Hacker News: martijnarts

New comment by martijnarts in "Customizable HTML Select"

martijnarts — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:45:29 +0000

I'd love to read a "Falsehoods programmers believe about..." post about this!

New comment by martijnarts in "EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App"

martijnarts — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:11:00 +0000

It's still being investigated by the EU.

New comment by martijnarts in "Tapestry by Iconfactory"

martijnarts — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:03:35 +0000

> Would only be interesting with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. support.

Big statement, maybe for you but for plenty people it seems to be interesting enough without those.

New comment by martijnarts in "A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet"

martijnarts — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:53:51 +0000

> if you take the time to understand what this code does, you’ll learn a surprising amount about WebAssembly!

It's a shame the article mostly teaches about codegolf tricks, and the actual wasm info is left to a single commented code block.

Nonetheless an interesting article about JavaScript quirks though!

New comment by martijnarts in "Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours"

martijnarts — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:53:51 +0000

The night trains are great. It's quite comfortable, you get there in the morning allowing for a full day (after dropping off your bags at the hotel) of work/tourism, and I especially hope Nightjet and other night train companies converts all of their trains to the modern mini cabins[0].

They're incredible.

[0]: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-genera...

New comment by martijnarts in "German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data"

martijnarts — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:47:34 +0000

You don't need to delete data instantly, you just need to do it within a reasonable timeframe. So batching data deletion requests and running a clear out once a week should be fine.

You may even be okay to just reply to the user that you've deleted all active copies of the data and it'll be fully gone when your backups expire in 30 days.

IANAL tho.

New comment by martijnarts in "Reflections on Palantir"

martijnarts — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:48:18 +0000

Do you (or anyone) have suggestions on higher quality ethical discussions on this topic? I've found it hard to find these, but I love reading these perspectives and dissections.

New comment by martijnarts in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

martijnarts — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:29:27 +0000

If you buy a famous painting as an investment, I'd assume you have enough money to cover the taxes without having to auction it.

Accurately valuing the painting every year is definitely very difficult.

The same argument doesn't necessarily go for a farmer's farmland. The zoning could of course be calculated into the land value. But I'm unsure if farming economics allow for paying the taxes on those unrealized gains

New comment by martijnarts in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

martijnarts — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:22:08 +0000

For what it's worth, French is also controlled by speakers. The pompous authority is just lagging behind.

New comment by martijnarts in "Offline UX Patterns"

martijnarts — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:47:26 +0000

It's a brand name, for everyone's context.

New comment by martijnarts in "NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective"

martijnarts — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:20:03 +0000

"and with over four hundred comments" not quite! Currently 295 comments.

New comment by martijnarts in "Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team"

martijnarts — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:08:44 +0000

I love that, that's much better! Thanks!

New comment by martijnarts in "Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team"

martijnarts — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:42:11 +0000

I've mostly used the 1Password CLI. A simple `op inject .env.template > .env` (off the top of my head) and done!

New comment by martijnarts in "Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power"

martijnarts — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:39:47 +0000

The article mentions 76 cm width for the reactor they're designing, and oil wells can be up to a meter wide[0], so that price estimate would probably be similar then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well#Drilling

New comment by martijnarts in "Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power"

martijnarts — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:28:58 +0000

Somewhere up to $5 million, according to this r/AskEngineering thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/1dfzwxd/estim...

New comment by martijnarts in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

martijnarts — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:00:41 +0000

Lots of nations require carrying some form of ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

In the US, permanent residents are required to carry their green card at all times.

Here's a description of the law for the Netherlands, where I live: https://www.government.nl/topics/identification-documents/co...

New comment by martijnarts in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

martijnarts — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 07:29:22 +0000

The fee is being investigated by the EU now, so they may not get away with it entirely.

New comment by martijnarts in "American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding in plain sight"

martijnarts — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:33:48 +0000

You can donate to the US government: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...

New comment by martijnarts in "Apple found in breach of EU competition rules"

martijnarts — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:57:40 +0000

Here's the actual EC press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

It's very readable!

New comment by martijnarts in "Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps"

martijnarts — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:44:56 +0000

I'm sorry to be harsh, but this is not an alternative to the linked product at all. It's not available through an API, there's no Javascript SDK, there's no CDN configured, you still have to set up and manage an S3 bucket... It's not even in the same category, imo.