Hacker News: stop50

New comment by stop50 in "Children's Games (Bruegel)"

stop50 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:28:37 +0000

Wrong link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Games_%28Bruegel%...

New comment by stop50 in "Neal Agarwal (Neal.fun) About Page"

stop50 — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:36:37 +0000

He can do a lot for an person without nerves except for the head.

New comment by stop50 in "Project Schachett – Reviving a controversial old German card game"

stop50 — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:37:40 +0000

I would be suprised if not.

New comment by stop50 in "Ask HN: Why do farts smell different when you let them out underwater?"

stop50 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:41:30 +0000

some gases in farts can disolve in water. it part of my 8th grade chemistry curriculum.

New comment by stop50 in "Ask HN: What router do you use at home?"

stop50 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:48:50 +0000

Fritzbox. high quality in soft and hardware and pretty good support.

New comment by stop50 in "Project Schachett – Reviving a controversial old German card game"

stop50 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:34:07 +0000

Judging from the text and the images i would guess its from 1890 to 1910. probably in the latter half.

New comment by stop50 in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

stop50 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:41:09 +0000

If we look at fascists taking power in south america, then the us is an better suspect, since they already did this before.

New comment by stop50 in "Attention people who think UB is fine"

stop50 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:28:29 +0000

im not an c++ expert, but it looks like the unreachable macro of rust. In rust it allows optimizing the generated binary to not care about special paths. If an integer can only be 1-4, then it doesn't make sense to dedicate an code path for 0 or 5+ that will never be called. in an explicit for loop its easy to know for the compiler, but when this information crosses boundaries like function calls then it can make it easier and can reduce the binary size.

New comment by stop50 in "Ask HN: Linux at work revoked due to MDM, how to fight?"

stop50 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:28:52 +0000

If you are promised something, then get a paper trail. My company wanted me to support windows. I rejected every new contract where windows support is included. in the worstcase the manager can lie before the court without consequences.

New comment by stop50 in "Protecting Firefox Users After eMudhra Intermediate Certificates Compromise"

stop50 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:13:53 +0000

Me too from europe. must be an php website

New comment by stop50 in "Manager rejected for his own team's vacancy after applying with his CV"

stop50 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:42:04 +0000

Not suprising. In my home country the hr departments do the same

New comment by stop50 in "Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked"

stop50 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:53:15 +0000

The socialism part was fake. The named it so because socialism was popular and the promises are hard to distinguish from some right wing parties. In the past jews were the main enemy, now its muslims.

New comment by stop50 in "Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked"

stop50 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:49:57 +0000

There is a second magnet which features all the 100k file as individual files. The packed archive is only for more efficient torrents

New comment by stop50 in "We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas"

stop50 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:43 +0000

At an police union convention people stole 4 bodycams from a vendor. Respect

New comment by stop50 in "Do you use an ad blocker?"

stop50 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:51:00 +0000

one of the few pages recently where is turned of my adblocker voluntarly to see the examples

New comment by stop50 in "Why does checking for software updates often take so long?"

stop50 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:08:58 +0000

You seem to be using windows, so i can only make guesses: Windows makes quite a few requests plus the system seems to be dynamic, meaning that clicking on the check for updates button may yield in an completly different list dendent only on microsofts whims. ms office has probably different calls to make and since windows also provides drivers via the infrastructure it could also check the drivers.

New comment by stop50 in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

stop50 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:12:22 +0000

Internal. is also an valid option. I moved everything there about a year ago

New comment by stop50 in "Tell HN: If you mispell HOME in 'cd $HOME', you still end up in ~/"

stop50 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:23:11 +0000

Unless the option that treats uninitialized variables as errors is active. This is important for scripts.

New comment by stop50 in "Rust clean-room replacements for Photoshop"

stop50 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:08:49 +0000

How can it be guranteed that the statstical model commonly known as ai was not trained on leaked photoshop code? If that has happened then it wouldn't be a clean room implementation.

New comment by stop50 in "Mozill's Built-In VPN in Firefox"

stop50 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:47:06 +0000

Please fix your capslock or your shift key. I mostly used it over the containers extension with some containers for specific countries.