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A War Foretold

fabatka — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185567

Points: 18

# Comments: 10

New comment by fabatka in "A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world"

fabatka — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:24:00 +0000

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New comment by fabatka in "European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security"

fabatka — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:23:36 +0000

Or alternatively, Trump is playing 5d chess, and this is how he gets European nations to increase their defense spending :) /s

New comment by fabatka in "European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security"

fabatka — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:20:34 +0000

That's exactly what Trump doesn't want, it would seem.

The shameful defenestration of Tim [Peters]

fabatka — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629739

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fabatka in "Laptops with Stickers"

fabatka — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:30 +0000

Many of the stickers display political affiliation.

New comment by fabatka in "Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes"

fabatka — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:42:46 +0000

I thought 1.9.0 already had at least some of the v3 features, like the variant type and column lineages? https://iceberg.apache.org/releases/#190-release

Of course I haven't seen any implementations supporting these yet.

Boring Iceberg Catalog – 1 JSON file. 0 Setup

fabatka — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:35:50 +0000

Article URL: https://juhache.substack.com/p/boring-iceberg-catalog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099631

Points: 6

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New comment by fabatka in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

fabatka — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:04:48 +0000

What about backups? My greatest fear is self-hosting valuable stuff (like family photos) only for my NAS to fail one day and lose potentially everything.

Elephant Walk (Aeronautics)

fabatka — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:08:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_walk_(aeronautics)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010701

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fabatka in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

fabatka — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:25:18 +0000

I guess if it's only specific individuals/groups that can't print books, it's restricting free speech, if nobody can, it's not.

New comment by fabatka in "The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining"

fabatka — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:24:34 +0000

I remember one (might have been a hn-er's comment, dunno) about the computer restarting when the toilet was flushed. Turns out it was due to voltage drop when a compressor turned on to refill the reservoir of the toilet.

New comment by fabatka in "Cognitive ability and miscalibrated financial expectations"

fabatka — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 09:23:36 +0000

Because the results also depend on the economy. Different times might provide more wealth to people in different strata.

New comment by fabatka in "Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity"

fabatka — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:10:44 +0000

My thoughts exactly. Goodhart's law and "cargo cult fitness" come to my mind.

New comment by fabatka in "Learn electronics by practice"

fabatka — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:14:32 +0000

FWIW, it's digital electronics

New comment by fabatka in "Should We Tax Robots?"

fabatka — Sun, 14 May 2023 06:32:04 +0000

Easy for Bill Gates to advocate for this, as he already got rich partly by people automating away lots of jobs using his operating systems and softwares.

New comment by fabatka in "Special Relativity and Middle-Earth"

fabatka — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:12:26 +0000

This story is in the beginning of the Taylor-Wheeler book the article mentions

New comment by fabatka in "NASA declines to rename JWST"

fabatka — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:52:26 +0000

Or ++ to include programmers /s

New comment by fabatka in "Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile"

fabatka — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:46:26 +0000

Wow, this story is straight out of Black Mirror.

New comment by fabatka in "Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends"

fabatka — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:49:03 +0000

Likewise in Hungary. When an opposition party leader (after a big election flop) suggested that instead of importing cultural issues from the US, opposition parties should concentrate on the problems of the people living here, it was almost treated as a heresy.