Hacker News: vages

New comment by vages in "Googlebook"

vages — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:41:27 +0000

TKTK is a common placeholder for something that should be filled in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)

New comment by vages in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

vages — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:17:44 +0000

In terms of artistic quality, perhaps. In terms of expected future royalties, I think Queen would be an order of magnitude more valuable than most artists.

New comment by vages in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

vages — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:18:36 +0000

The .eu branch that card zero criticized seems to be based in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands (an EU member). Or am I missing something?

New comment by vages in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

vages — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:52:55 +0000

Yes. And as in fastness (which would be «fastheit» in Nynorsk): https://www.etymonline.com/word/fastness

New comment by vages in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

vages — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:26 +0000

I have heard that Jellyfin is the new kid on the block

New comment by vages in "Migrating to the EU"

vages — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:26:57 +0000

Most of the articles I read about this is about showing that going all-European is possible at all. If that feels like it’s an us vs. them thing, I’m not sure how I could change your mind.

New comment by vages in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

vages — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:34:02 +0000

There’s room for both pragmatic and idealistic solutions in most cases. Sometimes the rules of the game change on short notice, and being in the right place at the right time makes all the difference.

New comment by vages in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

vages — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:29:25 +0000

I think they may be referring to “wind turbines”.

New comment by vages in "I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years"

vages — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:32:33 +0000

While I see your point, I think AI may be banned in those universes for the same reason that time-travelling devices tend to be written out of sci-fi and fantasy: Stories are better without them. (If one counts the ever unfolding history of the world as a story, my counter-point actually validates your original point. Touché.)

New comment by vages in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

vages — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:56:50 +0000

Any PR is good PR, I guess?

New comment by vages in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

vages — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:53:17 +0000

Thanks for the Norwegian perspective.

I agree that the locking down is truly stupid. For what it’s worth, the reasoning for locking down mobile apps is allegedly that mobile users are a less technologically competent demographic than desktop users. I do not think so myself, given the difficulty in trying Graphene vs. Desktop Linux.

New comment by vages in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

vages — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:36:02 +0000

I really like how you have done things. Didn’t mind the waiting time.

Thank you for making my day a little brighter.

New comment by vages in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

vages — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:25:07 +0000

Which local AI do you use? I am local-curious, but don’t know which models to try, as people mention them by model name much less than their cloud counterparts.

New comment by vages in "Outsourcing thinking"

vages — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:21:52 +0000

I think that this summary is oversimplifying: The rest of the blog post elaborates on how the author and Masley has a completely different interpretation of that bullet point list. The rest of the text is not only examples; it provides elaborations of what thought processes led him to his conclusions. I found the nuancing of the two opposing interpretations, not the conclusion, the most enjoyable part of the post.

(This comment could also be shortened to “that’s oversimplifying”. I think my longer version is both more convincing and enjoyable.)

New comment by vages in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

vages — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:56:34 +0000

I would suspect they are floating on pontoons.

New comment by vages in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

vages — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:07:46 +0000

I have experienced a positive return on investment from using Nix Darwin and devenv.sh since getting a new Mac two years ago. Did not spend too much time learning neither.

New comment by vages in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

vages — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:49:54 +0000

Perhaps I’m naive, but buying from an IKEA (in Norway) or another big store feels less risky than buying something handmade.

Several people are involved in making every product at IKEA. At least one of them must be an expert in compliance. They can expect scrutiny and product recalls, fines and bad sales if they’re found out.

The one person making the hand-made spoon does not necessarily know all the environmental regulations that should be followed.

New comment by vages in "Tosijs-schema is a super lightweight schema-first LLM-native JSON schema library"

vages — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:33:37 +0000

Mind your off-by-1s: 97 items is not large, 98 is.

New comment by vages in "Software development in the time of strange new angels"

vages — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:29:10 +0000

Anecdotally, I find early mover advantage to be overrated (ask anyone who bought Betamax or HD-DVD players). It is significantly cheaper – on average – to exploit what you already know and learn from the mistakes of other, earlier movers.

New comment by vages in "[dead]"

vages — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:08:14 +0000

This Twitter profile gives hard conspiratorial vibes.

See for example the retweeted post about “atheist Jews” being behind the “LGBTQ Agenda”.