Hacker News: nikanj

New comment by nikanj in "How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?"

nikanj — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:45:00 +0000

How do you build a tourism business when anyone can walk into the woods for free?

New comment by nikanj in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

nikanj — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:22:14 +0000

Last time an iMessage-for-everyone startup (Beeper Mini) made the news, they had gotten funding from Samsung. Might be something similar here

New comment by nikanj in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

nikanj — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:22:12 +0000

The biggest takeaway from this thread: Wow, nerds really don't know the difference between trademark and copyright

New comment by nikanj in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

nikanj — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:19:46 +0000

Patents and trademarks would not cover it, but fortunately this case was about copyright.

New comment by nikanj in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

nikanj — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:03:26 +0000

Yes. However, they are not suing based on a trademark, they are suing based on having copyright on the shape of the body.

New comment by nikanj in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

nikanj — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:08:15 +0000

They have no right to sue, because their contract includes mandatory binding arbitration clauses.

New comment by nikanj in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

nikanj — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:52:34 +0000

Never could. Google might block your entire company because one of your workers did something nasty on their personal account, and their ban hammer is mighty and blocks all related accounts to the Nth degree

New comment by nikanj in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

nikanj — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:17:12 +0000

The agricultural output of Finland is dismal, with the low-quality soil, short summer and frequent cold snaps. Still doing pretty good on GDP

New comment by nikanj in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

nikanj — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:18:52 +0000

Now you can hit the Windows key, type Visual Studio and open a Bing search for Visual Studio, instead of actually opening VS. It’s great - if your KPI is bing DAU

New comment by nikanj in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

nikanj — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:43:06 +0000

Customers give us heat for not shipping the latest vulpine-lz4. Their AI-based heuristic antivirus total defence solution automatically flags all software not running latest versions of everything

Kindly advice

New comment by nikanj in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

nikanj — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:55:59 +0000

For the ~500 million people of the EU, moving to Frankfurt means taking a train there, moving to London is a whole headache of visas, permits and permissions.

Founder visas are generally suffering from a chicken-and-egg problem, where only a successful company can sponsor anyone

New comment by nikanj in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

nikanj — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:54:51 +0000

The internets tell you women expect that, but observed reality doesn't really line up with that.

Visit any Safeway and you see plenty of regular normal everyday couples where the man is not a billionaire, and the lady is not a 15-years younger nymphomaniac.

People pair up with their colleagues all the time, despite the internet telling you that doesn't happen anymore. And they don't mind that their coworker makes the same money.

New comment by nikanj in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

nikanj — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:11:23 +0000

Young men believe, thanks to social media constantly repeating them the same message, that the only way out of a sad wage cuck existence is hypergambling. This text opened my eyes to it https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-degeneracy

New comment by nikanj in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

nikanj — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:16:58 +0000

The real moop map is the absolute mountain of unsorted garbage that gets dumped at the first rest stop / dumpster / trash can.

Yeah cool you did not leave your plastic trinkets in the desert, but you did leave all of it next to the trash can on your first gas break

New comment by nikanj in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

nikanj — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:57:25 +0000

There is clearly a demand for sports cars being sold for under $10k, so it was ok for me to steal your car and sell it cheap

New comment by nikanj in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

nikanj — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:18:53 +0000

My Citroen does the same if window wiper fluid is low.

New comment by nikanj in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

nikanj — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:35:15 +0000

Because mortages need paid, and when you’re working as a programmer, you deliver what the top brass wants

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

nikanj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:39:11 +0000

China can build ten reactors for the cost of Germany running the appeals, environmental studies and neighborhood consultations for one

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

nikanj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:37:28 +0000

Any material that is still radioactive after a hundred years wasn’t that deadly to begin with. There is a strong link between ”hotness” and short half-lifes, fast-decaying extra spicy isotopes are..fast-decaying

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

nikanj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:34:35 +0000

I wonder if there will one say be an autobiography that reveals the russian hand behind the naive EU fossilsmaxxing.