Hacker News: ftmch

New comment by ftmch in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

ftmch — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:03:04 +0000

I think HN takes issue with the hypocrisy of the matter. Copyright law was used to punish regular people for consuming illegal media, but AI tech companies are forgiven for using the same illegal methods to run a business.

New comment by ftmch in "Elevators"

ftmch — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:19:23 +0000

I had the idea to build something like it but for traffic lights. Never got around to actually do it. I have a feeling it probably exists.

New comment by ftmch in "Our approach to advertising"

ftmch — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:45:30 +0000

Do they offer a large part of their services for free?

New comment by ftmch in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

ftmch — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:43:57 +0000

They can just print more money.

New comment by ftmch in "Let's Ban Billboards"

ftmch — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:57:18 +0000

How would this be enacted in a free society?

New comment by ftmch in "The number pi has an evil twin"

ftmch — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:50:34 +0000

There are East European languages, mostly Slavic ones, that have these weird double negatives which are grammatically correct and mean the opposite. A sentance such as: "I haven't never been there" means you've never been there.

New comment by ftmch in "Don't Fuck with Scroll"

ftmch — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:19:15 +0000

Javascript can do browser redirects, but those are not actual 301 HTTP redirects.

New comment by ftmch in "I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either"

ftmch — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:48:04 +0000

I wish Docker Swarm would get more attention. It could be the perfect Kubernetes lightweight alternative. Instead it seems like it could get deprecated any day now.

New comment by ftmch in "I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either"

ftmch — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:43:55 +0000

OS upgrades are a pain. Even just package updates could break everything. Having everything in containers makes migrating to another system much easier.

New comment by ftmch in "Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio"

ftmch — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:09:13 +0000

Guess they want to avoid any political backlash that could arise from topics like that, which will happen inevitably.

New comment by ftmch in "Llms.txt"

ftmch — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:36:43 +0000

Also "well-known" was always such an awkward name to me.

New comment by ftmch in "GitHub Spam"

ftmch — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:46:10 +0000

Even though this post is about cryptocurrency spam, decentralized cryptocurrency networks could have a solution to this spam problem with so called Soulbound Tokens.

New comment by ftmch in "Beeper Mini is back"

ftmch — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:49:07 +0000

Also from NL, was using ICQ at first then everyone switched to MSN. I do remember using AIM a little bit to chat with some Americans. This was the late 90's.

New comment by ftmch in "Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion"

ftmch — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:08:40 +0000

Fun fact: setInterval() might not be the most accurate timer, as it might drift after a while.

New comment by ftmch in "Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data"

ftmch — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:09:15 +0000

Switching to Docker in production would probably reveal some edge cases, if not outright incompatibilities, at some point.

New comment by ftmch in "Internet Archive expands Flash support"

ftmch — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:52:36 +0000

Yes, the generated brush strokes were really good. I was at one point just making static comics in Flash, using just a mouse because the brush strokes looked like they were drawn by someone way more skilled than myself.