<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: vlz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vlz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:26:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vlz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh wait, there is also this tool which automates some of that. I think I used that tool instead of the blog article itself. It's the same idea though.<p><a href="https://github.com/osx-tools/asahi-encrypt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/osx-tools/asahi-encrypt</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404945</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> no luks fde support<p>You can get an "unecrypted boot, encrypted root" setup though.<p><a href="https://davidalger.com/posts/fedora-asahi-remix-on-apple-silicon-with-luks-encryption/" rel="nofollow">https://davidalger.com/posts/fedora-asahi-remix-on-apple-sil...</a><p>Did you consider that? I am personally using that and feeling pretty good about it, but maybe I am missing something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404064</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are right, it’s not alien technology. But this is how it feels like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148040</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Butlerian Jihad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really love Wolfe for his small almost throwaway visions of the future, which are used like an aside in a few lines and mostly inconsequential to the story.<p>In the Urth of the New Sun for example he has a kind of AI lock, the only function of which is to recognize a person and open only to that person. Being in that role for thousands of years, some of the locks develop a kind of personality or at least personal traits, but they are totally defined by and cannot exceed the role they were initially given, nor do they want to. It is still a haunting image for me how personality or something close to a soul might be an accidental byproduct of something as mundane as wanting to have a convenient lock. And of course you cannot stop to wonder how far we are from that.<p>In Book of the new sun there is the Green Man who Severian saves from imprisonment. He only appears on a few pages but we learn that he is from a distant time where mankind incorporated plant cells in their genetic makeup in order to perform photosynthesis. That brilliantly plays on two themes of the book: the sun as live giving and how a single person can be independent (or "autarch"), here in so far as producing their own energy.<p>There are many more instances and it’s what makes the Book of the New Sun or the Solar Cycle so fantastic. The future is so vast and strange here, that it cannot be fully depicted and ideas which another writer would stake a whole book or series on are only good for a few lines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128210</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author gives his (non-technical) reason for not using bun here:<p><a href="https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/" rel="nofollow">https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:59:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973992</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Debatable. Maybe they were less informed in the sense of not having access to as much  so called news or content. But what about the quality? Being strictly less informed by emotionalized info shots could very well mean being less misinformed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840944</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> These are skilled labor jobs (plumbers, electricians, IT, etc.).<p>They are for now, but will a robot be able to do them in the near future? I don’t know. But there are probably people working on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475603</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Back to Kagi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have their own indexes.<p><a href="https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html" rel="nofollow">https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:19:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017246</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be the Casefile episode about the "Phantom of Heilbronn"<p><a href="https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-face/" rel="nofollow">https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-fac...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We can live in hot places if the air stays dry, which it usually does or historically did. If the air gets more humid we cannot anymore.<p>> Humans may also experience lethal hyperthermia when the wet bulb temperature is sustained above 35 °C (95 °F) for six hours.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Smooth UI animations on server-rendered HTML: Turbo, Stimulus, View transitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Turbo and view transitions go so well together because they have kind of the same philosophy: write the HTML once to describe what the current state should look like, and let the technology handle the transitioning from one state to another. This leads to writing expressive dead simple code, that is so simple to understand yet behaves like a modern SPA, I love it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "The Misuses of the University"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>'He remembers the quip from a former dean: “The endowment is the gift that keeps on taking.”'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:26:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bad content reaching kids is not the issue. (Well, it is part of it…) The whole thing is bad. We don't give cigarettes to kids either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:55:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Currently, BirdyChat supports 1:1 chats, with group chat interoperability coming in a future update.<p>I wondered whether it can be used with Whatsapp groups: Apprently not yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is algorithmic art:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art</a><p>> From one point of view, for a work of art to be considered algorithmic art, its creation must include a process based on an algorithm devised by the artist. An artist may also select parameters and interact as the composition is generated. Here, an algorithm is simply a detailed recipe for the design and possibly execution of an artwork […]<p>Creating art by AI certainly also uses an algorithm to some extent but it cannot be said to have devised that algorithm and arguably also not to clearly define all parameters to the algorithm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To summarize, a Jon Seager from Canonical says it’s for safety and resilience.<p>> Performance is a frequently cited rationale for “Rewrite it in Rust” projects. While performance is high on my list of priorities, it’s not the primary driver behind this change. These utilities are at the heart of the distribution - and it’s the enhanced resilience and safety that is more easily achieved with Rust ports that are most attractive to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "FSF announces Librephone project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 2fa using an app that exists on the same device -- a second factor that secures nothing<p>2FA on the same device secures against your login credentials becoming known to another party, e.g. by fishing, password reuse, database leaks, etc., which are real threats. It is not meant to protect against someone being in possession or full control of your unlocked device, which is of course also a real threat, though possibly less common.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:36:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off:<p><a href="https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet" rel="nofollow">https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet</a></p>
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<p>Thank you! It always was astounding to me how people could argue with so much vigor and conviction that something as complicated as the immune system could not possibly be affected by something as basic as temperature changes.</p>
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