Hacker News: gregorvand

Comparing new HK device unlock laws with other countries

gregorvand — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:51:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2026/03/the-geography-of-coercion-a-study-of-compelled-decryption-laws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777290

Points: 1

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New comment by gregorvand in "Majority of UK power in the last week was wind"

gregorvand — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:28 +0000

ok fair enough. i dont live in the uk, and when i'm there, I am in a 100% elec house. I forget the dependency of households on a direct gas connection.

New comment by gregorvand in "Majority of UK power in the last week was wind"

gregorvand — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:15:21 +0000

This is a repeat url, but ever more helpful to remind us UK does not 'depend' on natural gas, albeit wholesale prices are apparently still set by the price of it

Majority of UK power in the last week was wind

gregorvand — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://grid.iamkate.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440909

Points: 2

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New comment by gregorvand in "Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server"

gregorvand — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:53:28 +0000

Nice games music library, thanks! http://128.237.157.9/pub/HVSC/C64Music/GAMES/A-F/

New comment by gregorvand in "Steam Machine"

gregorvand — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:53:15 +0000

write up on that here: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

How Strava Traded User Goodwill for Nothing

gregorvand — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-gear/strava-missteps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910584

Points: 7

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Custom circuit boards, designed and manufactured with AI

gregorvand — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.diode.computer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45896639

Points: 4

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New comment by gregorvand in "The Law of Leaky Abstractions"

gregorvand — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:45:44 +0000

thanks, usually the submit catches same URLs, not so this time, but hey I think this an evergreen dev article

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

gregorvand — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884854

Points: 3

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New comment by gregorvand in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gregorvand — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:09:25 +0000

+ 1. I just came across it a few months ago after getting fed up with Postman's unintuitive ever-changing UI, etc. So far so good. Easy to store bruno files in a repo to have a nice easy place to go to get test calls

New comment by gregorvand in "The email they shouldn't have read"

gregorvand — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:15:33 +0000

Definitely. I've watched a company move its entire health care plan to a startup, buddy of the CEO, to help juice said startup's customer base for investors. When the company were invited to a call to learn how their health plans had changed compared to the old provider (but after the contract was signed) - the startup 'would need more time to figure that out' .. you can imagine the deafening silence on that well-attended zoom call.

New comment by gregorvand in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

gregorvand — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:06:44 +0000

Very fun. I have a similar check list for thieves for my '75 land rover series 3. I tried to have a friend 'steal' it out of my garage once - it didn't go very well.

BYOC as a pillar of an everywhere platform (2024)

gregorvand — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/9/11/byoc-not-the-future-of-cloud-services-but-a-pillar-of-an-everywhere-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512631

Points: 2

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New comment by gregorvand in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

gregorvand — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:54:34 +0000

it was one of the UK servers

New comment by gregorvand in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

gregorvand — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:13:31 +0000

Handy that while connected via ExpressVPN, this is blocked

New comment by gregorvand in "Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account"

gregorvand — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:52:32 +0000

Trust suggestion: make it easier to find photos of the founders, than the investors.

New comment by gregorvand in "TigerBeetle is a most interesting database"

gregorvand — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 03:06:08 +0000

And you!

New comment by gregorvand in "TigerBeetle is a most interesting database"

gregorvand — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:11:40 +0000

We did an episode with Joran on SEDaily which addresses some of the points raised in the discussions

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/09/12/building-a-f...

New comment by gregorvand in "Sora 2"

gregorvand — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:50:51 +0000

I agree that is probably part of the direction.

The other is possibly there’s no point in a thousand users all turning up to a blank prompt box and using a lot of resources to generate the same thing, or things they are not impressed by. A lot of users will ‘get what they came for’ initially just by seeing a bunch of good examples. Discussions around them will help them produce better outputs faster. Etc