Hacker News: noAnswer

New comment by noAnswer in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

noAnswer — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:15:40 +0000

> teachers somehow understood that I was one of these

Are you sure your parents weren't involved in the background?

> Extra time for someone who struggles to complete on time isn’t cheating - it’s allowing people to demonstrate what they can do.

For me it becomes cheating when its no longer allowed to be mentioned on the certificate that extra time was given.

New comment by noAnswer in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

noAnswer — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:38:15 +0000

I don't care about the internal format. What I'm missing is an active component. Instead of re-downloading the same thing over and over it should work like POP3.

New comment by noAnswer in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

noAnswer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:18:24 +0000

> But surely, latency is all about "placebo" and "vibes" and "feel" is it not?

Not sure if I can follow but...no?! My first TFT-TV had 2 seconds input lag. Impossible to play video games on it. That has nothing to do with feelings.

Already 10ms delay has a measurable effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjSGEOEaXo

New comment by noAnswer in "Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets"

noAnswer — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:22:09 +0000

I know it's "just" AI but one could think there is a forkable project out there. I have seen like tenths of projects like this. OPs explanation is different though. Usually the line is "inspired by movie".

New comment by noAnswer in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

noAnswer — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:24:30 +0000

Asked your Clanker what a joke is.

New comment by noAnswer in "Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)"

noAnswer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:56:41 +0000

The industrial process behind that recently got optimized. They could become commonplace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUHKLeyw4M

New comment by noAnswer in "OpenBSD 7.9"

noAnswer — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:55:21 +0000

They have binary updates by now. No more need to download the source from CVS and compile fixes.

You can update from one OS version to the next with manly only one command.

New comment by noAnswer in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

noAnswer — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:09:57 +0000

Don't make it public facing! Put it behind a VPN!!

New comment by noAnswer in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

noAnswer — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:47:50 +0000

They once had offerings for dedicated servers without hard drivers. They did network boot from NFS. So the costs where between a full dedicated server and a virtual one. Sadly it was very badly engineered. Small disk IO was so bad that you basically couldn't run MySQL. I did run a MX. For every mail postfix would complained that the filesystem did run a few secondes in the future. At some point they gave up and stuck a USB stick into every server.

It was dead by thousand cuts and put a bad taste in my mouth. But I have to admit that was a long time ago and I should probably give them another chance.

New comment by noAnswer in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

noAnswer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:48 +0000

hm ok. Still, my misunderstanding helped me to write TI-Basic programs that no longer crashed. :-)

New comment by noAnswer in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

noAnswer — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:01:18 +0000

But isn't that just how the world works? As kid I got ERR:MEMORY allot while trying to create games. It was until I started to read a C book which said "We will not use goto in this book. It is a dangerous function that can lead to memory leaks. For example if you jump out of a function, said function will stay in memory because it never finishes." That was the light bulb moment for my TI-Basic problems.

For me the bad part is that the official TI-83 manual has a code example for the GETKEY function that is using GOTO to jump out of a loop.

New comment by noAnswer in "You don't want long-lived keys"

noAnswer — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:39:21 +0000

The long-lived credentials life inside a stripped down machine. Cron/lego/Ansible handles the renewal. The machines on the edge can't renew their keys themselves.

New comment by noAnswer in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

noAnswer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:53:48 +0000

Sadly you are right. They are billing my Euro charges from a UK (non Euro) bank, which adds 2% money exchange fee on everything.

New comment by noAnswer in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

noAnswer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:44:27 +0000

Do you download the cross-compiled executable via http or smb to the Windows machine? If so than it most likely got earmarked with a NTFS alternate data stream.

File Settings > This file come from another computer: Unblock

PowerShell > Unblock-File

Add your smb file share as trusted: Internet Properties > Security > Local Intranet > Sites

I hate it too that you need to sign software that you want to publish. Totally destroys the economics of little shareware type software.

New comment by noAnswer in "The Problem That Built an Industry"

noAnswer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:07:20 +0000

If you poke it a little you will eventually get Java exceptions. Because the AI article is lying. It is not 60 year old code running on unchanged bare metal. Things got reimplemented over time.

New comment by noAnswer in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

noAnswer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:51 +0000

It happend to me when i created my account in 2025. Within seconds of verifying the address I got a email that my account was band for TOS violation. I than created a seconds account (within minutes from the same IP) only writing "dc" instead of "discord" and that worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by noAnswer in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

noAnswer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:51:10 +0000

There are some big brain companies who will block you if their name appears in the email address. Like Discord. You can create an account, with discrod@example.com. But a seconde later you will get an email that your account got band.

They know their way around IT security! /s

New comment by noAnswer in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

noAnswer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:26:18 +0000

What is infuriating is that programmers that make 6 figures not knowing the diff between AppData\Local and \Roaming.

I'm the ass that gets the support call. I'm getting accused of delivering shit. I'm the guy that needs to write workaround scripts.

New comment by noAnswer in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

noAnswer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:05:55 +0000

> Uninstalling an application would mean just deleting all the objects in its package. The files would be gone and any configuration settings with them.

Applications developers of the world. Please always make "keep configuration" an option with your uninstallers! I don't like the mobilification of PCs. For example, because of some issues, I wanted to try a different version of Thunderbird. I had the Snap version. Uninstalling it meant losing all its mails. I wasn't expecting that. Like at all!

New comment by noAnswer in "LotusNotes"

noAnswer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:13:45 +0000

For the longest time SharePoint's central volume could only go up to 4GB. Going above required to combine multiple volumes.

So having a limit of 64GB per file doesn't sound so bad.