Hacker News: kps

New comment by kps in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

kps — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:35:36 +0000

HN accessibility isn't bad, since it's all just text.

New comment by kps in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

kps — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:33:48 +0000

It's relatively difficult to enter and edit any significant amount of text on a phone, so phone-based discussions tend to be shallow.

New comment by kps in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

kps — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:11:01 +0000

   bad mobile support

Good.

New comment by kps in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

kps — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:11:59 +0000

The revolutionary French tried decimal timekeeping, but no amount of guillotines could make it stick.

Planetarily, we only need to slow the Earth's rotation by 1.46%, so that the year becomes 360 days (1 day = 1° of revolution) and I can sleep an extra 21 minutes.

New comment by kps in "Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems"

kps — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:05:14 +0000

I get to sleep in. When do we leave?

But seriously, the ‘second’ becomes a purely technical unit, and you have some other suitable local units.

New comment by kps in "Almost Always Unsigned"

kps — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:01:52 +0000

It's a bit simpler. C didn't have `unsigned` until 1976.

New comment by kps in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

kps — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:26:20 +0000

Then take the Sten submachine gun, designed so that every little machine shop in Britain could produce one.

New comment by kps in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

kps — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:25:41 +0000

I never liked git and held on the Mercurial until a couple years ago. Now, for all I do, jj is a better Mercurial than Mercurial.

New comment by kps in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

kps — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:35:41 +0000

[0] Gives me HTTP 418

New comment by kps in "The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth"

kps — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:13:08 +0000

The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.

New comment by kps in "The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth"

kps — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:32:06 +0000

I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.

New comment by kps in "Low-Background Steel"

kps — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:07:14 +0000

Metaphor for creative works from before 2025?

New comment by kps in "The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming"

kps — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:26:18 +0000

That's… good. It's a page-snapping scrollbar. Much better than the common row of dots and arrows.

New comment by kps in "Small Penis Rule"

kps — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:59:04 +0000

> It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

tl;dr:

> Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

New comment by kps in "A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals"

kps — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:11:28 +0000

When I become a dotcom^H^H^H^H^H^H AI zillionaire, I'll start a web-only platform that blocks mobile user agents. (If you can work around that, you've passed the entry gate.)

New comment by kps in "A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals"

kps — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:06:15 +0000

They still let Google crawl, so [site:reddit.com "username"] can be instructive.

New comment by kps in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

kps — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:15:46 +0000

You had lower case? In my day...

New comment by kps in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

kps — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:12:26 +0000

In my part of Canada it's illegal and allowed.

New comment by kps in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kps — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:01:53 +0000

Pet peeve: If I go to google.ca and ask [1 gallon to liters], it uses US gallons. (But if I ask [1 pint to ml] it gets it right.)

New comment by kps in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kps — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:57:55 +0000

> American voices always sound like parodies or the Walmart greeter.

Timer set for “thirdy minnids”. Unfortunately the others also sound like parodies in their own way — the Californian's idea of en_GB, “Oi, you go' a loicense for that thir'y minute timah?”