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nikanj

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Tell HN: Facebook login is down for many

8 points·by nikanj·29 giorni fa·1 comments

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates free in Europe

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4 points·by nikanj·9 mesi fa·0 comments

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nikanj
·3 giorni fa·discuss
The same problem also exists in countries that use English as their first language. If you don't speak passable english, you will have a hard time integrating or finding an engineering job.
nikanj
·3 giorni fa·discuss
How is your English compared to her German?
nikanj
·7 giorni fa·discuss
But what were the huge, established companies that had refused to deliver a better product before Google came along?
nikanj
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Dropbox is an AI-company, according to to Dropbox https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-power...

The challenge in 2026 is finding the company that's not AI-powered (according to themself)
nikanj
·8 giorni fa·discuss
They sleep very well, in a fully-paid off house, on a mattress filled with benjamins
nikanj
·8 giorni fa·discuss
It's some variant of chesterton's fence, where you believe all of these huge, established companies in a space are just stupid and refuse to release a product thats 10x better
nikanj
·9 giorni fa·discuss
In BC, the government bought all the unsold, unfit units to prop up the housing market. Your tax dollars at work!
nikanj
·10 giorni fa·discuss
Do you have US citizenship? How did you acquire it?

If you inherited it from your parents, how did they acquire it?

Usually strong opponents to birthright citizenship are just a few generations removed from someone who got theirs via birthright.
nikanj
·10 giorni fa·discuss
Hacker News front page remains the one true support channel for all larger tech companies. The official channels stonewall you, but HN reaches people who can actually help
nikanj
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Does Sony have stores?
nikanj
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Apple should have burned billions in cash, so that they would be able to sell RAM at below-market-rate prices? But why?
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Takes more eng resources to block mobile than not
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
You can compare all of the US to just a suburb of Paris, if you insist on making stupid comparisons, but lumping all member states into one monolith is pointless both ways. Oregon is incredibly different from Florida, and so is France from Romania
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Europeans say ”Americans xxx while the French yyy” all the time. Member states should be compared to member states, or the US to the EU.
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
”Hey so all your animals and crops are dying, but if you just install AC and stop going outdoors this whole thing can be ignored”
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Would it also be corpo brain to say ”He was the guy that landed on the moon”? That was Neil’s job, after all.
nikanj
·17 giorni fa·discuss
CVE 10 if you use you current version of Python to serve files over ftp, and parse the incoming files using the most obscure file type found in the forbidden libraries of the Vatican

And your ISO etc certificates make this CVE mandatory priority 1 action point
nikanj
·20 giorni fa·discuss
Most stable of the bunch does not mean ”100% stable”
nikanj
·20 giorni fa·discuss
The lawyers from evilCorps are on a first-name basis with the key lawyers from the copyright lobby, because their fates are fully intertwined
nikanj
·23 giorni fa·discuss
You choose every piece of food you eat, how do you not know all the macros?