Hacker News: kenty

New comment by kenty in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

kenty — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:46:42 +0000

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New comment by kenty in "The Vespa at 80"

kenty — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:15:13 +0000

I hate to say it but good riddance! OK to keep as a classic icon for everything on the road but definitely not something that I would want to continue being popular.

New comment by kenty in "Please Use AI"

kenty — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:57:33 +0000

This is beautiful.

New comment by kenty in "Cleve Moler has died"

kenty — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:51:40 +0000

I don't doubt the historical usage but try deploying a Matlab program, The licensing terms and the hassle of the whole runtime are horrible and I'm not aware of any algorithm or location which could not be with reasonable ease implemented via an open language.

New comment by kenty in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

kenty — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:47:33 +0000

Stack Overflow with all of its shortcomings was a marvel of the internet at it's peak. People especially in early were chasing karma and anything you asked, you were sure to get some answer. Not always right but some answer. While for sure LLMs will give much better answers on average. I feel that it's a piece of humanity we've lost there that should be adequately remembered and the memory cherished.

New comment by kenty in "Cleve Moler has died"

kenty — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:51:09 +0000

Amazing impact that person had. Although MATLAB probably kind of outdated these days as anything can be accomplished in Julia and Py and I remember deploying that software being deliberately made difficult by this being shareware. When I studied almost everybody ended up using MATLAB during their study and almost everybody ended up hating it when it came to publishing results and doing demonstrations.

New comment by kenty in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

kenty — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:18:58 +0000

Good article but sorry but it should not be normalized that you have to have an iPhone to join a social network. Something clearly wrong there.

New comment by kenty in "Where does all the milk go?"

kenty — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:45 +0000

where do you get the bacteria/ yeast from?

New comment by kenty in "Where does all the milk go?"

kenty — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:54:50 +0000

Thank you. I was a little bit disappointed that these more sinister parts were occluded but I guess that is to be expected after all, the dairy industry spends insane amounts of money to keep us gaslighted. Just ask somebody if cows give milk without being pregnant...

Let's also not forget that the article basically skips what rennet actually is just naming it an enzyme.

New comment by kenty in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

kenty — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:24:52 +0000

It's indeed pretty interesting how our society has normalized being. what I would say is antisocial by the norms of previous generations in the form of the gen z stare. Funnilly I remember a situation where I got a job offer from somebody from an older generation and I just stood still and stared for 1 minute. Not because I wanted to be disrespectful but because I was processing the information and I was simply so baffled that I forgot the social dance of showing the thinking on my face and doing thinking sounds (if you know you know). This led to the other person holding a lecture on how you should respond that you do not have a response yet but I thinking. I ended up accepting.

New comment by kenty in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

kenty — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:23:29 +0000

Dietary fiber is clearly off charts for OP.

New comment by kenty in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

kenty — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:27:33 +0000

This seems clickbait? Gemini answers:

Method,Logistical Requirement Automatic/Tunnel,The vehicle must be present to be processed through the brushes or jets. Self-Service Bay,The vehicle must be driven into the bay to access the high-pressure wands. Hand Wash (at home),"If the ""car wash"" is a location where you buy supplies to bring back, walking is feasible." Detailing Service,"If you are dropping the car off for others to clean, the car must be delivered to the site."

New comment by kenty in "Dead Internet Theory"

kenty — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:03:40 +0000

Thanks for the thorough explanation, that, indeed, is a level of nuance that's hard for me to spot.

Interestingly, "absolutely right" is very common in German: "du hast natürlich absolut Recht" is something which I can easily imagine a friend's voice (or my voice) say at a dinner table. It's "du hast Recht" that sounds a little bit too formal and strong x[.

Agreed on the sycophancy point, in Gemini I even have a preamble that basically says "don't be a sycophant". It still doesn't always work.

New comment by kenty in "Dead Internet Theory"

kenty — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:29:14 +0000

> it's common for people to be bad at a second language

Non-native speaker here: huh, is "you are absolutely right" wrong somehow? I.e., are you a bad english speaker for using it? Fully agree (I guess "fully agree" is the common one?) with this criticism of the article, to me that colloquialism does not sound fishy at all.

There might also be two effects at play:

  1. Speech "bubbles" where your preferred language is heavily influenced by where you grew up. What sounds common to you might sound uncommon in Canada.
  2. People have been using LLMs for years at this point so what is common for them might be influenced by what they read from LLM output. So while initially it was an LLM colloquialism it could have been popularized by LLM usage.

New comment by kenty in "Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?"

kenty — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:16:34 +0000

I use dark mode unless there is glare coming in. So on foggy or rainy days - dark mode all day. On sunny days - light mode. At night - dark mode.

New comment by kenty in "Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?"

kenty — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:15:15 +0000

Just use dark reader, it works extremely well here.

New comment by kenty in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

kenty — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:07:40 +0000

It is clear that Alphabet is his baby and neither he not Larry ever fully left. He is still in his 50s so maybe just too young to play golf and chill on superyachts all day. While him being a billionaire makes any lesson derived have to have an asterisk him enjoying technical work even after long having won the rat race is a pretty cool role model.

New comment by kenty in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

kenty — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:04:25 +0000

This is exactly my thoughts. If you are reading this, author, please either make the snowflakes less distracting or toggleable. They are a pain on mobile.

New comment by kenty in "Verdichtung"

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:44:00 +0000

Will remember it for the next article to run some more empirical number crunching, thank you! This was more of a rationalist view on things and focussing on Zurich only.

New comment by kenty in "Verdichtung"

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:39:32 +0000

Yes. Thanks for pointing this out. I was hesitant to keep it in the article too as it's a bit too much of a simplification since I pool in different actors like Baugenossenschaften, the city and e.g., pension funds together. Further analyzing would have indeed been better but I wanted to keep it compact.