Hacker News: wasmitnetzen

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:11:24 +0000

It's a fringe party with fringe opinions. It got 0.59% of votes in the last election despite the huge funds provided by the Mullvad co-founder.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:43:59 +0000

For you, sure. But there are a lot of communities running entirely there. Our local farmer's market is preorder only, and is entirely run off Facebook. I would have to skip going there altogether.

And it's not viable to propose any alternative. There is no platform, closed or open, where there are enough people registered to be actually usable, and nobody will make a separate account for this.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:49:05 +0000

You're confusing the worth of the book and its content. A book can be valuable (ie a rare bible print), whereas its content is not (we have all the bible variants copied).

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:23:01 +0000

"The mafia is paying for some school kids' lunches, so please don't go after them or the kids will go hungry"

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Grok Bot"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:51:45 +0000

I hope you're aware that you'll lose a lot of top talent that way who won't put up with that.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:50:56 +0000

German copyright law has no Fair Use. There are copyright exemptions for private or academic use, but commercial use has no such exemption. Books have special protection even according to § 53 (4) b).

And yes, it's the duplication which is illegal, not the publication of them.

[1]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__53.html

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:14:28 +0000

Well, you've just painted a big target on your blog. This is the internet, after all.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:49:01 +0000

You cannot vibe code your way out of 30+ years of institutional knowledge and processes built on Microsoft Office either.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:49:44 +0000

>> a sad life

> corporate America

Sounds like you're saying the same thing.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:37:43 +0000

I can ask you the same. Why don't you accept their politic stance?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Donation Controversy"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:20:13 +0000

Note that while Sweden has a low income inequality, it has one of the worst wealth inequalities in the world.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "The lost joy of music piracy"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:43 +0000

Also iTunes Match, which legalized all of your pirated music[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625967

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:50:24 +0000

Because of the lesser impact on land usage, fuel usage, noise, ...?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:48:44 +0000

Wikipedia doesn't have to shut down, but they have to remove the libel.

The problem for LLMs is that they do not learn, and can't be prevented to produce that libel ever again. If Google finds a way to make that happen, no court would stop them from offering an LLM.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:35:51 +0000

There's a lot of online-only banks who have figured this out. Do video auth, outsource it to the postal service, ...

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:27:10 +0000

It'll be just another round of the client-side vs server-side processing rounds. We've been through them, we will keep going through them.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:38:19 +0000

Ultimately the consumer is paying for the ad spend as well, so it can't be an outsized part of the budget.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:25:16 +0000

Shouldn't Github be large enough to not have anyone on-call, but just rotate the responsible team around the world?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:27:14 +0000

> If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips"

I do not. American culture exports American values, which are not universal. Simplest examples being the attitudes towards violence and nudity, which are very different in Europe, and vary within Europe as well.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:17:09 +0000

Are you also implying that people who maintain vehicles for a living do a worse job at it than the owners doing it themselves? I would say the opposite is true.

Plenty of companies around the world have well-maintained fleets of vehicles. Trucking businesses, bus companies, train companies, even some taxi companies with salaried drivers, ...