Hacker News: flr03

New comment by flr03 in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

flr03 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:45 +0000

Just looked for my order receipt out of curiosity, this was in Jan 23: £160 for Kingston FURY Renegade 32GB (16GB x 2) 6000MT/s DDR5 CL32 DIMM Silver

New comment by flr03 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

flr03 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:57:59 +0000

You pay money to Palantir that money essentially escapes the economy, you develop a sovereign solution yes you pay millions even more but that goes into corporations and people actually living in the country, paying taxes and spending their coins here.

New comment by flr03 in "dBase: 1979-2026"

flr03 — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:21:43 +0000

I remember my father built its own personal accounting tool using dbase, I think it was MSDOS at the time, I was a kid. Quite the achievement I think, he was not a software engineer, just hobbyist.

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:49:35 +0000

I need to learn how to construct sentences better :(

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:23 +0000

I switched to xfce since, much better

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:50:48 +0000

I hallucinated gnomes after I took medicine they prescribed me at the hospital, following a bike accident.

New comment by flr03 in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

flr03 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:15:53 +0000

It's quite obvious they just wanted to punish Anthropic, all this supply chain risk is a joke.

New comment by flr03 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

flr03 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:33:03 +0000

Pair programming is basically continuous code review. You don't take the same path until you discuss and challenge the ideas first. I could argue that code reviews are also lazily done, yes pair programming can be difficult but god reviewing massive PRs, how many times does the attention drops, how many times is it done seriously? LGTM

New comment by flr03 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:47:16 +0000

I hope humans in charge are as wise now as they were then.

New comment by flr03 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:14:30 +0000

I'm not scared about AI recommending nuclear strikes, I'm scared about the human behind the keyboard delegating reasoning and responsability to something they think is always correct, something that can hide bias and flaws better than anything.

New comment by flr03 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:43:16 +0000

If it's so cumbersome why don't US companies pull out the EU market? bet they make money anyway don't they

New comment by flr03 in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

flr03 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:32:08 +0000

LGTM

New comment by flr03 in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

flr03 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:17:08 +0000

One similarity is, if I'm correct, Russia claimed that the naval base of Sevastopol was vital for Russian security.

The protection of the population and the illegitimacy of the current government was an argument developed by Russia at the time, it has not been yet by USA but I suspect this might start develop in the next few weeks.

The common ingredients to justify an invasion/annexation is a mix of: - Self-Defense, security - Historical, Geographical claims - Protection of the population - Moral sugar coating (we had no choice)

New comment by flr03 in "Staying ahead of censors in 2025"

flr03 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:14:25 +0000

I am nowhere advocating to expand executive power in my response.

edit: apologies for not getting your point, I actually think I'm in line. Being able to defend yourself in the US looks too expensive.

New comment by flr03 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

flr03 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:36:30 +0000

That does not make Germany look any better but I find the "percentage on time" not very useful compared to the "years of delay" metric. And arguable a average/median delay per train would be better? Also some delay volatility data would be interesting.

If you look at France for example, 80% of trains are not punctual but the "total delays" is actually on the low range, France being on the large side with lots of lines, I would say that it shows that the delays (20% of the time) are actual shorts.

New comment by flr03 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

flr03 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:29:10 +0000

Nothing is perfect but living in the UK after living in France, I have now a lot more love for SNCF than I used too.

New comment by flr03 in "Staying ahead of censors in 2025"

flr03 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:19:41 +0000

Law is always subject to interpretation and as imperfect as it sounds it is better than no law at all. And I'm not talking about hate speech specifically. Using this as a tool to silence opposition is possible and made easy in countries that do not value and nurture independence of institutions and have rampant corruption, often countries with authoritarian leadership. UK is not exempt of criticism, it would be unhealthy not to, but comparing Russia/Putin with UK/Starmer makes it evident that you are more concerned by pushing a political agenda that by facts and reason.

New comment by flr03 in "Staying ahead of censors in 2025"

flr03 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:42:33 +0000

No there is a thing call the law, those are passed by elected people and applied by a judicial system that is not the executive branch. Hope that helps.

New comment by flr03 in "This is not the future"

flr03 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:59:49 +0000

As a tech person the older I get the less tech interests me. Analogical is where I get the fun from, no more smart watch, smart tv, spotify, connected home things, automatic coffee machine, no thank you.

New comment by flr03 in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

flr03 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:01:13 +0000

It's such a complicated way to work though, you start another set of changes then you go back addressing comments then you go back updating the stacked branch and you might need to do that few times... Teams should focus on getting stuff merged in and not create massive PRs that live forever, life becomes so much easier.