by "person acting from within the UK". This is how it is defined in the context of GDPR - the nationality doesn't matter, what matters is where you are when you are provided services.

New comment by enedil in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

enedil — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:30:52 +0000

O(n lg n) is indeed hard to prove for quicksort, because it is not even true in the general case. Worst case is O(n^2).

New comment by enedil in "Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026"

enedil — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:54:02 +0000

Let me play devil's advocate: for some reason, functions such as strcpy in glibc have multiple runtime implementations and are selected by the dynamic linker at load time.

New comment by enedil in "Materialized views are obviously useful"

enedil — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:01:16 +0000

Materialized views in ScyllaDB are (were?) known to be a buggy implementation. In particular, they often depended on the cluster being healthy at the time of propagating the changes.

New comment by enedil in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

enedil — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:45:03 +0000

I think the main issue is that JSON is capable of serializing JavaScript Objects, which are often much more complex than a simple hashmap.

New comment by enedil in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

enedil — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:26:21 +0000

I'm not sure what do you mean. Statement "open source models can just add a clause to the terms of use, restricting how it can be used" is false, because in that case, it won't be open source. Does it mean that the open source needs to comply with the laws? Absolutely, but that might mean that open source models are effectively illegal.

New comment by enedil in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

enedil — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:26:33 +0000

I think the point here is that so that people reading the article don't complain about "they didn't contain GPL code directly" somehow justifies thinking that that was bikeshedding and not a legitimate violation of the license. Of course, it does not matter if the code was modified or not, but that point might not be clear to the readers who don't have enough experience with GPL.

New comment by enedil in "Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects"

enedil — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:41:29 +0000

Indeed this is. For some reason, all the implementations that I can recall suffer from some usability problems. I expect that if a solution that is acceptable for Durov is discovered, they will roll it out. Of course, my prediction might be wrong.

New comment by enedil in "Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects"

enedil — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:00:51 +0000

I think it is pretty obvious why Durov did not opt for universal E2EE. His main purpose of making Telegram was to make the chat app that is the most usable of all. E2EE comes with a cost on user experience which was for him too high.

Example: Signal can't handle more than one phone logged in, and if for some case you don't open the desktop app for more than 30 days, it logs you out there and you can never get these messages to the desktop.

New comment by enedil in "rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++"

enedil — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 01:03:51 +0000

Uuh, any kind of dev box that requires more RAM than available? I promise you that storing that much data about the runtime can be really memory consumptive.