Hacker News: kirmerzlikin

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

kirmerzlikin — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:33:58 +0000

They're mentioned on a dedicated page about uncommon Danish plugs and sockets [1].

[1] https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Danish2.html

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "The Most Powerful Server Embiggens a Bit with Power11"

kirmerzlikin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:49:51 +0000

True

And it's a shame they used it incorrectly in the title - "embiggen" means "enlarge, make bigger", not "become bigger" which is the case with Power11

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting"

kirmerzlikin — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:50:18 +0000

Great article! Although it seems that the last section (about YouTube recommendations) is incomplete, as there's no query to actually calculate the recommendations.

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers"

kirmerzlikin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:56:23 +0000

Nice article! It's always interesting to look behind the scenes of payment infrastructure.

BTW, when I tried the interactive demo [1] I noticed that it appended "undefined" to the end of the generated XML. Happens both in Firefox and Chrome, so it doesn't seem to be a browser quirk.

[1] https://www.iso20022js.com/demo

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "USAF's Quicksink weapon tears a ship in half in seconds"

kirmerzlikin — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:32:45 +0000

"More importantly, its intended targets are unaccompanied ships that may be carrying contraband"

I wonder what kind of contraband the ship has to carry to warrant the use of a bomb to tear said ship in half

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "KCL, a constraint-based functional language for configuration"

kirmerzlikin — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:27:27 +0000

Here's what KCL authors say about it themselves

https://www.kcl-lang.io/docs/user_docs/getting-started/intro...

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election"

kirmerzlikin — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:13:16 +0000

Last year there was this HN post about people's efforts to validate results of the Nigerian elections.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272227

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage"

kirmerzlikin — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:05:32 +0000

AFAIU, 3600$ is also a price for "raw RAM" that will be used by your common database via sys calls and not via a "usable API operated by someone else"

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Simplifying Join Syntax"

kirmerzlikin — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:39:16 +0000

This paper [1] explains some basics

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06217

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Not all graphs are trees"

kirmerzlikin — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:56:15 +0000

Did anyone catch why `Let` type in the second code listing had to have both `expr` and `value` properties?

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages"

kirmerzlikin — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:23:04 +0000

Am I the only one who finds the idea of sending a full history of your private messages to some publisher for printing a little bit unsettling?

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021)"

kirmerzlikin — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:02:51 +0000

There's a "Map Men" episode on this: https://youtu.be/DeiATy-FfjI

New comment by kirmerzlikin in "Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers"

kirmerzlikin — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:46:14 +0000

I really like the idea but I don't understand the naming. Why "gatherer"? Doesn't "gather" mean more or less the same as "collect"?

What Is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps

kirmerzlikin — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://techpolicy.press/what-is-secure-an-analysis-of-popular-messaging-apps/