Hacker News: rixed

New comment by rixed in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

rixed — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:03:15 +0000

Serviceability by owner is less and less important as fewer and fewer owners actually do maintenance themselves, though.

New comment by rixed in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

rixed — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:59:07 +0000

Option 1: "I am so much smarter than these stupid engineers"

Option 2: "Certainly, I do not understand the various trade offs that led to this design"

I wished at least in software tech circles there would be more of option 2 kind of thinking.

New comment by rixed in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

rixed — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:24:44 +0000

I've been not betting on x86 in the long term since the PowerPC was announced ;)

New comment by rixed in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

rixed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:54:09 +0000

It's sad to admit, but being a chef étoilé does not make it easier to find a job in the fast food industry. It can even be detrimental.

New comment by rixed in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

rixed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:46:29 +0000

Am I the only one to believe that they used Lego, a company strongly associated with Denmark, to prime Europeans into associating Iran with Greenland?

New comment by rixed in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

rixed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:16:28 +0000

The confusion comes from the fact that the regime which is very clearly better for its own people is also the one which actions are clearly awful for the rest of the world (if only because it has vastly larger means).

New comment by rixed in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

rixed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:00:32 +0000

So one side is evil while the other side is just wrong ?

Like after 300k deaths in Irak when the administration said "sorry we have been misled by wrong information about the WMD"? They made a mistake, yet Iraqis were evil.

New comment by rixed in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

rixed — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:08:33 +0000

In other words, those industries that used to run windows before ?

New comment by rixed in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

rixed — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:45:07 +0000

There is serious as in "corporate-serious" and serious as in "engineer-serious".

New comment by rixed in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

rixed — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:39:14 +0000

The analogy with human brains suggests that it would not end very well.

New comment by rixed in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

rixed — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:16:39 +0000

Most importantly, people need to understand how indication leads to verification.

New comment by rixed in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

rixed — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:53:50 +0000

FYI, your site seams to return only 403s right now.

New comment by rixed in "The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West"

rixed — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:56:51 +0000

For the record, Bush the 2nd also campaigned on non interventionism.

New comment by rixed in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

rixed — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:40:39 +0000

Is it really great for that? In my experience, LinkedIn makes finding a job easier as much as Facebook makes it easy to find friends... LinkedIn encouraged and made normal gross exagerations and overall dishonest discussions and relationships and recommendations that made it impossible to form any valuable opinion about anyone or anything.

New comment by rixed in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

rixed — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:32:57 +0000

Some links?

New comment by rixed in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

rixed — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:33:25 +0000

Not only it's huge and slow, but the design is broken (some elements frequently masking others, like the top banner masking half the top menu, or the icons masking the search box), and it's full of errors.

I had to use it this very morning (yes, that's a new low) and met two errors in two pages. Asked Claude about those bugs, and it made fun of me because they were well known bugs. Even for AIs LinkedIn website is slop apparently.

This HN post to collectively vent some frustration comes in a timely fashion.

(For the record: the first bug was "another admin is already editing this page" making it impossible to edit a business page translations, and the next one was wrong people count when associating personnal profiles to business ones).

New comment by rixed in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

rixed — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:47:59 +0000

This is quite misleading and partisan to present this as "FBI director's personal email" when the emails far predate his current role.

If I had downloaded those emails, which I haven't because I know of no website that archives the internet, and if I had read them, which I haven't because that would be a breach of someone's privacy, then certainly I would have figured out that it contains no spicy state secrets. But why spend one hour assessing an information when you can get clicks by suggesting something bigger?

Those supposedly Iranian hackers surely know how to hack the western media to get attention.

I found it actually more informative to read on the sad history of the Dena, the ship whose victims this leak was dedicated to, so it's not been a complete waste of time.

New comment by rixed in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

rixed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:06:24 +0000

It's also fair to play with the idea that the whole US political establishment understood this, and agree with the plan, thus why the Dems have stayed so silent on those matters.

New comment by rixed in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

rixed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:27:30 +0000

At one point you have to consider the possibility that destabilisation is the objective and the apparent stupidity just an excuse.

New comment by rixed in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

rixed — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:08:32 +0000

This is what the whole society is for, why singling out this aspect of behavior?

Education? Safety? Environment? Justice? Is this not also, then, what parents are for?