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fivesigmaon UDP vs TCP

A huge problem with TCP wrt gaming is the default ACK frequency on Windows which is set to 2. This effectively almost doubles the latency of game connections (sending/receiving a lot of time-sensitive small packets).

It can be changed with a registry setting (TcpAckFrequency) but you can't expect even a significant fraction of your users to do that. Why this isn't a per-connection option sort of like TCP_NODELAY is beyond me.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Wow, that sucks. Never had anything like that happen during testing. Sorry about that.

I have changed the default safe search setting to Strict.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

It will be corrected. Thank you!

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Every time you scroll 20+ CPU cores have to hum away and generate previews of websites (assuming they aren't cached already). So it's mostly a server load optimization.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Where did I imply that queries primarily come from my own engine? Right now only 15-20% of them are. Your search was routed through Bing.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

I think it works better than text in some types of searches (shopping for example). Distraction isn't really a problem once you've used it for a while. Again, different strokes.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Go to Settings -> Manage search engines -> Other search engines and it should be there.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Thanks. There could be a description on how to set the default search engine as it is a different process on each browser.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

I'm afraid not. It's the major differentiator, otherwise it'd be the same as everything else out there.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

This is certainly something that will be added.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Agreed, trust is a hard thing to build but you have to start somewhere. I've changed my wording.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

There is a low graphics mode in the settings. May I ask what browser/OS you are using? I've tested most combinations and even with the CSS blur it should be snappy.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

That would be me. I thought it would be a cool thing to have - previews of a website before you visit it - so I built it. It does not make money but its monthly cost is minimal at the moment.

It is too early to discuss "the agenda" behind it because there is none. If it catches on and becomes popular enough, I have a few ideas on how to make it sustainable without sacrificing any of the privacy features.

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Edit: If you trust Peekier enough, privacy as whole is actually better because you don't even have to click on search results on some occasions, simply because their content is of no interest to you.

More information here: https://peekier.com/privacy

fivesigmaon Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Well, for one, it shows you a scrollable preview of every website.

fivesigmaon Atom 1.12 released

I hope this isn't just placebo, but I can see a noticeable increase in performance compared to 1.11. Less typing/autocomplete lag in general.

PS: how about some hashes or GPG signatures on the download page, Github people?

fivesigmaon VirtualBox 5.1.8

Released 11 days ago.

Why is this news?

fivesigmaon MacBook Pro

Re: the wide gamut display

I really really hope there's proper sRGB emulation for those of us who want to make content for the 99.99% of users out there.

Edit: not every app is color managed

fivesigmaon Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production

Here is another metric that measures logic density [1]. At the 10nm process, Intel has a 21% advantage over Samsung using these numbers.

[1] https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6160-2016-leading-edg...

fivesigmaon Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

Browsers are the new OSes. Everything on them runs on javascript. You do the math.

fivesigmaon Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?

I wonder if you could cheat natural daylight by using big RGB LED area lights emitting at just the right amount of Kelvin.

The aural equivalent (https://rainymood.com/) certainly works for me.

fivesigmaon DNS-over-HTTPS

Agreed, an anycast IP should be provided just like that of their resolvers.

fivesigmaon 150,000 IoT Devices Behind the 1Tbps DDoS Attack on OVH

@internetofshit will have a field day with this.

In all seriousness, this is only going to become worse in the future. Can't wait until the day when smart fridges, toasters and bicycle locks join in on a multi-Tbps attack and break the entire internet.

fivesigmaon Safari 10.0

http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com/

Unacceptable in this day and age.

fivesigmaon Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?

Someone should make a blacklist with websites that hijack scrolling. Or an /etc/hosts.

fivesigmaon Why drug prices in America are so high

I want drug research (and approval) to _not_ cost billions of dollars per drug just to justify the salary of a few bureaucrats.

fivesigmaon Why drug prices in America are so high

If the market were free drugs would be commoditized, like aspirin.

The reality is:

* As a pharma company you can't compete because another player is holding the patent for decades

* Governments around the world will indirectly spend trillions by way of social insurance on your products, so prices will balloon because that money has to go somewhere

* The barrier to entry is so high thanks to regulation

This is a made-up situation of artificially low supply coupled by propped up demand.

How is this a free market exactly?

fivesigmaon Why drug prices in America are so high

Not US specific:

* Ridiculously long patent validity periods. Let's put aside the fact that patenting a fucking molecule is even a thing, 20+ years is way too long a term to guarantee profit to a private corporation. Enforced by governments.

* Heavily subsidized (read: price artificially propped up) by insurance laws. This is student loans all over again. Again, created by governments.

* Astronomically high R&D costs, most of which is the cost of obtaining regulatory approval. Enforced by government agencies.

Free market? Yeah, right.

fivesigmaon DDoS protection

Cloudflare is a major source of centralization.

The more providers offer something like this, the merrier. I understand that this isn't a layer 7 solution, but that has it's downsides as well - Cloudflare (or any other reverse proxy) will MITM all your TLS traffic, for example.

It's also time to address the elephant in the room: AWS. "Oops, you got DDOS'ed? Here, have a $50k invoice"