Hacker News: orra

New comment by orra in ".name Termination"

orra — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:27:38 +0000

Nobody owns the .co part of .co.uk. If you buy foo.co.uk, that is registered with Nominet, who are the registry for .uk.

New comment by orra in ".name Termination"

orra — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:22:24 +0000

There will other people with the Fraser surname in the exact same position.

New comment by orra in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

orra — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:52:20 +0000

This is really cool! There have been many DEC Alpha emulators over the years, but none have been capable of running Windows NT.

New comment by orra in "TypeScript 7.0 RC"

orra — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:05:33 +0000

I need to know whether the speedup holds for truly gigantic projects such as Doom in Typescript types.

New comment by orra in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

orra — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:50:18 +0000

> I think the non-profit has around 25% ownership of something that is around a trillion dollars of on-paper money.

But the purpose of a non profit is not to maximise profit in a for profit investment.

How well is non profit doing at furthering its goals? It formerly had the purpose of “safely” ensuring artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It looks like it gave up on that so its staff could be incredibly rich.

New comment by orra in "Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License)"

orra — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:38:51 +0000

Oh! This is cool. When they announced it 5 months ago it looked interesting, but it wasn't open source. Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537035

With this being open sourced, and being the integration and creation of several fast components, this becomes an obvious recommendation for JS/TS. Similar to Cargo for Rust and uv for Python, yes?

New comment by orra in "O'saasy License Agreement"

orra — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:41:17 +0000

The page summarises the license as “Basically… the MIT do-whatever-you-want license”. The MIT license is of course one of the most popular permissive open source licenses.

This is an incredibly misleading comparison. The subsequent clause is a complete contradiction, not a subtle clarification.

New comment by orra in "Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum"

orra — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:52:23 +0000

My point is you can make things cheaper for locals. But local means local: it doesn't mean national.

New comment by orra in "Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum"

orra — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:18:26 +0000

Charging EU citizens more than French citizens would be illegal discrimination under EU law. (It might be legal to charge local Parisians less.)

For example see https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/12/ec-demands-end-to-portugal...

New comment by orra in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

orra — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:26:49 +0000

Often in these conversations we forget that editing is different from editorializing. Editing can make meaning clearer! (In this example, reactions are mixed as to whether it was successful).

Editorializing, on the other hand, is about adding clickbait or bias.

New comment by orra in "MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code"

orra — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:38:19 +0000

It's a farce, though. We're told these LLMs can already perform our jobs, so why should they need something curated? A human developer often gets given a dump of information (or nothing at all), and has to figure out what works and what is important.

New comment by orra in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

orra — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:26:29 +0000

In particular I think it's nice for uv and ruff to remain open source, not open core. And as you say, companies always need paid private registries, for their internal software. A true win-win.

New comment by orra in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

orra — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:50:38 +0000

Laughs in 230V (sorry).

New comment by orra in "Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England"

orra — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:07:36 +0000

> Must be a truly dangerous place...

I don't know if you're awaee, but the number of arrests for terrorism has skyrocketed in recent months, in the UK.

Sounds terrifying, until you realise people were arrested as terrorists for holding placards. (That fact is of course terrifying, but in a chilling way).

New comment by orra in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

orra — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:31:26 +0000

That sounds incredibly boring.

Is it effective? If so I'm sure we'll see models to generate those context.md files.

New comment by orra in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

orra — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:59:41 +0000

I remember this episode too. The answer is four thousand times bigger than the Eddington Limit. Blimey!

The episode is called “The NEW Ultimate Energy Limit of the Universe”. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0rzgYzbzq5Q

New comment by orra in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

orra — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:37:01 +0000

Surprisingly little comment about the anticompetitive nature of selling this service for a dollar. Not even a dollar per employee, a dollar in total.

That is WAY below cost. It's anticompetitive, and a bait and switch will happen down the line.

New comment by orra in "Open models by OpenAI"

orra — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:46:30 +0000

Water is expensive to move (except by pipes), and expensive to purify from salt water. This is why regional droughts are a bad thing.

Fresh clean water in your area is a wonderful thing.

New comment by orra in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

orra — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:16:12 +0000

That's an interesting perspective.

Tangentially, I've long wondered about sci fi like Star Trek. Namely, even with FTL, how large can your interplanetary alliance be? How far away can the parliament be? Over what distances can you defend against common enemies? Trade? Culturally exchange ideas?

New comment by orra in "OpenAI o3-pro"

orra — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:28:35 +0000

Zune .NET O3... shudders