Hacker News: h4kor

New comment by h4kor in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

h4kor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:33:22 +0000

> In fact I don't recall ever seeing an ad for tiktok and yet it is humongous.

For the first years of its existence I only new tiktok because they were advertising everywhere.

CorridorKey – Perfect Green Screen Keys

h4kor — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306778

Points: 13

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New comment by h4kor in "Erlang Meets Idris: Cure Programming Language"

h4kor — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:26:54 +0000

This is 100% LLM generated; website, documentation and tutorials. There is no link to downloads or a repository. No way to use anything.

Why should anyone care about this?

New comment by h4kor in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

h4kor — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:44:31 +0000

These exist. There is "Consent-O-Matic" for example

New comment by h4kor in "German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters"

h4kor — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:59:47 +0000

At my former company we paid 900€/month for 1Gbit/s, which we required. That's definitely a problem when the same performance is available for ~50€/month a few kilometers over the border (in the Netherlands).

In rural regions workshops output is limited by their internet speed as the can only download that many CAD files from customer per day.

New comment by h4kor in "German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters"

h4kor — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:20:43 +0000

Reasons I can think of (as a German) from the top of my head:

- Crumbling infrastructure

- Decades of missing investments in education and the public sector

- no digitization

- Unwillingness to move away from ICE vehicles

- Slow internet access and slow build out of fiber network

- Killing future industries (solar, battery ...) by cutting funding/subsidies early

- low wages in European comparison

New comment by h4kor in "Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers"

h4kor — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:09:55 +0000

The main reason I use postgres instead of SQLite is that I have multiple processes accessing the database, often 1 web service for API/Website and a worker running in the background doing heavy tasks (e.g. image processing). Both need access to the database and SQLite will run into locking issues.

How do you overcome this with SQLite and Django?

New comment by h4kor in "'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court"

h4kor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:52:46 +0000

IIRC there has been a case in Germany where it was ruled that opening devtools is hacking and therefore illegal intend. A person found a vulnerability by looking at the website source (using devtools) and informed the company. They then sued him using the "Hackerparagraph" (§ 202c StGB) for use of hacker tools.

Chromahack – programming language inspired by hacker movies

h4kor — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:23:47 +0000

Article URL: https://chromahack.rerere.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875349

Points: 1

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New comment by h4kor in "Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading"

h4kor — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:18:40 +0000

This isn't a trade "just on paper". You need real hardware integrated into the grid.

New comment by h4kor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

h4kor — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:34:38 +0000

I'm working on my own mini time series database.

It only stores (timestamped) floating point values with a series id and uses a B+Tree as the backing data structure. Querying is done with a lisp-like query language.

New comment by h4kor in "Creating your own federated microblog"

h4kor — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:31:27 +0000

I've added ActivityPub to my blog system (https://h4kor.github.io/owl-blogs/) as just another way of subscribing to the blog, but found that it is a good model to support interactions.

New comment by h4kor in "AI Is Facing a Crisis"

h4kor — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:50:39 +0000

> Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain?

basically yes. Closed loop systems require more energy and are more expensive investments. The main concern for data centers is Total Energy / Energy Compute.

There was a good talk about this at 37C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11796-energy_consumption_of_data...

New comment by h4kor in "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"

h4kor — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:44:47 +0000

I used and am now using plain git over ssh. I only hosted gitea to have my code accessible for anyone interested.

My "main" projects I want to keep public are moved/cloned to GitHub, the rest I just don't bother with any longer.

New comment by h4kor in "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"

h4kor — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:12:35 +0000

I had to take offline my personal gitea instance as it was regularly spammed, crashing Caddy in the process.

New comment by h4kor in "Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog"

h4kor — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:17:13 +0000

Quiet impressive!

I've build a very similar game for a 3 hour game jam once :D

https://h4kor.itch.io/herding-simulator

New comment by h4kor in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

h4kor — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:56:19 +0000

Same in Germany. Farmers (most conservative population group) love renewable energy. Every farmer I know tries to get wind turbines build on their land and have their roofs packed with PV. Yet the conservative parties are the biggest blockers for the energy transition.

New comment by h4kor in "About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)"

h4kor — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:54:44 +0000

IMO it's only a matter of time before LLMs will include ads. Current pricing isn't covering the costs of running LLMs and brands will pay a high price for being favored in responses.

New comment by h4kor in "Using SQLite as storage for web server static content"

h4kor — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:51:39 +0000

I'm using SQLite as the single storage system for my blog, including media files. I did a simple performance comparison for this use case: https://blog.libove.org/posts/serving-binary-files-from-sqli...

TL;DR: No real difference in low throughput environments, 2.3x slower on high throughput

Map of AI Futures

h4kor — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://swantescholz.github.io/aifutures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41867300

Points: 2

# Comments: 0