Hacker News: ultim8k

New comment by ultim8k in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

ultim8k — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:44:50 +0000

I bought a Sage (Breville) Barista Pro a month before the first lockdown. It was pricey but was one of the best purchases I've ever done.

Still works exactly the same and it's what makes me want to get up from the bed even on Mondays.

New comment by ultim8k in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

ultim8k — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:59 +0000

This is really great news!

We also need a paneuropean banking & tax system and ideally some paneuropean telephony (plus voip) and internet providers.

New comment by ultim8k in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

ultim8k — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:12:09 +0000

Run

New comment by ultim8k in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ultim8k — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:26:10 +0000

EU is just headless chicken. They will just blindly agree to whatever Trump says

New comment by ultim8k in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

ultim8k — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:34:31 +0000

Agreed

New comment by ultim8k in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

ultim8k — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:34:45 +0000

Agreed. And I think European countries really need to start eating our own dog food and stop being 100% reliant on US software and hardware. It's not (only) about opposing certain political behaviours, but (also) about supporting our financial independence and wellbeing.

New comment by ultim8k in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

ultim8k — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:27:32 +0000

Are there still first world countries without public healthcare?

New comment by ultim8k in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

ultim8k — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:42:33 +0000

Most of the time gov, orgs and companies don't listen to their in-house engineers but will pay $$$ to some consulting firm, only to confirm the same thing or just to show that "they are taking actions towards the solution".

In some cases there is distrust from management on in-house employees or in some other cases they want to show quick results without distracting their teams from their planned tasks.

Of course there are the cases that managers have personal motives, either to add an extra (useless) achievement on their list or even worse to get referral fee or presents from the external consultancy.

New comment by ultim8k in "South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis"

ultim8k — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:19:43 +0000

They should effectively immediately freeze and potentially cancel any Korean investment in US and investigate all US companies based in their country. US behaving rogue should not go unpunished.

New comment by ultim8k in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

ultim8k — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:20:33 +0000

Why? Can someone block the sky? (I have 0 satellite knowledge)

New comment by ultim8k in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

ultim8k — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:56:47 +0000

I'm waiting to see the effects of the brain drain

New comment by ultim8k in "JavaScript Temporal is coming"

ultim8k — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:57:27 +0000

It’s been 84 years… Jokes aside, congrats to the team! This is huge news for JS.

New comment by ultim8k in "Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement"

ultim8k — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:11:12 +0000

It all depends on the country you live in and if you have a legal contract. In UK for example you can use a debt collection agency. Those guys will probably give you 50% of the amount and then it's their problem.

New comment by ultim8k in "Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy"

ultim8k — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:38:20 +0000

Take my money!

New comment by ultim8k in "Stop Doing Cloud"

ultim8k — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:33:47 +0000

Yeah, agreed cloud is bad. I have one question though. Who is going to keep updating bloody ubuntu or any other linux distro along with all the packages that may break? Who is going to enable automatic database backups or do backups with 1 click? I've done these things countless times and they are still time consuming and involve guesswork every single time.

New comment by ultim8k in "The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak"

ultim8k — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:36:22 +0000

The only way this could work would be to force OS vendors to have "trusted" DNS servers and ban the use of any custom setting.

Then again that would be a nightmare for large corporates that have customised internal DNSs, so I don't see it coming anytime soon.

New comment by ultim8k in "Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)"

ultim8k — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:15:49 +0000

Only if the sender is The Proclaimers :P

New comment by ultim8k in "Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food"

ultim8k — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:41:42 +0000

Oh those little mofos!

New comment by ultim8k in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

ultim8k — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:08:05 +0000

Nothing special from me. Just a small app (https://how-you-spell.in/) that translates a word to the phonetic alphabet. My full name is quite long and I’m always struggling to spell my details over the phone.

New comment by ultim8k in "Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality"

ultim8k — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:06:23 +0000

That’s BS if I may. How would I know I have higher cholesterol if I didn’t do blood tests?