Hacker News: laeri

New comment by laeri in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

laeri — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:03:50 +0000

The author didn't seem to request payment in monetary form but expected some kind of contributions back which would have helped both sides. It would probably be difficult to include some guarantees about upstream contributions into the license but interesting takeaway.

New comment by laeri in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

laeri — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:49:50 +0000

Parent poster wasn't referring to Ozempic but a general healthy lifestyle. Which requires resources many people do not have such as time, money, education etc.

New comment by laeri in "Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)"

laeri — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:17:02 +0000

This might be misleading as often biodiversity can't be measured by how lush it looks and how much vegetation there is. Certain plants and animals can only survive in arid landscapes that look 'dead' but can't survive otherwise as they are adapted to an environment with less nutrients. So it is possible that you actually reduce biodiversity by doing things like this. Often land has too much nutrients due to farming and leaving arid landscape as it is might be better.

New comment by laeri in "What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?"

laeri — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:26:29 +0000

I am confused, they didn't contact the company at all and just disclose this publicly? Very immature handling of a vulnerability finding.

New comment by laeri in "C Macro Reflection in Zig"

laeri — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:10:26 +0000

In this case you probably haven't looked at it properly. There is just the starting entry main.zig, and a root.zig file which you can remove if you don't need it. Nothing complicated or annyling problems at this stage.

New comment by laeri in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

laeri — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:51:13 +0000

Also the use of the words "dropshipping" and "windowshopping"

New comment by laeri in "Swiss vs. American parenting: Differences according to a US mom"

laeri — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:27:01 +0000

Your point stands but in summer it gets up to around 35 degrees, 95 fahrenheit to be correct.

New comment by laeri in "Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg [video]"

laeri — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:09:22 +0000

If it is needed soneone will and probably is currently doing original research. The payoff is too great that alternatives would be ignored. As long as financial incentives exist progress will inevitably happen and the financial incentives in this case is massive.

New comment by laeri in "What are third places? How do I find one?"

laeri — Sat, 11 May 2024 18:26:03 +0000

That is not necessarily true all over Europe. In my area prices were increases somewhat recently and I now decided against going there anymore. However, they did not change any seating inside, everything stayed somewhat tge same

New comment by laeri in "New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars"

laeri — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:39:57 +0000

*One of the richest men. Bernard Arnault seems to claim top spot currently and the definition of richest man is also very vague in general.

New comment by laeri in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

laeri — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:00:44 +0000

Not sure what is hindering you talking about it. You seem to be proud of it.

New comment by laeri in "Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset"

laeri — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:27:49 +0000

It doesn't need a name change. You would write wank in a completely different way only the spelling sounds the same.

New comment by laeri in "Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise"

laeri — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:21:49 +0000

What kind of structures did you develop that you can't get by weightlifting? I assume these are some kind of stabilizers that you train by some tai chi movements. If this is the case then it should also be possible to train these using a weightlifting regime with some specific movements targeting those stabilizers.

New comment by laeri in "Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry"

laeri — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 20:27:38 +0000

The shoes are none of that. They are great :)

New comment by laeri in "Goodbye non-KISS appliances"

laeri — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:48:44 +0000

It actually makes sense to own a larger car and fridge in this case. I wouldn't have thought about this as I usually go once or twice a day to the grocery store and just buy what I currently need as the grocery is on my way to work (walking distance).

New comment by laeri in "Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative"

laeri — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:50:36 +0000

This includes assets right or some kind of prebuilt data in custom formats? Otherwise it would be hard to have this much data in source files.

New comment by laeri in "How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)"

laeri — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 05:34:49 +0000

They are involved in helping their queen produce new offspring that also contains part of their own genetic material. In bees and ants you have to think of them as one single individual. Each single worker is not able to reproduce but they still will indirectly still reproduce through their queen. Not sure what being good humans has to do with this.

New comment by laeri in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

laeri — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:05:12 +0000

If input validation is not present in your framework of choice then the framework clearly has problems.

If you do not validate your inputs properly I am not sure what you are doing when you have a user facing applications of this size. Validating inputs is the lowest hanging fruit for preventing hacking threats.

New comment by laeri in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

laeri — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:02:23 +0000

Query input validation is nearly a solved problem. If you don't I would argue this is an incident if in this case 500's are returned.

New comment by laeri in "The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List"

laeri — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:58:47 +0000

FIDO/physical keys still work and they are still the best solution. Sure they can be stolen but physical access is much harder to get than digital access. The loss problem is also practically not of importance as a backup key can mitigate this. Also physical loss does not guarantee access to the new owner as they need to know which identity uses the key as well as the password as the key is only the second factor.

Best solution would probably be an implant of the physical key which makes it nearly impossible to lose it (apart from the worst case scenario).