Hacker News: lysium

New comment by lysium in "Gender Equality and Work"

lysium — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:44:17 +0000

I think the argument is the other way around: fields that women prefer pay less, ie. the field pays less because women prefer it.

I don’t share that argument, I just wanted to point it out.

New comment by lysium in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

lysium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:20:02 +0000

Clearly, list the specific cases instead of letting the judge feel what is appropriate is the way to go. Also helps the judge doing the right thing.

New comment by lysium in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

lysium — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:06:10 +0000

Thanks, man! Appreciated

New comment by lysium in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

lysium — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:23:27 +0000

How did you do this? I once tried and it seemed impossible.

New comment by lysium in "Greenpeace pilot brings heat pumps and solar to Ukrainian community"

lysium — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:49:52 +0000

What are you talking about? Germany would be more energy independent if it had adopted solar and wind power when Greenpeace was advocating it fourty years ago, like China is showcasing today!

New comment by lysium in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

lysium — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:43:23 +0000

This will result in incorrect behavior when, between converting to UTC and back to the original timezone, the timezone database has changed, which happens more often than you think.

New comment by lysium in "[dead]"

lysium — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:10:39 +0000

Why posting something only for subscribers?

New comment by lysium in "Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes"

lysium — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:09:59 +0000

That's a fun game! I found out I have muscle memory for j/k meaning up/down, instead of w/s.

New comment by lysium in "I automated my job application process"

lysium — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:51:23 +0000

What do you mean with licensing? What’s the difference to a university degree?

New comment by lysium in "Seconds Since the Epoch"

lysium — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:02:15 +0000

That’s not a standard format. ISO format is yyyy-mm—dd. Also, sorts nicely by time if you sort alphabetically.

New comment by lysium in "Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage"

lysium — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:39:06 +0000

After reading that piece, I’ll do my best to avoid flying with a Boeing airplane. I hope the author survives his article.

New comment by lysium in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

lysium — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:44:23 +0000

I was wondering how „bob@[rocket]“ works… Thank you for clarifying.

New comment by lysium in "EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend"

lysium — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:30:48 +0000

It takes decades to build new nuclear plants. This won’t solve anything until they are built.

Renewables /are/ good for reducing CO2, as every kW produced by renewable is not produced by CO2-emitting alternative. Plus, they make you independent from foreign energy sources.

New comment by lysium in "ASLRn't: How memory alignment broke library ASLR"

lysium — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:24:28 +0000

I wonder how this is left unnoticed for so long. Yes, there was a bug tracker but for one year there’s no fix? Clearly, I don’t understand enough about it.

New comment by lysium in "A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['"

lysium — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:18:14 +0000

They look similar, but to your shell they are different: [ is the name of an executable, ( is a syntax symbol of bash. The man page for the syntax is the man page of bash.

New comment by lysium in "macOS Sonoma Broke Grep"

lysium — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:02:15 +0000

In one of the comments:

    that lower-cased LANG is invalid on macOS, so the system will silently default to LANG=C

Oh my!

New comment by lysium in "Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7"

lysium — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:45:29 +0000

Neat idea.

I’m afraid you won’t be able to ever rotate that key, would you? Since it’s result is externally used as an identifier, you would have to rotate the external identifiers, too.

New comment by lysium in "Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration"

lysium — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:50:17 +0000

It’s pork cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle

New comment by lysium in "Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways"

lysium — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:25:15 +0000

I think that might be it. Too bad, the results of this kind of benchmark would have been interesting.

New comment by lysium in "Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways"

lysium — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:57:54 +0000

Why do execution times drop so drastically with increasing number of iterations? Shouldn’t the caches be filled after one iteration already? There is no JIT in C++, or is it?