Hacker News: nektro

New comment by nektro in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

nektro — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:24:46 +0000

woah, the web map viewer even has parallax when zoomed in

New comment by nektro in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

nektro — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:34:04 +0000

because open source is a means not an end. folks want good, fast software that respects them. open source isn't the only way there.

New comment by nektro in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

nektro — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:29:50 +0000

easy, CTFs should ban it. then it'd be more like the chess community

New comment by nektro in "HTML Lists"

nektro — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:19:58 +0000

TIL

, I wonder why more frameworks don't make use of it.

New comment by nektro in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

nektro — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:53:15 +0000

really enjoyed this talk. really interesting how the different constraints change how they think about their system

New comment by nektro in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

nektro — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:22:53 +0000

going after systems that affect students is beyond bad taste

New comment by nektro in "OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools"

nektro — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:51:38 +0000

dystopian :( i hope schools put more pressure on keeping that off their devices. or switch to neos.

New comment by nektro in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

nektro — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:40:38 +0000

when i saw this headline i expected it to be the other way around

New comment by nektro in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

nektro — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:50:02 +0000

lots of really great pieces of advice in this

New comment by nektro in "OpenWarp"

nektro — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:33:20 +0000

at this stage, this being a fork instead of a pr is really weird

New comment by nektro in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

nektro — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:28:57 +0000

i have something like this too, currently a 60 line nodejs file

New comment by nektro in "Is my blue your blue?"

nektro — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:42:55 +0000

> Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.

New comment by nektro in "Why I Write (1946)"

nektro — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:46:15 +0000

Jacob Geller put out an essay today on 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdowB9udPc

New comment by nektro in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

nektro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:12:59 +0000

how to cause a mass exodus with this one simple trick!

New comment by nektro in "The RAM shortage could last years"

nektro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:51:02 +0000

the hardware dump once we're through the bubble is gonna be wild

New comment by nektro in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

nektro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:43:31 +0000

is this satire? firefox does not implement it intentionally

New comment by nektro in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

nektro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:28:20 +0000

why would you admit so openly to being part of the problem?

New comment by nektro in "Claude Design"

nektro — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:06:01 +0000

oh. i was expecting this to be like claude's brand guidelines

New comment by nektro in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

nektro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:39:35 +0000

we're going to have to get a lot better at building test suites. for example every js exploit found in browsers should also be added to https://github.com/tc39/test262.

New comment by nektro in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

nektro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:05:32 +0000

this is the way