Hacker News: poisonborz

New comment by poisonborz in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

poisonborz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:48:28 +0000

But that makes you more dependent on externalities, a battery makes you more independent instead.

New comment by poisonborz in "Incident with Github.com"

poisonborz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:17:12 +0000

For which team would be a plain git server enough to manage a codebase?

New comment by poisonborz in "Incident with Github.com"

poisonborz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:17:52 +0000

Github and other providers before proved that git itself is just a small part of managing code, there's a lot more needed for a full workflow, and it's meaningful for it all to be tightly coupled.

New comment by poisonborz in "Incident with Github.com"

poisonborz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:13:35 +0000

How did this become a boomer opinion? It is proved truth thousand times a day. Not that you shouldn't use third parties - but in this industry you can shrink this exposure to the minimum, and have plan B for anything else.

New comment by poisonborz in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

poisonborz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:35:43 +0000

But pay for who? $50 for a cheaper competitor? $20 for a chinese one? Or just buy hardware and host/co-host for privacy? And to balance the insane spending even your $60-80 example would be hardly enough from that white collar audience.

New comment by poisonborz in "More German than many Germans"

poisonborz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:00:38 +0000

It is the UK/Nordic system which I find morbidly bad. It already assumes you will never pay off the property and you pass it down to family and children, possibly multiple generations. It allows for property prices to go to the moon instead of incentivising for affordability. Makes for a system giving up owning property. How did we humans come to this.

New comment by poisonborz in "More German than many Germans"

poisonborz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:13:43 +0000

A normal sized plot with a house listed to be torn down on in outskirts of Zurich costs 7mil. A 2 bedroom apartment on the countryside costs 2mil. You will not pay this in a lifetime from 2 good level swiss salaries.

New comment by poisonborz in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

poisonborz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:04:50 +0000

With all the other Xbox layoffs, studio shutdowns, price increases, rumors of pulling titles from Steam, what do they still expect from this brand?

New comment by poisonborz in "A directory of people who love RSS"

poisonborz — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:15:16 +0000

Nowadays I see these sites as nothing else but mining grounds for personal profiling by big tech. Nothing can be a cutesy show-off anymore.

New comment by poisonborz in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

poisonborz — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:22:44 +0000

This "no fiddling" could be the single entire counterpoint to the article and hacker culture in general. All the problems stem from "consumer wants no fiddling".

New comment by poisonborz in "ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms"

poisonborz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:39:54 +0000

For billion dollar US megacorporations? Yes, it better be, finally (even though this is a slap on the wrist they will pay). Look at China's rules for internet companies there. Or how friendly the US was with TikTok.

New comment by poisonborz in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

poisonborz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:12:10 +0000

It's why they say social credit system is already way more built out in the US than any other part of the world.

New comment by poisonborz in "Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network"

poisonborz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:39:18 +0000

Or just buy a $15 dongle instead of the crap interference-laden onboard BT and have problem-free USB passtrough as well.

New comment by poisonborz in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

poisonborz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:27:27 +0000

Besides support, the only correct feeling about this "well that sucks, I'll selfhost or open my own source sharing service with different guidelines". I wouldn't have backed this decision - but lots of smaller communities hosting services, backed by different tech, making steering decisions is the right way for the open internet.

New comment by poisonborz in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

poisonborz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Yes this is extremely unresponsible if so. Fingerprints are legally protected biometric data in most juristictions.

New comment by poisonborz in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

poisonborz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:11 +0000

There were hundreds of such misplaced tech hopes, and hundreds that did become true - all those "visionary" quotes of newspapers talking about video calling and remote libraries. Would have anyone advocated a Rust rewrite of Bun before? The community would have frowned upon the idea, saying the effor would never be worth it. And now here we are.

I'm not saying use custom html elements because we can. But if somehow a html button is a valid technical problem, it can be reasonably done well for the scope of that app.

New comment by poisonborz in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

poisonborz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:29:14 +0000

This would have been a very smart and useful article up until 3 years ago. Now with AI doing this work is a minute, with most if not all considerations baked in, if some strange quirk would need it. Frameworks and dependencies made and replaced by custom "ground-up" creations is now a plausible reality. Not necessarily useful but doable and most importantly, testable in a fraction of time. We should readjust our sensibilities to that.

New comment by poisonborz in "LineageOS Statistics"

poisonborz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:05:24 +0000

Wonder how much of those Waydroid installs are from scam farms. I can imagine some legit uses, but not this amount.

New comment by poisonborz in "Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage"

poisonborz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:25 +0000

Oh look it's the quarterly "revolutionary battery tech incoming" article.

New comment by poisonborz in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

poisonborz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:21:34 +0000

Why would you do that? Why not use it to create a detailed plan and let it implement by a low cost model?