Hacker News: krelian

New comment by krelian in "Ben Lerner's Big Feelings"

krelian — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:23:46 +0000

This is part of a certain type of journalism. You're free to dislike it but it's doing something very specific that most readers of this type of journalism and literature in general do enjoy. You may be coming to this with the (not unusual for the HN crowd) overly stemmy attitude that scans for nuggets of relevant data (and only relevant data!) that can be processed in the most efficient way possible. This is not it, and if it was forced to be we would lose something precious.

New comment by krelian in "Ben Lerner's Big Feelings"

krelian — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:21:57 +0000

What's wrong with it?

New comment by krelian in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

krelian — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:14 +0000

It will take years before the effect will be felt but I do believe since watching football has become so expensive younger generations are going to watch less of it.

New comment by krelian in "Can I run AI locally?"

krelian — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:09:05 +0000

A consensus has formed in front of your eyes. The same development that resulted in you using the word "kill" in your earlier comment to refer to a computer process. For some reason you refuse to accept it.

New comment by krelian in "Willingness to look stupid"

krelian — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:21:31 +0000

Have you thought about why they developed a need for intellectual validation?

New comment by krelian in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

krelian — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:59:10 +0000

Have you actually used it successfully for these purposes?

New comment by krelian in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

krelian — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:09:10 +0000

Can you give some example for what you use it for? I understand giving a summary of what's waiting in your inbox but what else?

New comment by krelian in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

krelian — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:07:52 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but, being contained and only having access to specific credentials is all nice and well but there is still an agent that orchestrates between the containers that has access to everything with one level of indirection.

New comment by krelian in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

krelian — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:56:08 +0000

In my limited experience I found 5.3-Codex to be extremely dry, terse and to the point. I like it.

New comment by krelian in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

krelian — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:54:18 +0000

Maybe this will change one day but at the current moment this is an immediate turnoff. It's like someone trying to show you their project day 1 and it's a page filled with ads and a newsletter popup. You may have good reasons to do that but it doesn't instill a sense of trust and quality.

New comment by krelian in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

krelian — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:22:13 +0000

It is done because management needs to show that profits are increasing or they themselves will lose their jobs. Since they do not want to lose their jobs and they do not know how to increase profits they decided to fire 1700 employees with the hope that less expenses will translate into larger profits.

They've also done another thing:

>ASML also announced a new share buyback programme of up to €12 billion, to be executed by 31 December 2028.

They have €12 billion they don't know what to do with with so they will give it to shareholders, for a nice gain of less than 1% per year for the next 3 years. Assuming the annual salary costs of each of the 1700 employees is 150K (likely much much lower) those 12 billion could have paid for their employment for the next 47 years.

New comment by krelian in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

krelian — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:27:03 +0000

So was the last lottery winner. I can certainly improve my chances but there is a huge amount of luck involved.

New comment by krelian in "Floor796"

krelian — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:10:31 +0000

This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.

New comment by krelian in "The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized"

krelian — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:15:19 +0000

I hope this gets incorporated into the existing website. I'm not an active subscriber but I used to be and I always thought there was a very fertile "other articles you might like" grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of, given it's reputation and legacy.

New comment by krelian in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

krelian — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:57:36 +0000

It doesn't work on iOS. All browsers in iOS are Safari with a different frontend. Apple doesn't allow it to be any different.

Dhrystone

krelian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:10:48 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46127630

Points: 36

# Comments: 2

New comment by krelian in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

krelian — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:47:48 +0000

I'm not really familiar with Secure Boot too much. Researching suggests that users can add their own keys so they are trusted by UEFI. Won't this resolve for linux users that must have secure boot on?

New comment by krelian in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

krelian — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:17:51 +0000

"user asks a question"

AI: The problem with your question is that...

New comment by krelian in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

krelian — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:14:33 +0000

Enshittification captures a specific type of degradation - the inevitable deterioration of a product or service under an economic system that is obligated to secure ever larger profits. I like the fact that it is slightly vulgar because there is an element in this process that is revolting - the idea and acceptance that its fulfillment is guaranteed.

The vulgarity also carries with it higher odds of the term detaching from the intellectual sphere and into the common man, increasing awareness and hope of consumer pushback.

New comment by krelian in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

krelian — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:29:09 +0000

If you want to watch all of your team's games you need to a) purchase an expensive monthly cable subscription from the company that holds the football rights. b) pay a sizeable sum on top, I think it's about 50 euros per month to be able to watch the actual matches.

This is just for La Liga games, you'll need to pay extra if your team plays in other competitions.