Hacker News: ilumanty

New comment by ilumanty in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ilumanty — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:45:38 +0000

WTF, saying hi to a stranger is not harassment? What's wrong with people these days…

New comment by ilumanty in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ilumanty — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:34:08 +0000

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/deportationen-unter-trump-sie-h...

Google Translate: https://www-tagesanzeiger-ch.translate.goog/deportationen-un...

New comment by ilumanty in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

ilumanty — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:12:18 +0000

What’s the situation for tech workers from Europe who want to go to the US solely for touristic purposes? There have been plenty of horror stories about people who were accused of plotting to work in the US from their laptop on false pretence of being on vacation.

SQLite Official Vec1 Extension – Vector Search

ilumanty — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/vec1/doc/trunk/doc/vec1.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874473

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ilumanty in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

ilumanty — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:23:49 +0000

Yeah I don’t like how the discussion is shifting to implementation details, instead of debating whether any of this is good or necessary

New comment by ilumanty in "MacBook Neo"

ilumanty — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:48:35 +0000

Absolutely ridiculous that they still offer this while macOS + Apple Intelligence already take ~30 GB

New comment by ilumanty in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

ilumanty — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:17:35 +0000

Claude keeps getting SQLite's weird GROUP BY with MIN/MAX behavior completely wrong. Generally, complex SQL is not its strong side.

New comment by ilumanty in "Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite"

ilumanty — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:34:15 +0000

Yeah, en/decoding results and parameters from and to JS types is also quite the timewaster

New comment by ilumanty in "Approachable Swift Concurrency"

ilumanty — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:50:21 +0000

Good stuff. Would appreciate a section on bridging pre-async (system) libraries.

New comment by ilumanty in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

ilumanty — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:02:53 +0000

Could more diligence in the codebase solve this?

New comment by ilumanty in "Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability"

ilumanty — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:23:00 +0000

Judging by the poor implementation, the "last minute job" theory is not all that unreasonable

New comment by ilumanty in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

ilumanty — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:24:20 +0000

A trusted source once told me that Mac OS 10 system libraries contain a bunch of shims so that Adobe apps may continue to misuse them the way they did in Mac OS 9. Now that they have a tight grip over the app ecosystem, they don’t even bother to help a major OSS framework that powers thousands of apps make the transition.

New comment by ilumanty in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

ilumanty — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:34:20 +0000

> people under 60 that uses cash are considered, if not criminal, at least suspicious, like they have something to hide. Or simply wackos

I feel sorry for you and those people.

New comment by ilumanty in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

ilumanty — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:56:49 +0000

The official narrative is beyond ridiculous: https://x.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1950318214258516161

> And for everybody out there who's thinking about using VPNs, let me just say to you directly, verifying your age keeps a child safe. Keeps children safe in our country. So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age. Make the internet safer for children. Make it a better experience for everyone. That's surely what we should aspire to in this country.

It's a grave insult to think someone would even believe this.

EDIT: Pictured in the video is Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kyle

New comment by ilumanty in "Litestar is worth a look"

ilumanty — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:48:25 +0000

FastAPI used to have an emoji-ridden docs page for concurrency. Criticism was not handled well.

This made it clear to me that something about the project is off.

https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/6656

New comment by ilumanty in "Munich from a Hamburger's perspective"

ilumanty — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:40:39 +0000

Can confirm every single point you made.

I’d add that riding a bike is also quite stressful at times.

New comment by ilumanty in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

ilumanty — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:29:35 +0000

Sure, but until the courts handle this, the damage is already done. Until that point, laws can be changed.

The problem is not that the EU doesn't have checks and balances, the problem is that politicians are willing to offend common decency in the first place and drive the erosion of civil rights.

SQLite File Format Viewer

ilumanty — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite-internal.pages.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682006

Points: 273

# Comments: 41

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

ilumanty — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:01:33 +0000

This sounds pretty interesting. Can you share a link to your work or livestream?

New comment by ilumanty in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

ilumanty — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:05:20 +0000

If I were Apple, I'd leverage this in content licensing negotiations.