Hacker News: kiney

New comment by kiney in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

kiney — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:46:01 +0000

I run Debian on desktop and laptops. Because I want stable versions with only security backports

New comment by kiney in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

kiney — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:32:22 +0000

all his work is slop. No difference here...

New comment by kiney in "Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling"

kiney — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:46:12 +0000

Does it support XFA forms?

New comment by kiney in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

kiney — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:40:19 +0000

First of all TÜV isn't a single org but a shared brand of multiple independent companies. And while "TÜV" is used colloquially for the mandatory car inspection in germany even all TÜV named companies together aren't anywhere near a monopoly: all of them combined(!) have 37,5% market share in the german vehicle inspection market. The largest single org in that market is actually DEKRA with 32,5%.

People say "Ich bring mein Auto zum TÜV", but they actually mean "I'm gonna drop it at my dealership and let him inspect it by whatever company he has a deal with"

src: https://www.kba.de/DE/Statistik/Fahrzeuge/Fahrzeuguntersuchu...

New comment by kiney in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

kiney — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:49:48 +0000

There are more accredited inspection providers besides TüV in germany like Dekra etc. This matters because TüV does NOT have data for all cars and there might be self selection effects because drivers can choose where to do the inspection (many get it done by whatever provider their car dealer has a deal with, which might differ greatly by car brand)

New comment by kiney in "Reverse Engineering Binary File Formats with AI"

kiney — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:54:52 +0000

Reverse engineering the proprietary .TC binary file format from ThinkCar diagnostic devices

Reverse Engineering Binary File Formats with AI

kiney — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kiney.de/en/blog/binaerdateiformate-reverse-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663392

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by kiney in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kiney — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:56:21 +0000

https://blog.kiney.de/

my blog with random thoughts on very different topics. Most articles started as twitter/X threads but I wanted to give some of them a prermanent self-hosted home.

Original language is german with english translations that are mostly done with claude.

New comment by kiney in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

kiney — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:26:12 +0000

I don't know about Bose. But sound quality in general is absolutely objectively measurable.

New comment by kiney in "Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc."

kiney — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:32:46 +0000

if performance becomes a problem statically hosting sqlite DBs with client side queries and http range requests is an interesting approach:

https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs

New comment by kiney in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

kiney — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:23:01 +0000

I WANT to use X11, its simply better than wayland

New comment by kiney in "The Checkerboard"

kiney — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:16:22 +0000

also in this particular case probably neither would have mattered. Seems like this area is _owned_ by the farm but basically unused. Most (all?) german state consider this to be "freie Landschaft" (free landscape) [this includes unused farmland, woods etc.] which you can cross by foot whenever you want.

New comment by kiney in "The Checkerboard"

kiney — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:07:50 +0000

"Notwegerecht" is very rare in reality, AND the user has to pay. In general in germamy it is historically much more common that these situations don't arise because when land gets sold a prooer deal for regular "Wegerecht" is made. But it does happen.

New comment by kiney in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

kiney — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:09:03 +0000

of course not. There is not such country after all.

New comment by kiney in "Linus Torvalds' Backup Philosophy: 30 Years Proven"

kiney — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:08:11 +0000

it does't. Still a funny philosophy tho.

Linus Torvalds' Backup Philosophy: 30 Years Proven

kiney — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:33:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kiney.de/en/blog/linus-backup-philosophie/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117567

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by kiney in "Why I (Still) Love Linux ?"

kiney — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:34:55 +0000

for features declared stable it's been an urban legend for a long time. I use BTRFS in prod since I think 2016 which was also the last year I lost data to an BTRFS Bug

New comment by kiney in "Basalt Woven Textile"

kiney — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:24:26 +0000

yet another reason I wear kilts to begin with...

New comment by kiney in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

kiney — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:42:40 +0000

sadly not, and afaik they don't plan on adding matter support. Thats a big reason I'll stick with zigbee for now.

New comment by kiney in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

kiney — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:37:48 +0000

skip wifi and use zigbee for IoT where possible.