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fanick··on Swurl.com by Ryes – Stopped Working?
Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.
fanick··on Swurl.com by Ryes – Stopped Working?
Hi, don't know where to cry about this but I was using this swurl.com (its author should be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryes) as my daily search engine replacement. And just today I've found out it stopped working. Was it abandoned or was it sold or what has happened? It was so cool. Now I have to go back to google.
fanick··on A DIY near-IR spectrometer
Similar project with single photo diode enclosed in sort of a pinhole camera: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/18/using-missile-tech-to-see-li...
fanick··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
maybe they were waiting for some patents to expire?
fanick··on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
nitter link https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685268812663271424#m
fanick··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
My related story: we have door phone system in our apartment house and I wanted to get a notification whenever our flat got buzzed. I hacked the phone in our flat - attached a circuit directly to the wires leading to the coil of the buzzer and through arduino to the pc. Then I stitched together some code utilizing firebase to send notifications. Worked like a charm until google began to require credit cards for the free stuff.
fanick··on The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned
I got hospitalized once with the suspicion of having TIA but it turned out to be migraine with aura. I had those since I was a kid but never so intense (part of vision going poof!). I identified that the trigger is intensive smells (like vinegar for example).
fanick··on The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned
Damn, I think I might have similar issues. Also diagnosed with Leiden. Should I be worried?
fanick··on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
With obvious limitations you could use backblaze. Back of the napkin calculation this will cost you only $150 per month in storage fees.
fanick··on 3M Glass Cloth Tape 361
Tangent to this: there was an airline accident when the service crew used transparent tape instead of the reflective silver tape somewhere on the belly of the plane (or wings, I don't remember). Then when the pilot was doing preflight inspection at night with a torchlight, the spot with the transparent tape was not visible to him. This was an error on the ground crew side.

It would need some googling to find the details.

fanick··on Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec
I would like to know the answer to this question from dale_glass too.
fanick··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
Can you elaborate how there is no need for hardware changes? Are you connecting through the earpiece somehow?

Some time ago I hacked our flat intercom. I needed to have a text message delivered when the intercom rang (we use it to open door to the building), I had to tap to it with an arduino.

fanick··on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you write a driver that would fake these controllers on the 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into massively local multiplayer game and was always toying with ideas on how to reliably connect as much controllers as possible into a game.
fanick··on Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics
I suspect friction in the bearings is the culprit and allows for this "defiance of laws of physics".
fanick··on Modern cloud for multiplayer games
The trick is to always send previously unconfirmed inputs. That way if a packet is dropped the missing input is delivered in the next packet.
fanick··on Citigroup plans to hire 4k tech staff
Angry upvote.
fanick··on ZX Spectrum Next (2nd batch) delayed due to FPGA shortages
Unavalability of $10 Spartan-6 FPGA forces the team to go with more expensive Artix-7.
fanick··on Libm.so – is it a joke or does the webpage segfault?
I tried to google for libm.so (standard C library of basic mathematical functions). I typed it straight into the address bar expecting my browser to search for this term using google so I didn't expect it to be valid URL. Lucky me.
fanick··on Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
If we omit the batteries, there have been electric buses since forever - trolley buses. They come also in hybrid variants too to serve more distant bus stops.
fanick··on Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
LED diodes would like to have a word with you.
fanick··on On beaming solar power from low earth orbit
I remember reading about this solar power beam concept when I was a kid in one children magazine. The article mentioned Peter Glaser as the author of the idea and it had these gorgeous illustrations. After some digging I managed to find it in the depths of the internet https://imgur.com/a/1MPWd62 https://imgur.com/a/sF3MzSj
fanick··on Back Orifice (1998)
I think the audience here would appreciate some stories on the darknetdiaries.com. There are even several interviews with people describing how they got interested in the IT security field in their teens in highschool. Can't really recommend any specific from the top of my head.
fanick··on My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse off with the switch on its belly while putting the computer to sleep. It taught me to always save my work at least:)
fanick··on I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
Arachne
fanick··on Show HN: This website is valid JSON
At my previous job I worked at a whole UI framework (server side) based on XSLT transformations. We built kind of abstraction layer on top of ExtJS,HighCharts and some 3D rendering lib at that time. It was hell to debug anything in there because the output was HTML sprinkled with JavaScript and it was not always easy to identify what part of XML and XSLT was responsible for given part of output. It was quite successfully used in one internal ERP mashup app that sucked data out of some SAP system. Learning XSLT actually helped me understand C++ templates (big aha moment). So we had this XSLT monster crunching on XML files but what we really needed was JSX which probably wasn't a thing until few years into the project.
fanick··on Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?
I used visual paradigm few years back. It was really good. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Paradigm
fanick··on Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
For the thread collapsing functionality I think the long press/touch could mitigate the need for pinch zooming. Just hold your thumb on the comment long enough and bang, it's gone. For me this is the most commonly performed interaction with the site.