Hacker News: martijnvds

New comment by martijnvds in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

martijnvds — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:14:10 +0000

Snow Linux was a thing way back in the 90s: https://archive.org/details/snowlinux2.2

The company behind rebranded to SUE.

New comment by martijnvds in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

martijnvds — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:02:57 +0000

That's what the original OpenID (from back in the LiveJournal days) was supposed to be right?

"Host your own identity"

New comment by martijnvds in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

martijnvds — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:04:00 +0000

I think this goes both ways.

More actual interaction between end-users and programmers makes the end-users better at reporting bugs and describing what they want (and at having an idea how complex a certain request actually is).

Because the multiple translations from customer wish to project manager language to backlog items are all lossy.

New comment by martijnvds in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

martijnvds — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:22:36 +0000

When does the silver arrive in Maracaibo? Early or late in the year?

New comment by martijnvds in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

martijnvds — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:17:11 +0000

Programmers, who knows what they're doing in there?

New comment by martijnvds in "The little-known winstart.bat batch file"

martijnvds — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:45:34 +0000

DOS programs generally were like command line apps today (but simpler, obviously). They did a thing, then exited. Or they showed their "TUI" (as we'd call it today), and when you told it to exit, you got back to the DOS prompt to start the next program.

TSRs were a special kind of program, that instead of telling DOS "I'm done, here's my memory back", said "I'm done for now, but don't unload me", so their memory stayed allocated/used. And you got your command prompt back immediately to continue your work.

TSRs usually hooked into an interrupt like the keyboard interrupt, intercepting a hotkey to re-activate the program (so you could browse your address book while you were in your (text mode) word processor; "kind-of" multitasking), or they offered a service to other programs (like the mouse and CD-ROM drivers).

There were all kinds of things that ran as TSRs. Virus scanners (hooking into disk write/reads), modem tools (showing "RING" in the corner of the screen when the modem detected an incoming call), note-taking apps, address books, you name it.

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);