Hacker News: naavis

New comment by naavis in "Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs"

naavis — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:41:33 +0000

What kind of flaws did you have in mind?

New comment by naavis in "Building an AI server on a budget"

naavis — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:56:06 +0000

What kind of image classification do you do at home?

New comment by naavis in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

naavis — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:26:20 +0000

Looks cool, but the site is very heavy! I have an RTX 3070 GPU, and GPU usage went shot to 70% when I opened this website on Firefox.

New comment by naavis in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

naavis — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:29:28 +0000

I can only speak from my own experiences, but I have found commit messages extremely helpful, when they explain the "why" of the change. And as unfortunate as it is, many of us also have to work with unreadable codebases.

New comment by naavis in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

naavis — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:26:14 +0000

They are incredibly helpful when you are trying to find where a bug was introduced, and trying to figure out why some piece of code is the way it is.

New comment by naavis in "What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox"

naavis — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:47:17 +0000

Brave is based on Chromium, so that rules it out for the author based on what they wrote.

New comment by naavis in "Humpback whale briefly traps young kayaker in its mouth in Chile"

naavis — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:01:03 +0000

So a proper title for the piece would be "A humpback whale briefly suckles on kayaker".

New comment by naavis in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

naavis — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:15:39 +0000

Indeed, "incredibly precise estimate of the user's location" feels like an exaggeration. But still, very interesting!

New comment by naavis in "Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks"

naavis — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:06:12 +0000

One example is Finnish legislation: https://finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2004/20040759#L2P4 Sadly only available in Finnish. The law applies both to employees and candidates.

EDIT: Looks like there is an English translation. See section 4 of: https://finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040759_2019034...

New comment by naavis in "Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks"

naavis — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:16 +0000

In many parts of the world it is illegal for a recruiting party to search for information on a candidate without their consent.

New comment by naavis in "We Built the Saturn V (2017)"

naavis — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:41:34 +0000

Virtually every profession is also more forgiving to failures.

New comment by naavis in "Texture-Less Text Rendering"

naavis — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 09:04:24 +0000

No, they say they are not going to store a bitmap in a texture, which is not the same thing as embedding directly in the shader code.

You could compare that to storing some data in a separate file which needs to be read during runtime versus embedding the data directly in the source code.

New comment by naavis in "Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy"

naavis — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:18:28 +0000

Why do you find it hard to read?

New comment by naavis in "It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans"

naavis — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:36:21 +0000

> psychopathic scammers like Robert Martin

That is a pretty wild take. Would you like to elaborate on that?

New comment by naavis in "Why Scrum is stressing you out"

naavis — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:18:18 +0000

I don't think anything in Scrum dictates iterations must be one week long.

https://www.scrum.org/learning-series/what-is-scrum/

New comment by naavis in "Azure Portal Is Down"

naavis — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:25:24 +0000

Portal has been working for us, but storage accounts have been unreachable from certain regions for the past 30 minutes. Possibly Portal is also broken in the same regions.

New comment by naavis in "Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards"

naavis — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 05:37:57 +0000

I have been very satisfied with Fastmail.

New comment by naavis in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

naavis — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:03:33 +0000

I would assume most people want to keep the possibility of someone previously unknown contacting them.

New comment by naavis in "New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go"

naavis — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:46:26 +0000

Enough for consumer-grade Hario coffee scales to include a geographic location setting, so that you can weigh your coffee beans accurately.

New comment by naavis in "Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says"

naavis — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:46:52 +0000

Everything can be a process. If some individual is truly fully responsible for a screwup, what process allowed the person to get that far?