Hacker News: Dx5IQ

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Dx5IQ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:19:13 +0000

It is hard to imagine that "modern" encryption would be susceptible to known plaintext attacks, please provide some citations.

New comment by Dx5IQ in "James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations"

Dx5IQ — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:29:43 +0000

Which is ironic given where this is posted. Do all startups yield a net result? Either to the VCs or the humanity?

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Python’s new t-strings"

Dx5IQ — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:33:54 +0000

Such library functions tend to also accept a string as a valid input. E.g. db.execute from the GP usually works with strings to allow non-parametrized SQL queries.

New comment by Dx5IQ in "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World"

Dx5IQ — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:04:50 +0000

It's difficult to call Madhava's work calculus as we know it. He and his school certainly made huge contributions to analysis of infinite series, but they did not develop that into a unifying framework. It's important to note that no mathematics is done in a vacuum, if Newton/Leibniz "invented" Calculus, it's by building on top of hundreds of years of work done throughout the world.

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Fixing a memory leak of xmlEntityPtr in librsvg"

Dx5IQ — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:44:38 +0000

This is a classic problem you can make in any language. If you were doing Java, and forgot to use `finally` for a resource, you'd have a leak due to an exception.

I do not know what metric you use to define "better"

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order"

Dx5IQ — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:23:47 +0000

There was no connection made, GP merely pointed out their observation based on what he has done so far

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for"

Dx5IQ — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:50:49 +0000

Are the stars on the website just made up?

I also find the phrasing rather odd. The open source movement is about "free as in speech, not beer".

Maybe it's meant to list "free alternatives" which is completely valid thing to do.

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose"

Dx5IQ — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:02:39 +0000

Why do you even need systems if you're using docker-compose? As long as your docker daemon starts up, docker compose can do the rest

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?"

Dx5IQ — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:32:32 +0000

Fixed the typo, sorry!

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?

Dx5IQ — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 08:36:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35479553

Points: 209

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New comment by Dx5IQ in "Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse"

Dx5IQ — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:30:16 +0000

You can use this Android add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Gpwgraph – PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface"

Dx5IQ — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:06:52 +0000

I love this! It makes it trivial to route audio to/from any devices and programs. Does anyone know anything similar for Windows?

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness"

Dx5IQ — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:33:49 +0000

Observer effect while applicable is distinct from Quantum Weirdness aka Heisenberg Uncertainty

New comment by Dx5IQ in "Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees"

Dx5IQ — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:17:32 +0000

>Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country?

You just answered the question. Because they are the elected representatives. If you didn't trust them, why did you elect them in the first place?