Hacker News: kyriakos

New comment by kyriakos in "PHP's Oddities"

kyriakos — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:28:14 +0000

petition to use Euro symbol when coding PHP in EU.

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Don't want to get into political discussions but isn't ITAR about defence tech?

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:47:25 +0000

Cyprus

I get "The owner of this website (spacex.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (CY) from accessing this website."

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:35:29 +0000

Page banned in my country apparently

New comment by kyriakos in "Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia"

kyriakos — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:44:15 +0000

You have a good point but the thing is its hard to separate speculation, educated guesses and actual facts. There is so much propaganda mixed with fake news these days. You can't believe anything you read.

New comment by kyriakos in "State of Homelab 2026"

kyriakos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:37:28 +0000

$200 hardware only? my main concern with storing photos locally is the need for a NAS. Even at 2-3TB you still need: a NAS device, 2-3 hard drives and the mini pc to run immich + power bill to run them. it will cost more than $180/yr. cost should not be the main factor people store photos locally.

New comment by kyriakos in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

kyriakos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:41:23 +0000

No they are actually quite cheap considering how many pages you can get from a refill bottle.

New comment by kyriakos in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

kyriakos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:40:39 +0000

I recently had to throw away a perfectly good HP printer which was working for many years without problems because after an update I didn't ask for no ink cartridge worked anymore. I bought from different shops and still the printer refused to validate them as genuine.

Bought an Epson ecotank and been happy since.

New comment by kyriakos in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

kyriakos — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:36:50 +0000

corporate laptops is the key here. take 2 identical laptops one with and one without the spyware - its night and day in both performance and battery life.

New comment by kyriakos in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

kyriakos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:17:17 +0000

The computer games I used to play are nothing like the stuff my son is playing. Its not just a matter of how much time is spent. They are the same as social media, engineered for maximum engagement, contain ads or try to sell you something .

New comment by kyriakos in "MacBook Neo"

kyriakos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:09:34 +0000

Win 11 is actually way better at memory management than Windows 10. It's just more bloated.

New comment by kyriakos in "HN is drowning in AI comments"

kyriakos — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:00:22 +0000

I've only seen a shift on the kind of submissions that get pushed to the front page compared to the past but I guess there's a change in what people consider important in the community

New comment by kyriakos in "Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP"

kyriakos — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:57:56 +0000

Reading comments here looks like most of the commenters didn't read past the title.

This is not the same as a privacy screen protector. The screen hardware itself can dynamically protect parts of the screen on demand down to pixel level, the OS can then dim only the app or notifications you want dimmed. There is no screen degrading for parts that are not in privacy mode.

New comment by kyriakos in "UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone"

kyriakos — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:36:25 +0000

Seems to be happening more frequently than one would expect. A month ago a batch of nestle baby formula was recalled in Cyprus for the same reason https://en.politis.com.cy/social-lens/979647/nestle-expands-...

New comment by kyriakos in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

kyriakos — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:09:32 +0000

As someone who owns zero apple hardware, I feel like Apple TV (the service) is probably the most consistent producer of high quality TV shows.

New comment by kyriakos in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

kyriakos — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:32:24 +0000

Not sure if its worse but you are point rings a bell for me cause I feel that I can no longer do any task without having something being bombarded in my head, be it podcast, music or audiobook.

New comment by kyriakos in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

kyriakos — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:41:10 +0000

I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting. In a year of use I think I only went back twice to find a link I saved. That means most of the time the stuff I think I need to keep for later are useless.

New comment by kyriakos in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"

kyriakos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:59:45 +0000

Even windows 7 had complaints when released but it kept improving, on the other hand windows 11 is deteriorating in both stability and anything new added is either half baked or unnecessary borderline user hostile.

New comment by kyriakos in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"

kyriakos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:03:36 +0000

If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

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

kyriakos — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:52:58 +0000

I'm typing this on one right now. I honestly thought the same but I got used to it within a day or two of use. Its muscle memory at this point.