Hacker News: rollulus

New comment by rollulus in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

rollulus — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:44:55 +0000

I realized that in the age of LLMs I appreciate Julia’s writing even more. Authentic exploration as an antidote to overconfident know-it-all generated junk articles.

New comment by rollulus in "98% Isn't Much"

rollulus — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:01:05 +0000

What’s much and what isn’t depends on the context. One hair on your head isn’t much but one hair in your soup is.

New comment by rollulus in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

rollulus — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:58:21 +0000

“We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”

And

“If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'.”

- Jean-Claude Juncker

New comment by rollulus in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"

rollulus — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:10:45 +0000

What I missed in the article: the curves of the three “cone kinds” overlap. What if you could stimulate kinds of cones individually to see entirely new colors? Some people shoot layers at them into eyes. But you can also try this website: https://dynomight.net/colors/ (previously on HN but search fails me).

New comment by rollulus in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

rollulus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:05:17 +0000

Interesting that this got posted now: the project is receiving increasingly more skepticism lately in the Dutch tech scene [0], and I think that’s fully justified.

[0]: https://www.quotenet.nl/zakelijk/a71588202/techondernemers-m...

New comment by rollulus in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

rollulus — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:21:43 +0000

I’m in the very same situation currently. A coworker vibe coded a PR for me to review. I asked: normally I would ask “why did you do xyz”, but what are you going to do now, proxy that question to your LLM? And is the LLM going to construct a “why” based on the nonsensical code it produced? Is this how we want to work?

The review is currently stalled in absence of answers.

New comment by rollulus in "Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order"

rollulus — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:48:01 +0000

Mullvad is Swedish, right?

New comment by rollulus in "In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident"

rollulus — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:04:31 +0000

This article is incomplete without examples.

New comment by rollulus in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

rollulus — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:22:55 +0000

Incredible what mobile phones and browsers can do nowadays. I remember implementing this paper from 1993 (the absolutely OG for this topic and very readable): “Display of The Earth Taking into Account Atmospheric Scattering” by Nishita et al: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2933032_Display_of_...

New comment by rollulus in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

rollulus — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:18:50 +0000

Rewriting it using an LLM is one. But did all the contributors became as proficient in Rust as they were in Zig over night as well?

New comment by rollulus in "How an oil refinery works"

rollulus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:43:53 +0000

That’s because of the primary energy fallacy: https://medium.com/@jan.rosenow/have-we-been-duped-by-the-pr...

TL;DR: the efficiency of converting fossil energy resources into something useful is poor.

New comment by rollulus in "How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)"

rollulus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:55:47 +0000

Do they maintain the original connection between the fibers or is that not worth the effort and is a swap not a problem?

New comment by rollulus in "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"

rollulus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:02:09 +0000

Wouldn’t using opaque tokens have avoided the problem altogether?

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

rollulus — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:33:21 +0000

They do other unholy things. I don’t know what, but consistently while playing music on my HomePod opening that site makes it stutter within a few minutes, fully stop working shortly afterwards and it needs a reboot to work again.

New comment by rollulus in "Conservative Treatment for Endobronchial Blast Injury with Tracheal Rupture"

rollulus — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:47:53 +0000

TL;DR: medical case report of a guy who inhaled hydrogen gas, lit a cigarette, blew up internally and survived.

Conservative Treatment for Endobronchial Blast Injury with Tracheal Rupture

rollulus — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ccr3.72363

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547341

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rollulus in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

rollulus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:43:38 +0000

I think there are two angles to look at this. Yes, there’s the attack on the weblog. But there’s also pressure on archive.today, e.g. an FBI investigation [1] and some entity using fictitious CSAM allegations [2].

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/fbi-subpoena-tri...

[2]: https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-blo...

New comment by rollulus in "Show HN: The Lottery of Life"

rollulus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:45:37 +0000

You repeat the same mistake here:

> I'm simply talking about the simple improbability of, out of all possible lives I could have had, mine being one this relatively comfortable and novel.

That implies that there is a separate organism and an “I” (I used the word soul for that) and that the two were assigned to each other. No, the two are the same. And the probability of you being you is 100%.

New comment by rollulus in "Show HN: The Lottery of Life"

rollulus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:22:13 +0000

Your thinking is flawed. It seems to assume that you were pulled from a pool of souls and got assigned to an organism somewhere in time. That’s not the case. What makes you “you” is nothing but your brain cells.

New comment by rollulus in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

rollulus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:10:00 +0000

I think “simulate” would’ve been a more accurate word than “build”.