Hacker News: mvdwoord

New comment by mvdwoord in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

mvdwoord — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:19:45 +0000

No responsibilities in the EU at all? I feel trump is more of an accelerant/trigger.. but where two parties fight etc. We did not get to this situation (or Trump for that matter) from a vacuum.

New comment by mvdwoord in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

mvdwoord — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:20:23 +0000

High bandwidth and (relatively) low sentencing would be my guess..

Windscribe – We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere

mvdwoord — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:24:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/windscribecom/status/2055044048122003569

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145567

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvdwoord in "The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs"

mvdwoord — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:23:45 +0000

"everyone hates PDFs where you can't reliably select and copy text!"

Boy do I. One of my biggest annoyances is receiving an invoice in pdf format, where I can either not select the text at all, or where you cannot cleanly select text, i.e. when you try to select something it somehow half highlights the line above as well and I am not sure what is on my clipboard, and need to paste temporarily in a text editor, then select what I need ... etc

Super nice when the list IBAN numbers for payment in a tiny font size as well.

Maybe I should vibecode a little helper. tool to visually select a rectangle and perform OCR and detect IBAN numbers or show a popup with proper text to do my subselect.

Virtual private networks and the protection of children online

mvdwoord — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2026)782618

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059874

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvdwoord in "The Upper Middle Class Trap"

mvdwoord — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:16:18 +0000

I like this framing. The differences between these two groups is much bigger than the differences within these groups, at least at some fundamental level. There is as always, nuances, and a grey area somewhere at the transition.. but overall yeah. You are either in need of some sort of income related to something you actively do, or not. There are of course ways to distinguish subgroups, but that is often as much or more culturally / socially than purely economical / financial.

New comment by mvdwoord in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

mvdwoord — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:08:13 +0000

First thing I noticed too, as I have multiple cards from the same bank. I also noticed they show you last digits of the ... CARD number, not the account number which would be tremendously more helpful. But I figured out you can put little icons on the cards. Which my bank did automatically for my business account. I added a little person icon for my personal account. Maybe bank specific though but definitely super dumb that you cannot label them yourself easily in the wallet app.

New comment by mvdwoord in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

mvdwoord — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:11:14 +0000

If there is only 1 telephone company, either owned by the state, directly or indirectly, or even just a monopoly... what is the difference?

New comment by mvdwoord in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

mvdwoord — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:08:55 +0000

Without it being good or bad (long term, second order effects), I do think all of these (proposed) laws and where we are heading will balkanize the internet. Alternative tech may sound appealing to the tinkerers, and they may keep certain important channels alive (think radio amateurs... they know this game) but for the masses? I already happily block entire countries or regions to my VPS as there is zero benefit for me to not drop them at the FW level.

New comment by mvdwoord in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

mvdwoord — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:04:55 +0000

Maybe the desire is always there, but somehow the momentum is just in an upswing now?

New comment by mvdwoord in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

mvdwoord — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:03:54 +0000

Same in NL... we used to rent our telephones from the "PTT".

New comment by mvdwoord in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

mvdwoord — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:52:49 +0000

I am completely baffled by this wave of new laws and proposals... they feel dystopic and can seemingly only lead to brutal restrictions on the internet. What will we end up with? Only attested modems / endpoints in the home? With DPI? And a government issued smartcard to use it? It comes across as if this is what some legislators are actually after... they must have some technical advisors who can explain to them that the solutions they propose will not work and I am a bit worried they will morph the public discussion into enforcing at a lower level otherwise "the bad guys still circumvent"??

We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps

mvdwoord — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/29/syndicating-vibes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965738

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mvdwoord in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

mvdwoord — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:39:31 +0000

I have recently made the same move... mostly because it allowed me to stop using my google and microsoft accounts. Moved all personal (and family domain) and business from google workspace / O365 all into fastmail. Bought an iPhone (already worked with macs and an iPad for more than a decade. Not about particular preferences but this setup allows me to only be dependent on one bigcorp. Android still requires a google account, the rest was not necessary but I have above all else made a mental switch to simplify.

I do not feel iOS is particularly better... some things are, some things are not. Yes android was more customizable, and yes the universal back and home buttons are still better than the multi tap and hidden gestures on iOS. But overall some pleasantries such as shared clipboard, seamless headphone switch over, and overall simplification so far, is working very well for me.

I simply need a phone on a major platform, as my job (and life) requires to have certain apps which only run on (non-rooted) Android or iOS phones. And I am tired of fighting and adapting.. so I now just use most of the default apps everywhere, and whatever does or does not work, I take it mostly as-is. For now it seems to allow me to just worry less about it and focus on the things I actually want or need to do .. send email, read message, visit a website, listen to a podcast and not fret about the tiniest of UX details.

I would love to live in a world where I could run around with a customized linux laptop and some sort of privacy respecting phone (e.g. Graphene) but the hurdles are not really worth it to me anymore. Sad in a way, as without counter pressure.. things will not necessarily get better, I know. The 22C3 talk by Rop and Frank I think was depressing, and true.

We lost the war.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/920.en.h...

New comment by mvdwoord in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

mvdwoord — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:57:02 +0000

I see your point, but the last few (services) that tried seemed to have become even worse?

New comment by mvdwoord in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

mvdwoord — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:12:31 +0000

Well, perhaps they make verifying it hard.. but what is stopping you from publishing an app in the app store, while also hosting the source code for anyone to see, and use? 99 bucks a year?

New comment by mvdwoord in "Borumi – Create videos, without the hassle"

mvdwoord — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:05 +0000

Curious if anyone has experience with this or how it compares to alternatives. I know I will be needing something similar in the near future and this seems to be roughly what I need..

Borumi – Create videos, without the hassle

mvdwoord — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:05 +0000

Article URL: https://borumi.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836210

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvdwoord in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

mvdwoord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:25:06 +0000

But if it is open source you could maintain it? It could be "done" for a given state of affairs (protocol/API versions etc)?

New comment by mvdwoord in "MLSharp Single-View High-Quality AI Reconstruction Pipeline"

mvdwoord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:26:46 +0000

MLSharp is a premium macOS application that transforms 2D images into immersive 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) models using state-of-the-art AI.