Hacker News: modin

New comment by modin in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

modin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:05:14 +0000

I see your point about the disconnect between the rhetoric and what we actually see in production. Perhaps "regression" is a strong word, though, IMHO I tend to see it as a very slow and uneven evolution.

Even if the pace is frustrating, there are still pockets of genuine open-source adoption in the European public sector. For example, we're seeing projects like Germany's OpenDesk or various municipalities moving toward Nextcloud and other sovereign cloud solutions.

The EU Open Source Strategy[0] was announced just under a month ago and it specifically mentions the EU Digital Identity ecosystem, including the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) mentioned in the article. I agree with OOP that the requirement of an Apple or Google phone goes against these ambitions, and I will contact my elected representatives.

[0]: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-sourc...

New comment by modin in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

modin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:52:26 +0000

> Wasn't there some talk about the pressing need for European digital sovereignty recently?

At FOSDEM, we discuss this at great length. There has been some movement, and I am optimistic that it is improving year on year.

New comment by modin in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

modin — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:18:11 +0000

Rerouting. Not that it completely takes over the route ofc, but that (potential) ad revenue is a metric just like traffic, speed limits et.c. that gets considered in the decision making.

New comment by modin in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

modin — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:55:44 +0000

Don't they already to this with maps routing? I thought this was the norm.

New comment by modin in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

modin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:54:56 +0000

With cryptographic keys, normally stored on a smartphone. BankID[0] is the most common solution, but there are others. I personally use biometric 2fa to log in, and PIN to sign contracts or pay.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID_(Sweden)

New comment by modin in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

modin — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:33:52 +0000

I was surprised too to need it in front of RDS (but not on vanilla, as you pointed out).

New comment by modin in "Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager"

modin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:19:33 +0000

Does it handle both recurring events and recurrence?

E.g. move the lawn every other week vs pay rent on the 17th every month. If I go a week overdue on rent I still need to pay the next on the 17th. If I go a week overdue on the lawn I don't need to mow again for two weeks, not one.

New comment by modin in "Holes (1970) [pdf]"

modin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:38:31 +0000

I thought at first that this would be Holes[0], a novel by Louis Sachar.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes_(novel)

New comment by modin in "Firefox expands fingerprint protections"

modin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:48:27 +0000

stoically, the maintainer and creator of this extension unfortunately passed in early 2023. There's a new fork available[0], linked from github[1].

I briefly discussed this extension and how to proceed after the passing of a maintainer with Mozilla staff in their Extensions and People teams at FOSDEM this year, but there was no real procedures in place at the time of our chat.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

[1]: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/634

New comment by modin in "ACARS Drama"

modin — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:44:41 +0000

Message: HELLO..WIFI DOES NOT SEEM TO BE WORKING. ANY PROCEDURES TO RESET. THX

Message: LOOKS LIKE WORKING NOW. WE TURNED OFF THEN ON FROM FLT DECK THX

Different industries, same procedures :-D

https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114189077174169462

New comment by modin in "Stories from the Internet"

modin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:09:20 +0000

The jargon files[0] are also a fun old source. I particularly liked the stories about Magic and Mel. They are all under Appendix A.

[0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

New comment by modin in "They see your photos"

modin — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:19:42 +0000

Ente looks like Immich[0] (which I self-host for myself and family) with e2ee. I like non-e2ee because if something breaks then the files are stored as-is on disk for easy retrieval.

[0]: https://immich.app/

New comment by modin in "Poll: Do you use browser profiles?"

modin — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:25:15 +0000

Firefox Multi-Account Containers ("container tabs") together with Temporary Containers[0]. Every tab is as isolated and ephemeral as possible unless there's a need.

I also use profiles, for work and leisure. Mostly for differentiating extensions and the data they get access to (no container tabs at work, and very few extensions there overall), but also for bookmarks.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

New comment by modin in "The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)"

modin — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:48:15 +0000

That's what I think, and also what I think I wrote. Sorry if it's unclear, I'm not a native English speaker.

New comment by modin in "The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)"

modin — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:46:39 +0000

No, upside-down, or rather rotated 180°. You have rows 1-8 and columns a-h (which are usually written in lower case, as upper case are used for piece value). h1 and a8 are the white corners you mention, with rooks on them initially. White's "home" are on row 1 and 2. These coordinates are usually printed on the board.

In our case black's home was on row 1,2. The king and queen was thankfully positioned "correctly" given this mishap, as normally the white queen are on a white square (and likewise for black queen and square), but not in our case. White still had short castling on his right hand side.

What I wonder is if Kasparov (or any expert) remembers movements from the coordinates, rather than (or in addition to) seeing the pieces on the board, and how much this impacted our game.

New comment by modin in "The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)"

modin — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:00:48 +0000

That would've been impressive for sure! A somewhat recent world record[1] I just found shows a blindfolded simul for 48 boards, with 80% win! (All boards correctly turned, I'd expect and hope!)

The games in the article must've been a normal "simul"[2], which was what I enjoyed playing too.

[1]: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72345-mos... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_exhibition

New comment by modin in "The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)"

modin — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:49:30 +0000

We did notice immediately, but we had the first board to play following a grand speaker introduction, and we just went with it instead of resetting the board with all eyes on us and making the hosts look bad. Speaking for myself at least, I can't believe he didn't notice immediately too.

It made my noting down of the moves quite hard.

> I would have thought it as jarring as a mistuned musical instrument.

This was exactly my thought, how much it mattered to him at his level.

New comment by modin in "The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)"

modin — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:36:26 +0000

I played Kasparov in 2017, in a setting similar to Capablanca in the ingress of the article. Whilst I managed 50+ moves, he was sometimes struggling in a way I wouldn't have expected for a GM. It so happened that our chess board was turned "upside down" by the organisers (we didn't notice until it was time to start; white was on row 7,8 instead of 1,2), and I have always wondered how much that mattered.

SQLite Code of Ethics (2020)

modin — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:56:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32918332

Points: 18

# Comments: 14

New comment by modin in "The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU"

modin — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:10:52 +0000

> And to make it even more annoying, the hospital later changed it's policy on newborns on antibiotics - if they are otherwise healthy they don't need to stay in the NICU anymore.

That sounds like a good policy change thou? Whilst I understand it must've been a grave ordeal to sort it out, I'd try to be glad for the families in similar situations now that wouldn't have to suffer from this any more instead of being annoyed.