Hacker News: nonick

New comment by nonick in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

nonick — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:37:13 +0000

Ingress still exists and has a similar scanning mechanism.

New comment by nonick in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

nonick — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:28:32 +0000

Or maybe kill themselves, since most scans are from the cities they live in.

New comment by nonick in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

nonick — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:28:26 +0000

Romania too has e-invoice (e-factura).

New comment by nonick in "Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living"

nonick — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:40:47 +0000

I have used flipstory.com (no longer in business) in 2011 cu create 2 very nice flipbooks. It was 7,99 Euros, transport included from France to Romania. I still enjoy it, I keep it beside other family photos, as it's my months old son crawling on the floor towards the camera. Good luck!

New comment by nonick in "Horses may have been domesticated twice"

nonick — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:53:40 +0000

You can walk that much if you are healthy, have roads, have enough food and water, good clothing and shoes, there are no dangers that must be avoided and if you know what your destination is. If you have to stop daily to get food (hunting or gathering fruit), avoid or fight dangerous people and animals, figure out best ways to get along while carying whaterver possesions they had, shelter from bad weather, prospect for places to settle permanently or temporarily then it's a completely different story. It's also not like they had a deadline or something.

New comment by nonick in "We have to build differently with concrete"

nonick — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:57:34 +0000

There's a Romanian startup that tries to address part of the issue. They estimate that their technology can decrease concrete use by 30%: https://svelte.eu/

New comment by nonick in "Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV"

nonick — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:48:19 +0000

I've accidentally discovered that adjusting the sound volume from the keyboard exposes the title of the video in the popup: https://imgur.com/gallery/K3oUFlb

New comment by nonick in "Stackit: Cloud and Colocation"

nonick — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:04:27 +0000

Same in Romania, biggest salaries in the industry.

New comment by nonick in "I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law"

nonick — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:41:23 +0000

He and the other elected auditor should make that oath in front of the notary public and then make the township supervisors pay out their own pocket for the elections they held knowing they would ignore the outcome.

New comment by nonick in "The Mythology of Red Bull"

nonick — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:07:47 +0000

In the town that I live in, Red Bull is the sponsor of what they call "The World's Toughest Hard Enduro Rallye". Every year it draws a crowd of tourists to the city and produces some great entertainment. https://www.redbullromaniacs.com/

New comment by nonick in "I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)"

nonick — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:03:37 +0000

From a 4-by-4 inch square you can make 4 2-by-2 inch squares, therefore the loss from 4 small squares would be 0.86x4=3.44, same as one large square.

New comment by nonick in "I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)"

nonick — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 15:09:43 +0000

"Most cans" you see there are the small ones. But as the quantity grows, it is the height of the can that grows, and not the diameter. https://www.google.com/search?q=large+cat+food+can

New comment by nonick in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

nonick — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:47:28 +0000

I have never heard of this grape variety before, now I read this and the next thing I see is Lidl's next week's wine offer for St. Laurent/Spätburgunder wine. I will give it a try!

New comment by nonick in "Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet"

nonick — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:53:44 +0000

You could blame Boeing for not taking control of the planes from the ground and prevent the terrorists steering them into the towers.

New comment by nonick in "Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet"

nonick — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:23:03 +0000

The dangerous precedent I see is Microsoft making justice for itself (with authorization from a judge, but still, when did Microsoft become law-enforcement?). Blaming Microsoft for building "vulnerable software" because someone is targeting their OS with their malware is like blaming Boeing because their planes were used for the 9/11 attacks.

New comment by nonick in "Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man?"

nonick — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:41:10 +0000

I guess it's OK if I take a picture during daytime and then alter it digitally to look as if it was taken at night.

New comment by nonick in "State of Linux Desktop Security"

nonick — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:08:22 +0000

> Chrome itself is a security nightmare, always with the mic on and listening

I can understand the mic being always on as a privacy nightmare, but how is this a security nightmare?

New comment by nonick in "Time to Upgrade Your Monitor"

nonick — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 05:46:12 +0000

Too yellow, couldn't read. Changing to dark mode resulted in black fonts on black background. End of story.

New comment by nonick in "A new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers"

nonick — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:28:33 +0000

That is exactly what happened in Romania on August 10, 2018, when a peaceful protest was met with tear gas and Police violence, while law enforcement covered the ID numbers on their helmets. https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/jandarmi-cu-indicati... (in Romanian, but pictures tell the story)

New comment by nonick in "Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen"

nonick — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:32:40 +0000

It's kind of the same in reverse - does a parent encourage their children to embrace a risky sport/activity (karting, skiing, diving etc.) or keep them in the safety of home for fear of accident or death? We wouldn't have F1 or IndyCar drivers, ski jumpers, etc. if all parents were too protective. It's difficult to find the right balance and to give a perfect recipe and it would be impossible to eliminate all risk.