Hacker News: martijnvds

New comment by martijnvds in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

martijnvds — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:53:26 +0000

Despite being a German signal, DCF77 can be received all over Europe, except the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland and for some reason, Crete.

There's a map here: https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt4/fb-44/ag-...

New comment by martijnvds in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

martijnvds — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:43:16 +0000

Isn't that what (liability) insurance is for?

(if there's anything Germans like as much as bureaucracy it's insurance)

New comment by martijnvds in "Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior"

martijnvds — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:37:48 +0000

Propanorofl

New comment by martijnvds in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

martijnvds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:44:44 +0000

Every kWh your panels make from sunlight that you use immediately (or store "behind the meter"), you don't have to buy from the grid.

And not buying something tends to be cheaper than buying :)

New comment by martijnvds in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

martijnvds — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:50:29 +0000

Seconds per token is just fractional tokens per second ;)

New comment by martijnvds in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

martijnvds — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Traceroute goes through `.ftth.glasoperator.nl` routers though.

New comment by martijnvds in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

martijnvds — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:33:15 +0000

Is it fully custom, or are they using a flavor of OpenStack or similar?

New comment by martijnvds in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

martijnvds — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:36:46 +0000

240 = 2 x 120, or 4 x 60 (or 8 x 30)

New comment by martijnvds in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

martijnvds — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:00:05 +0000

Wouldn't that leave ways to do "phone phreaking" style attacks, because it's an in-band signal?

New comment by martijnvds in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

martijnvds — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:16:07 +0000

I've seen people brag about it in their resumes, so I assume it helps them find (better paying?) work.

New comment by martijnvds in "Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs"

martijnvds — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:31:37 +0000

This kind of id mapping works as a mount option (it can also be used on bind mounts). You give it a mapping of "id in filesystem on disk" to "id to return to filesystem APIs" and it's all translated on the fly.

New comment by martijnvds in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

martijnvds — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:29:01 +0000

It's called us-east-1?

New comment by martijnvds in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

martijnvds — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:28:40 +0000

Llamas are hot again.

New comment by martijnvds in "Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?"

martijnvds — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:52:09 +0000

printf("Got here, x=%u"\n", x);

New comment by martijnvds in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

martijnvds — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:51:03 +0000

> the trains fail with current amount of public funding, I wonder if less funding will improve the situation" is not good logic

Tell that to the current government (and most of the previous governments in recent years).

You can't put money into it! Guess NS will just have to increase ticket prices _again_.

New comment by martijnvds in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"

martijnvds — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:35:07 +0000

Minecraft ships it I think?

New comment by martijnvds in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

martijnvds — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:57:03 +0000

Tell that to the right-wing nutjobs who all want their "XIT"

New comment by martijnvds in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

martijnvds — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:56:01 +0000

Familiarity, convenience and habit.

Familiarity: "I've used MS Word/Excel/Teams before so I can use it here"

Convenience: "We have MS Entra, might as well go all-in"

Habit: "We never really investigated alternatives, this is just what 'everyone' uses."

New comment by martijnvds in "You can make PS2 games in JavaScript"

martijnvds — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:58:17 +0000

IBM PS2?

New comment by martijnvds in "Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)"

martijnvds — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:31:57 +0000

To the end user, this looks exactly the same as "updating".

If replacing a "regular" program that's just an executable and then restarting it is "updating", why isn't it the same for containers? Except theb the "executable" is the container image and the "running program" is the actual container.

Another level would be "immutable" distributions: would you say they don't "update", they just "download a fresh image to boot from"?