Hacker News: mcosta

New comment by mcosta in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mcosta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:04 +0000

Europe needs its own Palatir

New comment by mcosta in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

mcosta — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:29:04 +0000

Capex vs opex?

New comment by mcosta in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

mcosta — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:49:56 +0000

what do you gain doing this?

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:24:22 +0000

Neon has 2 flavors, developer and user. The user one is stable.

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:23:39 +0000

I love neon, so it is a tie.

New comment by mcosta in "We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:02:53 +0000

Then talk to your local politician

New comment by mcosta in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:04:22 +0000

For some people, everyone else is nazi.

New comment by mcosta in "The National Design Studio is a scam"

mcosta — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:54:53 +0000

Was 18F working?

New comment by mcosta in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

mcosta — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:26 +0000

Who is going to fight the revolution?

New comment by mcosta in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

mcosta — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:39:50 +0000

choco needs admin rights, something corporate minions, as me, does not always have.

scoop works always as user.

New comment by mcosta in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

mcosta — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:49:46 +0000

That article is 12 years old. In those days he had hope for a Half Life 3.

New comment by mcosta in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

mcosta — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:37:04 +0000

This fork is useful as a zero user value auto filter for zed.

New comment by mcosta in "Lessons learned from buying an open source repo"

mcosta — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:38 +0000

In the old days using 301 permanent redirect to carry the mojo to the new domain was SEO 101.

I don't know these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by mcosta in "QUIC for the kernel"

mcosta — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:52:54 +0000

DMA transfers and NIC offloading

New comment by mcosta in "Microsoft became incompetent in IT"

mcosta — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:02:31 +0000

They can go elsewhere , but then they would have to pay. And users hate to pay when there is a free offer.

New comment by mcosta in "Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats"

mcosta — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:37:20 +0000

Cloudflare blocked Kiwifarms. Now and then I read some group trying to boycott Kiwifarms.

New comment by mcosta in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

mcosta — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:55:05 +0000

C or asm IS a better choice at ultra high levels of optimization and crashing the process.

New comment by mcosta in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

mcosta — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:50:46 +0000

An example of why I'd prefer to avoid Java for somethi [Core dumped]

New comment by mcosta in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

mcosta — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:21:01 +0000

Local governments are unable to do it right because, well, they are bureaucrats who cant differentiate the left hand from their right hand. Governments IT systems are eternal money sink holes only producing power points and weekly status reports to be forever forgotten.

New comment by mcosta in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

mcosta — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:15:01 +0000

That and the fact that all those other OS were a complete disaster.