Hacker News: ilyin

New comment by ilyin in "EFF is leaving X"

ilyin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:32:54 +0000

They will accomplish nothing and be happy, like so many.

I used to respect the exodus, but these days my mental heuristics go off with red alert at the sight of a Bluesky icon replacing Twitter in a website footer.

New comment by ilyin in "Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch"

ilyin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:38:13 +0000

The most intolerant wins again.

I'll be keeping “master”, than you very much.

New comment by ilyin in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

ilyin — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:34:17 +0000

A whole steak doesn't contain pathogens deep within, only on the surface, which is why ground beef is different situation entirely.

New comment by ilyin in "Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server"

ilyin — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:51:23 +0000

Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. A beautiful example to set, thanks.

New comment by ilyin in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

ilyin — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:03:36 +0000

A fun fact is that there is a monorail station built in the middle of a residential building, so it might also be literal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liziba_station

New comment by ilyin in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

ilyin — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:26:34 +0000

I'm there with you, but the opposition is disproportionately reliant on VPNs and foreign cloud hosting. It is required to have any shot at tipping the scales at all. The Twitter and Facebook are blocked already at this point.