Hacker News: roshin

New comment by roshin in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

roshin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:47:37 +0000

people might not like it if it was targeted, but if it got slightly damaged (and currently functional) as collateral damage to a military target, I assume more people would be okay

New comment by roshin in "[dead]"

roshin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:53:41 +0000

I expect nothing. In theory, northern Israelis would evacuate, just like how southern Lebanese evacuates when Israel issues a warning. Of course the main difference is that Israel seldom issues evacuation warnings. Iran has been shouting "death to Israel" for 50 years.

New comment by roshin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

roshin — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:08:38 +0000

I was okay with most of the skimping with spirit airways, but what really annoyed me was their delays. I can plan ahead not to bring luggage and to sit cramped. But arriving at my destination 5 hours later was a deal breaker for me. I don't know if there are statistics for how delayed they are vs competitors, but after my second flight with them, I decided to fly with airlines that are more punctual.

New comment by roshin in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

roshin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:54:41 +0000

the trackball is interesting

New comment by roshin in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

roshin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:27:17 +0000

Ukraine has been violating that for young men since the start of its war.

New comment by roshin in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

roshin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:31:57 +0000

I played around with hydroponics. in the end, they never ended up better than dirt. with dirt you have to water it, and fertilize every few months, but that's it.

with hydroponics, every week I was refilling the water, and adjusting the EC and pH. The end result was very similar to what dirt got me

New comment by roshin in "Israel becomes first country to formally recognise Somaliland as state"

roshin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:42:39 +0000

Israel could have also "retaliated" to Spain's recognition of Palestine by recognizing Catalonia.

New comment by roshin in "First time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day"

roshin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:41:04 +0000

It's been 37 years. Since then many treatments for the disease have been discovered. We no longer commemorate the bubonic plague and we never commemorated lime disease. It makes sense that at some point we would stop commemorating other diseases.

New comment by roshin in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

roshin — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:10:31 +0000

I know this probably goes against hn ethos, but one of my most important features is the search. I store TB of data and it could be hard to find a picture. I want the cloud software to analyze the image so that I can search "2 people on Nothing street" and find it.

so far google is amazing at search. hopefully others will be better, but it's really hard to evaluate cloud software based on that

New comment by roshin in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

roshin — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:02:00 +0000

when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it happens

New comment by roshin in "[dead]"

roshin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:16:43 +0000

I'm trying to find the official plan. I went to https://www.whitehouse.gov/wire/ and I see front and center "Trump unveils 20-point plan to secure peace in Gaza" which links to a fox news article which writes a summary " ... the third point of the document reads " but doesn't actually provide the document.

I can see it here https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-trumps-20-point-p... but I would much rather see it on some official government website.

New comment by roshin in "Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South"

roshin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:05:45 +0000

> Israel is also prohibited from transferring detainees outside the occupied territory into Israel

That's very surprising to me. I recalled during the Iraq war that the US got a lot of condemnation for creating prisons outside of America, and therefore outside normal American jurisdiction. It appears that what America did was what they were required under international rules.

New comment by roshin in "How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq"

roshin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:02:41 +0000

no worries. There's a whole lot of news happening. No need to be up to date with everything.

New comment by roshin in "New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports over Political Speech"

roshin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:52:07 +0000

I think this is the bill https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-f...

It still annoys me to no end that MSM refuses to link to the original source.

Here's the quote

> Authorizes the State Department to revoke passports to any individual who been charged, convicted, or determined to have knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

New comment by roshin in "How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq"

roshin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:46:05 +0000

After several years, Iraqi Hezbollah recently released their Princeton researcher hostage (granted, she is a dual Israeli citizen). Maybe that will encourage more archeologists to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Tsurkov

New comment by roshin in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

roshin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:56:18 +0000

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New comment by roshin in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

roshin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:40:04 +0000

US citizenship is a big liability for citizens living abroad. Our banks have to report how much money we have to an American criminal monitor. The fines of doing it improperly are so draconian that some financial institutions have refused to work with Americans for many years already. We have to file and sometimes even pay taxes on money earned abroad. We are practically forbidden from investing in many products that someone living abroad would typically do.

New comment by roshin in "Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big"

roshin — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:25:44 +0000

Another issue is if another country has some tax free benefits (like Roth IRA) America taxes the extra.

New comment by roshin in "GPT 5 coming tomorrow confirmed"

roshin — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:56:51 +0000

I'm still not sure what model to use for what task. Which oddly sounds like a great task for chatgpt to solve

New comment by roshin in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

roshin — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:01:06 +0000

> One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] then you start to enjoy it."

Can you link to that video? I want to see it.