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wahahahon 100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi

If I had a dollar every time someone miscapitalized GB/Gb, I would be a lot less angry about people miscapitalizing GB/Gb.

In this case; wow it's actually gigabytes? It does seem strictly theoretical and they mention much more reasonable ~1 gigabyte/s deployments.

>Conclusion [...] scientists and researchers around the world are field-testing LiFi in office and industrial settings and reporting data transmission rates at 1GB per second.

https://lifi.co/lifi-speed/

wahahahon Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)

Add "computing" to your query to disambiguate.

wahahahon Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly

Huh, that decimal representation is a pretty attractive idea, I wonder why I haven't heard of it before or seen it in use at all.

100/256 seems very tolerable efficiency-wise.

wahahahon Hollywood steps up anime piracy war and battles domain-hopping evaders

Funimation has some more, only Lain and GiTS 2 from your list though.

Tangentially, some cool anime got aired on this local PBS station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUfoDH_1w0

wahahahon Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277

Archive (slightly NSFW text) https://archive.tinychan.net/read/prog/1295544154

wahahahon Red flags in the Threads privacy policy

What were they reading off of?

In the App Store they set the privacy policy to Instagram's;

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

wahahahon Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

Long time namecheap user without any autorenew problems, even with insufficient funds forcing them to retry.

You can also add funds to your account in advance, just got an email suggesting that for an upcoming renewal.

wahahahon What gets to the front page of Hacker News?

You just (poorly) measured the same thing the article did.

I'm still curious to know what % of Show HNs make the front page.

wahahahon Things that surprised me while running SQLite in production

They're real, fwiw https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/15/eight-bit-floating...

wahahahon Threads, an Instagram app

600 post views per day qualifies pretty close to "irrecoverably down" for me.

wahahahon Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain

A video you can interact with and has its own thoughts, feelings, motivations and such; sure.

wahahahon Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”

On the other side, they brought a fingerprint reader that actually stored biometric data safely, innaccessible to the OS with the first secure enclave.

wahahahon Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”

>software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities.

The 5s from 2013 had a patch in January.

wahahahon Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

I'll sometimes go through the trouble of using `data:text/html,<script></script>`, but that is impressively replete.

wahahahon Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)

It's not plain to me that ligatures might conflict with smallcaps. Certainly feels there's no good reason for that to be the case.

wahahahon The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)

AES, particularly AES-256, is considered quantum resistant/safe. AES-128 could have its keysize effectively reduced to 64 bits with Grover's Algorithm (AES-256 to 128 bits), but scaling quantum computers to do that brute force search is not as straightforward as building a bunch of FPGAs or ASICs.

wahahahon How to compute a 256 bit elliptic curve key with 50M Toffoli gates

Being able to crack present-day communications in the future is still a concern.

wahahahon OpenLLaMA 13B Released

RAM requirements

wahahahon How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video]

How do they get the CO2 out of the sub?

wahahahon Vision Pro

I think it's simply a matter of the media not being there yet. You could envision movies made specifically for experiencing through these devices that would be utterly enthralling to take in, but it won't be for another half decade at least.

Otherwise, I think Apple's focus on "spatiality" is what is key.

wahahahon MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

Altruism really has been getting its name dragged through the mud recently huh

wahahahon A peek into Japan's convenience stores (Part 2)

It's gratis, perhaps.

wahahahon Big leap for hard drive capacities: 32 TB HAMR drives due soon, 40tb on horizon

I wouldn't consider LLMs a software innovation.

wahahahon Ask HN: Advice on starting a YouTube channel?

Your content is extremely prolific, good work! I think your thumbnails specifically do a great job of selling the content.

Having a focus on numbers can definitely be caustic; at the end of the day it's about the whims of hundreds, thousands, or millions(!) of people, and even the algorithms in charge of leading them about.

If you make good content, you'll be appreciated for that content regardless of what the numbers reflect.

wahahahon Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset

They showed that exact activity a couple times, fwiw, and my headphones don't retain smell so I don't imagine the set will.

wahahahon Ask HN: Will HN survive Reddit imploding?

I don't know that HN will see more than a blip, but I'd imagine some niche interests will get more users on 4chan as a result.

wahahahon Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset

So I can drink my coffee, use my keyboard, or eat my popcorn.

wahahahon Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset

I really don't understand why nobody else has managed making decent touchpads. Is it not extremely high priority??

wahahahon Apollo will close down on June 30th

Frankly I'd rather see the apps just launch their own backend.

wahahahon The Last Egg

Let's not get all political here