Hacker News: llukas

New comment by llukas in "Source code of the Estonian online voting system"

llukas — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:26:43 +0000

Oh, you absolutely can and it worked in your state. There were problems with the process and you had to repeat the election for people to be confident. People can understand all problems of the above.

With some abstract math and computers? Any real or imaginary issues are incomprehensible to most of the voters and concerns can be easily shooed away.

New comment by llukas in "Source code of the Estonian online voting system"

llukas — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:22:29 +0000

Full hand count is a feature not a cost. The more people involved and see democracy happen and have actual agency in making it happen the better.

Automating any of the process is (imho) harmful to above.

New comment by llukas in "Source code of the Estonian online voting system"

llukas — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:28:59 +0000

> glorious in its stupid inefficiency, because it spreads the trust

What is the goal? Having fancy crypto or people being confident about elections?

If spreading the trust is the goal what makes you say "inefficient". It is orders of magnitude better then any crypto system.

New comment by llukas in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

llukas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:08:47 +0000

Stamp only proves you did the photo and probably some metadata like when where etc.

It helps but doesn't solve credibility issue.

New comment by llukas in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

llukas — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:16:15 +0000

State actors, professional criminals will have same or better capabilities and do not hesitate to use them. On defense end we'll have only "pay bigcorp" option.

OSS models can help to fix infra especially for folks who would never do it themselves. We do not know yet what final effect would be and it doesn't seem sky is falling now or in near future.

"people dying and furry fanfics" is a scarecrow and distractor respectively, it would be awesome if more specific examples would be used in place.

New comment by llukas in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

llukas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:06:19 +0000

It seems you're right. Would nice to see breakdown for this plane how it actually maps to real world prototype.

New comment by llukas in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

llukas — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:11:29 +0000

Check jet engine weight and include in the calculation. One weights 2200-3700 lbs according to same source that quotes 45.9 seat miles per gallon. Vs 125 pounds for electric engine.

New comment by llukas in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

llukas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:53:50 +0000

Game cartridges but with TPM inside? What is not to like?

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?