Hacker News: yawniek

New comment by yawniek in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

yawniek — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:45:47 +0000

> This would be like, ridiculously illegal. It's also not practical;

Not if you pay a bit of dividends to jared or dtj

New comment by yawniek in "Please Use AI"

yawniek — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:25:38 +0000

disagree. i designed a new shirt design for our small startup every year for the last 5 years. This year i was able to have significantly better designs (even two) in shorter times and much happier team mates. Still my creativity, still a good amount of work in Affinity Designer, but a significant quality and speed boost. its just a tool, but a good enough one in that muggles suddenly think they are 10x'ers because they produce more output which floods the system with "slop".

New comment by yawniek in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

yawniek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:31:14 +0000

ironically i think we need more social and stronger local social networks that have high identity validation and are "safe" spaces for the plebs. so that the perceived "threat level" from the free internet gets lower. basically hide the real internet a bit behind a small rock. its a slippery slope but it might be the better strategy unless some democratic societies achieve to put more modern "freedom guarantees" into their consitution.

New comment by yawniek in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

yawniek — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:21:04 +0000

fwiw i know tobias and its very very unlikely he made this up. my guess its intentionally vague to not leak any information about the culprit which i guess is fair.

New comment by yawniek in "Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot"

yawniek — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:07:58 +0000

did a similar thing for reolink cameras and mikrotik devices. since i run a small k8s cluster i made it a k8s controller that picks up the certs. works really nicely

New comment by yawniek in "Bet on German Train Delays"

yawniek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:52:31 +0000

Yes everyone does their best but in typical german fashion nobody does the right thing because it would mean to break some rules or habit. Its a general problem but it shows hard at DB.

New comment by yawniek in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"

yawniek — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:51:32 +0000

really nice, but if you have high res monitor the fonts are too small. would be nice to zoom the ui

New comment by yawniek in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

yawniek — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:38:23 +0000

I think what many people miss is that energy became far less location dependent if you put compute next to its generation. The latency for token generation is not so important. So the ratios between energy consumed, bandwidth and latency would in theory favour building dark token factories in remote but optimal locations. But i guess construction and logistics are an issue.

New comment by yawniek in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

yawniek — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:55:20 +0000

cost.

the amount of things that before cost you either hours or real money went down to a chat with a few sentences.

it makes it suddenly possibly to scale an (at least semi-) savy tech person without other humans and that much faster.

this directly gives it a very tanglible value.

the "market" might not be huge for this and yes, its mostly youtubers and influencers that "get this". Mainly because the work they do is most impacted by it. And that obviously amplifies the hype.

but below the mechanics of quite a big chunk of "traditional" digital work changed now in a measurable way!

New comment by yawniek in "The Olivetti Company"

yawniek — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:21:08 +0000

Sent you a mail

New comment by yawniek in "The Olivetti Company"

yawniek — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:39:58 +0000

Its an incredible story and way another time. As my cousin put it while i was last in ivrea: those factory buildings where like spaceships at that time. Partialy very bad luck, but with all the nostalgia i think adriano was also partialy a bit dreamy and that ultimately came at a cost. On the other side and what rarely gets mentioned: olivetti had a really good and massive sales crew. And that allowed them to spend money on these things.

Ps.Adriano is my biological grandfather. Pps.i posted the link before, but didnt get much traction.

Radxa AICore Ax-M1M.2 AI Acceleration Module

yawniek — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:38:41 +0000

Article URL: https://radxa.com/products/aicore/ax-m1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633124

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawniek in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

yawniek — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:37:16 +0000

i wonder how the Hailo 10H compares to Axera AX8850. add on boards seem to be cheaper and its a full SoC that can also draw much more power.

The Olivetti Company

yawniek — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:46:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600847

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by yawniek in "Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support"

yawniek — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:13:42 +0000

The Bat! was absolutely the best email client. ever. way ahead of eudora. it was a massive step back when i switched to my first macbook in 2006 (the black one!) and started to use Thunderbird. That said Thunderbird is fantastic now and great to see it get native Exchange support!

Agent tars beta, local Multimodal AI Agent

yawniek — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://agent-tars.com/blog/2025-06-25-introducing-agent-tars-beta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872854

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawniek in "Kagi Search API"

yawniek — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:17:31 +0000

i switched fulltime to kagi, it gives me mostly better results than google and bing.

its possibly quite a clever strategy to have a high price, essentially the tesla playbook:

get a good standing with HNW people and provide an awesome product, meanwhile the incumbents laugh at it because its not scalable and has no significant growth. But also they do not shoot it down. Once its big enough and economies of scale kick in, then the price is lowered or the market pays that price.

New comment by yawniek in "Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper"

yawniek — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:31:43 +0000

Then again, we now do have flying cars, floating cities and robot helpers. They just look different and are not (yet?) that common.

SGSG = Svelte and Go and SQLite and gRPC

yawniek — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:38:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mpiorowski/sgsg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000816

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawniek in "OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions"

yawniek — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 10:13:47 +0000

what D imo would benefit most of is a cohesive standard library that comes with batteries included and makes it easy to ship real world apps and services. basically what Go did, having many standard protocol implementations within stdlib.