Hacker News: ketzu

New comment by ketzu in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

ketzu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:42:06 +0000

Sorry, I'm mostly on the "consumer" side, so I never looked into the specification.

New comment by ketzu in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

ketzu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:26:39 +0000

> S3 is costly

> run MinIO

When people say "s3", they mean "any s3 compatible storage" in my experience, not "amazon s3 specifically" or just "s3 as a protocol".

New comment by ketzu in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

ketzu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:50:24 +0000

> Even if we assume LLMs would consistently generate good enough quality code, code submitted by someone untrusted would still need detailed review for many reasons - so even in that case it would like be faster for the maintainers to just use the tools themselves, rather than reviewing someone else's use of the same tools.

Wouldn't an agent run by a maintainer require the same scrutiny? An agent is imo "someone else" and not a trusted maintainer.

New comment by ketzu in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

ketzu — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:46:11 +0000

> I can still license that code to a company and ask them to pay me for using the code

I believe you can do that with public domain/copyright free material in general. There is no requirement to tell someone that the material you license them is also available under a different one or that your license is not enforceable.

New comment by ketzu in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

ketzu — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:05:39 +0000

Reading the title I wondered if this is about more components coming with their own memory, because I've never heard BOM used as a monetary bill.

New comment by ketzu in "Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?"

ketzu — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:06:45 +0000

Would this even work legally?

I remember the case of books used for training, where the court found training to be fair use, but the material has to be legally obtained (=Bought instead of pirated the books).

> and usage on it

What do you mean by "usage on it"?

New comment by ketzu in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

ketzu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:48:50 +0000

It can also be 3 people, as one person can be a father and a son at the same time. If you allow non-mentioned people to be included in the attribute (i.e. the sons of the fathers are not part of the 2) it could also be 2 people, as long as they are fathers.

New comment by ketzu in "Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"

ketzu — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:40:22 +0000

That's interesting as my first thought reading the comments was "this problem seems very similar to many students writing papers just finding citations that sound correct".

Sometimes it is really sad to read from (even PhD level) students on social media about their paper writing practices.

New comment by ketzu in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

ketzu — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:42:06 +0000

We might remember the last 40 years differently, I seem to remember data centers requiring power plants and part shortages. I can't check though as Google search is too heavy for my on-plane wifi right now.

New comment by ketzu in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

ketzu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:50:45 +0000

> Looking forward to the NALs responding why this is terrible.

My NAL guess is that it will go a little like this:

* Candidate makes disparaging post on reddit/HN. * Gets many responses rallying behind him. * Company (if they notice at all) sues him for breach of Non-Disparagement-Agreement. * Candidate makes followup post/edit/comment about being sued for their post. * Gets even more responses rallying behind him.

Result: Company gets $10.000 and even more damage to their image.

(Of course it might discourage some people from making that post to begin with, which would have been the goal. You might never try to enforce the NDA to prevent the above situation. Then it's just a question of: Is the effort to draft the NDA worth the reduction in risk of negative exposure, when you can simply avoid all of it by not providing feedback.)

New comment by ketzu in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ketzu — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:44:32 +0000

> Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a position to attract switchers.

Yes, because my apple hardware does not run properly with any other operating system. I would have switched to linux a while ago otherwise.

New comment by ketzu in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

ketzu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:13:04 +0000

> make it compatible with apps for whoever wants them without an additional Apple TV-like device

What do you mean by that? Isn't that the "smart stuff" you want to remove?

New comment by ketzu in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

ketzu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:08:34 +0000

I really enjoyed it and it helped me spot some unhelpful questions even outside startups!

New comment by ketzu in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

ketzu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:14:40 +0000

Technically last year, but less than 365 days ago:

* The Mom Test

* The SAAS Playbook

Actually in this year, the ones I remember the most:

* Start Small, Stay Small

* From Yao To Mao (more a series of lectures on chinese history)

The most recent one I haven't finished yet but was surprised I liked:

* Software Engeineering at Google

Many more things described ring true or feel desireable, and I recognize too many of the anti-patterns from companies I worked for. Although, I also recognized the good things people were doing and started to appreciate them more.

New comment by ketzu in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

ketzu — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:26:38 +0000

> Ideally, a child could legally provide their own spin on IP they consumed by the time they reach adulthood.

Why though? Do we really need that many more commercial attempts at Star Wars and Harry Potter?

(I do think copyright times are too long, but I do wonder what a "good timescale" would be, and what the benefits and arguments would be.)

New comment by ketzu in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

ketzu — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:14:34 +0000

I only quickly searched after your comment, but it seems to be an OLG ruling [1]

[1] https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/LARE25000...

New comment by ketzu in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

ketzu — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:43:45 +0000

The Verbraucherschutz sued over this, and, apparently, BahnCard is not covered by this regulations as it is a (paid) Bonus programme, not a service or product in itself.

At least that's what I got from the summary here:

https://www.test.de/Deutsche-Bahn-Kunden-koennen-Bahncard-la...

New comment by ketzu in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

ketzu — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:11:05 +0000

German companies usually will send you to collections in the case of failure to pay for renewal with the provided process. I don't know how successful they are at it though.

New comment by ketzu in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

ketzu — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:05:42 +0000

Now I get it, thanks for the effort of clarifying. I thought it was a misunderstanding of a niche meaning of "privatized" but it turns out, english and german do not share that meaning. Unfortunately I can't edit the comment to change the word anymore.

It seems "privatization" in english is still a very murky word, even though it does not include this meaning :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization I'll try to stop calling deutsche bahn "privatized" in english.

New comment by ketzu in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

ketzu — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:20:18 +0000

> Not sure what your definition of "privatized" is

Maybe this is a language barrier issue. Companies organized as AG, GmbH etc. under private law, in opposition to branches of the government or special institutions of public law. This is commonly called "Bahnprivatisierung" in Germany.

The Deutsche Bahn was "privatized" in the sense that it was moved from public law to private law based organization.