Hacker News: AntronX

New comment by AntronX in "The lost joy of music piracy"

AntronX — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:50:39 +0000

I still use torrents to find lossless CD rips of various 80s - 90s music. Makes it easy to get multiple different releases and pick best sounding version. Buying used CDs on ebay to rip would be a chore.

New comment by AntronX in "The lost joy of music piracy"

AntronX — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:43:30 +0000

It took about 30 minutes to get 3.5 MB mp3 song over dial up. I would let downloads run overnight and could get a dozen songs by next day. I would do my bulk mp3 downloading in the morning before class at schools library to immediately transfer over USB to my 4 GB Archos Jukebox hard drive mp3 player. That was around 2001 - 2003 either before schools blocked p2p or I must have been using public file downloading sites.

New comment by AntronX in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

AntronX — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:02:55 +0000

When I was in Seattle I noticed youtube, facebook and maybe other apps load and run faster. I was on fiber internet at an apartment. Back in Miami I was on Comcast cable but recently got fiber here as well and there was not noticeable improvement. I guess next time I'm in Seattle I will do screen recording to compare.

New comment by AntronX in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

AntronX — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:40:41 +0000

DC in Miami, explains why Telegram app is snappy fast for me. I notice similar speed improvement with Meta and other big tech apps when I'm on the west coast. I guess latency matters when your app is making tons of requests.

New comment by AntronX in "Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason"

AntronX — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:53:18 +0000

> arm64 is an IP-locked ISA, namely it is not worth assembly writting

Why is that a problem? Google search returns 3K page arm64 ISA manual. What else do you need to write asm?

New comment by AntronX in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

AntronX — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:32:53 +0000

It's not just X, it's Y.

New comment by AntronX in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

AntronX — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:07:59 +0000

I wish tech companies would stop shoving AI in my face everywhere. F off google i don't want to "ask ai" in maps. Get that ugly ai button off from messenger, meta. At least microslop winblows lets me remove crapilot buttons from apps.

New comment by AntronX in "Let's Not Encrypt (2019)"

AntronX — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:59:15 +0000

That was on free Xfnity Wifi. They got called out for it.

New comment by AntronX in "Let's Not Encrypt (2019)"

AntronX — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:32:01 +0000

What first world ISP does this?

New comment by AntronX in "Let's Not Encrypt (2019)"

AntronX — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:33:27 +0000

I wonder if you could roll your own VPN tunnel that directly connects to your home internet IP and passes custom encrypted payload that your IT department cannot decode. Would they just drop the connection if they can't inspect what your are sending?

New comment by AntronX in "Let's Not Encrypt (2019)"

AntronX — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:10:42 +0000

> Update 2023-11-05 Yeah, I've got an LE cert now. And I don't want to talk about it.

Please do tell. I'm curious what forced him to join The Borg.

New comment by AntronX in "The music industry is engineering artist popularity"

AntronX — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:05:27 +0000

I guess it's legal because Spotify is a private subscription service and does not use public airwaves like radio so Payola rules do not apply.

New comment by AntronX in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

AntronX — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:30:04 +0000

Perfect! It has option to download original yt audio format without transcoding to mp3.

New comment by AntronX in "Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times"

AntronX — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:03:43 +0000

My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.