Hacker News: nly

New comment by nly in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

nly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:39:21 +0000

I'd settle for 1 Gbps with a real IP address (UK)

New comment by nly in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:26:27 +0000

Almost all parents I know just let their kids use their phones. It's wild.

New comment by nly in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:20:59 +0000

Tbh I've never understood why a strict non-negotiable ban on phones in schools hasn't been in place. This is an easy win with no negative consequences for adults.

New comment by nly in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:25:57 +0000

That basically kills the business model and would wipe hundreds of billions of $ in capital away

Not that I disagree

New comment by nly in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:12:49 +0000

Perhaps using anonymous registration-free platforms like Session

New comment by nly in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:05:35 +0000

Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media

New comment by nly in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

nly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:55:52 +0000

You might want to read this

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

New comment by nly in "Orthodox C++"

nly — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:41:13 +0000

Your map example only concerns the standard library, not the language.

New comment by nly in "Orthodox C++ (2016)"

nly — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:11:10 +0000

> obtuse error messages

With concepts and constexpr-if and consteval it's increasingly less of a problem

New comment by nly in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

nly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:23:04 +0000

The median terraced house (entry level family home) in London is actually £642K

'Inner London' and it goes up to £876K

New comment by nly in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

nly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:21:01 +0000

Yeah, but they probably have a £700K mortgage and will have to bulldoze one career to have kids.

New comment by nly in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

nly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:18:09 +0000

Snozzcumbers

New comment by nly in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

nly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:16:03 +0000

Funny, but it's actually in Wiltshire

New comment by nly in "The Token Value of $200/mo Plans"

nly — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:05:36 +0000

A 40:1 or 70:1 contention ratio doesn't sound unreasonable. Those under-utilising subsidize those over-utilising

New comment by nly in "WindowSwap: Someone else's window view from anywhere in the world"

nly — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:04:10 +0000

Thankfully none of this is live...

One of the ones I hit was a Californian residential suburb and had filmed the neighbours drive and front door.

New comment by nly in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

nly — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:10:47 +0000

Most underpaid taxes are collected via a change in tax code for the following year.

New comment by nly in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

nly — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:03:58 +0000

It's not about the result. Most people who build these sets get satisfaction from the build process itself. It's a form of therapy.

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

New comment by nly in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

nly — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:47:27 +0000

In theory you could do this with 3rd party verification and zero knowledge proofs orchestrated by the users browser.

Mozilla Persona comes to mind.

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

This will never happen of course because the objective is to track your every move. The government want to know every pseudonym you use on every website.

New comment by nly in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

nly — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:33:39 +0000

Defined benefit pensions schemes ultimately need heavy regulation and a government backstop otherwise failure is inevitable.

That said, they can work great in tandem with the stock market.

The Kensington & Chelsea local government pension scheme in London, here in the UK, is an example.

The local authority (not central government) ultimately has the responsibility on paying out these liabilities, but it's one of the few councils that just dumped their pot in to global equities, and as a result they are 200% funded relative to their commitments and have stopped making further contributions.

The money that was flowing into the pension scheme can now flow in to local services.

Asset allocations:

https://www.ft.com/content/87c321ab-e5ac-4a1d-a637-c1f7befcc...

Cutting contributions:

https://www.ft.com/content/67254bff-0e6c-407a-a24a-c34ee217d...

New comment by nly in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

nly — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:23:05 +0000

I worked at a small firm once where an 18 year old joined and took full advantage of the "unlimited PTO".

He was taking roughly a third of his time off.

Fired inside 6 months, and amazed it took this long.