Hacker News Reader

vesselon USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

But then that friend hates his earbuds and tells everyone how much Sony products suck. So in the end it hurts the brand. That's why having a small set of quality products with good names is best.

vesselon Orion – New WebKit Browser

It's for Mac only.

vesselon Conventional Comments

thought: no

vesselon Modern PHP Cheat Sheet

The reason I never use Heredoc is because you need to abandon your indentation, otherwise your tabs/spaces get included in the string. Is there a way around that?

vesselon Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

Your English is great. I too follow the demo scene and got hooked on a JS1K thread on HN several years ago, and stayed since then. I like how the top rated comment isn't the lowest hanging fruit, which seems to be the case on every other internet forum.

vesselon Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

Single-page apps are forgivable for media oriented sites, so the video/music can keep playing as you navigate the site. in the past this was done with pop-up players and was generally messier, so I like SPAs for this.

Literally every other type of website on the planet should use traditional loading pages.

vesselon Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)

Was this the birth of i2hub?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2hub

I remember the first time I saw a file download faster than 80mbps was using i2hub. It was 4am and I remember thinking at the time "shit, I'm gonna get flagged" and sure enough my dorm internet was disconnected the next morning. Fun times.

vesselon Vermeer Restoration Reveals a Painting Within a Painting

It's a 2013 documentary:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/

vesselon The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make

well... unfortunately...

vesselon Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

The Untold Story of SQLite With Richard Hipp - CoRecursive Podcast

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

vesselon T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked

Thanks, I've been wasting their time by keeping them on the line (at no cost to me other than the time I used to amuse myself with annoying them) but I didn't know about the credit card generator, weill definitely use that!

vesselon Opus – an open source parallel corpus

Opus is also the name of an incredibly well compressed audio codec: https://opus-codec.org

vesselon Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

TheVerge purposefully left that out of the headline for clickbait. It's really not hard to write "Amazon's Older 2G/3G Kindles" or "Lose Their Cellular Connections"

vesselon Show HN: HiColor — convert images to retro 15/16-bit RGB color with dithering

Yes, but the author is most likely using a Win API that is known to exist since that operating system & service pack. I doubt they tested every version, unless they are the curious type :)

vesselon Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash

Assuming the lowest wage possible at $7.25, you can make $100 dollars in one week; that's only 14 hours of work... 3 hours per weekday.

vesselon Ian Knot (2003)

For those interested:

https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes

vesselon Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?

I'd like to know this too. I can tell you anecdotally that 4G (LTE at least) is a major battery drain if you have very weak 1-bar signal. I work in a basement and my phone is dead by 5pm unless I remember to turn on airplane mode.