Hacker News: not_your_vase

New comment by not_your_vase in "Postgress in Rust"

not_your_vase — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:23:44 +0000

Cool

New comment by not_your_vase in "AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees"

not_your_vase — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:30:17 +0000

The article seems to be more about Oracle being forced to cough up $7B as collateral for one of their new shiny (future-) data centers - even though apparently they tried to make this requirement go away, but the regulators weren't touched by their crocodile tears.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

not_your_vase — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:25:37 +0000

Oh, shoot. Though I don't have many vibecoded projects, when I decided to move to Codeberg from Github the first project I pushed to codeberg was a vibecoded one

I guess there is a bright side too: it forces me to selfhost my repos, something I planned to do since years.

New comment by not_your_vase in "I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run"

not_your_vase — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:31:15 +0000

That's not very accurate. It sees 8 GB RAM instead of 64. And it detects GTX 9 GPU, though I have an RTX30 one.

(Edit: now it came to my mind that Firefox has fingerprinting protection by default. But even after whitelisting this website, the result is the same)

New comment by not_your_vase in "Vladimir Putin's Internet Adviser Owns a Torrent Site (2016)"

not_your_vase — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:55:01 +0000

This made me remember something from the early 90s, which was pretty weird when I look back. I grew up in a post-socialist country, and copyright laws were all over the place.

I remember there was a weekly broadcast at one of the state operated radios: every week they played one popular album from start to finish without interruption, so people could record it on tape (somewhere around the 30-minutes mark there was a short pause, so people could flip the cassette). They were doing whole discographies, for example they were playing all Deep Purple albums over the course of a few months, one album each week.

And it was totally normal back then, lol.

New comment by not_your_vase in "In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you"

not_your_vase — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:17:46 +0000

Have been wondering since a long time if there are still any real reviews on the internet, that weren't paid for by someone, something that could be trusted. I really can't remember when was the last review that turned out to be true.

But while I do believe that there is a real hole in the market there, I am not sure how big that market is, if there is really a demand for real reviews - both products and services (and whatever else can be reviewed)

New comment by not_your_vase in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

not_your_vase — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:05:05 +0000

Lol, Friday deployment is a bad omen even with LLM. Some things are just unchangeable facts of life.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

not_your_vase — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:47:24 +0000

This has happened dozens of times, and it will keep happening as long as people don't care about it.

Long live offline physical media, and The Pirate Bay.

New comment by not_your_vase in "An Elite NYC Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black"

not_your_vase — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:44:09 +0000

hmm.. well... haha, you might be right. I think have some overly aggressive ublock filters. If I disable ublock, then I get the equivalent of hell on this link.

I take back my complaint about text selection.

New comment by not_your_vase in "An Elite NYC Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black"

not_your_vase — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:35:25 +0000

    The sole criterion for admission is a 114-question, three-hour exam known as...

1. [Screw NYT for disabling text selection, and I had to type this in] Edit: probably that was my bad.

2. This sounds like a very important sentence, and begs at least 2 questions: "is the selection really racist as implied by the title", and the other one is "why is the result like that"? IMO the answer to the first question (based on the article at least) is no. I have no answer for the second.

New comment by not_your_vase in "'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C"

not_your_vase — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:58:01 +0000

While I don't hate Rust (even have a couple of private projects written in Rust, and plan to use it in the future also), I wouldn't really call it fun, as a personal opinion. I find Rust code usually pretty ugly, and some of the abstractions can make it challenging to understand. Compared to it, C is plain and simple. I still find more joy in writing C code - though for some goals it isn't my first choice.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Apple Acquiring SigScalr"

not_your_vase — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:57:24 +0000

    In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr...

In other news, all of sigscalr's repositories now have a header saying

    This repository was archived by the owner on Mar 13, 2026. It is now read-only.

Not that I used it, this is the first time I hear about it. But it's always sad when an OSS ends, especially like that.

New comment by not_your_vase in "So I am building my own web search engine"

not_your_vase — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:18:26 +0000

    No results for "porn".

Huhh, are you indexing the same internet that we are using to post these messages?

Multi-word search is doing some interesting things. When I search for "4chan magic ball" I'd expect a picture with a magic 8-ball, but instead I am getting almost random, unrelated results. Similar for "vhdl flip flop" search, I'd expect to see a flip-flop implementation.

Do you plan to keep it online for the long term, or is it more like for your current amusement?

New comment by not_your_vase in "SF judge OKs lawsuit against United over windowless window seats"

not_your_vase — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:05:51 +0000

After learning that boneless chicken wings can contain bones, I won't be surprised if United would win this.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?"

not_your_vase — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:06:01 +0000

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Firefox new Wrexham shirt sponsor"

not_your_vase — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:04:23 +0000

I wonder if it's like a hail mary before going out on a whimper, or if they really have this kind of money to spend

New comment by not_your_vase in "Ask HN: Why coding assistants are so bad at UI?"

not_your_vase — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:53:18 +0000

On one hand they can't see. Haven't seen a "give me an svg unicorn" test since a while, but I guess their performance hasn't changed a lot. If you give broad prompts, then that will result usually in some garbage.

As an anecdata, a few weeks ago I was creating some UI with libSDL for an embedded project with Claude, and I was quite impressed with the result. Granted, I specified everything I could think about: I instructed it page by page, iterating button by button and label by label.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Microsoft once tried to use MS SQL Server in windows file system"

not_your_vase — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:41 +0000

Unfortunately it's a bit of an empty article.

    The first reason was the hardware; in the year 2000, the hardware was not capable enough to execute such a complex system

I wonder if there is some source for this. People were able to run SQL servers in 2000 without much of a problem, it didn't need a mainframe to run a DB that fit on a consumer HDD.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure'"

not_your_vase — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:52:09 +0000

    The next decade of gaming will be [...] more creative than anything we’ve seen before.

In the AI era? Lol. Lmao, even.

New comment by not_your_vase in "Phosh 0.56.0"

not_your_vase — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:25:13 +0000

As long as every phone distro is just a desktop distro shoehorned on a small screen, that's not gonna happen.

IMO it's not a matter of tap to pay and camera quality, rather a matter of whole system paradigm. Having millions of disconnected services in the "do one thing and do it right" spirit and using text based communication and hundreds of python and shell scripts is relatively maintainable and relatively easy to use, but very inefficient when it comes to CPU cycles - and on a handheld every cycle counts.

And of course every app is optimized for desktops/laptops... but I guess that's a chicken-or-egg problem: once there is a working distro, there will be apps too. And once there will be apps to use, there will be a working distro. Maybe.