<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: valdiorn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=valdiorn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:19:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=valdiorn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try this as a reply; "hello everyone. This seems to have all gotten out of hand. We want to continue selling teensy units, We've made a lot of sales working together and I want to salvage this working relationship and ensure we continue to do business together and sell as many Teensy units as possible. Why don't I, sparkfun and Paul Stoffregen get together for a zoom meeting next Monday and discuss this. At the end of the day I'm sure Paul S would prefer his product to be as widely available as possible and we want to help with that. Best regards - ptorrone".<p>That would be the mature and professional response which ensures continued sales for you, sparkfun and PJRC.<p>And for Christ's sake stop arguing business issues on social media and messaging boards. What are you doing, man?! :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:35:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631069</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> if someone has deliberately hidden their identity online, knowingly disclosing that is malicious<p>That argument breaks down if the person hiding their identity is doing malicious things. If you hide behind anonymity and you're harassing people and sending threatening or hateful messages, disclosing their real identity is a public service.<p>Or could I set up an anonymous account, doxx people all day long for the lulz, and then cry wolf when <i>you</i> doxx <i>me</i> for being a prick? :)</p>
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<p>I have to say; they all sound like whining babies with the emotional integrity of a 13 year old hormonal teenager.<p>And these people run major businesses?<p>And the complaining about doxxing because he posted the person's email address? Grow up, mate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630886</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I missed a parcel delivery because a computer server in Virginia, USA went down, and now the doorbell on my house in England doesn't work. What. The. Fork.<p>How the hell did Ring/Amazon not include a radio-frequency transmitter for the doorbell and chime? This is absurd.<p>To top it off, I'm trying to do my quarterly VAT return, and Xero is still completely borked, nearly 20 hours after the initial outage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:52:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650863</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Iceland has this too, Laugardagsnammi :)<p>Go to Hagkaup or Samkaup on a Saturday (or just after midnight on Friday night, where you'll usually bump into a gaggle of teenagers in their pajama bottoms, out on a candy run) and get yourself a massive bag of pick'n'mix for half price. It's one of the few things I miss about Iceland.<p>the pick n mix bars can get pretty huge: <a href="https://yummy-iceland.blogspot.com/2025/06/nammidagur.html" rel="nofollow">https://yummy-iceland.blogspot.com/2025/06/nammidagur.html</a><p>I remember as a kid, I'd get 100 kronur (probably about $3 USD in today's money) on Saturday morning and go to the store to buy sweets. You'd meticulously choose which items to put in the bag to make sure you got the best value for money :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:55:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886496</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/icelands-leader-slams-gordon-brown-over-crisis-10456979" rel="nofollow">https://news.sky.com/story/icelands-leader-slams-gordon-brow...</a><p>A classic case where anti-terrorism laws were used against... Iceland.<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/revealed-anti-terror-snooping-law-used-for-fly-tippers-and-parking" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/revealed-anti-...</a><p>Anti terrorist laws used to track and prosecute fly tipping and people parking in disabled parking spots.<p>These laws were also designed to only be used in extreme cases. History repeats itself.</p>
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<p>Which jet will they prefer if they need to defend Greenland? A dated and affordable gripen, or an F35 that the Americans will just beam a kill -9 command to via a backdoor?</p>
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<p>I mean, if I was bytedance I would do that free of charge to make the outgoing administration look like muppets :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756388</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "AI means the end of internet search as we've known it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google Lens has already revolutionized my search. Anything that you can <i>see</i> but is difficult to <i>describe</i>, I now have a tool for searching for.<p>I use it a lot to track down original sources of videos and photos on Reddit, to check authenticity. I also use it to search for hardware components other manufacturers use, that I'd like to buy. Things like specific switches, knobs, faders, displays etc. (I build audio gadgets). I just highlight the part on the picture and then restrict my search to Alibaba, digikey or mouser. It's GREAT.<p>Lens is highly underrated.</p>
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<p>How I live now, while not a particularly good movie, really sat with me. The lack of understanding of what's happening around them, as the government has crumbled there is no civil order to communicate with citizens. The parts where they traverse the abandoned motorways, encountering highwaymen and rape gangs... it all left a really weird feeling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:14:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41617621</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41617621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41617621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I can't imagine someone using an RP2040 in a real product<p>Why not? It's a great chip, even if it has some limitations. I use it in several of my pro audio products (a midi controller, a Eurorack module, and a series of guitar pedals). they are absolutely perfect as utility chips, the USB stack is good, the USB bootloader makes it incredibly easy for customers to update the firmware without me having to write a custom bootloader.<p>I've shipped at least a thousand "real" products with an RP2040 in them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:12:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200125</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "Ask HN: Will salaries of software engineers regress?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They very much are, right now. Lots and lots of big layoffs, the FAANG/MAGMA companies have completely dropped the halo effect they had over the industry. Everyone had to chase them on comp to get the best people; now they're ejecting people left, right and centre and there's no incentive for the smaller players to try and keep up with the competition anymore, because the competition in gone.<p>I've definitely noticed this myself when I was working my last job (quant finance in London, startup fund). We were getting premium talent applying for roles that we never dreamt of getting before then. A lot of them were ex Meta, ex google, ex Palantir etc. Guys who were very good but went to work mindless jobs for big tech for that 300k pay package. Now they're asking for half that, and desperate for a job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:37:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769535</link><dc:creator>valdiorn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by valdiorn in "The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Open up any young female "influencer" video on YouTube. Look at the graph of which parts of the video are most played (hover over the playback bar and it pops up). Notice how the spikes in viewership line up with any nudity/bikini/suggestive angles.<p>Literally 90% or more of the viewers are just there to look at half-naked bodies. Exactly what the article is talking about.<p>I don't think anyone could pretend that "I just run a fashion channel" or "I just post videos from my kids gymnastics sessions" doesn't know who's really putting views on their videos. It should be blatantly clear to anyone, especially the creator who has more in-depth tools to monitor their audience. These people 100% know what they're doing and they're willing to keep going.</p>
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<p>You know we're in trouble when I look at count binface and think "he's definitely not the craziest candidate running"...<p>Btw he used to be known as Lord Buckethead but had a trademark dispute over his name, and rebranded as Count Binface.</p>
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<p>someone should make a GUI and a subscription service for that. Oh wait, you just invented the current state of the web :/</p>
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<p>Good. There no reason to rewrite undergrad calculus books every semester besides money grabbing. The math hasn't changed in 100 years and there shouldn't be an incentive to write an updated version of the book for the 50th time.</p>
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<p>I'm calling bullshit on this based on personal experience.<p>At the height of this panic, there was talk of the bugs spreading to the UK, and that is was prevalent on tourist-heavy rail lines coming from France.<p>I used to take the train that goes through Gatwick airport up to Victoria, to go to work every day. Within a couple of days of seeing the headlines, I spotted several bedbugs on the train, including one time, one was just sitting on my bicep. They were <i>definitely</i> bedbugs, before you start questioning it, I managed to rake a photo of the one on my arm before smacking it off and changing seats.<p>Coincidence, maybe. But I've never seen a bedbug before and never seen them after. So I'm not completely willing to write this off as a conspiracy theory.</p>
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<p>America has always been famous for the fact that everything is extremely cheap. But now I'm seeing videos of people at Costco/Walmart showing the prices of stuff (often while finding an old price label and showing there's been a 50-100% increase over the last year) and it's actually way more expensive than what I pay in the UK.</p>
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<p>Only on the same way that DNA is a cheat for constructing organisms. After all they are universal recipes for organisms. Study enough DNA sequences and splice together a sequence and you can theoretically design any mythical creature you can think of.<p>But if someone grew an actual dragon in a lab by splicing together DNA fragments, that would still be a major feat. Similarly, training a neural net to play grandmaster level chess is simple in theory but extremely difficult in practice.</p>
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<p>You pay one of the minimum wage support staff working for the telephone company a hundred bucks to do it.<p>That's literally it. Inside man.</p>
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