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Hacker News continue to disappoint lately. I naively thought that by using my real name people here would actually treat me like a real human, not some anonymous punch bag. I don't…

If you look at the article I linked, you can clearly see that the satellites are visible from the ground (the photo from Germany). If you search for "starlink" on Flickr you can se…

They may "unleash intercontinental lower-than-fiber latency", but they also unleash light pollution. Where do you live? In most of Europe and SE Asia you can get gigabit broadband.…

If you look at the second animation closely you can see that there's a piece of spring steel one one side. In the animation it's only a 1-or-so pixel line. But that piece of spring…

I feel bad for the author for publishing this article. If your (the author) mindset is that "everyone else is an idiot", be it management, or regulators, auditors or some other gro…

I'm not a designer and I don't work in a design team, so I don't have much to add to the article. However I worked together with Rasmus during the early years of Spotify. It's now …

The link points to " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%2... ." In case that renders as a link by Hacker News, I've added a space here and removed the https…

That "#:~:text=" highlighter is so annoying it has made me switch from Google Chrome to Firefox.

I've lived in the inner city parts of Stockholm most of the time (Östermalm/Norrmalm, Södermalm, Kungsholmen). I would definitely not wear 500-600 USD headphones in any of those ar…

A bit off topic, but if you wear those around Stockholm, Sweden where I live, you will probably be robbed. I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home …

This is actually a really cool subject and you can write a lot about it, but I can try to summarize. So Sappho lived over 2500 years ago. Obviously we don't have a complete manuscr…

For the 0 or handful of you who like to read critical editions in ancient Greek, here is something to look forward to: Finglass is preparing a new edition of Sappho (and also Alcae…

Interesting. Two years earlier, when I worked at Spotify in 2013, I wrote a similar article: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-bo...

As a security professional I 100% agree with the author. The comments here on Hacker News seem to have tripped on the examples given (keywords: politicians, journalists) and turned…

Didn't expect to find one here at Hacker News. 698... so you must have started around the early 00:s or thereabouts? Unfortunately I share your same statistics: I was very active i…

:) This reminds me of my favorite typo: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=406154&cid=21914102

As a security professional I'm very disappointed when I read the (often angry) messages people have written to the maintainer/author of this software. You can read them here, in th…

These kinds of issues are not unique to dark skin. Anecdote time: :-) As a Swedish/Finnish man (and a somewhat stereotypical nerd at that), I'm paler than probably 95% of the world…

Relevant quote from the Ed25519 paper [1] under the heading "Signature System": "This section specifies the signature system used in this paper, and a generalized signature system …

I think this article is a good example of conflating cause and effect. But not in a fallacious way or value-negative way: it more highlights well, I think, that there is a difficul…

You win the internet today, that's a fantastic solution. I think the only gotcha is to handle the last block read in step 1 in case it's not evenly 1 kiB. Otherwise the first read …

Just to offer a different perspective: An employer having too clear of an idea of a role can also be a red flag. The past 10 years I've often been the first employee - or one of th…

Can you people please stop with this unhealthy attention. You need to understand that Swedish culture is really unhealthy right now and I ask all of you - I plead to you - as a Swe…

This is a good thread to ask: Who reads Homer in your country, and why? I'm currently learning ancient Greek as my "Corona project": purely for fun, and mainly because I'm interest…