Hacker News: kreyenborgi

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?"

kreyenborgi — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:57:45 +0000

Hadn't heard of that one before. The instant profile thing sounds a bit like Simplex Chat? (Which I would like to like, but the founder seems to be intent on shooting his feet off with altright twitter posts, sigh)

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?"

kreyenborgi — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:53:31 +0000

I have gotten all my family and even inlaws onto Signal. (It helps that it lets Android users send higher quality pictures than SMS to iOS users, while not being social media like Whatsapp, ie. great for groups that include kids.)

But I can't even decide on a matrix/xmpp client for myself, much less for family or friends.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

kreyenborgi — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:50:30 +0000

How much does such a box cost?

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Search for everyone"

kreyenborgi — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:09:10 +0000

We should improve society somewhat

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

kreyenborgi — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:21:32 +0000

None.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:07 +0000

Was afraid this was going to be another HackerSlop, but happily surprised, this was quite refreshing

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:35:44 +0000

Call your representative and talk about privacy and right to repair.

Vote for politicians who fight for privacy and right to repair.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505"

kreyenborgi — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:29:17 +0000

Now that AI exists, doing things properly has become impossible for humans.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505"

kreyenborgi — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:24:25 +0000

He was probably active on devotionalart badamtish

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505"

kreyenborgi — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:40:03 +0000

Would be interesting, but the ai images and writing makes me trust it less.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Real World Haskell, Modernized"

kreyenborgi — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:44:33 +0000

https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?title=Real_World_Haskell was a great book, but it is nearly 20 years old. Haskell has changed some. An update would be nice. It seems jaror has begun the work.

Lant – The Forgotten Resource

kreyenborgi — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2018/04/11/lant-the-forgotten-resource/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109546

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses"

kreyenborgi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:14:30 +0000

There is variety though! There is jong gouda, jong belegen gouda, belegen gouda, extra belegen gouda, oude gouda, overjaarig gouda ...

(Well, tbf also edam, maasdam, geitenkaas, limburger)

New comment by kreyenborgi in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:28:34 +0000

> the most impactful changes

Quite a lot of our bugs in production have been in seemingly less impactful changes. How do you know what's impactful a priori?

New comment by kreyenborgi in "OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:11:27 +0000

See also: any country with the word "democratic" or "republic" in its name

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:48:31 +0000

Well thats one way to deal with scrapers

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

kreyenborgi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:38:07 +0000

Hm, I could not put it down. Was sneaking in reading while waiting for gcc to finish or bank web site to load.

Now I want to read it again.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:41:48 +0000

I don't see people arguing against some regulation. I see people arguing against basing your regulation on the narrative sold by openai and anthropic.

New comment by kreyenborgi in "25 years of mass surveillance is enough"

kreyenborgi — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:57:46 +0000

Fediverse doesn't actually solve a problem I have. I'm not on xitter or instabook or myspace and don't want to be. The one saas i really need is email, which is 1. Already decentralized and 2. Getting harder to self host every year due to the escalating war between slopspammers and security measures.

Signal solves the async messaging and phone surveillance satisfactorily for my "threat model".

New comment by kreyenborgi in "Who gets to define the rules for AI?"

kreyenborgi — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:47:51 +0000

Broken is a spectrum, not binary.

(Some years ago, people argued that "it's already broken so voting in the crazy guy who wants to shake things up will flip the switch from broken to non-broken". But they were wrong.)