Hacker News: HenryMulligan

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Nvidia N1 laptop motherboard picture shows 128GB of LPDDR5x"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:27:17 +0000

I wonder if they started work on this before RAM prices spiked. Not sure how most people expect to be able to afford 128GB of RAM in today's market. Also, one USB-C and one USB-A is pretty minimal connectivity for an otherwise high-powered, wildly-expensive laptop.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:41:17 +0000

For those of us who aren't familiar, what is the difference?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:03:34 +0000

Well, good thing you aren't drinking it then, because the complete lack of electrolytes would kill you far faster than the microplastics. Surely if they can chemically purify the water to chip-making standards they can filter out the microplastics (when they are done with it)? At least one can hope.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:54:08 +0000

I'm sure, like any metal at an industrial scale, it is profitably recyclable. But that is beside the point. This is akin to asking: "My car's engine just threw a rod and is seized. Is it recyclable?" Hopefully you see in this analogy that the car (engine) costs way, way more than the sum of its parts (the constituent metals).

New comment by HenryMulligan in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

HenryMulligan — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:56:03 +0000

Apps Only mode still has plenty of ads on the home screen though.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:45:09 +0000

Sounds like OpenAI might be trying their hand at TPUs, like what Google has. They are one of Google's biggest advantages in AI right now. It would also give them insurance against Nvidia being everybody's hardware supplier.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:23:51 +0000

Both of those write a single ISO to your USB stick, while Ventoy allows you to store numerous ISOs in a folder on the stick and choose which to use at runtime. Also, you can store other files like normal with the remaining space on your stick.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:56:33 +0000

Data privacy and security don't matter? My secondhand RTX 3060 would buy a lot of cloud credits, but I don't want tons of highly personal data sent to the cloud. I can't imagine how it would be for healthcare and finance, at least if they properly shepherded their data.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:01:51 +0000

Ignoring what this model architecture could do and just considering what this model does do, why would I (or anyone) want to run this model (locally) to do ? Is it entirely a proof-of-concept for future training on medical data? Are they looking to use this to attempt to ethically justify training on (free-tier) user's personal data via the application of noise to the training data?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "FFmpeg 8.0"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:15:29 +0000

Is it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "ViscaCamLink – Camera control application for PTZ cameras"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:09:09 +0000

I haven't gotten around to trying it, but this may be a solution for Reolink cameras (that don't already support RTSP/ONVIF): https://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant"

HenryMulligan — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:12:44 +0000

The factual info in your reference "[0]" makes no sense. The writer (and illustrator) of the Dilbert cartoon is Scott Adams [1]. I have no idea what the name you referenced has anything to do with it, other than some Japanese software. Or was all of part of your comment written by an LLM?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert

New comment by HenryMulligan in "General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker"

HenryMulligan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:12:08 +0000

I remember receiving this video ad for a Chevy pickup truck in a print issue of Popular Mechanics circa 2015 [0]. When disassembled, it consisted of a screen, battery, speaker, and circuit board. What the article doesn't say is that the circuit board had a micro-USB port which when connected to a computer mounted the internal storage as a drive, with the four-or-so videos it played accessible. I actually managed to find an existing home video video with the correct format (I wasn't familiar with FFmpeg at the time) and when one of the internal videos was replaced with mine (with the same filename), it would play instead. I believe the micro-USB also charged the internal LiPo battery as well, as I don't recall being worried too much about battery life. I probably still have the thing somewhere! [0] https://www.tubefilter.com/2015/04/16/chevrolet-video-ads-in...

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Starship’s second flight test"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 06:25:40 +0000

It is interesting that T-0 says "Excitement guaranteed" instead of "launch" or something. Besides being funny, it seems like they are officially accepting the reality that it may not go as planned (even at so early a stage), but will be thrilling nevertheless!

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:03:25 +0000

Apparently there are ongoing hostilities between the archive.* websites (archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph, etc.) and Cloudflare. Try changing your device's DNS settings to something other than Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) to access the archive.* website. For example, Google's DNS is at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . If your browser has DNS-over-HTTPS enabled, add an exception for the archive.* sites. (I believe Firefox has it on by default and I had to add exceptions for three or four of the archive.* sites to be able to use them).

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk"

HenryMulligan — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:27:25 +0000

The twitch right as you are falling asleep is known as a hypnic jerk. The flash of light may be related to exploding head syndrome. The faint "music" could be tinnitus, some electric device (speakers, guitar amp, etc.) picking up an AM or shortwave radio station, or just your brain making up (or playing back) music as you drift off to sleep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Cookie Clicker saved my PhD"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:18:31 +0000

> software you don't want users to have anymore

This is exactly why some don't want software essential to their business or personal life to be dependent on the whims of somebody and their server.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab"

HenryMulligan — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:18:43 +0000

I believe the rule is not to play until clicked, for videos with sound. However, for videos that don't have sound, they are allowed to play at page-load. Also, due to this functionality, sites now have a sound-less video first play and then switch to a version with sound (faking "un-muting") when clicked. This does have the nice side-effect of eliminating those really annoying ads that used to play at full blast whenever I forgot to mute my laptop's sound. (Nonetheless, I still reflexively turn my laptop's speakers down to 5% when I am not using them after getting burned so many times in public.)

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Running Mac OS 9 on a Wii"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:45:33 +0000

Note: This article is not about running Mac Classic directly on the Wii (e.g., with modified drivers). Instead, Linux is used to run a program called Mac-on-Linux (https://www.maconlinux.net) that takes care of the hardware interfacing problem while utilizing the Wii's PowerPC CPU natively, as it is very similar to a Mac G3 series CPU. Still, it is an interesting accomplishment.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:41:53 +0000

Okay, fair. Thank you for clarifying.