Hacker News: luke5441

New comment by luke5441 in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

luke5441 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:05:34 +0000

I'm not an expert on this, but maybe it is easier to pressure the verifiers to not verify sanctioned entities? Seems to be already happening with Ethereum US nodes maintaining OFAC lists. Maybe one can also pressure them to verify alternative blocks without the transactions, then they won't be possible.

Other than that, it is probably tradition at this point, like with Gold.

New comment by luke5441 in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

luke5441 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:05:40 +0000

Depends on if you see the use case of censorship resitant payment as something we should allow or not (such as paying the Ayatollah to go through the strait).

I for one don't.

New comment by luke5441 in "Veracrypt project update"

luke5441 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:48:21 +0000

Depending on GitHub and Microsofts largesse there surely is much better. See OP.

New comment by luke5441 in "S3 Files"

luke5441 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:37:47 +0000

A more solid (especially when it comes to caching) solution would be appreciated.

I thought that would be their https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 . But no mention about this one either.

S3 files does have the advantage of having a "shared" cache via EFS, but then that would probably also make the cache slower.

New comment by luke5441 in "Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate"

luke5441 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:41:56 +0000

Irans leadership does not want to be killed by being bombed every few month. So they need to impose sufficient costs to deter bombing them.

Idk what you are missing... maybe that people don't want to be killed and try to implement strategies to not get killed?

New comment by luke5441 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

luke5441 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:13:11 +0000

The ultimate goal is to make customers spend money on Azure. Of course the information you published may make customers less likely to choose Azure, harming Microsoft.

Being pwned can be explained away as an attacker having spent a lot of ressources to do so. Failing SLAs can be a calculated gamble.

I myself am grateful you published this! It gives a great inside view on what is going on in big tech in general and Microsoft specifically.

New comment by luke5441 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

luke5441 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:47:00 +0000

On a leadership level it seems problematic that they ghosted the feedback. Direcly this leads to people like Axel who feel ownership of the problem to break NDAs and create company harming posts. In my experience they at least respond with corp speak platitudes meaning that they got the feedback and don't understand it or ignore it, but have been taught to always ask for feedback and answer it (but incentives are to ask for feedback, then ignore it).

New comment by luke5441 in "SpaceX files to go public"

luke5441 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:02:17 +0000

I don't see how replacing mobile carriers with space based infrastructure is physically possible.

New comment by luke5441 in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

luke5441 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:32:35 +0000

How can this be true? Should I not worry about margin compression at Google due to heavy cap-ex requirements anymore? Is this temporary because Kagi got a good deal for tokens? Are they paying through their noses for the Google search API calls? I don't get it.

New comment by luke5441 in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

luke5441 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:53:27 +0000

Then you are kicking full-time streamers like Stodeh, tanking your chances your game has any kind of success.

New comment by luke5441 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

luke5441 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:56:18 +0000

Meanwhile Linus argued against Debuggers in 2000: https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3

But then he changed his tune? Even on LLMs...

New comment by luke5441 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

luke5441 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:47:51 +0000

Compared to painting, software allows you to solve the problem once, then distribute the solution to the problem basically for free.

Market frictions cause the problem to be solved multiple times.

LLMs learn the solution patterns and apply it devaluing coming up with solutions in the first place.

New comment by luke5441 in "No right to relicense this project"

luke5441 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:32:29 +0000

LGPL means "gift to the world". The license ensures that any modification/improvements stay a gift to the world.

People not being okay with having to share their improvements not being able to use the software is by design.

I don't get how you get from there to some sinister hostage taking situation.

Also everyone that contributes to the previous LGPL verison probably contributed under LGPL only, so it is now just one guy...

New comment by luke5441 in "MacBook Neo"

luke5441 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:34:02 +0000

I have an Air. Maybe active cooling prevents it from getting too hot. With the Air, the metal body is kind of the heatsink.

I can configure my Snapdragon plastic laptop such that the fan doesn't turn on, so the body being metal isn't a requirement for not turning on the fan...

New comment by luke5441 in "MacBook Neo"

luke5441 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:26:25 +0000

This is how opinions differ. IMO plastic is better than aluminium. It is robust (if done right), lighter and doesn't have good thermal conductivity (which makes laptop usage possible, MacBooks can be uncomfortable for lap usage if too hot).

The metal is more "luxury", though.

New comment by luke5441 in "Bet on German Train Delays"

luke5441 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:49:11 +0000

Idea for using the betting/data or other statistics about potential train delay:

One gets back 50% if reaching the destination is delayed by more than 2h. Schedule the journey such that this is probable, making the journey 50% cheaper. Potentially with being able to define where one should be stuck waiting for the next train connected with sight seeing opportunities (such as the nice quarter near the Frankfurt main train station -- old ECB building!).

New comment by luke5441 in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

luke5441 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:58:33 +0000

Maybe review your media consumption for if they are reliable

New comment by luke5441 in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

luke5441 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:55:02 +0000

Anthropic giving away Claude if you get 5000 stars doesn't help either

New comment by luke5441 in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

luke5441 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:51:42 +0000

Okay, can you tell it to cure cancer please

New comment by luke5441 in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

luke5441 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:08:00 +0000

The whole moon thing is a pointless and ludicrously expensive dead end. But if one wants to do it, one should choose between the working approaches.