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NKosmatos

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Hi there, I’m just your average HN user from Patras, Greece.

Interested in computers, technology, science and similar topics. Curious about astronomy, maths, geography, philosophy, religion, photography, science fiction and many many more.

You can find me usually on Twitter (yes, I know it’s called X nowadays) or have a look at my own webpage and Linkedin for contact details.

I’m a software/telecoms engineer, currently employed but always open for any interesting proposals for remote only positions ;-)

https://www.kosmatos.gr

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kosmatos

https://twitter.com/NKosmatos

https://meet.hn/city/38.246242,21.7350847/Patras

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top500.org 29d ago

TOP500 – June 2026 List

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en.wikipedia.org 1mo ago

No Three-in-Line Problem

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www.euronews.com 1mo ago

What's left of a €100k salary after tax across Europe

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www.amusingplanet.com 2mo ago

The Telescope That Got Shot (2023)

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astroberry.io 2mo ago

Astroberry – OS for controlling astronomy equipment

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rufus.ie 2mo ago

Rufus 4.14 pre-debloats Windows 11 installation

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www.itsnicethat.com 3mo ago

Hofmann Typeface (2023)

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ras.ac.uk 4mo ago

Places to Look for Alien Life

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www.themarginalian.org 4mo ago

What Happens When We Die

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github.com 5mo ago

First public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years

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science.nasa.gov 5mo ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sees farthest galaxy

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airmass.org 6mo ago

Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

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www.henleyglobal.com 6mo ago

Henley Global Passport Index 2026

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devblogs.microsoft.com 8mo ago

Visual Studio 2026 now available, 4 years since last release

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github.com 8mo ago

Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience

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www.heise.de 9mo ago

Old Western Digital SMR hard drives have vulnerable firmware

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starlust.org 9mo ago

Periodic Table of Messier Deep Sky Objects

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www.severe-weather.eu 9mo ago

Winter 2025/2026 weather outlook

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www.geomar.de 10mo ago

Magma Displacement triggered Earthquakes around Santorini

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www.telcotitans.com 10mo ago

Ericsson to power VodafoneThree's core network

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steamdb.info 10mo ago

Ad-free Steam data for everyone

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improbable.com 10mo ago

2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

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openai.com 10mo ago

OpenAI for Greece

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earthsky.org 10mo ago

Aurora season and the Russell-McPherron effect

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groups.google.com 11mo ago

Happy 34th Birthday Linux

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turbli.com 11mo ago

Most Turbulent Flight Routes of 2024

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petapixel.com 11mo ago

One of the Best Solar Eruptions in Years Is Caught on Camera

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spritacular.org 11mo ago

Spritacular – a citizen science project of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs)

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10print.org 11mo ago

Print, a one-line BASIC program

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configserver.com 11mo ago

Configserver.com will be closing down on 31 August 2025

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Very well written! Now let’s wait to see what happens with the rights to Calvin and Hobbes when Waterson is not around. I’m sure we’ll see a reboot/re-run with merchandise, series and perhaps a movie, when the heirs take the rights.

TLDR (conclusion from the paper): "By a combination of these techniques the satellite Cosmos 2546 (NORAD ID 45608) was identified with high confidence as one source of the interference. Further analysis pointed to the Russian Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema, an early warning constellation to which Cosmos 2546 belongs, as collectively responsible for the wide-area transient interference causing GNSS degradation across Europe since 2019."

I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR. Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!!

More about Razor 1911 and Future Crew for the young readers of HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Crew

P.S. Too many groups to mention, but these two hold a special place in my mind ;-)

P.S.2. Extra mention to the most famous Greek demo group - ASD (Andromeda Software Development) - https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317

Is this a joke? Is this guy for real? And he calls himself a REAL engineer? He’s a manager doing damage control because all this time Microslop is greedy and has stopped caring about power users.

We’re not first time users, we don’t want Microsoft BOB as our UI, we don’t want ads and internet search “functionality” in our Start menu, we don’t want AI everywhere and we don’t want things hidden from us.

Make Windows 11 Pro for real pro users and 11 Home for new users. I hope a few people from MS are reading this, especially Mr Engineer.

I’m going to get downvoted for this, but I don’t care.

P.S. Yeah yeah guys, I know about Linux ;-)

Layoffs at Block 5 months ago

I totally agree. In this strange era we're all in, it seems that not using proper capitalization is a sign of "importance". Other high ranking people/CEOs/technologists don't use the correct rules, especially for important announcements like laying off 4000 people. O tempora, o mores!

I agree 100% with the author, clean, easily readable and well structured URLs make the web a better place. URL is a hierarchical structure as introduced in the RFC1738 by a guy you might have heard, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web :-) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738

Easily readable URLs is something I learned in the 90s and I still try to enforce in everything I create.

AI is here to stay but not in the way big corporations dream of it. People will continue using AI but when the AI bubble pops, sooner than later, things will stabilize and adapt to real usage with a different business model.

As you correctly state, the cost of AI as a Service (AIaaS) will increase for end users, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It will allow the "real" users to continue having access to it and sieve out the ones who are just playing around. Prices for RAM, GPUs, SSDs will normalize a lot and more people will move towards local models.

Similarly to what happened with the dot-com bubble (I saw it happening), it doesn't mean that everything will disappear, but that it will change/adapt. All of us AI realists are currently being treated like technophobes when we say things like that ;-)

New YC homepage 6 months ago

Impressive! Seeing all the before and after photos is a nice touch. With regards to the actual web page, white text on light background (partners part) makes it nice easily readable.

Cloudflare was down 8 months ago

LOL, 500 returned for many big sites…this is going to hurt and make people rethink. If it’s not DNS, then someone pushed to production on Friday :-)

This is how articles should be written, this is why I’m reading El Reg (a.k.a. The Register) all these decades, this is what happens when high management cares only about profits and when real engineers don’t eat the RTO bullshit. Bravo for putting this online.

P.S. I’m not an Amazon hater, replace the company name with any other big one of your choice and the article will have the same meaning ;-)

After all the complaints and upheaval created after their silly management/leadership decision, they finally understood something.

As an owner and administrator of many Synology NASes I agree that Synology offerings are a bit underpowered compared to what is available in the market (from H/W point of view), but the ease of use and peace of mind within the Synology ecosystem (DSM software, apps) outweighs whatever drawbacks they have.

If Synology management takes the decision to refresh their H/W with new CPUs, NICs and more RAM, I'm sure they'll stay on the market ;-)