Hacker News: fridek

Elephants, Goldfish and the New Golden Age of Software Engineering

fridek — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://drensin.medium.com/elephants-goldfish-and-the-new-golden-age-of-software-engineering-c33641a48874

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936088

Points: 1

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Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

fridek — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:09:21 +0000

Article URL: https://moooo.farm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532262

Points: 3

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Serving Cow.txt over HTTP

fridek — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:08:04 +0000

Article URL: https://moooo.farm/rfc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532241

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Air Canada plane collided with a firefighting vehicle at LaGuardia Airport

fridek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:28:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c620w12y59nt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490847

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fridek in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

fridek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:37:26 +0000

Who is "we" and "them"? Don't you find it ironic, such a comment on a thread about protesting a regime which tries to control who does what?

New comment by fridek in "You can't cURL a Border"

fridek — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:31:11 +0000

The point is - while all of these systems are fuzzy at the edges, that is not a bug. Letting people reside in a few countries at the same time, and to pick a tax residency like a new winter jacket is a non-objective for the border, tax and residency systems.

It's actually relatively simple to follow the rules that lead you down the well estabilished residency paths if you do the opposite of what the article suggests and leave enough of a buffer for every required number, so you don't need to think about it and the precise count can be handwaved by the officials.

Conversly, if you try to minmax the rules, you might find that most important systems still have an arbitrary human decision maker, who simply decides whether to apply a complex ruleset to the letter, or to be lenient.

New comment by fridek in "How has mathematics gotten so abstract?"

fridek — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:31:39 +0000

I'm curious how you managed to find nothing on lcamtuf. He's one of the most famous Polish hackers from the 90s, then one the best security researchers Google had. Even if you live under a rock, the substack has an "about" section. If it wasn't for Michał I'd probably be a farmer today.

New comment by fridek in "XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites"

fridek — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:03:01 +0000

I've got to admire Mason's chill in actually giving concrete replies to what are mostly ad-hominem attacks around this issue.

Nintendo Switch 2 first look

fridek — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:57:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nintendo.com/successor/en-us/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725138

Points: 17

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Self Models of Loving Grace [video]

fridek — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:06:52 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again

fridek — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-500-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038

Points: 134

# Comments: 126

New comment by fridek in "The Kew Herbarium (2019)"

fridek — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:26:07 +0000

Kew Gardens are among the reasons why I haven't left London yet. Visit if you can.

New comment by fridek in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

fridek — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:53:24 +0000

I find this quote funny and on some another level of disconnect about what they are competing with:

> Not even Google ever printed 20k tshirts to give away for free.

For a couple of my university years I had nothing but free Google t-shirts. They were throwing so much of this crap around that my closet was halfway to 20k. I only lamented they never gave away Google trousers or briefs.

They have a fair shot at competing with Google on quality of search and they should focus on that. If they think they can complete on AI, email or swag - good luck, and I hope you have a good money printer.

New comment by fridek in "YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim"

fridek — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:12:14 +0000

For me, it boils down to the question of participation in a flawed but powerful system in a hope of leading to better outcomes, or its avoidance in the hope of its downfall. This is the same line of reasoning you can apply to political elections in almost any country.

I have no illusion of being irreplacable, or of the FAANG companies going down. Even if my departure would create a ripple, hiring is not, and will not ever be a problem. There is an endless supply of purely financially motivated and reasonably talented people. To leave would be to let a worse person fill my seat. Conversly, I get to work with a lot of honest people towards better things, in the scope we have control over. You can't fix everything, but often you can really make a difference on what's right in front of you.

New comment by fridek in "Welcome to the Chata Programming Language"

fridek — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:03:10 +0000

It's a house, or a cottage specifically, in Polish. Fun fact is it uses ch digraph, which is for "unvoiced h" and how we spell both ch and h these days. Naming is hard.

Origin Trials and Tribulations

fridek — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://rviscomi.dev/2023/07/origin-trials-and-tribulations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36700125

Points: 2

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New comment by fridek in "Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search"

fridek — Mon, 22 May 2023 09:38:43 +0000

QUIC is enabled by default for all domains across most major browsers: https://caniuse.com/http3

For Cloudflare HTTP/3 accounts for 28% of the traffic (https://radar.cloudflare.com/)

New comment by fridek in "Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search"

fridek — Mon, 22 May 2023 09:32:01 +0000

Changing network interfaces breaks connections and causes a new handshake. Browser session works at a different layer and doesn't prevent that.

QUIC actually lets you migrate between connections (because the packets are identified by a connection ID in each UDP packet rather than a 5-tuple). Clients will typically re-test a connection occasionally and downgrade as needed for this to work.

New comment by fridek in "Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search"

fridek — Mon, 22 May 2023 09:27:50 +0000

This. There are also clients that with a little config will let cache the support level per-host, and even provide a list of hosts that the initial request should race TCP and QUIC to.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/cron...

Improving user privacy by requiring opt-in to send X-Requested-With from WebView

fridek — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:34:27 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/02/improving-user-privacy-by-requiring-opt-in-to-send-x-requested-wih-header-from-webview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709449

Points: 1

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