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New comment by nkmnz in "California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants"

nkmnz — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:55:48 +0000

Let me translate that four people who don’t speak “capitalism BAD”: Why don’t other people work for free for me? Why don’t Chinese and African miners work for free so I can get free minerals from the earth? Why don’t workers in refineries work for free so that I can get free metals and free silicon of highest purity? Why don’t all the companies that produce solar cells from raw materials, construct modules from the cells, install the modules on roofs, do the electrical wiring, stabilize the grid, provide electrical storage… WHY DON’T THEY WORK FOR FREE EVEN THOUGH I’VE CRITICISED CAPITALISM?

New comment by nkmnz in "Claude for Small Business"

nkmnz — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:19:57 +0000

Are the connectors/skills/“agentic-workflows” behind that open source? I’d love to adapt the quickbooks one to German tools (Buchhaltungsbutler, DATEV)

New comment by nkmnz in "Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code"

nkmnz — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:21:06 +0000

It's possible to use subscriptions! I run them in containers. For claude, I use `claude setup-token`, put the token into a local auth.json and mount that. For codex, I run the cli in my working dir prefixed with `CODEX_HOME=./codex-home codex` and mount that whole `codex-home` directory - done :)

New comment by nkmnz in "Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code"

nkmnz — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:23:17 +0000

Great project! I’ve build something similar, not very clean and polished, but focussed around deterministic orchestration of multiple agents via typescript, because a coordinating agent was notoriously bad at things such as fetching relevant tickets and other context. One thing I struggle with so far, though, are the actual instructions for the review themselves. They are either too vague, leading to superficial or overly broad reviews, or too specific and thus not applicable to different kinds of PRs…

New comment by nkmnz in "We see something that works, and then we understand it"

nkmnz — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:08:44 +0000

Not of thin air, but of what you've studied so far. Of course some (many) teachers are imbeciles and just use the same exam they've used in the previous year, even if they haven't covered all the topics yet. But in general, it's a very good idea to have a small question that tests for real understanding, i.e. applying your knowledge to a problem not previously presented, versus mindless reproduction of memorized facts.

New comment by nkmnz in "Rotten Dot Com"

nkmnz — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:06:33 +0000

> that's where I spent most of my time before 4chan

I rest my case.

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

nkmnz — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:47:10 +0000

Because the total increase of the cake can mostly be transferred to those that receive the subsidies. It's not that hard to understand: if you redistribute 10% of total wealth from the top quartile to the bottom quartile for 1% in additional total growth, then even if that additional growth went completely to the top quartile, it would be a net -9% of total wealth for them. I don't say that's a bad thing per se. But it doesn't help to willfully ignore that fact.

Edit: I just now got the part "If the increase in cake size is bigger than the subsidies" – that's a ridiculous assumption. EU total growth in 2025 was 1.5% or 295 billion USD. From 2021-2027, the EU budget committed roughly 370bn € each for Agriculture subsidies and for Cohesion Policies, totaling 720bn € over 7 years; 2025 has seen ~130bn USD from those two buckets alone. Germany alone has paid another 60bn in subsidies the same year. Oh, and there has been a total of 417bn USD in energy subsidies in europe in 2023 (most recent data available). Even if we could attribute all total growth to subsidies alone, we'd have a factor below 0.5 – and that doesn't include any growth through private investmen, PPP, or any kind of increase of regular public spending.

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

nkmnz — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:57:37 +0000

I agree, but subsidies aren't free as well. Simply making the overall cake bigger doesn't necessarily pay out for everyone - some have to foot the bill.

New comment by nkmnz in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

nkmnz — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:33:44 +0000

I see what you did there, but I assume you mean "prefix the stored hash with the algorithm that was used", right?

I still don't know how this would help with a migration, though. They would still need to run both auth systems in parallel until every single user has logged in again - or force everyone to create a new password. Right?

New comment by nkmnz in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

nkmnz — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:06:17 +0000

Honestly, I have no idea how native apps for desktop or mobile handle accessibility. There is katex-rs[0] that outputs html and mathML. I'd assume the two could work together and the mathML would be fed to whatever the screen reader receives instead of the image?

On a related note: is mathML more accessible than an AI generated text of how a human would read the mathematical or chemical formula?

[0] https://crates.io/crates/katex-rs

New comment by nkmnz in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

nkmnz — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:51:53 +0000

I think the key point here is that LinkedIn distributes personal data of the profile owner to the visitor. That data is subject to GDPR, so the plaintiff assumes that they have the right to know who received that data from LinkedIn.

What kind of personal data of the website owner does google analytics distribute that makes that analogy work?

New comment by nkmnz in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

nkmnz — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:48 +0000

AFAIK, KaTex has accessibility via MathML included, but it doesn't provide an export as image - it rather renders as html. So why would you want the utility that you use to render an additional image to take care of something that KaTeX already does?

New comment by nkmnz in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

nkmnz — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:50:38 +0000

For me, the real issue of switching auth providers hasn’t been touched: do thy all use the same hashing functions or how did they move the password hash column across providers? Running them in parallel and rehashing on first login?

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

nkmnz — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:15:41 +0000

You can! A foreign EU company just needs to get a "Betriebsnummer" (company number) from "Bundesagentur für Arbeit", which doesn't even require a Betriebsstätte (permanent business establishment, a branch that is not legally independent) or a "Zweigniederlassung" (branch office, legally semi-independent, but still part of the same entity) - and certainly not a subsidiary that has it's own legal persona.

New comment by nkmnz in "AI Product Graveyard"

nkmnz — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:36 +0000

Some of the acquired didn't even shut down. https://wandb.ai/site seems to be up and running.

New comment by nkmnz in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

nkmnz — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:29:45 +0000

Just to get the record straight: I don’t paint you as a hypocrite. I paint you as a supporter of terrorists.

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

nkmnz — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:31:29 +0000

In fact, you can run any form of European legal entity from any country. I.e., I can create an spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością (sp. z o.o.) in Poland, but run the business in Germany. It would be complicated and stupid, but legal.

New comment by nkmnz in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

nkmnz — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:20:48 +0000

When one is an organization terrorizing the other the flag of the terrorized has added symbol of anti-terror. The flag of the terrorists has no such symbol, quite the contrary in fact. These two flags are clearly distinct.

New comment by nkmnz in "UAE to leave OPEC"

nkmnz — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:57:32 +0000

> For starters, you have to go abroad for one.

You're barely able to read, are you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have linked the article about the recognition of "marriages performed outside Israel", but even though this article is about marriages performed OUTSIDE Israel, it contains the clear notion that "In 2010, Israel passed the Civil Union Law for Citizens with no Religious Affiliation, 2010, allowing a couple to form a civil union IN ISRAEL" - still, I agree that the status quo is not good enough. They should do better.

New comment by nkmnz in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

nkmnz — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:50:46 +0000

I agree with the label being a huge problem. It's basically compressing a multitude of individual characters with huge differences on multiple dimensions of behavior into a binary label, which people confronted with someone bearing that label then decompress based on their personal view on the topic, which is like an algorithm trained on caricatures of what society portraits as ADHD. Your comment sounds like you're doing the same mistake: you take your favorite solution for a complex problem, which (I agree here!) might actually be sufficient for some, a relief for many, any at least good or not harmful for everyone else, but you try to market it as the only necessary solution while invalidating everyone's needs that go beyond this solution. It creates the reactions that you can see in already a handful comments that basically call for the individual to accommodate to the system at all cost...