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New comment by neverminder in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

neverminder — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:56:13 +0000

I'm building my woodworking workshop. It's gonna take a long long time for AI to invade this area if ever. It's very therapeutic and works as an escape from all the AI craze.

New comment by neverminder in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

neverminder — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:25:23 +0000

I think Ukraine would have no problem maintaining it's own nuclear program from purely technical perspective, considering they have a number of nuclear plants and expertise. Plutonium is a byproduct of a nuclear plant, they wouldn't even have to bother with uranium enrichment.

New comment by neverminder in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

neverminder — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:27:04 +0000

I was in a similar situation, but I fought fire with napalm. My new neighbor got one of those shitty hi-fi systems with a sub apparently and separating us was only a thin wall. Our shared landlord and authorities were both powerless to fix the problem, or just didn't care enough, so I took it in my own hands. Unfortunately to my ignorant new neighbor, there's always a bigger speaker and it just so happens that I have a touring grade PA set - I am talking tops and subs with 130+ db output power each. I placed my speakers facing our shared wall and whenever he would crank up his hi-fi, I'd put on noise cancelling headphones and blast him right back at about 20-30% volume of my system which effectively turned the wall on his side into a giant speaker. He persisted for about a week and then gave up. Then tried it again a couple of weeks later, only to quit for good. Giving them the taste of their own medicine is most effective.

New comment by neverminder in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

neverminder — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:15:44 +0000

You can argue about Hetzner's uptime, but you can 't argue about Hetzner's pricing which is hands down the best there is. I'd rather go with Hetzner and cobble up together some failover than pay AWS extortion.

New comment by neverminder in "Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare"

neverminder — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:32:27 +0000

It would be interesting to see AI lawyer arguing a case in court.

Ask HN: What tech resources would you gather for a catastrophic worldwide event?

neverminder — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:05:45 +0000

I'm talking China attacking Taiwan, WW3, another mega pandemic and stuff like that. Would you stock up on essential components like CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, hard drives, RAM, etc? Make backup images of your Linux distros with all the apps included? Download Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499516

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by neverminder in "[dead]"

neverminder — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:23:00 +0000

Adjusted for Elon Time. Someone actually built a converter, which is hilarious: https://elontime.io

Beluga whale alleged to be Russian 'spy' was shot, animal rights groups say

neverminder — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/04/beluga-whale-alleged-to-be-russian-spy-was-shot-animal-rights-groups-say

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446705

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by neverminder in "Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?"

neverminder — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:32:48 +0000

Crowdstrike in their official statement said "Linux and MacOS not affected". Are there any reports stating otherwise?

New comment by neverminder in "Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?"

neverminder — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:16:24 +0000

Yeah, but heads will have to roll for this one, the world will be calling for blood, so who better if not "the guy"?

New comment by neverminder in "Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?"

neverminder — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:07:21 +0000

Wouldn't want to be the guy who pushed this particular commit. It's ironic that the company that is supposed to prevent this sort of thing causes the biggest worldwide outage ever. Crowdstrike is finished. Let's hope this will result in at least a small increase in desktop Linux market share.

New comment by neverminder in "The Stratocaster Turns 70"

neverminder — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:39:10 +0000

Les Paul.

Brazilian 'geese agents' honk in case of prison break

neverminder — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:47:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazilian-geese-agents-honk-case-prison-break-2023-12-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953790

Points: 2

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Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

neverminder — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:47:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/06/linux_desktop_share_growing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40945541

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by neverminder in "US accused of offering Boeing 'sweetheart deal' over fatal crashes"

neverminder — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:42:38 +0000

But what would it take? Another crash or two? Boeing is like one of those big supertankers that take forever to change course - even if the iceberg was a kilometre away, there's nothing they could do but ram into it.

US accused of offering Boeing 'sweetheart deal' over fatal crashes

neverminder — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:42:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/30/boeing-justice-department-sweetheart-deal-ethiopian-lion-air

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841004

Points: 33

# Comments: 9

Google AI search tool reportedly tells users to jump off a bridge and eat rocks

neverminder — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/24/google-ai-overviews-search-tool-reportedly-tells-users-to-jump-off-bridge-eat-rocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466674

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

US airline repeatedly registers 101-year-old as baby

neverminder — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:58:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/us-american-airlines-booking-system-woman-age-error

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189524

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Eternal youth? John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

neverminder — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:31:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/26/secret-to-eternal-youth-john-cleese-extols-virtues-of-stem-cell-treatment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168604

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by neverminder in "Space Nuclear Propulsion"

neverminder — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:56:18 +0000

Accelerating/decelerating at 1G the entire journey would be the perfect scenario. Not only that would be the shortest travel time, but it would maintain gravity inside the ship all the time. If this is not the ultimate goal being worked towards, then we may as well just give up now. Nuclear is where it's at - it's the most efficient weight to power ratio generation known to man.