HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

admp

4,992 karma · joined February 23, 2007

Hello.

My email: hi@adom.as

submissionscomments
admp··on A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches
Context: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
admp··on Apple Creator Studio
Photomator would be a more level Lightroom alternative, odd it's not included in the new Creator Studio package.
admp··on Kezurou-Kai #39
If you’re fascinated by or interested in Japanese carpentry and happen to be in London before July, go and visit https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/the-craft-of-carpen.... It’s free and quite excellent.
admp··on Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war
Full paper (open access): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)...
admp··on Abraham Wald and the airplane diagram with red bullet holes
Please change the URL to http://, the cert has expired in 2021.
admp··on Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"
As parent says, nitter is dead.

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590

admp··on The scarcity of the long term
Cologne cathedral didn’t actually take 500 years to build — construction was restarted after a 250+ year halt.

“Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. Attempts to complete the construction began around 1814 but the project was not properly funded until the 1840s.”

admp··on Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly
I like to look at API specs to clear questions like this, e.g.

https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#barcode-detectio... BarcodeDetector#detect returns a sequence of detected barcodes, so depending on the implementation and input quality it should able to extract multiple barcodes.

https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#dictdef-detected... each DetectedBarcode has boundingBox/cornerPoints.

admp··on Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly
There’s also the experimental https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det... — already live in Chrome.
admp··on Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
Should this be renamed to "Modern Gradle/Maven Build Practices"? Many ways to build Java projects, and implying Gradle is the modern way feels rather opinionated.
admp··on Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
This appears to be factually incorrect both for apps installed from third-party app stores and from Google Play itself.

See "Alternative billing systems for users" on https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/11174377?hl=en-...

admp··on Windows Refund Day – When Linux users demanded their money back (2019) [video]
(1999) actually
admp··on OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-execs-invite-...
admp··on [dead]
PDF: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/vedq6/
admp··on Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wwsjd
admp··on Find a good available .com domain
He wrote about this recently: https://sive.rs/su
admp··on India’s second wave
The article you’ve linked to doesn’t appear credible.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973

admp··on London Pneumatic Despatch Company
University College London operates a newer pneumatic tube route in the Bloomsbury area, yet at a much smaller scale. The route crosses the pneumatic line described in TFA.

https://www.quirepace.co.uk/products/pneumatic-tube-systems/...

admp··on Is TDD Dead? (2014)
(2014)
admp··on The Challenges and Delights of Photographing the Night Sky
Here are all of the winning submissions to the IDA's "Capture the Dar" contest:

https://www.darksky.org/winning-submissions-for-capture-the-...

admp··on What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
Unlike Britain, Iceland does not have Daylight Saving Time, and therefore is GMT+0 throughout the year.
admp··on John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
$3.6B figure looks about right, but the growth was more like 20x. Don't forget the 2:1 stock split in 2014.
admp··on Xerox Alto Restoration – Ethernet pioneers/founders of 3Com visit [video]
A fascinating moment around 11:55:

  - Did you ever find a program called EDP, Ethernet debugging program?
  - That's it [pointing at the screen].
  - [Looking at the screen] That's the new version. From '79.
admp··on Airport Trains Suck. Will REM Too?
You probably mean 9am, not 9pm?
admp··on Goodbye Google plus photos
Bear in mind this is from July 2015.
admp··on Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
There's an interview with Korotkevich dating from IOI 2009:

- How many hours a day are you in front of the computer?

- Not more than three to four. I like playing football and table tennis, so I try to find time for sports as well.

http://www.ioi2009.org/downloads/br8-3str-en.pdf

admp··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X
Quite a lot of OS X applications support pasting with matching style (Cmd+Shift+V), which does exactly the same thing.
admp··on South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site
Check out http://bribespot.com/ -- they are doing pretty much the same thing.
admp··on 80 terabytes of archived web crawl data available for research
CommonCrawl also has a fairly large ("The crawl currently covers 5 billion pages") dataset of this sort, which unlike the one from archive.org is already available to everyone on S3 under the requester-pays model.

http://commoncrawl.org/data/accessing-the-data/

admp··on Show HN: Twilio Pricing API hack
Any plans to add support for SMS pricing?
Page 1 of 2Next →