Hacker News: hwj

New comment by hwj in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

hwj — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:42:26 +0000

This even has a name: German Angst.

New comment by hwj in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

hwj — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:21:25 +0000

Is it possible to run this locally on Apple aarch64?

(Sorry, I'm probably one of the few HN users left that don't have much experience with AI).

New comment by hwj in "The only moat left is knowing things"

hwj — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:03:17 +0000

Website seems to require JS to display anything at all.

New comment by hwj in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

hwj — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:29:04 +0000

I can tell you that Deutsche Telekom has much much more aggressive sales reps than 1&1. (I've been with GMX/1&1 for ~15 years and with DT for ~2 years).

DT called me on phone over and over again, so much that I had to block them on my FritzBox. Several times they even knocked at my door.

New comment by hwj in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

hwj — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:12:13 +0000

Thx a lot. Really appreciate you taking the time for such a thorough answer.

New comment by hwj in "Stunnel"

hwj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:55:18 +0000

Another Althttpd user here. Being able to write a "microservice" just by making a file executable is awesome.

New comment by hwj in "Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters"

hwj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:32:48 +0000

> Requirements

> NVIDIA GPU with 24GB VRAM (RTX 3090/4090)

That's a little bit to much for my trusty notebook...

New comment by hwj in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

hwj — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:38:14 +0000

Thx. Am I taxable in my country of residence even when the money is kept on the LLC's bank account in the US?

Let's say a small side hustle earns me $200/month. The money is kept on the LLC's bank account. Later on, when I visit the US, the LLC is paying for traveling and hotel. Would I still need to pay taxes in my country of residence?

(Even though you probably aren't a lawyer, I'd still appreciate your thoughts on this).

New comment by hwj in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

hwj — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:34:18 +0000

Do you have any in-depth resources on how to start and operate a US LLC as a foreigner?

New comment by hwj in "How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version"

hwj — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:57:39 +0000

This is exactly the reason why I went with the 3rd edition.

New comment by hwj in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

hwj — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:19:36 +0000

I appreciate you sharing the positive experience as a neighbor, but unfortunately, the Deutsche Bahn is as bad as presented here. (I spend several years commuting to college via DB). Once my train stopped in a small village with the announcement "the train ends here". Thankfully, kind people picked me up.

New comment by hwj in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

hwj — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:41:23 +0000

  $ brew info snitch
  ==> snitch: stable 0.1.8 (bottled), HEAD
  Prettier way to inspect network connections
  https://github.com/karol-broda/snitch
  Installed
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/snitch/0.1.8 (9 files, 8.4MB) \*
    Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2025-12-23 at 15:32:41
  From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/s/snitch.rb
  License: MIT
  ==> Dependencies
  Build: go 
  ==> Options
  --HEAD
          Install HEAD version

New comment by hwj in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

hwj — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:34:29 +0000

The README doesn't mention this, but on macOS it's also available via brew:

`brew install snitch`

New comment by hwj in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

hwj — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:29:20 +0000

It's a mix of everything (in no particular order):

- the author of LuLu is a security researcher; he also wrote "The Art of Mac Malware"

- I already bought two versions of Little Snitch and wasn't willing to pay for the third one

- contacting their support left a bitter aftertaste

New comment by hwj in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

hwj — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:50:51 +0000

I've been a long time Litte Snitch user. However, these days I'm just using LuLu: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

New comment by hwj in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

hwj — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:04:19 +0000

Thx. Appreciate your feedback.

New comment by hwj in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

hwj — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:42:44 +0000

Can you please elaborate a little bit more on this? I'm thinking about buying an ereader but haven't decided yet which is the one...

New comment by hwj in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

hwj — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:52:23 +0000

I enabled the tap (System Settings) so I can "click" everywhere.

New comment by hwj in "Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R"

hwj — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:57:51 +0000

Reading the title, I expected this to be the successor of Electron.

Or at least a positive version of it...

New comment by hwj in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

hwj — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:56:03 +0000

This.

Searching the internet on a phone feels like exploring the world through the eye of a needle.