Hacker News: klinch

New comment by klinch in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

klinch — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:58:57 +0000

Man, I wish there were some pictures. I didn’t even know that there are LTE modems that small.

New comment by klinch in "[dead]"

klinch — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:32:26 +0000

Tried with a few snippets, mostly just got a JS alert "Не удалось создать задачу".

New comment by klinch in "Utiq – The ad tracking of your (European) ISP and how to avoid it"

klinch — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:01:30 +0000

GDPR was never about cookies but about freely given consent.

Two things that make Utiq absolutely terrible (and imho illegal)

1. It's crazy that any person who is using my internet connection (guest wifi?) can give "consent" that leads to everyone else being tracked.

2. ISPs are abusing their highly privileged position. It's not easy to switch providers (if at all possible), so as "gatekeepers" they should behave responsibly (c.f. DMA designated Gatekeepers etc) and not abuse their power.

New comment by klinch in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

klinch — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:20:04 +0000

I'm sure you already made up your mind about heat pumps and that I can't convince you otherwise. But for other readers, let me add some thoughts to your points.

1) well, there's a grid. So as long as someone somewhere on your continent produces green energy it is viable and green.

2) arguable. Depends on your legislation.

3) Again, there's a grid. And even considering the worst case of no renewable sources at all: A heat pump (which uses 1kWh of electricity to provide 3-6kWh of heat) powered by a diesel generator is still more efficient than burning the diesel directly. Now add efficient combined cycle power plants, wind, biomass, hydro and battery storage systems...

New comment by klinch in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

klinch — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:10:18 +0000

Sounds cursed. But I'm not judging, given that I use nixos-anywhere[0] on an almost weekly basis.

[0] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

New comment by klinch in "Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS"

klinch — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:38:16 +0000

There was a time that XPS meant something. I’m still holding on to my XPS 13 9360. It’s (even for today’s standards) lightweight and Linux compatibility has been perfect from day one.

New comment by klinch in "Volkswagen to close German plant, a first in their company history"

klinch — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:19:07 +0000

What do you mean by regime? Last time I checked Germany was still a democratic country?

New comment by klinch in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

klinch — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:05:49 +0000

I agree that it’s probably not a big amount. But note that it can be potentially quiet a bit more than the 90$. Task runtimes are always rounded up to the nearest minute.

For example, in our pipeline we have 5 different linter tasks (for different subprojects), running each only a few seconds. Nonetheless, we’ll get billed for 5 minutes on every commit.

New comment by klinch in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

klinch — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:07:05 +0000

TIL.

New comment by klinch in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

klinch — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:06:36 +0000

+1 for .http files

Also, TIL that these are not IntelliJ-specific (that’s where I use them)

New comment by klinch in "ImapGoose"

klinch — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:56:05 +0000

Now I'm wondering which of these extensions and strategies are employed by mainstream mail clients like Thunderbird, Apple Mail and Outlook?

I'm currently doing remote work from a location with an instable connection. Naturally I expected mails to work well in an async fashion, but instead... everything is really janky and I'm always unsure whether actions like moving an mail to a different actually 'went through' without loosing any mails.

New comment by klinch in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

klinch — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:52:19 +0000

Wow. Disabling Transparency makes a huge difference on my iPhone 13 (sluggish, stuttering animations -> smooth af). Thanks!

New comment by klinch in "How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)"

klinch — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:10:01 +0000

May I ask where you got such a cheap VPS?

New comment by klinch in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

klinch — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:09:03 +0000

No offence, but "please don't do X" where X is favoured by the big majority of users AND has a broad scientific base sounds a bit... entitled?

New comment by klinch in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

klinch — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:29:13 +0000

Accessing "the internet" while visiting your family in China/Russia/Iran/Thailand/...

New comment by klinch in "A love letter to the CSV format (2024)"

klinch — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:34:20 +0000

Apache POI (Java) + a light in-house abstraction on top of it

New comment by klinch in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

klinch — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:32:46 +0000

IANAL - but when EU regulation and national law regarding civil rights conflict then the citizen has the "union set" of all guaranteed rights. Or in other words: A member state can grant additional civil rights (on top of the EU charta) but can't take them away.

New comment by klinch in "A love letter to the CSV format (2024)"

klinch — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:01:36 +0000

Hot take: I prefer xlsx over CSV

I used to work on payment infrastructure and whenever a vendor offered us the choice between CSV and some other format we always opted for that other format (often xlsx). This sounds a bit weird, but when using xlsx and a good library for handling it, you never have to worry about encoding, escaping and number formatting.

This is one of these things that sound absolutely wrong from an engineering standpoint (xlsx is abhorrently complex on the inside), but works robustly in practice.

Slightly related: This was a German company, with EU and US payment providers. Also note that Microsoft Excel (and therefore a lot of other tools) produces "semicolon-separated values" files when started on a computer with the locale set to German...

Openscan – open-source 3D scanner

klinch — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://openscan.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126480

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by klinch in "Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service"

klinch — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:44:52 +0000

Agreed, but but what would the right content type even be? Afaik there's no `text/tty` or `text/with-control-characters` etc. On the other hand, using the generic `application/octet-stream` seems unnecessarily vague?