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Re:Git for US Legislation
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:37AM (#50272617)
While I like the sentiment, the law of unintended consequences will most likely strike back hard.
Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:00PM (#50187562)
I have a vision of a CMS for a SSG.
Maybe soon I can set my agents on it
Re:Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:41AM (#50087668)
worst case scenario we get Tokyo style trucks (apparently called koukoku torakku).
Re:I hate you Microsoft
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:12PM (#49747386)
I don't know what you're doing and I feel all of your Visio pain, but have you tried typst?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:18PM (#48885436)
Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
Re:'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with...
on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:10AM (#48805750)
At least historically, this isn't supported. I'd refer to Sarah Paine's talks for more details.
More fault lines and pirates and no one to police them.
Re:But yak shaving is fun
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:49PM (#48558141)
My favourite Yak from Malcolm in the middle.
Re:Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:33AM (#48074092)
Have you considered P? It feels like a good abstraction for engineers as it's "proper" code.
Re:My AI-Assisted Workflow
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:29AM (#47777639)
If people actually read the original paper by Royce 1970 they would see that it's an iterative process with short feedback-loops.
The bad rep comes from (defense|gov.) contracting, where PRDs where connected to money and CR were expensive, see http://www.bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html for better details.
Re:Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackba...
on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:12PM (#46591340)
But where?
Re:A tab hoarder's journey to sanity
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:27PM (#46530395)
What solved some of my problems was a Firefox plugin called MarkDownload. Instead of saving a bookmark, just download the thing (as a text file) which makes it easier to find by search (or just grep -R).
Re:FPGAs Need a New Future
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:33AM (#46364807)
That was my point as well: what can't you do with a uC or RPi?
It feels the use cases are dwindling and eaten by ASICs and uC
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:54AM (#46272830)
The live site has a blogging feature: Title, Text, Picture. Once I'll get to it, it'll be added to the demo site.
Comments is just the text aspect. So it's already working!
The question here though: in a low-trust environment, i.e. the public internet, what do you do with API key for your GitHub Actions/CI pipeline. Can they be narrow enough to be considered public? Can you get rid of the Cloudflare Workers?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:10PM (#46269593)
I'm in the progress of open-sourcing (and extending) my static-site generator "CMS" (with big air-quotes).
The idea is to add dynamic content, i.e. reservation tool, to what is essentially a statically hosted web page.
Demo: https://astro-booking.pages.dev/booking/
A bit more details: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2025-01-15-to-the-stars.html
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:37PM (#46115138)
Location: Zürich ZH, Switzerland
Remote: yes/no/maybe
Willing to relocate: depends
Technologies: Python, VHDL, and bits of C/Go/TypeScript &c. V&V/Test Engineer in regulated industries (Railways, Space, wanting to get to know medical)
Résumé/CV: see profile
Email: [email protected]
Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:15PM (#44869559)
I like Tasks.org for Android and I think it syncs with CalDAV that comes with my e-mail provider. That should just about do the trick, even with Thunderbird.
Re:20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:19AM (#44659531)
Office works like a charm if you install Chrome. That's a whole other can of worms though.
Re:I'm tired of talking about AI
on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:39PM (#44639505)
It's such a wild clash of (sci-)fi dis-/utopias. It's almost dialectic.
Re:Pocket Keyboard Design Contest
on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:03AM (#43444652)
I'm having this idea of using an Xreal Air 2 Pro combined with an RPi Keyboard as a mobile computer.
But these keyboards might be even better.
Just power an RPi with a large power bank in your pockets.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
on Friday March 07, 2025 @06:42PM (#43296034)
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Remote: yes / hybrid
Willing to relocate: depends
Technologies: python, VHDL, hardware-in-the-loop verification engineer, regulated industries (space, railways, interested in medical). General fullest-stack developer from PCB to web.
Résumé/CV: on demand atm
Email: [email protected]
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
on Sunday February 09, 2025 @03:16PM (#42993476)
and then my coworker comes up to me saying my blog post from years ago fixed his problem. It's a small world
Re:Big Ball of Mud
on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:17AM (#40935448)
If it were that easy, why do most systems converge to The Big Ball of Mud?
Re:The Economics of Status (2006)
on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:32AM (#39453009)
As stated elsewhere, flat org charts lead to informal hierarchies which adversely affects already marginalized groups.
Not sure if that's the answer.
Re:Constellations are younger than continents
on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:53AM (#38772226)
There are no trees ;)
Re:Why Emacs Keys Are Painful
on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:51AM (#38732976)
I've started swapping ESC and caps-lock first using emacs. However, I feel, if you have a good MX keyboard and press Ctrl with your palm. It is actually really nice
Re:Git Based SDLC
on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:00PM (#37473631)
This is taking these ideas to the logical conclusion.
That's another idea of mine that's been brooding for a long while.
Re:Git Based SDLC
on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:54AM (#37465393)
Concurrent editing or Collaborative real-time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor) is perhaps a better choice words.
Notion is supposedly able to do it: https://www.notion.so/help/collaborate-within-a-workspace#re....
Wikimedia is apparently working on it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Real-time_collab...
Re:Git Based SDLC
on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:45AM (#37465333)
I haven't really considered security/rights management yet, that's a good point.
Re:Cyberpunk in the Nineties
on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:55AM (#37260240)
I'd say the rave scene in the 90s was very much counterculture. It had it all: the music, clothes, and drugs