Hacker News: ihalip

New comment by ihalip in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

ihalip — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:02:12 +0000

Not underestimating, but I've seen first hand how these are made, from my uncles and neighbours as I'm from rural Romania. The equipment may not be clean, people tend to get drunk because QA is literally drinking it and that affects the next batch, the precursor fruits could be half rotten, etc. I appreciate homemade spirits because of the genuine taste, but be aware of the conditions they're made in.

New comment by ihalip in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

ihalip — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:28:30 +0000

How's your eyesight?

New comment by ihalip in "Hyprland 0.44"

ihalip — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:47:28 +0000

Maybe you could try a chargeback. Having to pay for a Linux license and not have such a basic feature (because everyone has touchscreens in 2024) is outrageous. I heard they don't even accept code contributions to fix this mess.

New comment by ihalip in "Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux"

ihalip — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:32:14 +0000

Very compelling argument. I'm moving back to Windows since it doesn't have any CVEs.

New comment by ihalip in "Linux: We need tiling desktop environments"

ihalip — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:54:37 +0000

Terminator really is great, infinite scroll is what really sold it to me ~9 years ago and I've been a happy user ever since.

New comment by ihalip in "Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?"

ihalip — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 05:02:00 +0000

An executable from a nightly build kept crashing and I got tasked with fixing it. I was a novice back then and spent most of the day trying to figure out what was happening, and when looking at the disassembly I saw it was crashing at a 'hlt' instruction, which shouldn't have been there.

Next day, after another nightly build, no more crashes. I did a binary diff between the crashing version and the new one, it was a single bit. A bit flip on the build server.

New comment by ihalip in "Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube"

ihalip — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:44:45 +0000

In a few words, Cobalt is a de-bloated Chromium designed to run YouTube TV. It's smaller and faster than launching it in the platform's browser.

If you have a smart TV/set-top box/streaming stick/etc bought in the past few years, the YouTube app is most likely running inside Cobalt. You can develop HTML5 applications that can run in Cobalt, but it supports only a subset of html/css/js stuff you'd expect from a browser.

New comment by ihalip in "Biden administration to forgive $5.8B student debt for 78,000 borrowers"

ihalip — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:24:17 +0000

How do tax changes from a few years back affect the current deficit? Shouldn't they be already "priced in" the budget?

New comment by ihalip in "Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study"

ihalip — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:58:16 +0000

Wait until you realize almost four-fifths are dead, immotile or slow moving. Only around 5% are actually viable.

New comment by ihalip in "OPEC+ announces surprise oil output cuts"

ihalip — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:01:15 +0000

Maybe you should sue them at your local court. That'll show them!

New comment by ihalip in "Silicon Valley Bank Depositor Bailout Makes Mockery of ‘Too Big to Fail’"

ihalip — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:03:48 +0000

SVB should have learned from some of their depositors - just throttle withdrawals and blame "technical difficulties" or "systems update" or "scheduled maintenance".

New comment by ihalip in "The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)"

ihalip — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:37:07 +0000

I fondly remember playing fy_iceworld and minor variations of it in netcafes 20 years ago. What made these maps special was that they 1) removed all game strategy - just walk 2 steps to pick up a gun and go fight the enemy, and 2) there were no hiding spots - so no more campers. For kids who could only afford 1 hour of computer time in a netcafe, fy_iceworld was the obvious choice.

New comment by ihalip in "Intel Microcode Decryptor"

ihalip — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:51:47 +0000

> billions of devices in the wild which will become e-waste overnight

Not just e-waste, they can also become a huge liability. In a presentation, the authors mention that one of the CPU families which have this vulnerability were used in Tesla cars. Tesla apparently switched to AMD APUs around December 2021.

New comment by ihalip in "Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected"

ihalip — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:18:02 +0000

The Russian invasion isn't what caused inflation. I don't believe in the "Putin's price hike" because inflation was already picking up speed in Q2 2021, well before the invasion.

New comment by ihalip in "YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers"

ihalip — Thu, 19 May 2022 07:02:40 +0000

If there are risks, how can the 15% be guaranteed?

New comment by ihalip in "Possible Terra/Luna crash explanation"

ihalip — Fri, 13 May 2022 08:52:02 +0000

Are there any on-chain transactions that confirm at least 1% of those claims?

New comment by ihalip in "Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda"

ihalip — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:03:02 +0000

> most Hollywood studios seem to be kowtowing Chinese line these days.

This is because the same movies are also distributed in China, which is a huge market.

New comment by ihalip in "Wizzair with £2 tickets, how do they make money?"

ihalip — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:20:48 +0000

Why not? They could just charge more for other costs (luggage, seat allocation, etc) since those are not disclosed upfront.

New comment by ihalip in "Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022"

ihalip — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:26:27 +0000

The latest Dacia Sandero is selling better than all other models in its class for a few months now - even if it's basically a revamped last-gen Renault Clio with even lower quality interior and safety features. Some people prefer a basic, cheaper car.

New comment by ihalip in "Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules"

ihalip — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:37:00 +0000

No way taxes are 66% of the gross salary.