Hacker News: Lanrei

New comment by Lanrei in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

Lanrei — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:16:59 +0000

I'd change mine so that the portrait and landscape button layout were separately configurable.

New comment by Lanrei in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

Lanrei — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:04:20 +0000

Focal length wouldn't even be an issue if the photographer was taking the photos from the same position. The fish-eye effect is literally because the photographer is closer. Cropping a photo with a different focal length will give the same composition and difference will be the distortion introduced by the camera and the image processing.

New comment by Lanrei in "Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser"

Lanrei — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:13:50 +0000

Neat. I usually just use 7zip to open .exe and .msi files.

New comment by Lanrei in "Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)"

Lanrei — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:12:02 +0000

A game such as Turing Complete will give the same sort of understanding of the fundamentals of computing, although not a physical learning experience.

New comment by Lanrei in "Dune ornithopters flap their blades in the wrong plane for vertical takeoff"

Lanrei — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:55:27 +0000

Assuming that they're capable of changing the wing angle of attack, they seem to be doing the same motions that dragonfly wings make during flight, including take-off. Here is a slow motion video of one taking off (note the vertical motion of the wings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOc8WTzMljw

New comment by Lanrei in "Tutanota is now Tuta"

Lanrei — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:17:10 +0000

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo has Protonmail. Proton has a mail bridge application which let's you use desktop mail clients.

New comment by Lanrei in "Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)"

Lanrei — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:58:44 +0000

You'd be better off with an engine specifically designed to be efficient. Turbines are great at many things, but they are complex and don't scale down very well. They were primarily used where high torque and power is required, and they just aren't practical outside of that.

A better option would be a constant speed ICE engine running at it's peak efficiency (like a diesel-electric train).

New comment by Lanrei in "The Password Game"

Lanrei — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:41:38 +0000

Seems pretty self-explanatory:

> site:youtube.com "00:00 / 16:18"

Or you know you could just try to work it out for yourself.

New comment by Lanrei in "Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware"

Lanrei — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:23:13 +0000

Whole thing screams scam or April Fools joke. There's one commit to the source code repository.

Anyone want to try it on a VM and report back?

New comment by Lanrei in "Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee"

Lanrei — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 09:11:35 +0000

The only thing that I could find was from 2017, where phonearena were apparently re-injecting ads using WebRTC to bypass adblocking. So perhaps you are using an old blocklist such as this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt.

New comment by Lanrei in "Why do bees die when they sting you?"

Lanrei — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:58:26 +0000

This article makes one assumption without justification and then follows it to a wrong conclusion.

When bees sting other insects they can sting them multiple times, like a wasp. If you give them time a bee will usually be able to work it's stinger out of you and go on it's merry way. Their stingers just happen to get stuck in skin.

Here's a basic video discussing the topic: https://youtu.be/nTVsqc2CCGo

New comment by Lanrei in "The record-breaking -108.00 diopter myopia lenses (2016)"

Lanrei — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:59:38 +0000

The article says that they're biconcave, which means that the thinnest part of the lens is in the centre (similar to a red blood cell). For high-myopia lenses, they often remove the lens material away from the centre to limit the maximum thickness at the expense of reducing the field of view. The resulting surface is usually left unpolished, but the lens underneath will still bend light, resulting in the circular patterns you mentioned. In this case a very large amount of material is removed as they would be impossible to use with a conventional frame otherwise. The alternative would be to use glasses with very small lenses.

New comment by Lanrei in "Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator"

Lanrei — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:32:42 +0000

Inline whitespace summation at the same time as mathematical operations seems like a problem. I don't think that there's a standard order of operation for that sort of thing.

New comment by Lanrei in "Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)"

Lanrei — Fri, 13 May 2022 13:58:10 +0000

Would it still be a bicycle if the pedals aren't connected to the drive? This configuration would make it more like a scooter with a pedal generator.

New comment by Lanrei in "Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes"

Lanrei — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:16:06 +0000

I just put onion2k's version as a script in violent monkey, set to run only on NH.

New comment by Lanrei in "LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised"

Lanrei — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:55:34 +0000

If you want to store you passwords locally, then at least use something like Keepass or KeepassXC. It's far from a perfect solution as it's still vulnerable to targeted attacks when it's being used if your computer is compromised. But at least they're not store in plain text. Also password auto-typing and generation are nice to have.

You can sync the encrypted files to your phone or other computers.

New comment by Lanrei in "uBlock Origin review"

Lanrei — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 05:29:06 +0000

I just wish that they'd add a text or symbol in the top of the global and local dynamic filtering boxes. Every single time that I use it I have to look up which one's which, because it isn't obvious and I can't remember.

New comment by Lanrei in "Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (2016)"

Lanrei — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:32:00 +0000

That reminds me of a quote about chlorine trifluoride:

"...It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride that protects the bulk of the metal ... If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

New comment by Lanrei in "Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)"

Lanrei — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:10:37 +0000

> The mechanical keyboard is a 61 keys Chinese bootleg.

This guy obviously doesn't know anything about keyboards.

New comment by Lanrei in "Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates"

Lanrei — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:48:06 +0000

Why is no-one commenting that nearly half their expenses are in salaries and wages. They have 354 staff. That's ~130 000 USD per person.