Hacker News: klez

New comment by klez in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

klez — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:27:58 +0000

> the only thing I regularly mix up is the syntax for links. I frequently reverse the [] and ()

I remember it as passing parameters to a function that requires an URL as an argument. Maybe it's not the most straightforward way, but it works for me

New comment by klez in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

klez — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:45:20 +0000

Unless you mean retrocompatibility, no it's not that obvious to me.

New comment by klez in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

klez — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:54:22 +0000

Have you really never seen any software saying "for non-commercial use only"?

New comment by klez in "Ada 2022"

klez — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:52:32 +0000

Neither does python, yet here we are.

New comment by klez in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

klez — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:08:24 +0000

Yes. But the what's the point of a convention about weapons that you only observe during peacetime and abandon as soon as war is at your gates?

I mean, I get it, I would be scared shitless too if I had Russia at my border. I'm not saying that Poland is bad for doing this (but I'm not saying it's good either). It's more of a general observation about this kind of treaties: (relatively) easy to get into during peacetime, hard to uphold when shit hits the fan.

New comment by klez in "Nihilistic Violent Extremism"

klez — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:00:40 +0000

I always appreciate being one of the day's 10,000 lucky fews, but why is this here? Did I miss something horrible that happened earlier today?

New comment by klez in "Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp"

klez — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:34:06 +0000

I'll bite. What have they plagiarized?

New comment by klez in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

klez — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:01:14 +0000

I believe this is a continuation of her video on the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ep308goxQ . It's been on my to-watch list for a while. I guess it's time to check it out.

New comment by klez in "Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?"

klez — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:27:18 +0000

I once made a clone of cat(1), making sure not to include the -v option because it's considered harmful.

Seriously, though, why are you asking? Was there some breakthrough in biology recently that made it feasible and available?

Or are we actually talking about cat(1)?

New comment by klez in "Where did all the starships go?"

klez — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:52:21 +0000

> even Tau Zero's initial premise is a pipe dream

You mean Sweden as a world superpower? :P

New comment by klez in "If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)"

klez — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:56:40 +0000

My apologies, I assumed that since you've been a user for a while you were aware of the reason for such a comment and the practice of indicating the post year in the submission titles.

No hard feelings, I hope.

New comment by klez in "If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)"

klez — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:35:32 +0000

Are you suggesting that they're suggesting anything beyond what date this was written on, since we usually point that out in almost every article that has not been written in the current year for a variety of reason, including "oh, yeah, I remember I already read this without even clicking, it's not new, I might as well go read the comments directly"?

New comment by klez in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

klez — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:03:03 +0000

Believe it or not, he's "just" off by two years.

Yes, he is in power since 2000 (1999, actually) but 1999-2012 he was Prime Minister. Only then he became President, which would make the end of his second term 2024. So the current one would be his third term (by the magic of changing the constitution and legal quibbles which effectively allow a president to stay in charge for four almost whole terms, AFAIU).

New comment by klez in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

klez — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:27:43 +0000

That's why this is an investigation looking for evidence and not a conviction.

This is how it works, at least in civil law countries. If the prosecutor has reasonable suspicious that a crime is taking place they send the so-called "judiciary police" to gather evidence. If they find none (or they're inconclusive etc...) the charges are dropped, otherwise they ask the court to go to trial.

On some occasions I take on judiciary police duties for animal welfare. Just last week I participated in a raid. We were not there to arrest anyone, just to gather evidence so the prosecutor could decide whether to press charges and go to trial.

New comment by klez in "Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)"

klez — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:27:16 +0000

Frankly? I personally think that would be boring. The fun part is IMHO the retro futurism, what people tried to extrapolate about physical automation and aesthetic.

New comment by klez in "Claude's new constitution"

klez — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:51:53 +0000

It is relevant to the broader discussion about universal ethics, though.

New comment by klez in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

klez — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:01:37 +0000

> I doubt it is something that the founding fathers of Free Software/Open Source had in mind.

Free Software sure, that wasn't the point.

Open Source, that was exactly the point. Eric S Raymond, one of the original promoters of the concept of Open Source coined Linus' Law:

    Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

Which definitely points in the direction of receiving bug reports and patches from users of the application. He was also a proponent of the Bazaar model, where software is developed in public, as opposed to the Cathedral model where software is only released in milestones (he used GCC and Emacs as examples, which reinforces the part of your statement about the Free Software movement in particular).

New comment by klez in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

klez — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:43:43 +0000

But they're not going after people who use the mod. They're going after someone who's profiting off of their IP. Someone else said upthread that CDPR doesn't go after people who make free mods (or donationware) so it's clear they don't have a problem with mods per se.

I'm not saying I agree with their stance, but we're talking about different matters entirely.

New comment by klez in "Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users"

klez — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:42:17 +0000

Maybe "unofficial Fedora version" would have been more deserving of the "unofficial" specification.

New comment by klez in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

klez — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:38:36 +0000

Oh, ok, now I see what you mean.