Hacker News: qznc

New comment by qznc in "Schedule tasks on the web"

qznc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:38:38 +0000

And yet it probably covers 90% of what people use OpenClaw for.

New comment by qznc in "Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily"

qznc — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:45:22 +0000

I would have appreciated a sarcastic summary like http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

New comment by qznc in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

qznc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:48:17 +0000

In many cases the system is perfectly safe when it shuts off. Two is enough for that.

New comment by qznc in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

qznc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:24:40 +0000

The simplest one is a watchdog: If something stops with regular notifications, then restart stuff.

New comment by qznc in "How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice"

qznc — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:27:51 +0000

I recently (mostly vibe-) coded myself a Firefox addon which indexes every page I visit locally: https://codeberg.org/copacetic/where_did_i_read

New comment by qznc in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

qznc — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:26:27 +0000

I know that automotive parts of the standard requirement to withstand 80°C (or 120°C for military use). A robot vacuum working in a living room can probably be made cheaper because it does not have to face as harsh environments?

Also, range is probably a factor. In a living room, you probably need something like 20m max. You car should "see" farther.

New comment by qznc in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

qznc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:10:43 +0000

Zed can "extract function" for Rust code. I guess, it depends on the language server you use? Since vscode and zed use the same there is not distinction between them.

New comment by qznc in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

qznc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:49:34 +0000

Zed competes mostly against Visual Studio Code. Not against Jetbrains.

New comment by qznc in "Systems Thinking"

qznc — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:59:44 +0000

I find the title misleading. While the author is "thinking about systems", this is not about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking

New comment by qznc in "Systems Thinking"

qznc — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:58:42 +0000

> There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff.

That feels like a straw man to me. This is not a binary question. For each small design decision you have a choice about how much uncertainty you accept.

There are no "two schools". There is at least a spectrum between two extremes and no real project was ever at either of the very ends of it. Actually, I don't think spectrum is a proper word even because this is not just a single dimension. For example, speed and risk often correlate but they are also somewhat independent and sometimes they anti-correlate.

New comment by qznc in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

qznc — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:46:41 +0000

It would be an interesting idea that people would have get a "drivers license" before they are allowed to use an AI.

New comment by qznc in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

qznc — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:20:30 +0000

It seems to have features I was not aware of. I would not have guessed that it contains anything networking-related.

New comment by qznc in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

qznc — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:22:19 +0000

With that domain name, I expected to see this Grok-based mutation of Wikipedia. I guess, the "x" just has a negative association with me now.

New comment by qznc in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

qznc — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:19:50 +0000

We’re talking about Twitter. Mastodon exists. It is not about making software. Maybe about selling it or marketing.

New comment by qznc in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

qznc — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:07:19 +0000

You probably think about Munich and LiMux. Well, Microsoft had to move their German HQ there to get them back.

New comment by qznc in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

qznc — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:05:05 +0000

And at the same time, Germany spied on Obama.

New comment by qznc in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

qznc — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:36:33 +0000

Ack. I went down that rabbit hole to "just" build a static Python: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/python_bazel.html

New comment by qznc in "A static site generator written in POSIX shell"

qznc — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:44:53 +0000

For GitHub just use Jekyll provided by GitHub itself?

New comment by qznc in "Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults"

qznc — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:19:51 +0000

Gold price is high, so why not just sell it?

Meanwhile Germany could silently buy gold at home and let the market handle where it comes from.

New comment by qznc in "New YC homepage"

qznc — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:29:01 +0000

In my memory, the original vibe of Ycombinator was more like "achieve fuck-you money in your twenties" than today's unicorn chase.