Hacker News: lorenzk

New comment by lorenzk in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

lorenzk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:19:34 +0000

This changes everything.

New comment by lorenzk in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

lorenzk — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:49:17 +0000

I have had sporadic problems with Vodafone Germany’s IPv4 routing for months, sent detailed analyses and refused in advance to pay for any technicians they might send because the problem could not be on my property. They sent two technicians who confirmed my view. Then they charged me 160 EUR for them without fixing the issue.

New comment by lorenzk in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

lorenzk — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:43:42 +0000

What a great color scheme! Changing colors over the course of the article makes it all a bit more fun and quirky and stand out against common templates.

New comment by lorenzk in "Introducing passkey support to Fastmail"

lorenzk — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:32:52 +0000

Bitwarden is open source and has a free option. Granted, the app store app is a binary blob outside your control, but you have options.

New comment by lorenzk in "Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality"

lorenzk — Fri, 03 May 2024 05:23:37 +0000

But then alcohol kills or shortens life span in many more ways than drunk driving.

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?"

lorenzk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:01:10 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to respond with so much detail! Good on ya!

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?"

lorenzk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:17:34 +0000

I want one of these so bad! Without spilling secrets: was it luck or a systematic process that gave you the idea for your company?

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?"

lorenzk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:32:42 +0000

Self-employed freelance developer since 2010.

New comment by lorenzk in ""If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing""

lorenzk — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:11:54 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun

New comment by lorenzk in "Artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)"

lorenzk — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:26:52 +0000

I remember those but can’t find them.

They added different food colors to theirs, making them look like giant frozen rainbows.

Does anyone remember the name or URL?

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

lorenzk — Sun, 21 May 2023 20:56:52 +0000

809 in Bitwarden. Collected and migrated over the years from lastpass to enpass to bitwarden.

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

lorenzk — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:50:11 +0000

„Shortcuts“ are a feature in iOS

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

lorenzk — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:46:12 +0000

Anki (and Mochi) are great for names of neighbours, other kids‘ parents at daycare, and people you don‘t meet often. My wife just remembers any name she‘s heeard once. I can cheat.

New comment by lorenzk in "Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance"

lorenzk — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:36:12 +0000

Not sure if you have done this already but: If you rotate your database, redis and email provider passwords/tokens, the zombie process might still be running but will not have any effects any more.

New comment by lorenzk in "Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers"

lorenzk — Mon, 20 May 2019 06:58:50 +0000

Relevant Michael Crighton quote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

New comment by lorenzk in "Thinkpad X210"

lorenzk — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:22:03 +0000

By far the best onscreen „hacking“ I know of. He does use Linux Mint as daily driver though...

New comment by lorenzk in "V Programming Language"

lorenzk — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:54:58 +0000

No virtual machine, but maybe you‘re thinking about https://nim-lang.org ?

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?"

lorenzk — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:28:31 +0000

PIA (Private Internet Access) for years now. Everything just works.

New comment by lorenzk in "Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?"

lorenzk — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:17:12 +0000

Michael E. Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited

Changed my view on business and reproducible business systems forever. Fun to read, too.

New comment by lorenzk in "LED Strain"

lorenzk — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:03:58 +0000

I was impressed by how fast and uncluttered this site is. In case someone else is wondering: It seems to be running https://flarum.org/, a PHP forum with a Mithril JS front-end