Hacker News: wwn_se

New comment by wwn_se in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

wwn_se — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:19:49 +0000

orange is a subset of brown.

New comment by wwn_se in "Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job"

wwn_se — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:03:15 +0000

Lots of admin work could be automated away if the person that understands the domain did it. Excel is a great example because its really hard to do complex stuff in yet non devs do it all the time. Decent APIs and some AI could make that way easier.

New comment by wwn_se in "A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs"

wwn_se — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:37:10 +0000

Great article but the fix is Adblock! Enable adblock everywhere for your family and friends at risk. Even if an ad sometimes slips through they since its out of the ordinary they are way less likely to click.

https://firstpartyornoparty.org/

New comment by wwn_se in "Johnny Decimal"

wwn_se — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:16:19 +0000

If i did this with my e-mail i would have over 1000 in some folders.

"It’s very unlikely you will end up with a hundred categories." -the page

Exactly this will result in about 20-30 folders for most, with any real amount of documents some folders might hold 100-1000 docs.

The advise you should take from this is that forcing structure is useful. Look att large code repos for example.

New comment by wwn_se in "My website is one binary"

wwn_se — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:15:22 +0000

Bundling code and data never causes problems...

New comment by wwn_se in "I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)"

wwn_se — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:50:24 +0000

Of course you can be more driven (there is of course a limit but most are far from it). I have done it I used to be content with where I was in life. Made decent money, family, friends and hobbies.

But I decided that I wanted more so I let my hobbies grow a bit and changed employer. Sure I'm not a million miles from where i was but I'm not in the same place.

Once I took the first steps the next got easier and I started to look for more opportunities. Find your first step, it should be small but in the right direction. Ask to take lead on something at work or push yourself in your hobby.

What I think everyone with kids should have as one of their goals is to get them one step up the ladder. Give them a slightly better chance than you had. Most successful people have successful parents, very few start from zero. My parents were middle class but I'm upper middle class.

New comment by wwn_se in "AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections"

wwn_se — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:48:22 +0000

EC2 is not really low hanging fruit. Most expect to get a ipv4 when creating an instance and many relies on that. Cheaper instances with ipv6 only is probably coming

New comment by wwn_se in "Why might you run your own DNS server?"

wwn_se — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:06:48 +0000

Accually there's several ways, XSS for example.

But I agree that there's something other that's not ok. Compromised client (probably a computer) or a compromised router is my guesses.

New comment by wwn_se in "Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden"

wwn_se — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:07:39 +0000

You can get one for about 1000 euro (maybe 1100) new, about half for a used one. They cost about 100 Euro a year to service. Source: I have a used unit at home.

Most business have one here in Sweden and almost all public places like train stations, malls, hotels have one. Most taxis carry one to and can be alerted by 112 (the SOS number operators, 911 in the US) if they are close. Rural areas are the unsolved problem that these drones might help with.

New comment by wwn_se in "Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System"

wwn_se — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:51:01 +0000

Thats why I switched to plex. Being able to chromecast makes it possible to use any of my tv's not just the one that had the pc connected. I now run chromecast's only and a plex server.

New comment by wwn_se in "Tor Snowflake Proxy"

wwn_se — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:24:46 +0000

Just forward the port?

New comment by wwn_se in "Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation"

wwn_se — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:19:07 +0000

GPS is not involved in this change really. Solar storms affect the magnetic field of earth to. Magnetic north is just a sensor going through software like everything else. Less risk... not more.

New comment by wwn_se in "Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting"

wwn_se — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:46:13 +0000

It really depends on the project as a consultant I have seen crazy complexity on both "sides".

Most projects backend seems to be more complex but backend also get more slack. For example if there is a DB performance problem there is usually a DB-team to help with tuning.

Front end ppl are usually more on their own, since its expected they will have easier problems. That's not always true though. Some orgs are adapting and adding css specialist and design roles to enable more technical front end devs to focus on that.

New comment by wwn_se in "Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting"

wwn_se — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:36:32 +0000

I agree, once you know the patterns and the foundation of the web new tech is not that hard to adapt to. I agree as a new dev it can feel like a bottomless pit, in the same way low level programming feels for most new devs.

That said web frontend has had a wild ride the past years. But its really starting to stabilize now, around a few core frameworks (react and angular for example). Sure there is still forks and revamps but its not the big world changing differences (like going from jQuery to react was).

New comment by wwn_se in "My own personal AWS S3 bucket"

wwn_se — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:35:05 +0000

Teenagers should be excluded but I agree that it would be good if it were not about money

New comment by wwn_se in "Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities"

wwn_se — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:45:30 +0000

There is a system, cvss scoring https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document

New comment by wwn_se in "Spotify Box"

wwn_se — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:41:51 +0000

You are just old ;)

I have not lost a file in 10years. I have a NAS with backup to the cloud, nothing fancy just a single drive NAS with automatic rolling backups. Important files go to multiple clouds.

New comment by wwn_se in "Spotify Box"

wwn_se — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:36:01 +0000

A hack is to use a regular chromecast and a hdmi to rca/spdif adapter/splitter. Works pretty well and you can get them pretty cheap (in the ballpark of $20). But it will be more expensive than the chromecast audio unfortunatley

New comment by wwn_se in "Everybody makes mistakes when writing comparison functions"

wwn_se — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:11:53 +0000

I think the point is if you integrate the analyzer in the workflow its hard to ignore. The ide warnings are easy to miss sometimes.

New comment by wwn_se in "World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale"

wwn_se — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:12:24 +0000

The big thing is that nuclear is more predictable. Downtime is scheduled most of the time. Wind is weather dependant and can be producing noting even if demand is high. This can be mitigated with storage like the 2 dam systems where you pump water uphill when there is a surplus (but that cost efficiency).