1. fer 4 days ago parent

   In some cases, yeah, but in others it just sounds like a company with a lot of regulatory constraints and a strong "need to know" culture. Internal moat building often reflects in their business model as well. Not that I'd like to work in that environment, but I've seen it work and work well.
2. fer Dec 12, 2025 parent

   Related (and on the frontpage): https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46239177
3. fer Dec 10, 2025 parent

   Can't disagree, but zionism likes to conflate them, and US policy goes in that general direction.

   P.S. Hi to the border guard reading this!

4. fer Dec 1, 2025 parent

   It's been a pain point for me for years with many services.

   Shameless plug on the topic: https://www.fer.xyz/2021/04/i18n

5. fer Nov 27, 2025 parent

   Editing out because it can be misunderstood as a defense of tax evasion as per the child comment. I'll leave a quote from the cypherpunk manifesto instead

   > We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

6. fer Nov 26, 2025 parent

   Prompt (Gemini 3 Thinking): Explain the proof to Fermat's Last Theorem

   Response: Here is a summary of the Gillespie Algorithm (also known as the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm or SSA), a fundamental method used in computational biology, chemistry, and physics.

   [... goes off on that ...]

7. fer Nov 17, 2025 parent

   Haven't tested the latest DeepSeek versions, but the first release wasn't censored as a model on Taiwan. The issue is that if you use their app (as opposed to locally), it replaces the ongoing response with "sorry can't help" once it starts saying things contrary to the CCP dogma.
8. fer Nov 14, 2025 parent

   Just moved to Niri, it's incredible how snappy it is. The animation makes what you did with the window much clearer vs. other wms where it just teleports, the scrolling just compounds to that effect. The scrolling is great because it tends to work at getting things out of the way when they're not relevant and bringing them back when they are, while not ending up with tiny windows like dwm/AwesomeWM/Sway (what I've been using for the last ~15 years).
9. fer Nov 10, 2025 parent

   For a while I daily carried an Asus EeePC 901 in my jacket's pocket. Surprisingly comfy if I carried something on the other pocket on top. But yeah my jacket had exceptional pockets.
10. fer Nov 9, 2025 parent

    System/34 or System/36, the game was RACE. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRuTHz-wwk
11. fer Nov 7, 2025 parent

    I have the feeling that there's a sandwiched generation who will have to protect both their parents and their children from these things.
12. fer Nov 7, 2025 parent

    One of the best P2P clients ever created is written in OCaml: https://github.com/ygrek/mldonkey

    I'm still surprised it can do so many things so well, so fast.

13. fer Nov 5, 2025 parent

    Previous/related: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=38847613
14. fer Nov 1, 2025 parent

    Literally the volatile keyword in Java is to make the Java compiler aware in order to insert memory barriers. That only guarantees consistent reads or writes, but it doesn't make it thread safe (i.e. write after read), that's what atomics are for.

    Also not only compilers reorder things, most processors nowadays do OoOE; even if the order from the compiler is perfect in theory, different latencies for different instruction operands may lead to execute later things earlier not to stall the CPU.

15. fer Oct 30, 2025 parent

    > I'd love to see the internal details on that COE.

    You'd be unpleasantly surprised, on that point the COE points to the public write-up for details.

16. fer Oct 29, 2025 parent

    I really, really want to use Helix but I want to share bindings with VSCode/IntelliJ, and all the plugins that promise them have lots quirks, exceptions and various gaps. I know it's never gonna be 100%, but sometimes simple stuff is broken (x to select line in Helix, selected line+newline in the latest plugin I tried).
17. fer Oct 17, 2025 parent

    You can buy passes with a regular credit card
18. fer Oct 17, 2025 parent

    Off topic, thread moved to /bant/ >>420694069
19. fer Oct 17, 2025 parent

    >I've found that it's almost impossible to even hire people who aren't terrified of the idea of self-hosting

    Funny, I couldn't find a new job for a while because I had no cloud experience, finally and ironically I got hired at AWS. Every now and then these days I get headhunters unsure about my actual AWS experience because of my lack of certifications.

20. fer Oct 6, 2025 parent

    I'm stealing this!
21. fer Oct 2, 2025 parent

    WhatsApp took off simply because SMS used to cost money, at least in the areas of Europe I'm familiar with.
22. fer Sep 30, 2025 parent

    I have high hopes for bcachefs, but so far the benchmarks[0] are a quite disappointing. I understand it'll have overhead since it does many things, but I'd expect it to perform closer to btrfs or zfs, but it's consistently abysmal (which affects zfs at times, too).

    [0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-617-filesystems

23. fer Sep 26, 2025 parent

    It'll take at most 218 comments on HN to figure out the meaning of the submission title
24. fer Sep 22, 2025 parent

    Soft real time systems often work like that. "Can't complete in time, best I can do is X".
25. fer Sep 2, 2025 parent

    I thought this applies to every app regardless the app store it comes from? Including side loading. The Play Store is already "sanitised".
26. fer Aug 29, 2025 parent

    >UnRAID

    >It's also pretty damn stable

    Not my experience. shfs crashes like crazy, tuning some things might alleviate it but it still fails. From the dozens of workarounds recommended, the only one that seems to help (for me and some others, not for everyone) is to disable NFS, which kinda defeats the point of a NAS for me.

    Also while memtest is needed to rule out a memory issue, I found some tendency to disregard these issues as hardware related... if it's only shfs crashing and not the kernel nor any other app, chances are it's an shfs issue.

    Currently I think they pin it on a libfuse bug.

    https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/stable-releases/683-sh...

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/189449-shares-keep-disappear...

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/137653-share-disappeared-aga...

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/161179-unraid-unstable-freez...

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/151605-mnt-user-is-gone/

27. fer Aug 29, 2025 parent

    If you're fine losing the NVMe slots to NVMe-SATA, I recently found this: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1737570-thinknas-6x-hdd-nas...

    Requires a bit of tinkering but the idea of plugging a 1L-format computer to turn it into a multi-disk NAS is quite attractive.

28. fer Aug 26, 2025 parent

    Not really, it wasn't the English Wikipedia and most references are in the original language. After my edit above, 2/3 LLMs know about it if you ask in the original language, which is pretty damning and gives an idea of the amount of mindless scraping they do.

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