Hacker News: 1317

File Transfer Pseudoprotocol (2020)

1317 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:12:12 +0000

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2020-05-20-file-transfer-pseudoprotocol.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408179

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC

1317 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-web-should-have-fixed-grpc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398434

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fancy Filtering Examples

1317 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/FancyFilteringExamples

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372576

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1317 in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

1317 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:40:18 +0000

nicer comparison site: https://slow.pics/c/xpGfe2hK

New comment by 1317 in "KOReader"

1317 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:59:56 +0000

TBH I've never had any problems with the interface. I put books on via usb, pick the one I want to read from the nice list, then I can just read the book

The reading experience itself is the same as anything else, it draws the text on the screen

New comment by 1317 in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

1317 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:24:19 +0000

you will hear about it from them, no one is going to news.ycombinator.com to find out the latest safety information

New comment by 1317 in "The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired"

1317 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:10:11 +0000

as everyone is saying, this is Xvid, NOT h264. pretty poor reporting by phoronix here

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...

New comment by 1317 in "Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different"

1317 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:10:12 +0000

alt title: Less Is More: Why SoundCloud Low-passes its AAC Transcodings

Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different

1317 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:10:12 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/less-is-more-why-soundcloud-low-passes-its-aac-transcodings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970372

Points: 28

# Comments: 13

New comment by 1317 in "Just Do Things"

1317 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:15:09 +0000

they could be quite nice if they were just in the background, behind the text

New comment by 1317 in "Just Do Things"

1317 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:05:47 +0000

get rid of those lines splitting up the text, it just makes it confusing to read

"It's crazy to think it feels like four. I first year about"... what? oh, no it's meant to be

  It's crazy to think       I've spent a whole year at Zo               Computer now-

  it feels like four. I     had the idea to write a blog post           reflecting on my

Like come on, books and magazines and etc are laid out the way they are for a reason

New comment by 1317 in "The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]"

1317 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:42:44 +0000

NB this is about AI, not about improving your self

Limiting web server bandwidth the brute force way

1317 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:28:22 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ServerBruteForceBandwidthLimit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843634

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1317 in "Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface"

1317 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:51:15 +0000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ymyw , skip to 2:54:00

My Advertising Is So Efficient It No Longer Works (2017) [video]

1317 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:10:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCG-Jo51d4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676403

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

1317 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639018

Points: 90

# Comments: 22

New comment by 1317 in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

1317 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:28:34 +0000

P Plates, Japan

New comment by 1317 in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

1317 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:50:46 +0000

thanks for recommending kagi small web, just going through their random posts page i've already seen lots of nice stuff on there

New comment by 1317 in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

1317 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:05:02 +0000

looks quite nice, but i always find myself disappointed that all the content on the "small web" is just posting /about/ the small web, rather than doing anything interesting on it

14/30 of the posts on the top page are just about making websites

New comment by 1317 in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

1317 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:12:01 +0000

Looks interesting, would be a nicer article though if there was a demo with before/after to show the results, and why the previous ideas didn't work

for something dealing with audio you do need to play the audio really