Hacker News: nieve

New comment by nieve in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

nieve — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:19:47 +0000

They were stuck in a never-ending series of legal battles because the current administration is trying to block all wind power, so their money was not actually going anywhere useful. Coincidentally Trump hates wind power and is still bringing up his golf course having some offshore wind near it after years.

New comment by nieve in "Nasdaq's Shame"

nieve — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:13:22 +0000

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

New comment by nieve in "The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page"

nieve — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:46:29 +0000

> Fediverse users should be able to have private chats with each other, that not even their instance admins can snoop on. > This encryption should be accessible to mere mortals, without sophisticated training or discipline.

E2EE seems like it should be table stakes in 2025, but it's just one or two people making it happen.

New comment by nieve in "I'm Done with Ubuntu"

nieve — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:22:28 +0000

I liked linuxbrew up until it set up python in a way that broke a lot of apps for me. I keep meaning to give it another try, but there are only so many hours.

New comment by nieve in "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache"

nieve — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:10:13 +0000

Gamers in general are not looking at Apple's chips.

New comment by nieve in "Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims"

nieve — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:56:46 +0000

The only way there'd be shockwaves is if it turned out to be Theo de Raadt.

New comment by nieve in "CVE-2024-29510 – Exploiting Ghostscript using format strings"

nieve — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:07:09 +0000

It allows full RCE from an uploaded or opened file. That seems reasonably critical to me.

New comment by nieve in "Is there ever a good reason to disable swap?"

nieve — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:22:02 +0000

The best modern reason to have as much swap as RAM is to make hibernation to disk more reliable, but a lot of people don't use that anymore. It's more reliable because the kernel doesn't have to work as hard to find space to write the system image to.

New comment by nieve in "Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users"

nieve — Tue, 14 May 2024 02:22:56 +0000

How does that explain the focus on gender? Admittedly there are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where there might be laws about what you're allowed to show women.

New comment by nieve in "Personal VPN services are snake oil"

nieve — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:03:23 +0000

The thing I never hear mentioned is when your home ISP (or say your favorite cafe's) is known to use your traffic data for marketing purposes or sell it outright. I trust Mullvad farther than I trust my ISP. I could switch ISPs, but my only option is Comcast and they're even sleazier.

New comment by nieve in "New minerals on the moon explaining the mystery of the lunar landscape"

nieve — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:21:27 +0000

David Weber actually wrote a series once where aliens (actually humans) hollowed out the Moon (dumping the material into the sun) to use the rest as camouflage for a Moon-sized spaceship hiding from other aliens (actually aliens). It was pretty clearly him taking the p*ss on the entire topic, but it's seen multiple editions and I believe is still in print. I guess there's something about the idea that attracts some people?

New comment by nieve in "Georgia Attorney-General claims that not having a phone makes you a criminal"

nieve — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:10:33 +0000

"Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King’s cellphone." So no, at least the judge for this case decided it was fine. Note as well that the case is over the Cop City protests, not even a criminal endeavor. Literally going to a protest without a smartphone is being presented as evidence of criminal intent.

New comment by nieve in "Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice"

nieve — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:00:50 +0000

Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't create.

New comment by nieve in "Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days"

nieve — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:31:34 +0000

For me everything about rsync.net was great except for the throughput. It didn't matter which continent, isp, or operating system I tested, I couldn't get past single digit Mbps and sometimes had trouble reaching that. Support tried moving me to another server, but the problem persisted. Other than that I was pretty happy, but it was completely infeasible to store PostgreSQL backups there, much less server & laptop backups. Every now and then I consider going back in case they've fixed the root problem.

New comment by nieve in "PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat"

nieve — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:19:47 +0000

It's because PostgreSQL has inheritance and has almost certainly used the term object relational since before you heard of it.

New comment by nieve in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

nieve — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:47:06 +0000

It's not just obnoxious, people hike out there regularly he could have hit and he could easily have started a significant fire in a vulnerable environment. He endangered others for a sponsorship deal and then engaged in a conspiracy to hide it.

New comment by nieve in "The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile of nonsense"

nieve — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:52:22 +0000

A natural language understanding engine that _makes things up_ is not extremely good.

New comment by nieve in "The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+"

nieve — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 04:50:49 +0000

That's directly addressed in the actual post.

New comment by nieve in "Tell HN: GitHub now blocks aliased email addresses"

nieve — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:24:16 +0000

I did this and heartily endorsed it up until the day I got 1.4 million spams in under 24 hours.

New comment by nieve in "Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says"

nieve — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 22:40:33 +0000

Perhaps that one number was a blockchain address or account number?