Hacker News: nubinetwork

New comment by nubinetwork in "Nurses Are in High Demand–But They're Quitting in Droves"

nubinetwork — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:39:08 +0000

They're also replaced in droves. We build hundreds of new student accounts at $dayjob on a monthly basis.

New comment by nubinetwork in "The reverts will continue until morale improves"

nubinetwork — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:46:48 +0000

> ...you’re staring at a list of like forty defect reports. And even if each of them requires only a three-line fix on average, there is a fixed overhead to dealing with each of these, and then you run out of time.

I'm not sure I understand this, for an OSS project, the only timeframes at play are self-imposed. I don't think most people would care if you pushed a release back by a week to fix some last minute bugs. /shrug

New comment by nubinetwork in "Linux 7.3"

nubinetwork — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:41:20 +0000

Just because you have a device tree file, doesn't mean its correct, or even accurate.

New comment by nubinetwork in "The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants ("What's your phone number?")"

nubinetwork — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:36:06 +0000

Phone number is fine, I only got one of those, it's an easy no...

The one I hate is when places ask for my email address... even if I wanted to, I have like 6 email addresses, which one do you want? Don't ask me to repeat it 20 times because you can't spell. Fuck it, I give up, no email either. :(

New comment by nubinetwork in "Waymo in Toronto"

nubinetwork — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:38:33 +0000

You just drive over it until it becomes a thick, flat sheet of ice... and hopefully not rutted, or else you'll get stuck trying to move your car in the morning.

New comment by nubinetwork in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

nubinetwork — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:37:11 +0000

The purpose of the restriction is to keep people from using hacked baofengs to chat on bands a) they're not allowed to use unlicensed b) could potentially already be in use by another service eg EMS/fire/police.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package"

nubinetwork — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:47:22 +0000

I tried some months ago, and it'll make a blank one fine, but if you need a complex configure or install phase, I felt I was better off doing it by hand.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package"

nubinetwork — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:08:17 +0000

Most ai wouldn't know how to write a proper ebuild to save their lives.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Major ICQ security hole (1998)"

nubinetwork — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:02:52 +0000

Unix crypt only accepted 8 characters and ignored the rest. If your password was 123456789, it was considered the same as 12345678a.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

nubinetwork — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:06:08 +0000

A modern computer runs circles around your 90s computer... if the code was the same, it should be crazy fast. Instead, everything is a web browser, and each of them need to load 1gb of junk into memory each time you click on them.

New comment by nubinetwork in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

nubinetwork — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:33:10 +0000

I get llm-like traffic on domains with zero web content (never was, probably never will be any).

Just merely existing will get you scanned these days.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

nubinetwork — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:16:50 +0000

How big are we talking? I download ISOs all the time...

New comment by nubinetwork in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

nubinetwork — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:05:08 +0000

For what its worth, some databases just run like trash. I've put a database on nvme raid and still had some queries take 5 seconds.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

nubinetwork — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:37:58 +0000

TA's ai was pretty dumb, actually... on most maps with unpassable water, they'll happily crank out kbots without building any ships or planes, until it hits the unit limit.

New comment by nubinetwork in "IRCv3"

nubinetwork — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:44:25 +0000

I can't be bothered to sign up for both libera and oftc. When everything was on freenode, you didn't have to jump through any hoops just to ask a question.

New comment by nubinetwork in "IRCv3"

nubinetwork — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:40:24 +0000

IRC is dead to me, you can thank Andrew Lee (of Freenode infamy) for that one.

New comment by nubinetwork in "ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains"

nubinetwork — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:37:20 +0000

Please, no more... don't we already have enough junk tlds?

New comment by nubinetwork in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

nubinetwork — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:52:54 +0000

Was surprised not to see whales on the list

New comment by nubinetwork in "VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next"

nubinetwork — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:24:36 +0000

They tout vghf as a museum, but you're really funding Frank's private collection.

New comment by nubinetwork in "Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners"

nubinetwork — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:42:57 +0000

Theoretically speaking, a person could get themselves blocked, request an unblocking, and keep on spamming, hoping they won't get blocked again.