Hacker News: nokya

New comment by nokya in "LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site"

nokya — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:16:56 +0000

Accidentally?

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

nokya — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:55:56 +0000

Wondering why it's not renamed AI news, yet.

New comment by nokya in "What does GitHub's security team even do?"

nokya — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:14:15 +0000

Oh this one is so easy: nobody cares, especially investors.

New comment by nokya in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

nokya — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:49:32 +0000

"What is not a question is that a criminal investigation is now open." Good. These companies deserve each and every stone thrown at them, and much more.

New comment by nokya in "The View from RSS"

nokya — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:39:48 +0000

And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.

New comment by nokya in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

nokya — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:59:14 +0000

Instead of focusing on sabotaging his employees life outside work for the sake of "prototypes", he should focus on fixing bugs in his apps.

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: What frustrates Engineering Managers most?"

nokya — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:49:33 +0000

1) Non-automated reporting (e.g., timesheets) 2) Incompetent sales team 3) CEO who doesn't understand the business

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy?"

nokya — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:55:42 +0000

Yes, I can agree with you, did not think of that and it seems to be a perfectly valid motive.

Still, I wonder: who would fall in the "highly susceptible" category? Wouldn't these people need to be tested prior to actually knowing they should be tested? (what would push someone to be tested for susceptibility of birthing malformed children before being tested?)

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy?"

nokya — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:57:53 +0000

Okay. Let's assume your top priority is to test for genetic health issues, I will also assume that you either plan on reducing the risk of future complications or you are factoring this information into account when deciding to get children (otherwise, why would you want this information?).

In the first case (reducing risk factors), chances that you will at least check positive for one thing are almost 1 (certain) and you don't need a test to know that. In almost all cases, limiting the risk will involve a) eating well b) stopping alcohol / smoking c) regular physical activity d) taking some Aspirin for the remainder of your life. You don't need the test results to start doing this. Either you sincerely want to live longer and shouldn't wait for genetic screening to take your matters into your own hands, or you think that test results will suddenly turn you into a monk. News flash: won't happen.

In the second case (whether or not to procreate): any decision you make on the hypothesis that your children will inherit it and that science will not have solved it in the next 50 years will very likely be a bad reason to not have children (there are many good reasons to not have children, though, but having a rare genetic conditions is not a good reason).

The only people who should not have kids are bad parents and people who don't want kids. Guess what? These two groups that probably have the highest amount of kids on Earth.

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy?"

nokya — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:11:29 +0000

Why not start with your threat model? What are you actually worried about, then let us look into the options.

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?"

nokya — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:41:29 +0000

The mental cost of going there is just too high. For the first time in twenty+ years, I won't be attending any of the regular conferences in the US this year. Funny note: we just hired two Americans (unrelated) back to back, they will be moving here with their family. Reason given: "had to go live somewhere else".

New comment by nokya in "TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister"

nokya — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:05:34 +0000

Having a foreign and hostile both economic and military adversary fully controlling an app that is installed on 18 million smartphones in UK is a national security issue. Not cat videos. Too bad this concept has become too difficult to understand for most European "leaders" (and journalists...).

New comment by nokya in "How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode"

nokya — Mon, 06 May 2024 04:56:04 +0000

Lesson 4: mediocrity has become the most effective path to fame in a modern (and mediocre) world.

What's next? An article that explains why the bill stacks up when you log all denied fw packets?

New comment by nokya in "In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of"

nokya — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 05:37:40 +0000

Funny. As I started reading your comment, I reacted with a big "wow, Facebook would actually offer that option?"

Then I reached your "but it doesn't work".

Happy everything became normal again :)

New comment by nokya in "Why the serverless revolution has stalled (2020)"

nokya — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:31:13 +0000

TLDR: serverless is interesting to whoever won't pull out an Excel spreadsheet and compare costs.

New comment by nokya in "How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back"

nokya — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 06:23:53 +0000

Which is a good thing. Why reward stealers? YouTube is not a free service and they have all the right to engage into aggressive practice once you decide to unlawfully bypass their ads.

Let's not confuse things here:

- deceptive UI/UX to encourage users to surrender their privacy

- profiling paid or unpaid users

- displaying ads

Only two of the above are issues.

New comment by nokya in "After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022)"

nokya — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:20:42 +0000

Many people who self-host email do so to avoid having years of all their personal email communications logs centralized at one third-party company with ether lax security or lax privacy.

It seems to me that you are proposing exactly this: routing all emails through one of these companies. How can this be a solution to "self-hosting"?

New comment by nokya in "Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android"

nokya — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:53:29 +0000

I don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand the difference between open source and free software.

I don't mind at all paying for open source software, and I don't see why I shouldn't. My expectations/preference for open source software is purely motivated by resilience (enabling continuity of service in the case the original editor goes bankrupt or stops innovating its product) and security (enabling the community by offering access to the inner functioning of the product).

The article title and intro (seems to be removed now) seem to try shaming Google for charging for Android. Android as a ton of issues but I don't think not being available for free is the issue.

New comment by nokya in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

nokya — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:43:16 +0000

A bit late to the party, but in case you track replies, I can recommend the Avantree "Audikast Plus" device. Negligible weight, it gives you Bluetooth capability for two simultaneous headphones as long as you can plug it into a 3.5mm jack. I have been carrying it in my travel bag for years (the current model looks identical but is Bluetooth 5.0 compatible) and it makes our flights and hotel trips a delight (sound experience, I meant).

New comment by nokya in "Idempotency"

nokya — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:18:37 +0000

"The PUT method is used to update a resource on the server. It is idempotent because sending the same request multiple times will result in the same resource state as if the request had only been sent once."

That's where I stopped reading.