Hacker News: rasjani

New comment by rasjani in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

rasjani — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:58:23 +0000

So this was not only about FSFE and payments for them but a general audit of their (Nexi's) customers ?

FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

rasjani — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451429

Points: 109

# Comments: 27

New comment by rasjani in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

rasjani — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:42:30 +0000

I read Finnish version of Hobbit that had Tove's art about 40 years ago.

New comment by rasjani in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

rasjani — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:59:36 +0000

Finnish public broadcasting company YLE has same rule. Even if they do cleanups of still images, they need to mark that article has AI generated content.

New comment by rasjani in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

rasjani — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:18:11 +0000

I was under impression that Oxide rack does not currently ship with GPU's - at least with buildin. . Has this changed recently ?

New comment by rasjani in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

rasjani — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:18:57 +0000

In finnish, if you google for "spotti", first hit leads to "MTV SPOTTI". MTV is local tv channel and "spotti" is their advertisement portal to purchase their ad services. Second hit leads to "crossword puzzle" site that lists the word "spotti" with multiple explanations that refers to advertisement. Of course spotti has other meanings but its a term used for ads.. I do not know the etymology of that word in finnish but Finland and Sweden do share a lot of words , specifically when spoken.

So, while "spotify" meaning to add ads, might be fun theory, it does make a lot of sense from nordics point of view..

New comment by rasjani in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

rasjani — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:11:08 +0000

> when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ?

My opinion on this: docker sort of changed the game here. It sort of enabled a lot of people to get a "new and fresh" level of abstraction to not bother about bare metal.

As an example, I work in company where most consultants are doing DevOps and k8 is big part of that.

What made me consider that? I've been told multiple times that "you know your stuff" when I mention some kernel or userland feature that container approach provides.

New comment by rasjani in "Building a Custom eBPF Filesystem Watcher to Catch Root Ownership Goofs"

rasjani — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:07:05 +0000

I wonder if this could be done with PythonBPF that was on HN about week ago ?

New comment by rasjani in "HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports"

rasjani — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:46:23 +0000

I know few modules that can take seconds to import but would have been nice to hear how much they actually gained?

Also maybe, if this approach could yield stats on if some import was needed or not ?

New comment by rasjani in "Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]"

rasjani — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:13:27 +0000

Git also ships bash for windows and doesn't require WSL. Can be even set as a default shell for OpenSSH so you can just ssh into windows bash...

New comment by rasjani in "The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist"

rasjani — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:28:14 +0000

Without actually knowing, i'd guess that would generate bytecode's that could be modified later by patching the resulting binary ?

I remember few buddies using similar pattern in ASM that just added n NOP's into code to allow patching and thus eliminating possible recompilation..

New comment by rasjani in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

rasjani — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:14:44 +0000

Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound design podcast) had episode about Bluey with its sound designer Dan Brumm last year.

https://www.20k.org/episodes/thesoundofbluey

New comment by rasjani in "I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox"

rasjani — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:55:02 +0000

Webmidi is godsent for Akai LPD8 controllers. It came with software that's used to reprogramming midi banks. Software never got updates and doesnt work anymore in any modern mac. Thank $deity for webmidi and some reverse engineering, i can reprogram it to a degree that its at least functional and dont need to throw it away.

New comment by rasjani in "Automated accessibility testing at Slack"

rasjani — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:08:44 +0000

Either there's some very long queue or that signup page for slack invite doesn't work.

New comment by rasjani in "Automated accessibility testing at Slack"

rasjani — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:08:14 +0000

Been running somewhat similar combo few months and toy'd around with taking the screenshots of the selectors axe-core/playwright reports as I didn't notice such feature in neither playwright or its html reporter. Do you happen to know if slack patched this or is this feature available somehow ?

And if you are willing to answer some other questions regarding axe-core itself, I might have few.

New comment by rasjani in "Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine"

rasjani — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:19:20 +0000

> I was berated for not being able to remember if a System.Tick was 10nanoseconds or 100nanoseconds.

Had somewhat similar scenario. Company's internal headhunters had reached out to me once already before and I did few interview rounds with them and said no. Year later they reached out to me again and had to go thru tech interview again.. during that I did help(sleep) on python repl and mentioned why; since I haven't used sleeps on my own code I wanted I make sure that if sleep will yield cpu time or not. Mood of the interview changed at that point and got rejected by not having enough skills in Python.

Another case; One of the interviewers was late to the meeting and started to shout profanities cuz my Audio Quality was poor. And it was - thanks Sony XM's but the way he acted on the call really gave lasting impression on their "company culture"

New comment by rasjani in "Clanging"

rasjani — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:48:14 +0000

In Finnish thats called "laukkaa", in English thats "gallop"

New comment by rasjani in "Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love"

rasjani — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:33:27 +0000

Maybe the genre list could be a bit more extended ? For example, consider "reggae". While one could think that dancehall is also reggae, its sort of rare that people who would enjoy rocksteady would be pleased to get something from dancehall just because the "top level genre" matches ?

New comment by rasjani in "Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser"

rasjani — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:34:18 +0000

Feature is called "stems" and its also available on most major dj apps like Serato and Rekordbox

New comment by rasjani in "A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion"

rasjani — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:47:35 +0000

There's Finnish company called Norsepower that makes these. Their page does mention that the idea also came up around the same time to Finnish inventor Sigurd Savonius who also held some patents around this area. Linked wiki entry didn't seem to mention him thought. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd_Johannes_Savonius

And https://www.norsepower.com/

Ps. I don't know anything about the topic - just internet rabbit hole for me as I recently came to know that Norsepower's CMO is well known ex-musician in Finland and startup entrepreneur.