Hacker News: mordnis

New comment by mordnis in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

mordnis — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:45:59 +0000

I drink coffee 3-4 times a month. No headaches.

New comment by mordnis in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

mordnis — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:29:51 +0000

I think this is normal for the supreme court, I've heard that they largely upheld abortion in the 1992 case because they thought it would be a mess to undo, even though they thought the original ruling was unconstitutional.

New comment by mordnis in "Vouch"

mordnis — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:04:13 +0000

He answered it in the thread: Basically, the system has no opinion on that, but in his projects he will vouch anyone who introduces themselves like a normal human being when opening a PR.

New comment by mordnis in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

mordnis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:03:31 +0000

He said that child pornography is funny? Do you have a link by any chance?

New comment by mordnis in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

mordnis — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:33:01 +0000

Sure sounds that way.

New comment by mordnis in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

mordnis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:47:02 +0000

I envy your willingness to debate here. It's a pretty hostile place for a position you're defending.

New comment by mordnis in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mordnis — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:27:02 +0000

Yeah, what a weird comment...

New comment by mordnis in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

mordnis — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:17:33 +0000

I wonder how do you not understand this was a joke. Did you not fully read it? Or it's just not obvious enough?

New comment by mordnis in "Is Proton leaving Switzerland?"

mordnis — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:41:24 +0000

There's also this other thing he said: Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

New comment by mordnis in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

mordnis — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:07:11 +0000

In my opinion, grandparents are the worst. They completely spoil them.

New comment by mordnis in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

mordnis — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:54:05 +0000

I guess you intentionally interact with them (because you like them, you share an interest), but you don't intentionally pretend to be something you are not (even though you know the other person would like that).

New comment by mordnis in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

mordnis — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:28:31 +0000

I see. Thanks for the feedback!

New comment by mordnis in "Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication"

mordnis — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:26:44 +0000

I have the same opinion. This is just a normal conversation. If I'm not doing this, I either want to rant to someone or I'm in a so hostile conversation that it doesn't make sense to do it.

New comment by mordnis in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

mordnis — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:12:43 +0000

Is the battery life better with Graphene?

New comment by mordnis in "Zig's New Async I/O"

mordnis — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:39:22 +0000

Couldn't the same thing be said about functions that accept allocators?

New comment by mordnis in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

mordnis — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:57:45 +0000

Useful info. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by mordnis in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

mordnis — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:33:20 +0000

Well, for example, every function that allocates expects allocator as an argument, it is not abstracted away. Resource deallocation is not abstracted away, you have to explicitly free your resources. Ever function that uses IO expects it as an argument. It doesn't have operator overloading, which is also an abstraction.

It is a very explicit language.

New comment by mordnis in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

mordnis — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:21:13 +0000

Zig can also be annoying. For example, you cannot just ignore the return value, even in debug builds. Playing around with slices, c strings, arrays is also annoying in comparison to C.

New comment by mordnis in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

mordnis — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:18:54 +0000

I feel that way as well. When I'm thinking about what I like and dislike, it just makes me procrastinate and feel miserable. Life is much more enjoyable when I think about duties I have and how to fulfill them.

New comment by mordnis in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

mordnis — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:11:09 +0000

Heh, my wife was recently telling a story about how she taught our son how to run into a hug. She did not, I actually did, but I let her have it since she was so excited about it.