Hacker News: hkt

New comment by hkt in "Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell"

hkt — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:21:12 +0000

I love it. I think I'm going to have fun with this and possibly learn a bit, too. I'm pondering a container based dev environment at the moment and might throw it in with busybox and see how far I get :)

New comment by hkt in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

hkt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:07:43 +0000

It is absolutely not just you

New comment by hkt in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

hkt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:21:37 +0000

Smoke 40 cigarettes a day, your voice will be unrecognisable in no time

New comment by hkt in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

hkt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:10:10 +0000

Talk confidently in your interview with non-technical managers when the last senior has left and there's nobody there to check your work.

New comment by hkt in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

hkt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:35:59 +0000

What I wanted (and to an extent still do) is extreme simplicity and OS level minimalism. I was hoping to understand everything up to the browser, really. My interest in this has been renewed since AI: I have a sense that extreme simplicity may be the only viable approach for security in FLOSS if AI tilts the scales in favour of throwing cash (and therefore tokens) at problems.

New comment by hkt in "I am building a cloud"

hkt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:08:05 +0000

DevOps here.

The trouble is that we are literally expected to do this everywhere we go. I've personally advocated for approaches which use say, a pair of dedicated servers, or VMs as in GPs example. If you want it outside of AWS/GCP/Azure, you're regarded as a crazy person. If you don't adopt "best practices" (as defined by vendors) then management are scared. Management very often trust the sales and marketing departments of big vendors more than their own staff. Many of us have given up fighting this, because what it comes down to is a massive asymmetry of information and trust.

New comment by hkt in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

hkt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:19:34 +0000

> free labor

I'm not sure anywhere expects people to do their national service for free - which is to say that such a programme would also likely be very expensive.

New comment by hkt in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

hkt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:05:51 +0000

This is a great tip, do you have others? I've tried to ditch graphical desktop envs and failed pretty miserably on media consumption and browsing before.

New comment by hkt in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

hkt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:52:45 +0000

No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spare.

Random Google result with a bit more:

https://www.captaindns.com/en/blog/ipv6-subnet-sizes-48-vs-5...

So if I wanted to annoy GitHub, I could connect to them without ever using the same IP twice. Their response would have to be banning my /64, or possibly /56.

New comment by hkt in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

hkt — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:19 +0000

Not necessarily. More cheerful examples exist, usually outside the west:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

New comment by hkt in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

hkt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:05:35 +0000

Not before handing over an enormous cache of NHS patient data to them during the pandemic. If memory serves, this was not kept on NHS hardware or even NHS controlled compute.

New comment by hkt in "Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland"

hkt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:53:10 +0000

That was me, sorry, I just love KitKats.

(So as to avoid being like the Robin Hood Airport guy, I'd like to say the above was a joke)

New comment by hkt in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

hkt — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:40:54 +0000

They're not old enough to remember the start of the war in Iraq, I imagine. For those who aren't: it was a barrage of justifications which were found to be untrue, especially the 45 minute claim which said Iraq could strike European targets within 45 minutes with chemical or biological weapons. The UN weapons inspector said this was nonsense, and so it proved to be - after the invasion.

Iran will go the same way, one way or another.

New comment by hkt in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

hkt — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:25:32 +0000

Honestly, pick one of the well known distros at random. Personally I use Manjaro with GNOME: up to date software and a polished out of the box experience. I never have to go to the terminal unless I want to.

New comment by hkt in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

hkt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:21:28 +0000

SailfishOS / Jolla are unlikely to do this. Time to switch. Google's monopoly power over android is showing, badly.

New comment by hkt in "“Your frustration is the product”"

hkt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:03:53 +0000

Press reader is basically this, although it lacks some of the better titles.

New comment by hkt in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

hkt — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:46:57 +0000

It is annoying, but bookshop.org is a good alternative to both Abe and Amazon, presenting a single shop front to lots of bookshops.

New comment by hkt in "Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe"

hkt — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:53:40 +0000

Pokémon can probably have it's immense (and insane) secondary market attributed to its gambling-esque qualities. It'd be perfectly fine if people could play with decks they chose and cards were sold at a uniform price, provided the game itself is balanced - which is to say gambling elements in these things are probably by design.

Nissan Leaf drivers voice anger over app shutdown

hkt — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/nissan-leaf-app-shutdown-nissanconnect-ev-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374437

Points: 8

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New comment by hkt in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

hkt — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:28:49 +0000

I did it too and found it to be the same. It was years until I realised we had actually been doing rather good stuff.