Hacker News: znpy

New comment by znpy in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

znpy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:17:42 +0000

As an European: in the last 10-15 years the American left went much further left, it’s getting unironically exteemist.

So no, not really center bu European standards.

New comment by znpy in "Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations"

znpy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:46:12 +0000

> What is windows actually good at?

running the Office suite, unironically

New comment by znpy in "From A.I. To the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All"

znpy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:17:34 +0000

https://archive.ph/97nNO

New comment by znpy in "Lidl Introduces the European Payment Method Wero in Germany"

znpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:40:49 +0000

> Offline transactions via NFC will leave no traceable record. The anonymity of cash with the convenience of contactless payments

Did you make this up or is there some official document promising that?

It honestly sounds like too good to be true.

New comment by znpy in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

znpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:33:52 +0000

Nah, i mostly self host my stuff and if i need anything public I’ll go with providers that don’t nag me with their ideology of the month

New comment by znpy in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales"

znpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:32:58 +0000

It still scales though

New comment by znpy in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales"

znpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:32:40 +0000

Engineers also love to reinvent the wheel.

What you wrote is essentially technical debt.

New comment by znpy in "Codeberg Divides"

znpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:31:01 +0000

You’re going to be sorely disappointed

New comment by znpy in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

znpy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:15:41 +0000

> Taking a helicopter to the top of Everest is not as rewarding as climbing the mountain.

If you’re on the top of mt. Everest and you need medicine, would you care if it reached you via helicopter or via some guy climbing while having a lot of fun?

New comment by znpy in "Codeberg Divides"

znpy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:18:16 +0000

Yeah something i noticed is that the richer the area is the more disconnected from reality they are.

LLMs are here to stay. The genie’s out of the lamp. Get over it.

New comment by znpy in "Codeberg Divides"

znpy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:13:02 +0000

> The fact that the rule is open for interpretation means that they can effectively shut down malicious actors

This also mean that some kind of charismatic leader can become a de-facto tyrant.

And btw, lone leader on top, bending the rules at will… that’s a trait all dictatorships have in common (hitler, mussolini, stalin, mao, etc). Just saying.

New comment by znpy in "Codeberg Divides"

znpy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:10:15 +0000

All these issue and gitlab is still there, fully working and fully functional, open source and ready to host your stuff without useless drama.

It’s also got a great ci/ci experience.

New comment by znpy in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales"

znpy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:45:46 +0000

1000 connections is a fairly low number by modern standards, c10k “challenges” are like twenty years old by now.

The real questions are:

- how many messages per second are you processing on that 2gb machine (and using how many cpus)?

- does your message processing involve transaction handling, including saving data ti disk durably?

No offense but it really seems you’re comparing apples and oranges, with your use case being much much simpler than the one described.

New comment by znpy in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales"

znpy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:41:24 +0000

DynamoDB scales much more than that. In one of their dynamodb papers they claimed that the amazon us retail website alone made like 89 millions rps during prime day, a few years ago.

New comment by znpy in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

znpy — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:27:23 +0000

I mostly stay away from community-lead stuff (and services in particular) mostly because of this.

It’s a never ending drama, and every quarter there’s something new to hate on or get offended by.

I’m tired, boss.

New comment by znpy in "A PHP server that can handle 10x as many concurrent requests as Nginx+PHP-fpm"

znpy — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:13:53 +0000

> so I'm not sure if this would have helped.

maybe not on cpu but surely on memory

New comment by znpy in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

znpy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:37:25 +0000

lovely, thank you!

New comment by znpy in "I'm Done with Mullvad"

znpy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:28:18 +0000

Yeah but it's an established playbook nowadays.

You go against the established leftist narrative? You get called all the possible names: ethnonationalist, fascist, nazist, racist, whatever.

It got stale and it's giving a lot of people fatigue, even more so considering that we all lived in a shared reality and we can all see that the narrative around immigration does not survive the basic reality checks.

New comment by znpy in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

znpy — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:51:56 +0000

Weird to see the author spending 0.01 on their website and $99+tax on the text editor.

New comment by znpy in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

znpy — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:37:00 +0000

> i've since been switching to zyxel gs1900-* switches (up to 48 ports with openwrt)

I’m sorry what? You can run openwrt on that line of switches?

I just have a 24-port one at home running stock firmware…