Hacker News: ivankra

New comment by ivankra in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

ivankra — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:01:13 +0000

Apple is a huge company with strong silo culture. I only interviewed with them, but it feels to me like different orgs are run almost like entirely different companies. If his work didn't concern Mac, it's quite unlikely he'd have any special insider knowledge about it.

New comment by ivankra in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

ivankra — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:05:09 +0000

YMMV but Hoka Bondi is the most comfortable pair of sneakers I've ever had in my life. I'm not going back to Nike. Haven't heard/seen much of them until this year too though.

New comment by ivankra in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

ivankra — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000

I'd love to try Asahi some day, but it only supports older hardware up to M3 for now and feature support is rather fragmented: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/. As it's a small and slow moving project, it'd also unfortunately mean living with all the bugs and quirks for a long time if you choose it.

What you could do instead is just set up your favorite Linux distro in an arm64 VM and run it with UTM (a popular qemu wrapper). Works nearly flawlessly! Very usable as a daily development setup. I connect it to an external monitor and keyboard and can't believe it's not a Linux box most of the day. They even got virtualized Vulkan (almost) working now. Switching between VMs and host is trivial and you have proper virgl acceleration in VMs without fighting a lot of nonsense like I had in the past with virt-manager on Linux hardware - if you like to develop in VMs like me, this alone would justify switching from a Linux box to a Mac.

Virtualization costs me ~10-15% in multicore performance - still a bargain considering how far ahead Mac hardware is compared to anything x86. Linux arm64 is very well supported by open source these days. Just proprietary software is often behind e.g. Zoom, Slack are still missing native binaries but you could run them in a browser.

Here's a more detailed experience report (though a bit dated) from another user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42541508 https://blog.disintegrator.dev/posts/dev-virtual-machine/

New comment by ivankra in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

ivankra — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:58:11 +0000

You know you can just use Linux on it. I work from a Linux VM in UTM as my main desktop whole day, with Mac OS just being a VM hypervisor for me, it's pretty good!

New comment by ivankra in "Ask HN: If you could set a maximum net worth for a person, what would it be?"

ivankra — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:22:59 +0000

640k ought to be enough for anybody

New comment by ivankra in "Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?"

ivankra — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:30:20 +0000

+1 for outliners. Logseq was the first note-taking app that really got me to a daily logging habit that stuck, great for friction-less capture of random thoughts and notes, medical and what not. Flat wiki links and backlinks take some getting used to, but absolutely amazing for discovery and organization of notes.

New comment by ivankra in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

ivankra — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:05:38 +0000

Sadly true. Even if your provider takes privacy seriously, chances are the other side is using US big tech who'd happily give away their copy of your data to any sufficiently credentialed authority.

New comment by ivankra in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

ivankra — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:42:17 +0000

I stopped reading their privacy policy at "Fastmail is an Australian company" - Australia is a five eyes jurisdiction. That said, I'm a happy customer of almost a decade with them, but my email correspondence is pretty boring and not politically sensitive.

New comment by ivankra in "Linear algebra done right"

ivankra — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:02 +0000

If you liked 3B1B and prefer intuition/applications-heavy view, then definitely Strang over Axler. Check out especially his newer textbook "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data".

Axler is more of a pure math textbook - if you want to dive more into proofs and abstractions.

New comment by ivankra in "FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill"

ivankra — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:06:18 +0000

This is more about lp(a) type of cholesterol which is largely driven by genetics, and barely responds to lifestyle/diet.

lp(a) is not part of routine blood tests - you probably didn't measure it unless you specifically asked for it.

New comment by ivankra in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

ivankra — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:15:35 +0000

No, that's been mainly due to RLVR.

New comment by ivankra in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

ivankra — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:44:22 +0000

Pretty sure they did it to themselves with terrible policies and moderation. AI was merely the final nail in the coffin.

Interesting to compare with MathOverflow which has distinctly different policies (only research-level questions) and professional community: https://data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/1953768/st... - also falling lately, but by a factor of 2-3x from peak rather than 1000x.

New comment by ivankra in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

ivankra — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:13:27 +0000

Not only shingles vaccine: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-vaccines-linked-lowe...

New comment by ivankra in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

ivankra — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:20:33 +0000

> German economy does comparitively well within the EU.

That's well in the past. It's at the bottom in the EU by GDP growth now, and little hope for a come back.

New comment by ivankra in "Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source"

ivankra — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:37:39 +0000

Someone reportedly made it into a source of passive income.

"Set up my OpenClaw to report people to the IRS for tax fraud... expect to collect over $500,000 this year" https://x.com/camolNFT/status/2043463812267811272

New comment by ivankra in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

ivankra — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:46:10 +0000

They just ghost you if you aren't chosen, good luck proving anything.

New comment by ivankra in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

ivankra — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:33:36 +0000

I had no problems subscribing to stuff through wise or revolut cards. Both are prepaid as far as I'm concerned - they won't let me spend above my account's balance.

New comment by ivankra in "[dead]"

ivankra — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:20:01 +0000

https://archive.ph/7LepE

Eight vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia

ivankra — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:28:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-vaccines-linked-lower-risk-dementia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025694

Points: 14

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New comment by ivankra in "DeepSeek v4"

ivankra — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:44:37 +0000

> Do you realise that China is a downgrade in life quality wise?

For whom?? Maybe for the filthy rich, but certainly not the average citizen. You earn way more money in the US, but for life quality (unless dollars is all that matters to you) between them even I'd pick China. Come visit it once, don't get fooled by online echo chambers.