Hacker News: kvakvs

New comment by kvakvs in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

kvakvs — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:50:10 +0000

The instant cascading worldwide deletion upon closing or deleting a subscription sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why not mark it for deletion and delete say... a day or a week later?

New comment by kvakvs in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

kvakvs — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:12:56 +0000

Treat this as person's own contribution. If the quality is bad, means the person has allowed it, or the person's quality of work is bad, and it doesn't matter whether they produced it or AI did. So in both cases they'd deserve a rejection of their PR. The only downside is that it takes away precious reviewer energy and time.

New comment by kvakvs in "Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo"

kvakvs — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:49:32 +0000

Since Doom renders the image with vertical columns of pixels (floor, lower wall, portal if exists continues rendering the other sector, then upper wall then ceiling) and since browsers are very good at drawing the sprites out of larger textures... You could send vertical divs shaded with the sector light level and picking the correct textures. Instead of hundreds per column you will have like 5 divs on average per column and they will be textured shaded and scaled by the browser?

New comment by kvakvs in "Scala"

kvakvs — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:12:07 +0000

This should have been in the title :)

New comment by kvakvs in "Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight"

kvakvs — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:43:07 +0000

I don't get it, do we keep the pitchforks out, or do we stash the pitchforks?

New comment by kvakvs in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

kvakvs — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:07:06 +0000

Just checked my Windows (i have latest).

It has Settings -> AI components tab. It has "There are no AI components currently installed".

I will let it stay this way till i need it.

I like AI, but only when i control what it does.

New comment by kvakvs in "Amazon Nova"

kvakvs — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:56:33 +0000

Amazontalk: We will save you costs Human language: We will make profit while you think you're saving the costs

Amazontalk: You can build on to analyze complex documents... Human language: There is no product, just some DIY tools.

Amazontalk: Provides the intelligence and flexibility Human language: We will charge your credit card in multiple obscure ways, and we'll be smart about it

New comment by kvakvs in "A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020)"

kvakvs — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:17:47 +0000

There is a bill, it is paid, too. Russians leave a LOT of papertrail on all their operations, including military and secret service, you just can't always see (aren't allowed to see) the papers.

New comment by kvakvs in "A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020)"

kvakvs — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:02:10 +0000

The Russian wikipedia article sheds a lot light on why this exists. With it operated and maintained by the army, and the majority of messages transmitted in the working hours, this is to verify through the logs of receiving radio operators, that the random message been correctly heard, received and logged. Which means the operator was ready at any given time and fully awake/operational, to hear other real important transmissions.

New comment by kvakvs in "A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)"

kvakvs — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:00:09 +0000

This is something i'd prefer to save forever. Who knows if i need it in 5-25 years and the website is not there anymore.

New comment by kvakvs in "[dead]"

kvakvs — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 01:28:37 +0000

You get what you're paying for. Choosing hosting providers mainly by their price, will get you to the cheapest one. Guess how they make it cheap? By cutting on staff (also by moving the data center to a country with lower wages) and hardware and internet and backup power etc.

New comment by kvakvs in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

kvakvs — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 20:16:53 +0000

As you click the date picker, it updates entire page for that incomplete date, and it QUEUES dates for more update, even if you manage to click the correct year, it continues slowly through every year you touched/scrolled before that.

New comment by kvakvs in "FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]"

kvakvs — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:57:20 +0000

Cost of the traffic is: hardware (staggered cost covered over many months), and running costs (subscription to higher tier internet carriers, electricity, rent of the premises, salaries etc). Most of this is covered by the monthly fees, to have a profitable business one must have those costs covered as a minimum. None of the above affects how much internet data goes through, zero or maxed out capacity, cost is the same.

New comment by kvakvs in "Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license"

kvakvs — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:35:12 +0000

Businesses may be not constrained with the link times, but they for sure are worried with growing executable sizes. And large dev teams rarely reduce the code size, they just keep adding layers and layers of code as the time goes, eventually running beyond the permissible app size on the appstore. Can it solve such growth problem? Many large companies will be "sold" on this idea instantly https://twitter.com/stantwinb/status/1336890442768547845

New comment by kvakvs in "Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera"

kvakvs — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:36:45 +0000

The statement about battery not being replaceable is false. They are replaceable. But the phone body is sealed to deliver the water and dust resistance rating from its technical specs, so opening it is an entire new adventure in itself.

New comment by kvakvs in "Undocumented 8086 Opcodes part 1 (2017)"

kvakvs — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:42:30 +0000

The used font is great for text but atrocious for programming uses: 0 looks same as O, and the article is full of hexadecimal codes.

New comment by kvakvs in "Twitter is limiting Mastodon Twitter Crossposter"

kvakvs — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 10:53:24 +0000

This is about locus of control: if twitter wants to do something about users hopping to and using a competitive platform, can they change some settings in twitter? Yes they can. Can they stop users activity on Mastodon or force them back? No, they can not. So they're doing what they can, rather than passively allowing it to continue.

New comment by kvakvs in "Kaspersky: Poorly detected backdoor targeting governments and NGOs around globe"

kvakvs — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:30:12 +0000

Believing that they are uncorrupt by the government secret services is naive. Everything in Russia of any value has eyes of secret govt service on it. If the state men ask you for cooperation, you cannot say no, or your life as a person will be destroyed, and you (as an owner) lose the business too (multiple examples in all areas of technology, science and industry).

New comment by kvakvs in "Kaspersky: Poorly detected backdoor targeting governments and NGOs around globe"

kvakvs — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:14:51 +0000

Kaspersky labs have this curse of trying to be good guys, while operating from a dictatorship state with all state security services having hands up theirs, firmly holding them and operating them like puppets. It is impossible to be a good neutral guy in a dictatorship.

New comment by kvakvs in "Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money"

kvakvs — Sat, 07 May 2022 13:53:02 +0000

Hair trimmer set to shortest length will make your face like shaven 2 days ago. Costs nothing. Needs no foam, no aftershave gel, creates no irritation or red skin, just splash of water and optional facial creme. My condolences to those who must have a clean shave every day of their life.