Hacker News: flr03

New comment by flr03 in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

flr03 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:35:28 +0000

Different reasons though, France has nothing to do with water level or availability. It's for environment protection.

New comment by flr03 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:03:16 +0000

The crazy part is that you might be denied entering the country you don't travel with a device...

New comment by flr03 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:19:57 +0000

Yes in democracy we do

New comment by flr03 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:15:06 +0000

Yes, in my vision on society, I'd happily work to help the survival of somebody else, next.

New comment by flr03 in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

flr03 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:21:13 +0000

At least Spain has something, UK has something to show for it the numbers are crazy.

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.