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New comment by luplex in "Is it a pint?"

luplex — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:41:09 +0000

and crucially, foam has to be above the line.

There is some back and forth around whether it's legal to serve beer in traditional ceramic steins, where customers can not verify that the foam really starts above the line.

As I understand, it is legal in Germany, but only if there is visible signage that informs customers about their right to pour their beer into a marked standard glass to check the amount. Source (German): https://www.abendblatt.de/incoming/article402102835/wer-hat-...

In 1899, an association was formed in Munich to combat fraudulent pouring. It was banned by the Nazis and re-formed in 1970. They went around and measured beers. This post is its spiritual successor. German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verein_gegen_betr%C3%BCgerisch...

New comment by luplex in "Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware"

luplex — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:28:17 +0000

but this breaks the entire premise of the agent. If my emails are fed in as data, can the agent act on them or not? If someone sends an email that requests a calendar invite, the agent should be able to follow that instruction, even if it's in the data field.

New comment by luplex in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

luplex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:15:41 +0000

I don't understand the need for e-voting. Germany's entirely paper-based system works fine! After voting closes, volunteers count the votes for a few hours and we get a result.

New comment by luplex in "Klaus Programmieren – "Official" German Coding Assistant"

luplex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:51:17 +0000

a few days ago, someone joked on Twitter that "Germany is launching an alternative to Claude Code, it’s called Klaus Programmieren and it will run on sovereign ai system with chips made in Germany. The project is currently in the planning phase but the Federal Government has already committed a record sum of 50 Million Euros" [1]

Well, someone else(?) made it real in a high quality vibe coded shitpost!

[1] https://x.com/runaway_vol/status/2027433937002254789?s=20

Klaus Programmieren – "Official" German Coding Assistant

luplex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://klausprogrammieren.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338028

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by luplex in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

luplex — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:29:15 +0000

I think this is what my German electronic ID card does. The card connects to an app on my phone via NFC, a service can cryptographically verify a claim about my age, and no additional info is leaked to the service provider or the government.

Mosaic – Modern Schematic Entry and Simulation for Analog IC Design

luplex — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:38:21 +0000

Article URL: https://nyancad.com/docs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087885

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by luplex in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

luplex — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:49:26 +0000

What you need to consider is that you also get compounding returns by treating a patient. They can now be more productive and contribute to their local economy. They might plausibly have a higher return rate (in wellbeing terms) than your alternative investment into stocks.

New comment by luplex in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

luplex — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:52:38 +0000

What will probably happen is that someone will develop an industry standard for "non-addictive design" and go around certifying products or product development practices. Like for example, they might disallow optimizing time spent, or they might require more transparency or customizability for your recommendation algorithm.

New comment by luplex in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

luplex — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:25:21 +0000

I think this is a great idea, and a good example of a government that's willing to experiment with creative policy ideas.

Maybe UBI works for some recipients when it's clearly time-limited and the recipients have a clear way to building a stable income, but are bottlenecked on time and capital. I think artists are a good fit for such a program.

New comment by luplex in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

luplex — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:20:55 +0000

continuing off the tangent, "party" is a noun, not an adjective. In a construction "party politics", it functions _like_ an adjective, but it remains a noun.

Similarly, "computer" in "computer games" is a noun that modifies the meaning of the following noun. Modifying nouns like this always are in singular.

New comment by luplex in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

luplex — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:43:24 +0000

I still hit the flow state in cursor, always reviewing the plan for some feature, asking questions, learning, reviewing code. I'm still thinking hard to keep up with the model.

New comment by luplex in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

luplex — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:00:36 +0000

similarly, I start all my underscorends with an underscore

New comment by luplex in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

luplex — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:12:29 +0000

you do not work in the public sector, where processes change rarely, slowly, and partially

New comment by luplex in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

luplex — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:38:30 +0000

This is actually really good. I'm writing with it right now. It's just not the best setup as a keyboard. Because for example you cannot easily switch back to uh the normal keyboard with keys.

New comment by luplex in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

luplex — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:27:10 +0000

"a bull case" gets lots of google results, so it seems to be a commonly used construction amongst analysts. Basically it means "The case that OpenClaw will develop as a bull".

"bullish" seems more common in tech circles ("I'm bullish on this") but it's also used elsewhere.

New comment by luplex in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

luplex — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:29 +0000

because Iran's information control is working - the horrific images and numbers only arrived in the west once the protests were already mostly disbanded. It's not ongoing like e.g. the war in Gaza was, so it can only capture a moment of attention, not a sustained slot.

New comment by luplex in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

luplex — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:46:16 +0000

the problem is that devices are meant to be tools. They do not provide access to services, but you use them to access them. Limiting my devices' ability to do what i ask of them is more like geofencing my shoes, because you might use them to walk to the casino.

New comment by luplex in "Video Games as Art"

luplex — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:42:28 +0000

In my view, the distinction between art and slop is about their intent: Art is a medium of communication, where slop is merely entertainment. So: Video games are art if they have something to say. They capture you, they make you think, they let you try out new personalities for yourself.

On the other hand, video games that are meant to entertain, addict, and extract funds from you might contain lots of genuine art, but overall amount to mere slop.

The distiction is just as true for other media, like movies or images: images are art if they were created to communicate something that can't be directly expressed. They are slop if they are just background noise intended to keep you scrolling. Most media is somewhere in the middle, because artists need to corrupt their vision in order to feed themselves.

New comment by luplex in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

luplex — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:27:26 +0000

this is not the only blocker for European startup success. We need to address each blocker separately.

The EU Inc. makes pan-EU operations simpler for businesses. This decreases internal barriers for trade, so it will lead to growth!

I feel like the mentality problem will follow the market realities. If startup founders become rich, they turn into investors and the startup snowball keeps growing.