Hacker News: nanis

New comment by nanis in "Revocation of X.509 Certificates"

nanis — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:37:48 +0000

Might want to add /sarc just in case someone believes it :-)

New comment by nanis in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

nanis — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:09:39 +0000

> Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now!

Not really -- It invites speculation as to why they were not published for 9 years. And, are the words spoken a decade ago still valid?

New comment by nanis in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

nanis — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:40:26 +0000

> 2026-02-22 by GIMP Team

I am confused

> This interview took place on February 4th, 2017

New comment by nanis in "Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)"

nanis — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:30:07 +0000

HTML + CSS works great for this kind of thing. Once you get the print scope correct, you really never need to think about it again.

New comment by nanis in "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers"

nanis — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:35:00 +0000

> too much punctuation

I thought you were joking. ... After a while, I started expecting a comma after each and every word.

New comment by nanis in "The dark side of the Moomins"

nanis — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:56:35 +0000

First time I heard about the Moomins. I thought this was about Mumins[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumin

New comment by nanis in "A Farewell to the ArcoLinux University"

nanis — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:25:48 +0000

It is your twist and unjustifiable generalization of the author's words about the author himself:

> "aging is a synonym of cognitive decline"

compared to:

> As I near 60, I’ve come to realize I simply don’t have the same mental sharpness or stamina I used to.

The author did not say anything about anyone else.

Synoym: https://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi?isindex=synonym&m...

New comment by nanis in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

nanis — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:00:38 +0000

This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

New comment by nanis in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

nanis — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:21:42 +0000

This is pure speculation, but what are the chances this change is simply an attempt to provide legal cover what they might have started doing 50 versions ago?[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082856

New comment by nanis in "Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby"

nanis — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:28:20 +0000

1 is 2 to the power 0 ... 0b0001

shifted left once, it becomes 2 to the power 1 ... 0b0010

shifted left twice, it becomes 2 to the power 2 ... 0b0100

shifted left three times, it becomes 2 to the power 3 ... 0b1000

etc until

shifted left 136_279_841 times, it becomes 2 to the power 136_279_84 ... 0b1000...many zeros...0000

subtract 1, it becomes

0b0111...many ones...1111

New comment by nanis in "Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure"

nanis — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:33:10 +0000

This was corrected to:

> ... SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called valid_principals

which indicates it wasn't just the spelling of `principals`.

New comment by nanis in "Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure"

nanis — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:58:29 +0000

> the SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called ValidPrinciples

Having implemented similar systems before, I was interested to read this post. Then I see this. Now I have to find out if that really is the field, if this was ChatGPT spellcheck, or something else entirely.

New comment by nanis in "Pretty.c"

nanis — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:28:45 +0000

> if (argc above 1)

I give up.

New comment by nanis in "Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS"

nanis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:35:03 +0000

> I am a simple sole, ... go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb. You know HTML for the layout and CSS for the style.

I am not sure if this is intended as humor, but JavaScript came before CSS.

New comment by nanis in "Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing"

nanis — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 10:47:22 +0000

Early in the A-B craze (optimal shade of blue nonsense), I was talking to someone high up with an online hotel reservation company who was telling me how great A-B testing had been for them. I asked him how they chose stopping point/sample size. He told me experiments continued until they observed a statistically significant difference between the two conditions.

The arithmetic is simple and cheap. Understanding basic intro stats principles, priceless.

New comment by nanis in "Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings"

nanis — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:03:56 +0000

Number one criterion for finding a good beach to swim: A prominent sign saying "Swim at your own risk: No lifeguard on duty."

New comment by nanis in "Workman Layout for Vim"

nanis — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:25:30 +0000

This[1] links to http://www. workmanlayout.com/blog/ which is a 404. (space inserted to avoid auto link generation).

Going to the main page of that site reveals some articles from the past few years, but also has online casino and crypto links disguised as posts. E.g.:

> is your premier source for crypto insights, covering the latest news, trends, and guides on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity. Whether a beginner or a pro, you can find valuable information and tips to stay ahead in the Web 3.0 era.

Weird and shady.

I keep seeing all these people fancy keyboards and interesting looking layouts except that it takes them six to 10 attempts to type anything correctly. Don't really get the point, but having got curious about this "workman" layout and regretted trying to find out.

I was thinking of a pane layout manager ... Anything like that around?

[1]: https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/workman-layout-for-vim/

New comment by nanis in "Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service"

nanis — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:44:00 +0000

The rather troubling part of this announcement in a GitHub issue is that this nugget comes out in a seemingly innocuous comment[1]:

>> Firefox still uses MLS for `browser.region.network.url`; will that also move to Google Location Services?

> This endpoint will be migrated to another service (classify-client) that will return the expected response. We'll adjust DNS entries when it's time to make that move so firefox won't see any difference.

What exactly is this "classify-client" service?

Note also this led me to discover for the first time that this is a thing[2]:

> Geolocation for default search engine

> In order to set the right default search engine for your location, Firefox will perform a geolocation lookup once by contacting Mozilla's servers and store the country-level result locally. This connection happens on the first start of Firefox – in case you want to prohibit that, you will have to preconfigure the browser and set the browser.search.geoip.url preference to a blank string.

Also related is [3].

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-...

[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...

[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/iq27wa/disabling_l...

New comment by nanis in "The key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers"

nanis — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 13:43:49 +0000

A much more logical inference would have suggested that being surrounded with other individuals with familial ties is important, not others who are only there purely based on financial motives.

New comment by nanis in "Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun"

nanis — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:34:59 +0000

> [The Queen] granted her charter to their corporation named Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.[15] For a period of fifteen years, the charter awarded the company a monopoly[26] on English trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.[27] Any traders there without a licence from the company were liable to forfeiture of their ships and cargo (half of which would go to the Crown and half to the company), as well as imprisonment at the "royal pleasure".[28]

Government granted monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company