Hacker News: nairboon

New comment by nairboon in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

nairboon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:59:09 +0000

This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450059

New comment by nairboon in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

nairboon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:39:11 +0000

Teenager with a credit card?

New comment by nairboon in "πFS"

nairboon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:10:40 +0000

Local llms and diffusion models can help you with that.

New comment by nairboon in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

nairboon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:25:48 +0000

It's available from 2027-04-01 to 2027-05-01, so basically deconstruction will be done during April. The bridge seems to be legit from 1876. Local news says they'd rather sell it to someone for cheap to support circular economy than throw it into the trash. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sbb-verkauft-historische-brueck...

You might be able to make a good deal here, buy a bridge for 100 bucks.

New comment by nairboon in "Doing something that’s never been done before (2025)"

nairboon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:02:18 +0000

That is more a black hole, thanks!

New comment by nairboon in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

nairboon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:05:18 +0000

For good reason, at the Congress of Vienna 1815 the largest powers in Europe signed a treaty that guarantees Switzerland's neutrality. As a result, Switzerland got spared in world war one and two. So far not entering into any alliances has been a very good strategy for Switzerland to ensure peace.

New comment by nairboon in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

nairboon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:58:17 +0000

Is this an analysis made by/with Claude?

New comment by nairboon in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

nairboon — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:10:23 +0000

> Candice L. Odgers serves on the Youth and Families Advisory Committee for YouTube.

New comment by nairboon in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

nairboon — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:38:08 +0000

The futures market is essentially about selling now but delivering in the future, so the naming kind of works.

New comment by nairboon in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

nairboon — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:34:09 +0000

> the kids must first get visas to their parent's countries

In this situation, wouldn't the kids already have citizenship of their parents countries?

New comment by nairboon in "We should get rid of average CPU utilization"

nairboon — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:25:35 +0000

No, not at all. Why get rid of a low-level statistical measure? It's not even quite clear what the article argues against. htop doesn't even show you "average CPU utilization", it provides a sample of the current CPU utilization.

To me the problem appears to be that they try to do some hard realtime computing with strict time guarantees, but are so far up the stack (golang library, golang scheduler, docker, kubernetes, virtualization, etc.), that they don't realize that this stack can't guarantee you realtime computing. CPU utilization is a very low-level measure and, in this stack, is only indirectly related to the observed timeouts.

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

nairboon — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:20:37 +0000

Sounds like 2027 will be the year of the Linux phone. Thanks for the support Google.

New comment by nairboon in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

nairboon — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:03:38 +0000

Copyright law kind of transcends national borders by certain international treaties like the Berne Convention. Which is why the US copyright holders could enforce their "woulnd't steal a car" threats in Europe.

New comment by nairboon in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

nairboon — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:03:40 +0000

> ... an American-Danish war was a realistic scenario.

Was a scenario? Isn't it still a possible scenario? As far as I know, the President of the United States has never formally recognized and apologized for this blatant violation of the UN Charter Art. 2.4. For all we know, in the absence of this realization, the US is still plotting to violate the territorial integrity of Denmark.

New comment by nairboon in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

nairboon — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:12:27 +0000

Recent political events have demonstrated that "Not American" is a very valuable strategic attribute.

New comment by nairboon in "When AI Trading Works, You Won't Hear About It"

nairboon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:32:49 +0000

Yes, more profitable for the bot operator, given the available capital to deploy. But it doesn't follow that the bot wasn't working in the first place. Although there are many bots for sale that are indeed not working.

New comment by nairboon in "Can Claude Fly a Plane?"

nairboon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:22:33 +0000

Let's hope you don't reach Claude's session limit during approach, while trying to correct a slightly too steep descent angle.

New comment by nairboon in "Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks"

nairboon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:03:09 +0000

Already happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680

New comment by nairboon in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

nairboon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

Why do you say unverified? You can activate the hybrid satellite view and look around. There are many towns and cities showing up on satellite view without any label. That's easily verifiable.

New comment by nairboon in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

nairboon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:33:30 +0000

It's a social science? Economics is much broader and much less unified than you purport it to be. The (social) science of (in this case) Macroeconomics is just that, an observational science, a bunch of theories and observations (controlled experiments are not really feasible). The propaganda is caused by politicians, administrators, and policymakers, not really the scientists. There I agree with you, central bankers are a prime example of such propaganda. Ever wondered why almost everywhere the inflation target is 2%? Not 1%, not 3%, but exactly 2%? There is no real scientific reason behind it, that is just policy, or propaganda if you want to name it like that.