Hacker News: nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nikanjHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:12:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)"]]>Remember realizing it’s 0x777, one better than 666?

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:13:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760946nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760946https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760946<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)"]]>I always thought FXP was a much more common tool, as you could move releases between beefy servers without having to download them first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:12:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760933nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760933<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Saving another 100TB of RAM"]]>And at what point does a company start to care about performance? 100TB of RAM is expensive as hell, but getting products to market faster was worth the cost

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:08:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760898nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760898<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"]]>All of my stuff updated to the 27 versions today. During indoor cycling class, I kept getting health alerts on my watch about high heart rate while stationary. Despite currently having the very same apple watch tracking my indoor cycling workout.

I guess Claude doesn’t take spinning classes

]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:11:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733082nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733082https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733082<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out"]]>I learned of the 7 Up from the case of Jason Arday, an unexpexted silver lining in an otherwise dismal affair

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:37:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671732nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671732https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671732<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"]]>I host a page, put google ads on it, hire you to generate bot clicks on said ads. Google pays me, I pay you. Some poor sucker somewhere pays google.

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:31:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671680nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671680https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671680<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"]]>Smart people everywhere are convinced that neither propaganda nor advertisement works on them. Wrong on both counts

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:29:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671653nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671653<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"]]>Without the fraud prevention, it would be 99.9998%. Pushing it to 17% is impressive, even if not sufficient

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:01:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670448nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670448https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670448<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"]]>Still can’t believe the german voters were successfully convinced that replacing german nuclear with russian fossil was a green choice

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:53:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670394nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670394<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"]]>It was a great idea*

*if you’re a seller of fossil fuels

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:45:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670356nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670356<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"]]>Sally, obviously. Todd is much more likely to have a perfect haircut and immaculate fluency in corpotalk

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:09:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648800nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648800<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "iPhone Duo"]]>By most Android vendors too?

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:52:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632005nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632005https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632005<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Apple Unveils iPhone Duo"]]>Enough to justify major manufacturers to go through the trouble

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:51:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631978nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631978https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631978<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "iPhone Duo"]]>Apple usually gets heat for not being the first to a feature, even when they’re the first with an implementation that’s actually good, not just a gimmick

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:41:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631718nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631718https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631718<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "iPhone Duo"]]>They released a number of small iphones over the years, and those always failed to reach meaningful sales numbers. Stated vs revealed preference I guess? People keep picking the larger model, so the models keep getting larger

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:37:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631610nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631610<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years"]]>Readily available isn't what it used to be, with optical media going extinct and licenses being in endless churn

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:10:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595390nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595390https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595390<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years"]]>Or their AI chatbot decides you smell funny and bans you forever with 0 chance of appealing to a human

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:02:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587153nikanjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587153<![CDATA[New comment by nikanj in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]>Doesn’t any