Hacker News: Firerouge

New comment by Firerouge in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

Firerouge — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:42:01 +0000

Isn't the latest shield hardware 7 year old at this point? Only one year newer than AV1 itself

New comment by Firerouge in "An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police"

Firerouge — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:35:45 +0000

Hilarious that PPD would say "the two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the City is unacceptable" despite "the police had not seen the tip because it was marked as spam."

So apparently it's fine if the police indefinitely ignore crime tips marked spam but Anthropic needs to detect and respond immediately to any mistaken actions their agents take.

New comment by Firerouge in "If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function"

Firerouge — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:21:18 +0000

Agreed, it would be nice if it was more straightforward to set up self hosted hot patching on arbitrary Linux distros

New comment by Firerouge in "Noodle Gallery- Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and Immich"

Firerouge — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:07:58 +0000

And quite a few of the features seem like common sense additions that should be pulled into Immich itself.

It's not entirely clear to me what warranted a forked release, are the immich devs not open to accepting some of these new features?

New comment by Firerouge in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

Firerouge — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:10:49 +0000

Plus just put 32 in stripping RAID if you really need to read an exabyte a day

New comment by Firerouge in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

Firerouge — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:23:11 +0000

It's possible, but I can't find a corroborating news report, and it's the first I've heard this claim made about that case.

New comment by Firerouge in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

Firerouge — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:01:30 +0000

Do you have a source to your Bryan claim?

If you look at the map, there are zero flock cameras reported in that region.

None in Moscow Idaho where the murder happened, none in Pullman where he lived, and none showed between the locations.

New comment by Firerouge in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

Firerouge — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:11:47 +0000

Qubes OS is the Linux version of this concept. Hardware and their drivers get VMs for security boundary isolation.

New comment by Firerouge in "Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

Firerouge — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:44:40 +0000

It's fun when a subject matter expert shows up and blows your mind with their level of knowledge on normally unnoticed intricate details that go into everyday things.

New comment by Firerouge in "US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law"

Firerouge — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:06:11 +0000

There could be a world where the muon radiation fallout of WWIV has contaminated all unmined terrestrial mineral sources.

New comment by Firerouge in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"

Firerouge — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:08:15 +0000

Maybe the problem is shared deeper than that, that both industry and individuals are not interested, incentivized, or capable of investing into improving on good enough.

New comment by Firerouge in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"

Firerouge — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:49:23 +0000

A heat pump water heater seems like a no brainer way to improve efficiency. They're not yet common, but there are many more options available over seas than in America.

This project seems emblematic of the challenges facing funding manufacturing initiatives in America. What's funded are the projects that appeal to tech investors, more of a focus on flashy presentation, luxury design, AI, and cloud app features, than the baseline functionality.

We get innovation as a side effect of convincing investors that the idea will disrupt industries and create app ecosystems that lock in consumer attention. Chasing the 100x unicorns and no longer training workhorses

New comment by Firerouge in "Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile"

Firerouge — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:16:04 +0000

Short of flying to China and buying in person, how can an American find/get one of these?

New comment by Firerouge in "$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won't allow to retire"

Firerouge — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:28:08 +0000

Not applicable, "their owners and state regulators have determined they are no longer economic or needed"

New comment by Firerouge in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

Firerouge — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 08:49:04 +0000

It also supports DMX input (sACN or Art-Net) for designing and controlling complex effects from external software.

New comment by Firerouge in "Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US"

Firerouge — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:39:08 +0000

I like how you quoted forcing, but I very specifically did not use that term.

Had there been no exclusivity agreement, I think we can agree that the inverters would not of been bricked for being located in the wrong regions.

I think the malice from Sol-Ark here is that they are only offering a limited time deal, which may pressure people to pay up before the courts clear this up.

Regardless of who shares the majority of the blame, Sol-Ark, Deye or 3rd party vendors, this could of been handled better by all parties involved, and should not have harmed end consumers in this way.

New comment by Firerouge in "Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US"

Firerouge — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:19:56 +0000

Sol-Ark certainly seems to embody 'never let a crisis go to waste '.

Sol-Ark may not have pulled the trigger on bricking the inverters, but it certainly sounds like their legal actions pressed Deye's hand.

And then to shake down all the individuals who's inverters broke with a limited time opportunity to buy a brand new one from them....

New comment by Firerouge in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"

Firerouge — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:17:36 +0000

Seeing as they are paying $5 a month, how do you expect buying a NUC to pay for itself in a few months? Where are you finding NUCs for $20 with free electricity?

New comment by Firerouge in "I sent an Ethernet packet"

Firerouge — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:25:27 +0000

What use cases are you imagining where you need arbitrary data output and processing at 100GHz speeds? It's my understanding that even 100GbE is running at a fraction of those frequencies.

New comment by Firerouge in "Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him"

Firerouge — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:27:34 +0000

While there aren't many statistics on this sort of sentencing, I did find some here: https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/section-37-41-data-spe...

And based on the following:

> The number of admissions has fluctuated between 1,500 and 1,700 since 2008.

And

> The number of discharges and disposals has fluctuated between 1,350 and 1,550 since 2011

One can extrapolate that up to a couple hundred new admissions each year are staying in essentially indefinitely, as the discharge rate is generally always lower than the admissions rate.