Hacker News: vzaliva

New comment by vzaliva in "Reading Is Magic"

vzaliva — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:56:46 +0000

> Russians are essentially the only truly literate people left. The vast majority of Russians read regularly, more than anywhere else in the world.

Not really.

According to Nielsen, 59% of Russians read at least weekly. High, but not the highest in the world, and behind China:

https://nielseniq.com/global/en/insights/commentary/2017/maj...

Several European countries have a very strong reading rates, some exceeding 70% of adults reading books annually:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

New comment by vzaliva in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

vzaliva — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:24:41 +0000

What would it show? If he logged in to Santoshi's email account and sent an email to his personal account, the metadata would be in order, and we would learn little from it.

New comment by vzaliva in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

vzaliva — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:34:51 +0000

I've installed from snap store

New comment by vzaliva in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

vzaliva — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:33:39 +0000

So, I started it and was doing something but there is no obvious way to exit. I tried Q,q, Ecc, :q. I tried `man lnav` in separate terminal - but no man page is provided. `ps` shows 3 processes which would not die with SIGTERM, have to `kill -9`. But nice web site :)

New comment by vzaliva in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

vzaliva — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:33:03 +0000

I've tried to type in non-ASCII (Ukrainian) and preview shows it correctly. Does it guarantee it would print it properly?

New comment by vzaliva in "I love my dumb watches"

vzaliva — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:49:14 +0000

There's a non-obvious fact that people with good sight might not realise. You need decent eyesight (or spectacles) to actually use smartwatch functions beyond just telling the time. As I've got older, I need reading glasses for small print, which I don't always have on when I'm away from my computer or not reading. That's killed smartwatches for me.

New comment by vzaliva in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

vzaliva — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:16:55 +0000

I think it is pretty obvious. While Jack London's martin Eden is out of copyright and public domain now, if they order Penguin edition they still have to pay them some money for it. So Amazon calculated that it is cheaper to print their own. My guess they could not do this for non-public-domain books without securing rights first.

New comment by vzaliva in "Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included"

vzaliva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:10:33 +0000

VM hosting is good. But I want to go step further and have a local model in this VM.

New comment by vzaliva in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

vzaliva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:10:02 +0000

Mine understant novell you policy. AI gramair chex no.

New comment by vzaliva in "SSH Secret Menu"

vzaliva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:54:59 +0000

It does not. open ssh linux to mac, typing ~ just types it on fish shell prompt. It works after`cat` followed by ENTER

New comment by vzaliva in "Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots"

vzaliva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:11:50 +0000

I find another article linked from this one even more exiting: "BearID: Face recognition for brown bears" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bearid-face-recognition-for...

New comment by vzaliva in "SSH Secret Menu"

vzaliva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:08:25 +0000

I've used ~. for a long time but did not know about others. I know, should have read man page.

Anyway, if you try it from shell prompt it is likely will not work as pressing ENTER shows the next prompt. Try `cat` followed by ENTER and then ~?

New comment by vzaliva in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

vzaliva — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:30:08 +0000

Is it something wihch would make PS5 attractive to run local LLM models? I've heard Mac Mini shared CPU/GPU memory makes it popular for that.

New comment by vzaliva in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

vzaliva — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:30:33 +0000

A slow day in Go-news land? :)

It is heathwarming to see such mundane small tech bit making front page of HN when elsewhere is is debated whether programming as profession is dead or more broadly if AI will be enslaving humanity in the next decade. :)

New comment by vzaliva in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

vzaliva — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:55:51 +0000

I do not use nanoclaw, but I run my claude code and codex in podman containers.

New comment by vzaliva in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

vzaliva — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:50:23 +0000

First of all, sorry to hear about the poor girl’s ordeal, and I’m glad she was rescued. But after reading about all that complicated digital sleuthing, it basically comes down to this:

"The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother’s boyfriend - a convicted sex offender."

I feel like the police should’ve started there: cross-referencing people in her close circle against a list of known sex offenders.

New comment by vzaliva in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

vzaliva — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:46:34 +0000

Interesting (I am Android user myself). Any examples of such features?

New comment by vzaliva in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

vzaliva — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:03:59 +0000

Why the drama? If you do not like native keyboard, install 3rd party one like Gboard.

New comment by vzaliva in "The Codex App"

vzaliva — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:33:39 +0000

How about us, Linux users? This is Mac only. Do they plan to support CLI version with all the features they are adding to desktop app?

New comment by vzaliva in "Flameshot"

vzaliva — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:54:50 +0000

Flameshot is great! It was one of the reasons I have not switched to Wayland. Although it seems now they have wayland support in beta.