Hacker News: rypskar

New comment by rypskar in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

rypskar — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:09:38 +0000

I would assume a big part of software have plenty of lower hanging fruits for speedup and don't even profile to find where the bottlenecks are

New comment by rypskar in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

rypskar — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:12:08 +0000

I was surprised at a Jysk in Spain where I used the dialect pronunciation of a Norwegian city (saying Læknes for Leknes) when buying chairs with that name, and the girl not only understood me but used close to the same pronunciation when asking someone to get them from storage

New comment by rypskar in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

rypskar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:02:20 +0000

The colour on wild salmon meat depends on the diet of the salmon, in the same way as for farmed salmon. All the wild salmon I have fished, even before salmon farming was big, have had red/pink meat since krill and shrimps are a large part of their diet in my area

New comment by rypskar in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"

rypskar — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:47:58 +0000

That brings back memories. I didn't check if it store highscore, but remember finding how to edit to highscore list in the original game to totally destroy my brothers best score

New comment by rypskar in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

rypskar — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:09:52 +0000

When someone need to age check me in real life they make a quick look at me and decide they don't have to check any id. On steam I had to put in my age to see the page for GTA, even when being logged in with an account that is older than 18 years. It is a reason why it is Meta and the like that lobbies the most for age controls, they want more information about everyone

New comment by rypskar in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

rypskar — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:18:11 +0000

That is clearly bad. I was commenting based on the privacy point of it, not the user experience. On the privacy part it is also strange that fingerprints, something we leave copy off all over the place, is considered private and safe information, instead of something that is easy to copy and relatively easy to spoof

New comment by rypskar in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

rypskar — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:55:59 +0000

Is that good or bad? Maybe a naive thought but the first I think is that check every time is to check biometrics matches with what is in the passport without storing them, checking only once mean your picture and fingerprint is stored a central place and is used in combination to later verify that the passport is yours

New comment by rypskar in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

rypskar — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:50:30 +0000

You are looking at it the wrong way. Driving something so large that it would require a commercial license to transport your family around is ridiculous

New comment by rypskar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

rypskar — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:15:23 +0000

How did you get siding with Amazon from giving up on the Kobo website? There are more than two options, re-reading some of the dead-tree variants I have would keep me occupied for years. Hopefully a new alternative would come out before I run out of space for books

New comment by rypskar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

rypskar — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:13:11 +0000

I did consider a Kobo, but the terrible website did turn me away. When trying to browse it was wait for button on tracking consent to be active so I could click reject. Then change language to what I'm fluent in instead of getting language based on IP, reject tracking, reject changing region back to IP based and the same two reject for every link clicked. Half the times pages was still shown in language based on my location instead of what I have set or what my user agent tell I want. When a site ask about allowing tracking for every page shown I assume the company care more about selling PII than getting customers, so not a company I want to use

New comment by rypskar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

rypskar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:56:20 +0000

Changing gears while driving? Are you sure you where supposed to? Many old tractors are without synced drives, so you are supposed to select gear before you start driving. Of course you can change when driving, but then you have to match revs to not get the drop betwen

New comment by rypskar in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

rypskar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:16:30 +0000

All-wheel drive doesn't help you at all where it is most important, and that is in braking. Having all-wheel drive only helps you get up to a dangerous speed faster when the grip is low

New comment by rypskar in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

rypskar — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:14:51 +0000

Yes, big companies can copy your product. But at what cost, especially when including opportunity cost and the levels of bureaucracy in larger companies? I have heard your question many times during the last 20 years, and still there are more software startups.

In many cases it would cost them less to buy your company than to create it from scratch. Which is why so many small companies are acquired instead of copied. The question should be more what do you want to do and are you able to follow up on creating a startup? Writing the code is a small part of creating a successful startup

New comment by rypskar in "After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up"

rypskar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:45:38 +0000

Try to use any Google site while traveling. I have two languages in my Accept-Language header, but Google always give me language based on location if I'm not logged in. There are also many other sites that does the same, often without any option to change language

New comment by rypskar in "A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos"

rypskar — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:59:30 +0000

Nice looking demos, I hope to some day manage to get results close to what you have.

I started playing around with GLSL recently and the closest I have come to describing working with it is that it is like creating poetry using math. Getting started was much easier than I expected, getting good results is so far as hard as expected

New comment by rypskar in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

rypskar — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:36:04 +0000

Not only that. When your self-host goes down your customers complain that you are down. When AWS goes down your customers complain that internet is down

New comment by rypskar in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

rypskar — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:42:50 +0000

The problem with blood tests in my experience is all the false positives, skin prick tests are often used based on result from blood tests. But when having many allergies it is normal to only check for the most severe using skin prick tests.

Food diaries are probably good for those that are more experimental in what they eat, the difficult part come when it is a combination of things that give a reaction. The most important is to learn to listen to your body and not buy into peer pressure when someone urge you to try something new that you are not sure about

New comment by rypskar in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

rypskar — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:34:22 +0000

It would be great if there was accurate tests for allergies. Blood tests shows what you absolute should stay away from, you maybe should be careful with, and what to do more testing with. Then there are different tests to learn more, but in the end they end of with learn to read your body's reaction and stay away from things you react badly to.

And yes, this have made me a picky eater, not because I don't want to try new things but because the setting with trying new things is in most cases not the settings where you want to get the bad reactions

New comment by rypskar in "A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data"

rypskar — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:48:56 +0000

I did probably not formulate myself good enough. By calling it ID theft you are blaming the person the ID belongs to and that person have to prove they are innocent. By calling it by the correct words, bank fraud, the bank have to prove that the person the ID belongs to did it. No ID was stolen, it was only used by someone else to commit fraud. The banks don't have enough security to stop it because they have gotten away with calling it ID theft and putting the blame on the person the ID belongs to

New comment by rypskar in "A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data"

rypskar — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:16:04 +0000

We should also stop calling it ID theft. The identity is not stolen, the owner do still have it. Calling it ID theft is moving the responsibility from the one that a fraud is against (often banks or other large entities) to an innocent 3rd party