Hacker News: nix0n

New comment by nix0n in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

nix0n — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:40:00 +0000

> that server is almost certainly going to be a VM and not bare metal

I understand that this is normal but I've never understood it.

If all the containers are running the same company's applications (so they don't care about security boundaries between them), what's the difference between having all the containers under the same kernel vs separate kernels?

New comment by nix0n in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

nix0n — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:28:35 +0000

> Remember how when google bought youtube for 1.65 billions people thought they are crazy? Or when facebook bought instagram.

I think these are good examples: in both of those cases the buyer had a plan to monetize.

If you are a user of Cursor, expect to pay more for it or switch.

New comment by nix0n in "Why I don’t vibe code"

nix0n — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:54:20 +0000

There are many trainfuls of people who still write code using traditional syntax-based IDE completion.

New comment by nix0n in "Don't answer the first question"

nix0n — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:21:27 +0000

I think this comment got attached to the wrong article somehow. Not relevant here but probably relevant to "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179029

New comment by nix0n in "Where the goblins came from"

nix0n — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:45:39 +0000

This is partly due to having a safety factor: i.e. using twice as much steel as you think you need.

Understanding means knowing the limits of your own understanding, and building in safeguards.

New comment by nix0n in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

nix0n — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:39:12 +0000

General Motors contributed significantly to the decline of passenger rail in the USA.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

New comment by nix0n in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

nix0n — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:45:48 +0000

Linux is a global project, and open source more broadly is also of course global.

Linux Mint (the distro I use) was started and is led by French developer Clement Lefebvre.

QEMU and FFmpeg are among the notable projects started by French developer Fabrice Bellard.

VLC was started by students of École Centrale Paris.

These are just the things that I know about as an American, so I'm sure there are more.

New comment by nix0n in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

nix0n — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:56:08 +0000

Driver support seems to me like it could be an advantage over Linux.

Does anyone here know the current state of installing a browser on ReactOS?

New comment by nix0n in "USA FCC Prohibits All New Models of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers"

nix0n — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:31:38 +0000

Original title: "FACT SHEET: FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models"

USA FCC Prohibits All New Models of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

nix0n — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-420034A1.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504147

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by nix0n in "$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers"

nix0n — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:50:38 +0000

It kind of makes sense for it to be a partnership with Back Market, which also sells used hardware.

That way, the ChromeOS USB key can be an add on to the purchase of some old laptop that can barely run Windows anymore.

New comment by nix0n in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

nix0n — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:49:51 +0000

> Unless you're paranoid about an OEM backdoor

Lenovo does have a history with installing a very obvious spyware rootkit on their consumer PCs[0].

[0]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500035-s...

New comment by nix0n in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

nix0n — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:24:10 +0000

> people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users

I agree completely that these are the important qualifications to be setting direction for a product.

> Find your most socially competent engineer, and have them talk to users a couple times a month.

This doesn't necessarily follow from the above, but in Anthropic's case specifically, where the users are software engineers, it probably would have worked better than whatever they have going on now.

In general, it's probably better to have domain experts doing product management, as opposed to someone who is trained in product management.

New comment by nix0n in "Stay Away from My Trash"

nix0n — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:18:56 +0000

I think a URL and screenshot would be way more useful than a bunch of text for that use case.

New comment by nix0n in "LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant"

nix0n — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:31:49 +0000

> How is the Rocket Chat mobile app?

I thought it was fine, but I can't compare to the Mattermost app since I've never tried to use that.

New comment by nix0n in "LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant"

nix0n — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:24:24 +0000

If you are looking for another self-hostable alternative to Slack, Rocket chat[0] is also worth looking at.

I wasn't involved in any of the Dev Ops aspect when my former employer used them, but the search function actually worked which is better than I can say for Slack.

[0]https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/blob/develop/LICEN...

New comment by nix0n in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

nix0n — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:34:09 +0000

This exists, it is called the NexDock[0]. I have never tried it.

[0]https://nexdock.com/explore-nexdock/

New comment by nix0n in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

nix0n — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:54:56 +0000

I like the retro theme.

Could you expand on why you describe Hyprland and XFCE4 as "a cursed combination"? Might provide some insight as to why the official XFCE project decided to create their own compositor.

New comment by nix0n in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

nix0n — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:24:05 +0000

Enshittification puts the focus on the users of the product as the product gets worse.

Ensheetification puts the focus on what's happening within the business to cause this.

New comment by nix0n in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

nix0n — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:12:36 +0000

Since they claim to be a Swedish company, it might be worth filing a report with the Swedish consumer agency[0].

I am not a lawyer, and especially not a Swedish lawyer, so I can't say how illegal this is in Sweden or what if anything will happen.

[0]https://www.konsumentverket.se/en/articles/report-to-the-swe...