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New comment by veleek in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

veleek — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:17:24 +0000

I found at least three counties using that hosting provider by just clicking around randomly, so I’m not sure what the context is for that comment.

Petit-Val (BE) and Evolène (VS) are two.

New comment by veleek in "Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)"

veleek — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:06:31 +0000

There’s an updated article as of Aug 2021 too: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/77565

New comment by veleek in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

veleek — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:29:57 +0000

What do you mean by maintaining social channels? Is that stuff like liking photos, sharing links to a LinkedIn profile, or what?

Any specific admin tasks it’s done really well at?

New comment by veleek in "Time to start de-Appling"

veleek — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:42:58 +0000

In the context of the article de-appling is what you should do after de-googling.

New comment by veleek in "Time to start de-Appling"

veleek — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:40:11 +0000

I think it’s a stretch to say the author is blaming Apple in the title and she explicitly calls out in the very first section:

> But I will say that the shutdown of ADP is Apple being on the right side of the geopolitical fight, as inconvenient as that may be to you and me.

New comment by veleek in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

veleek — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:48:43 +0000

Because you can’t search that without physically looking at each box. There could be a bunch odd reasons that many boxes remain unpacked; downsizing, temporary housing. It’d be nice to be able to finds the one thing you need (you could even label the issue with the box location!).

Anyway, a fun solution but I think it’s more effort than I would have been willing to put in even if I would have appreciated the outcome.

New comment by veleek in "The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now"

veleek — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:32:18 +0000

I think it’s less that they “WANT” more people to get HIV but instead they do know that doing this type of thing will cause more cases and they’re fine with it because “gods will” and a bigger plan and all that.

New comment by veleek in "Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming"

veleek — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:47:27 +0000

Can you help me understand your point of view a little bit more? I’ve been working for decades in C# professionally with a few stints in other languages and plenty of smaller side projects in any number of different ecosystems. I always find myself frustrated with “the experience” of working with many other languages. They all have their own pros and cons of course, but saying you don’t like the language because it doesn’t have sum types feels like saying you don’t like a Prius because it doesn’t have a pickup bed. Not a perfect analogy, but there are so many other features of C#’s type system that make it amazing to work with and it’s continually being improved year over year. I would be interested in knowing what types of things about the generics system you wish could be improved.

New comment by veleek in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

veleek — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:37:58 +0000

Found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20100805234134/http://www.thehen...

Edit now that I’ve read the article: I appreciate that it appears that the museum wasn’t dismissive of the claims and verified the forgery with their own analysis. But the original article was posted on the museum’s website, so who knows.

New comment by veleek in "Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]"

veleek — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:08:24 +0000

All officers are employees, but not all employees are officers. C-suite employees are all officers at least. I’m not sure how far below that it expands.

Traditional cultures used moss as a diaper alternative

veleek — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:38:55 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/03/how-traditional-cultures-handled-baby-waste-primitive-diapers-and-urine-tubes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592228

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by veleek in "Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud"

veleek — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 13:49:23 +0000

But the very last line says they wouldn’t trust this feature and they have a Monzo account?

New comment by veleek in "Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API"

veleek — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:43:11 +0000

You’ve glossed over the most complicated part of this: “give it to Amazon”. There are so many things involved in that portion of the process that an internet enabled garage door solves, most importantly: not having a single code that can be used by anybody at any point in time until I manually go back and remove it.

New comment by veleek in "Semantic Versioning 2.0 (2013)"

veleek — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:56:36 +0000

Don't worry, this was released ten years ago, so if you haven't run it any issues with it yet you're probably fine.

New comment by veleek in "Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)"

veleek — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:40:47 +0000

There are multiple versions in the repo. The first one is essentially just two copies, the second was an improved design from someone else and the last was an ASCII-art version (of the radiation symbol) that was based off the second.

New comment by veleek in "Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk"

veleek — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:13:21 +0000

I’m a HA Container user and I can vouch for this path. It gives me the ability to run whatever other stuff I want to alongside HA in Docker containers with minimal effort.

Works really well, updating is low effort (but not automatic) but you could probably set something up if you wanted to pretty easily.

New comment by veleek in "Sunset at the South Pole"

veleek — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 21:09:34 +0000

I assumed it was just a 360 camera, but I have no idea how they kept it unfrozen.

New comment by veleek in "AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight"

veleek — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:04:40 +0000

“Made our customers happy by allowing them to easily migrate to a self-hosted redis instance in AWS so they were able to build their business and brought in twice as much traffic”.

Your comment echos the crux of the article. Yes, this probably wasn’t an explicit goal for AWS, but the end result is that people aren’t using Amazon’s products because they’re the best, they’re just using them because it’s harder to change or more expensive not to (when it could be cheaper if the playing field was level).

New comment by veleek in "EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)"

veleek — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:33:50 +0000

This proposal is not intended to force Apple to work with anybody else. It’s intended to stop them from actively preventing others from working with them.

The example given in a few other comments is allowing anyone to build an iMessage capable app for Android. There’s no requirement that Apple builds this themselves, but it’s currently impossible and/or restricted by Apple. I don’t know enough about the How to comment on that part.

New comment by veleek in "Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git"

veleek — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:02:47 +0000

What happens when you try to run the command you mentioned?