Hacker News: llukas

New comment by llukas in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

llukas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:41:45 +0000

You mean targeting with ads, sucking into feeds, making kids harm themselves and making money on this with lip service about corporate responsibility?

Sounds about right.

New comment by llukas in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

llukas — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:30:58 +0000

Policy of subsidizing various modes of transportation modes shapes consumer choices. Best example is high speed rail vs air on shorter routes.

New comment by llukas in "Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser"

llukas — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:56:37 +0000

Would author be able to do it otherwise? Is particular tool choice making result worse?

Bit identical/pixel-faithful reproductions are easy to verify…

New comment by llukas in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

llukas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:20:58 +0000

Can you share examples of this happening in modern history at scale?

New comment by llukas in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

llukas — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:19:28 +0000

It is perfectly usable for essential use cases. This thing also has very fast swap and is good at it.

New comment by llukas in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

llukas — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 03:16:06 +0000

Government maybe rather than legislating big companies stores could not back up smaller open HW/SW vendors? It seems we gave up increasing competition on HW and what is left is app store level...

New comment by llukas in "Learn Makefiles"

llukas — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:36:28 +0000

This is excellent modern replacement for part where Makefiles get messy: https://github.com/casey/just

New comment by llukas in "How I think about debt"

llukas — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:56:30 +0000

Shouldn't this be priced into the house value in this local market?

New comment by llukas in "Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site"

llukas — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:45:14 +0000

We can have a problem with forms being on paper and not doing "add this" or "subtract that" automatically? It was available in other countries 10+ years AGO ;)

New comment by llukas in "'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines"

llukas — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:36:32 +0000

This is not a negative thing.

Global albedo modification happens today its just not very directed (eg. pitch black tarmac next to concrete sidewalk there is significant difference in temperature on sunny days, AC bills would be probably bit cheaper we didn't have tarmac).

New comment by llukas in "GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age"

llukas — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:51:25 +0000

There are libraries that help with more tricky stuff on-device like cub or cuFFTDx.

New comment by llukas in "Cruise's Solution to Robotaxis and Emergency Vehicles: Let Them Move the Car"

llukas — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:55:14 +0000

Where is qualified immunity when we need it?

New comment by llukas in "Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study"

llukas — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:03:36 +0000

If we extrapolate then lets also do it for the impact of the disaster. Gen 3 disaster: nobody dies and nothing leaks outside the reactor containment vessel.

New comment by llukas in "For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US"

llukas — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:12:24 +0000

Article is about annual production share.

New comment by llukas in "Dropping support for old C++ standards"

llukas — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:59:44 +0000

https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/

this greatly extends of what can be considered supported by RHEL 7 (unless we require - "don't install any packages")

New comment by llukas in "Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)"

llukas — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:06:07 +0000

This indicates commit quality. Why lose this info? If you have only time to put "aoeu" into commit message would you have time to correct ChatGPT output? ;)

New comment by llukas in "I am not a supplier"

llukas — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:38:15 +0000

No you come back for more improved sofas. Original sofa owner doesn’t even have to know who took it.

Analogy doesn’t suck, looking through “I’m entitled” lenses distorts the picture for you.

New comment by llukas in "Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo"

llukas — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 02:48:33 +0000

What becomes harder and harder?

Asahi seems to do just fine and has good pace with adding feature support. https://asahilinux.org/

M2 is similar to M1 so it is easier as there is less HW combinations in the wild.

New comment by llukas in "DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market"

llukas — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:45:19 +0000

Not entirely true - vinyl physical restrictions do not allow for some modern trickery that makes sounds less soundy: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...

New comment by llukas in "White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight"

llukas — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:19:34 +0000

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to...