Hacker News: no_carrier

New comment by no_carrier in "Googlebook"

no_carrier — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:31:23 +0000

Android now runs a Debian VM, too. It's early days, but I'd be surprised if they don't get Linux GUI apps integrated into Android in desktop mode soon.

New comment by no_carrier in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

no_carrier — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:03:11 +0000

Every single LLM out there suffers from this.

New comment by no_carrier in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

no_carrier — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:42:08 +0000

There was a time in the 90s when quite a number of governments were aware of this Microsoft problem and insisted on open formats, so that important govt records and data could be open down the track. It seems like all of that was forgotten and traded for 'convenience'.

New comment by no_carrier in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

no_carrier — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:30:36 +0000

That's not exactly for slowness reasons. The creators of uv have stated that if pip followed the same algorithms they'd see similar performance benefits. People greatly overstate the Python performance penalty.

New comment by no_carrier in "Go beyond Goroutines: introducing the Reactive paradigm"

no_carrier — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:38:49 +0000

Tabs are the recommended indentation method for Go code. It is interesting that they switched after the first example, though.

New comment by no_carrier in "Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads"

no_carrier — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:29:24 +0000

You absolutely can run docker on the CLI in WSL2. The only requirement is you have systemd running in your WSL distro, which is fully supported.

New comment by no_carrier in "Jeena's Hyprland Demo"

no_carrier — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:54:10 +0000

Niri looks promising to me. After I discovered PaperWM I moved on to Material Shell, which was still the best workflow I've come across to date. It was basically gnome with a 2d grid: you could scroll workspaces left and right and then again on the vertical axis. The author sort of abandoned it (it was a Gnome extension) in order to go all in on their own desktop environment with the same concept. I'm guessing that'll take a while to get off the ground.

New comment by no_carrier in "Litestar is worth a look"

no_carrier — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:48:55 +0000

> Then came the SQLModel problems. The author pushes it very hard in the FastAPI docs

No it doesn't? The front page for FastAPI contains a pretty lengthy tutorial with no mention of SQLModel. The only time SQLModel gets a significant mention is on a page explaining connecting a relational DB, but it makes it clear that any DB at all can be used. Something has to be chosen for the tutorial, so it makes sense the author would choose their own.

If SQLModel isn't right for you then you're the only person to blame. I've been through that tutorial before and settled on plain old SQLAlchemy.

New comment by no_carrier in "Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down"

no_carrier — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:22:33 +0000

Also can be confirmed by Cloudflare's own route leak detection tool - https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/anomalies/hijack-107469

New comment by no_carrier in "Android 16 is here"

no_carrier — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:27:01 +0000

It feels like we're getting very close. The recent addition of a Debian VM into Android (I believe it's even in AOSP) leads me to believe we'll be getting Linux apps on Android in the same way ChromeOS gets them. Imagine being able to run VSCode off your phone anywhere you can plug into a monitor.

I also think we'll get a more desktop ready version of Chrome. If we get these things I think it'll be a gamechanger.

New comment by no_carrier in "How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider"

no_carrier — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:14:32 +0000

It's certainly not the norm in Australia, nor have I come across that in probably the last 15 or so years. Running your credit card through the terminal to place a hold on funds is done pretty much everywhere. I'm sure there's a few crusty old operators out there doing things the old way.

New comment by no_carrier in "How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider"

no_carrier — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:12:26 +0000

They're not supposed to write the details down, which is what this person was referring to.

In Asia, they quite often take your CC details and enter it into a text field in their own system in case they need to process it later, including the CVV. Sometimes they're writing it down on paper.

They're not entering it into a PCI compliant system where the digits are masked.

New comment by no_carrier in "Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%"

no_carrier — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:06:56 +0000

> While DigitalOcean, like other providers, offers a free managed control plane, there is typically a 100% markup on the nodes that belong to these managed clusters.

I don't think this is true. With Digital Ocean, the worker nodes are the same cost as regular droplets, there's no additional costs involved. This makes Digital Ocean's offering very attractive - free control plane you don't have to worry about, free upgrades, and some extra integrations to things like the load balancer, storage, etc. I can't think of a reason to not go with that over self-managed.

New comment by no_carrier in "We're forking Flutter"

no_carrier — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:08:55 +0000

I have a pretty limited understanding of mobile sandboxing, but how does FlutterShark have access to analyse all the apps on my phone?

New comment by no_carrier in "We're forking Flutter"

no_carrier — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:37:25 +0000

I don't think people are able to tell a Flutter app from any other cross platform/web framework. They just think they can.

New comment by no_carrier in "Is Android Unicode Yet?"

no_carrier — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:21:51 +0000

The Python code is missing an import for ttlib. I'm assuming this comes from fonttools, but there's no easy way to know that for sure in Python.

New comment by no_carrier in "Sublime Text 4180"

no_carrier — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:37:18 +0000

I've just noticed that the upgrade notification window mentions that I need to upgrade the license... so I checked out the news on their website and it seems they've switched from licenses being valid for a major version, to only being valid for 3 years. This feels like a bit of a rug pull on an already very expensive editor. I won't be renewing and I guess this is the end of the line for Sublime and I.

New comment by no_carrier in "A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4"

no_carrier — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:08:43 +0000

Not only that, but the XPS13 hasn't had a barrel plug for years now... I have no idea where OP got that info from.

New comment by no_carrier in ""Out of Band" network management is not trivial"

no_carrier — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 07:50:51 +0000

Here in Australia, POTS lines have been completely decommissioned, UK will be switched off by end of 2025 and I'm assuming there's similar timelines in lots of other countries.

New comment by no_carrier in "VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team"

no_carrier — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:04:23 +0000

They do when they still create and sell skins and items for the game.