Hacker News: gkoz

New comment by gkoz in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

gkoz — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:13:30 +0000

You're describing a crank. Avoiding cranks is a good strategy even if technically biased.

New comment by gkoz in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

gkoz — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:17:12 +0000

Non-religious people are also susceptible to the FUD about supposedly or genuinely new things. Whatever innate ick there clearly is, it gets co-opted to demonize much wider ranges of things, and conversely can be suppressed like in the Epstein's circle's case. I don't find it convincing that the legislators passing reactionary prohibitions are just driven by a natural ick rather than particular agenda.

New comment by gkoz in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

gkoz — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:40:53 +0000

Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?

New comment by gkoz in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

gkoz — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:54:31 +0000

If you believe salt has to be kept secret, yeah, don't write your own auth.

New comment by gkoz in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

gkoz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:01:41 +0000

Are you pairing computers by copying certificates to visit this site?

New comment by gkoz in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

gkoz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:40:43 +0000

What a blast from the past, this word. Exactly right. It was a spectrum from a sort of mutual aid to regular corruption to outright mafia.

New comment by gkoz in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

gkoz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:50:47 +0000

This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Besides, voting with your wallet, an actual tangible action, is not virtue signalling.

New comment by gkoz in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

gkoz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:47:01 +0000

The only people who thrive in a dictatorship are its enforcers. And by the way a dictatorship needs quite a lot of them. That's how, decades after its fall, you get voices saying it wasn't all that bad, there were some nice things actually, or we should do it again.

And also your neighbors absolutely will sell you out.

New comment by gkoz in "Keep Android Open"

gkoz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Are we still talking about massive companies with power to arbitrarily decide how billions of people use the personal computers they bought? Who's doing the feeling? Why would we presume all of their conduct to be moral?

New comment by gkoz in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

gkoz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:28:39 +0000

After an album ends Spotify keeps playing some related music. It's expected to include some tracks that are new to you. Then suddenly you notice "artists" you've never heard of with empty descriptions and "albums" from 2025 only.

New comment by gkoz in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

gkoz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:19:46 +0000

A person praising Vance and Musk obviously doesn't value due process, judicial oversight and ultimately decency.

New comment by gkoz in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

gkoz — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:20:05 +0000

There's no indication of any failures of the industrial layer in this story. The train was working, it didn't crash into anything, everyone was safe.

New comment by gkoz in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

gkoz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:29:37 +0000

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about.

> I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions

There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number of Ukrainians still speak Russian a lot. Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

New comment by gkoz in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

gkoz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:06:09 +0000

It's plain to see that it's the racists who aren't integrated and properly socialized, not the people "with a background".

New comment by gkoz in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

gkoz — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:54:41 +0000

I sometimes feel we'd be better off without all the paternalistic kitchensink features. The solid, properly engineered features used intentionally aren't causing these outages.

New comment by gkoz in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

gkoz — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:28:44 +0000

Isn't the purpose of many regulations to stop people who are wrong from harming themselves and others? That is, the experience of being wrong also teaches respect for rules one doesn't understand.

New comment by gkoz in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

gkoz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:47:44 +0000

Given this was triggered by an old school configuration change across multiple servers, there's too little discussion of that particular process.

It sounds like the change could've been rolled out more slowly, halted when the incident started and perhaps rolled back just in case.

New comment by gkoz in "Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?"

gkoz — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:20:09 +0000

When you get dedicated servers from them that's exactly what you get: you're renting physical servers, which you manage yourself. And they've been in this business for decades. The VMs offering is much more recent.

New comment by gkoz in "Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes"

gkoz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:04:55 +0000

> What happens if I lose my smartphone or tablet?

> If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet is lost, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport.

Seems pretty clear what we need to do to stop this nonsense.

New comment by gkoz in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

gkoz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:17:50 +0000

How your friend enjoys coffee does not predict how you'll enjoy music? Getting wider ranges of experiences often is fun and worthwhile. Avoiding that to save a couple hundred bucks doesn't seem rational.