Hacker News: navane

New comment by navane in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

navane — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:38:39 +0000

Sounds like the user could just ammend the software to his need with the LLM, but instead of sending that update to the maintainer with a pull request, just keep it to himself, to the users version.

New comment by navane in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

navane — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:22:56 +0000

I'm mostly bewildered that the Dutch government was ok with that, and it took way too much effort from the opposition to get them to pivot on this.

New comment by navane in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

navane — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:40:08 +0000

Hasn't big capital always owned technology? I don't understand what is the question here. Is this rethorical?

Silicon valley owns the internet. The robber barons owned the railways. Big oil. Big pharma. The investment company owned the (slave) trading fleets. The lords owned the agriculture. The clergy owned the books. The Kings owned the armies.

Technology accumulates capital, capital accumulates technology.

New comment by navane in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

navane — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:10:40 +0000

Oh those pedals go all over the place indeed

New comment by navane in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

navane — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:52:07 +0000

Is this the reverse "you wouldn't download a car"?

New comment by navane in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

navane — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:48:43 +0000

You can genuinely care in one moment and forget about them five minutes later, that's ok. Part of making conversation is also stopping the conversation when you are done, not letting it bleed out. My favorite is: "I really enjoyed this conversation, now I'm going to read my book".

I find it nice to connect to strangers in real life, if only for a moment. It can be about something silly as sharing a very bright bird you see while waiting for the bus. It can be giving two dollars to the woman in front of you at the grocery store, cause she's short.

Also, having this connection with people when it is about nothing (small talk) helps build communication skills you need when it is about something.

I genuinely hope you will get answers on your question, maybe even in this thread. But I'll also forget about it in two minutes.

New comment by navane in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

navane — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:58:53 +0000

My fan broke after five? years of near 24/7 use. Customer support was very easy to reach. They sent me a new one after I sent some serial numbers as proof. They asked me then to break off a blade, and a picture of it so I didn't have to sent it back.

New comment by navane in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

navane — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:52:27 +0000

That's a big nevertheless.

New comment by navane in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

navane — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:51:23 +0000

A lot of people buy new phones only because their battery doesn't get through the day anymore.

Very ironic, you almost got it, post.

New comment by navane in "God sleeps in the minerals"

navane — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:45:47 +0000

Prague national History Museum has an amazing collection of these. Truly a hidden gem.

New comment by navane in "John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz"

navane — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:13:38 +0000

Yeah but only in the heart shaped circles. The middle of the hearts are the classic circle of fifths. In this circle they show where the half steps in the scales are.

New comment by navane in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

navane — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:14:08 +0000

It doesn't matter if she's as bad as the others. The message is that the others are bad. Pointing out that she's also bad is meek at best.

New comment by navane in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

navane — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:13:26 +0000

I heard the same about the number and location of French nuclear war heads, or their exact red lines. If you tell the enemy your limit they're gonna sit exactly on it.

New comment by navane in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

navane — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:03:46 +0000

Because there was no off ramp. War economy never has. It looks great while it's going though.

Year Military Spending (billions of RM) % of GDP

1933 0.7 1.0%

1934 4.0 5.1%

1935 5.5 7.0%

1936 10.3 12.2%

1937 11.5 12.7%

1938 17.2 17.2%

1939 38.0 23.0%

Did they build their military to go to war? Or were they force to go to war as the nature of their economy forced them?

New comment by navane in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

navane — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:27:21 +0000

They're better at selling ideas than having fleshed out ideas. One could say they sell before they build.

New comment by navane in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

navane — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:05:59 +0000

Euffice.

New comment by navane in "Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019)"

navane — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:18:07 +0000

30 BPM at the surface, 4 bpm while diving.

New comment by navane in "Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers"

navane — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:35:50 +0000

This reminds me a lot of my recent trip to Japan. The country isn't such a delight to be in for anything special, it's just clear that _they put the effort in to doing the things most people know they should be doing_. It's this discipline?

New comment by navane in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

navane — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:12:05 +0000

People look for something to disagree with, and make posts that "engage". I agree with you and see this a lot, an analogy clearly makes point A but people get hung up on detail B.

New comment by navane in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

navane — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:04:34 +0000

There are very concrete actions an individual can take against wealth inequality of another individual.