Hacker News: moribvndvs

New comment by moribvndvs in "Distributed data centers in our basements"

moribvndvs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:55:55 +0000

You’d have to run a lot of Electron-based apps to go from tepid to hot water.

New comment by moribvndvs in "AI Tokens Are Mana"

moribvndvs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:27:59 +0000

So you’re saying I can go with a melee/stamina build and just whirlwind smash my boss in the face?

To me, it feels more like buying gems in a freemium mobile game :(

New comment by moribvndvs in "Nothing new to see here"

moribvndvs — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:45:23 +0000

Even before AI, writing software isn’t even the “hardest” part. This is new enough that I wouldn’t be waving Mission Accomplished flags just because someone was able to dump out a react front end, wire up some managed services, and get paying users. Let’s see how this pans out long term when someone grapples with cost, reliability, security, growth, competition, and all the other actually hard parts. Also, using “I’ve heard this all before” and pointing to cloud, mobile, whatever as the basis of your argument is a bit awkward… yeah a lot of folks made a shit ton of money but the current tech landscape is increasingly a wasteland of broken and harmful things. I’m not sure I’m thrilled that we invented a machine to accelerate decline.

But the underlying point, I think, is that the right tool in the right hands is an extraordinary thing, especially when you bring execution closer to smart visionaries who aren’t otherwise technical. I can’t sit here in denial that LLMs have drastically changed things to that effect, whether I like it or not.

New comment by moribvndvs in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

moribvndvs — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:17:45 +0000

I’m learning Japanese, which is overall a difficult language for a native English speaker to learn. However, the rules for pronunciation are comparatively a big relief, as is hiragana/katakana

New comment by moribvndvs in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

moribvndvs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:19:00 +0000

We lived in caves with no society before ICE?

New comment by moribvndvs in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

moribvndvs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:53 +0000

This writing style where every section has multiple paragraphs of preamble, prolepsis, cold openers for cold openers, and tangents is infuriating. Get on to the point already.

New comment by moribvndvs in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

moribvndvs — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:28:13 +0000

Suggesting that the wholesale suffering wrought by humanity unto itself and all other life on this planet throughout its entire history is merely in my mind or a problem with my personal life is actually incredibly insulting on top of being willfully ignorant.

New comment by moribvndvs in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

moribvndvs — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:35:10 +0000

My first serious programming job was at a start up and the owner asked me this question. I was caught off guard, of course I wouldn’t! I couldn’t really explain why at the time, but it essentially revolved around the fact that I was young and optimistic. 25 years later, I’m not so sure. Now, said optimism has almost vanished and there are days pushing seems like the path to least suffering, but I also feel it’s unethical for one person to decide for everyone else.

New comment by moribvndvs in "Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health"

moribvndvs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:45:41 +0000

> Elon Musk has recently stated that SpaceX will, at least right now, no longer be focusing on traveling to Mars

Wait you mean Elon has been full of shit all this time???

New comment by moribvndvs in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

moribvndvs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:48:22 +0000

Leftism and OSS share a similar problem, being that good ideas, intentions, and works are squandered by petty drama and insecure egos.

New comment by moribvndvs in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

moribvndvs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:50:04 +0000

Requires nextjs, :(

New comment by moribvndvs in "Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code"

moribvndvs — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:23:37 +0000

My dependabot queue is going to explode the next few days.

New comment by moribvndvs in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

moribvndvs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:18:16 +0000

I’m relieved my electricity bill went up 50% so Brandon here can get a Slack message of what’s in his freezer rather than looking.

New comment by moribvndvs in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

moribvndvs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:19:17 +0000

A whole bunch of this stuff that people are fawning over as life changing and it leaves me honestly wondering: how have some of you survived this long at all?

New comment by moribvndvs in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

moribvndvs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:54:17 +0000

This is generally true, volume and low cost situations exacerbate it, but it’s not limited to Chinese manufacturing. You see it everywhere. As a completely unrelated example: home remodeling. The guy I contracted did wonderful work and charged a completely fair price, but there were many parts that I hand waved at “he knows best” “he’ll pick the most sensible approach that matches the quality of the rest of project”. Wrong. Cheapest, fastest thing, using materials on hand if possible every time. The economics are obvious and it doesn’t matter to him insofar as I acquiesce or don’t notice. Why should it be any different for low cost mass manufacturing?

New comment by moribvndvs in "Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS"

moribvndvs — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:51:38 +0000

Thanks for the response. So Stelvo’s sell is through its opinionated approach regarding architecture and defaults. I realize elevator pitches are tough especially when there are lots of competing solutions, but maybe some sort of short and sweet “us vs them” comparison on the home page would make that sell easier. Like many of my peers I’m sure, I’ll admit I have little time and patience to click through to get to the obligatory question of “why us”.

Anyways, not sure who went on the downvote spree or why (it wasn’t one account), and I admit it didn’t seem likely your team would be doing it since you folks were actively discussing, but I couldn’t think of why someone else would do it either. Anyways, sorry and thanks for your time.

New comment by moribvndvs in "Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS"

moribvndvs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:26:49 +0000

Also where is this idea that it takes days to ship Python in CDK coming from?

Edit: great, getting downvoted for daring to ask the author to explain a claim. I’m noticing other people asking questions getting downvoted, too. Brigading isn’t a good look.

New comment by moribvndvs in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

moribvndvs — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:44:33 +0000

I still use my dad’s old HP 15C. Form factor is good, aesthetically it’s very appealing, it feels efficient to use, I like the tactile feel of the buttons, and I like thinking of my dad when I use it.

New comment by moribvndvs in "Break Me If You Can: Exploiting PKO and Relay Attacks in 3DES/AES NFC"

moribvndvs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:27:28 +0000

> Is this a flaw in the cryptography itself? No. The underlying cryptographic algorithms (3DES and AES-128) remain secure. The vulnerabilities arise from:

Protocol design choices that allow unauthenticated memory writes after initial authentication Lack of atomicity when writing cryptographic keys across multiple memory pages Widespread misconfiguration in real-world deployments (unlocked memory, static keys) Non-NXP compatible chips with severely flawed random number generators

New comment by moribvndvs in "Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?"

moribvndvs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:16:49 +0000

I’d always hated running. I’ve done C25K a few times with no problem, but once I reached that goal I felt I couldn’t make much additional progress. But the need to move and running’s simplicity and minimal requirements meant I kept trying every couple of years. I read/watched a little and got some tips from ultra runners and actually started to make progress. I was actually enjoying it and looking forward to running. Then I got the worst fucking shin splints imaginable where I had to nearly crawl halfway back home. Stopped running to heal, which took a very long time. I’ve tested a few runs but there’s still pain and I just don’t want to go through that again.

So now I row every day. I get a much better exercise high from rowing, progress is much more noticeable, it’s improved vitals more than running has, there’s no pain, and I don’t have to worry about weather. I occasionally miss the change of scenery or things like running on a cold snowy day but I can just go rent some cross country skis when I get that itch.