Hacker News: okr

New comment by okr in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

okr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:21:14 +0000

To my believe there was not a goal to write good code. The goal was maintainability and to keep it simple, so that people understand. People come and go, you constantly get to see foreign code and you have to do something with it.

Anyways, i see the maintainability hell coming onto us. I still wonder how i organize this with AI. I definitly do not want to touch it what is written by AI.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:42 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:42:37 +0000

Oh man, i can not even imagine setting up something like this by hand. Maybe with terraform.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:37:59 +0000

Thank you.

I pay like 10 euro per month. For tailscale with Mullad VPN, which has like 50 countries setup with several exit-nodes in each country.

But with blocking. :)

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:04:47 +0000

I use tailscale and mullvad vpn for a list of exit nodes i can choose from to work around restrictions, but also bad routing.

Like, when in asia and the route is to europe, sometimes it adds weird hops, while when i use an exit-node in Japan, i know, i have perfect routing to Japan and from there perfect routing to europe.

But the Mullvad VPN exit nodes often runs into problems like cloudflare blocking. So i am looking for alternative, not well known providers for exit-nodes.

Sometimes i even dream of sending my europe traffic via the internal aws network via regions, but hey...

New comment by okr in "Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online"

okr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Or women vs. men, same.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:22:55 +0000

I hope not. I am in general fine with Ads for content, even with profiling to what i listen and so on. But if you pay for subscription to get no Ads and still you get Ads from Spotify, then it is plain stupid.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:55:03 +0000

Piracy is also predatory, just saying.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:49:52 +0000

The last straw was for me the ads on podcasts as a paid subscriber. I miss my playlists.

New comment by okr in "Java 26 is here"

okr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:47:58 +0000

I also like Kotlin. The readability is awesome. ;)

  inline fun  Any?.cryptic() = (this as? T)?.let { it::class.simpleName?.also(::println) } ?: Unit

New comment by okr in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

okr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:08:20 +0000

Competition is good.

Will it be accepted in hotels abroad? Can i withdraw cash at ATM abroad? Can i add it as a card to my Google wallet?

Usually banks app are nightmare. Pins everywhere, extra passwords. MFA not with my dongle....

Sigh.

Seriously, I have had no issues with visa or mastercard. This euro-nationalism is odd to me.

New comment by okr in "Parking lots as economic drains"

okr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:47:56 +0000

Nope. The first thing i do in the warm car, is to turn the music on, making a stop at my favourite coffee shop and then i hit the road, humming my favourite songs. I barely drive anyways, its all automatic.

In mass-transit facilities all the people look at their screens, using headphones, waiting to be coughed on, scared to be not talked to, anxiety all around. Nope, not for me. Never looking into a dirty public toilet again, while the society yells: "but its free!".

Progress, folx, not regress. Come out of your bubbles, ignore the voices, that tell ya, hundreds of human bodies efficiently transported in an iron can is progress! Live! Expand! Use everything!

New comment by okr in "Parking lots as economic drains"

okr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:08:53 +0000

Not in my city. Business is all dying, everyone avoids to go to the centre, everywhere the city fights cars, handy man charge extra just for comings, nah, it's basically gated communities now, well, they can have it, but life happens somewhere else then, where it can expand freely.

New comment by okr in "Parking lots as economic drains"

okr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:06:23 +0000

It is not convenient. It's freezing cold and icy, no walk, no bike, no scooter. Use mass-transit, sure, when you don't care about your life, when it's working, when it's coming regularly, when i don't have to exchange stations, but still, walking from home to a station and back, nah, it all sucks.

Imagining sitting in a cosy, warm pod, driving in a tunnel autonomously, point to point, and you have my vote.

New comment by okr in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

okr — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:26:37 +0000

I do not think it is about seeing certain things, that exist in the adult world. That is surely a side effect that one wants, though, protecting minors from a world that they can not comprehend.

I think it is about algorithms targeting you all the time for hours in favour of a company. We see the effects every day. No attention span. Instant gratification. The next kick.

New comment by okr in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

okr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:57:12 +0000

Are you? Reveal yourself!

New comment by okr in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

okr — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:23:24 +0000

"You won't own anything and you will love it!"

New comment by okr in "All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video]"

okr — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:47:42 +0000

Is there a similar ticket, flat for 50 Dollar per month, that takes you through the US? I wonder who pays for the real cost of the ticket, who cleans and repairs the trains, who invests in infrastructure and all that. I always wonder how the germans can pull this off for 50 Euro. Magic.

New comment by okr in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

okr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:29:07 +0000

Well, if its related to the original poster, then how do you know it is their first time in indonesia? :)) Most likely, :)), it is Bali, and for sure, you can leave wifey alone.

New comment by okr in "Why Speed Matters"

okr — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:43:04 +0000

I am all in favor of continuous development. Program. Check-In. Build. Test. Merge to dev. Build. Test. Merge to master. Build. Test. Deploy. I have a very fancy Play Button, that does everything automatically.

But it always takes like half an hour. :))

I usually start then something else. I have many projects open. But its like....these context switches, they are draining.

So yeah, i like to go the dangerous part, deploy right away from my dev machine. But i get immediate reaction. I dont have to wait. But my mates dont like it. And so i deal with it.