Hacker News: Medox

New comment by Medox in "Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"

Medox — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:30:46 +0000

Terrifying. I know that Japan is earthquake-proofing its architecture but how about the underground infra? Do they have to dig and redo the pipes? The cables seem to be mostly overground (at least in this video) and are probably easier to repair (oldschool infra ftw).

New comment by Medox in "I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset"

Medox — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:59:49 +0000

> Since I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the phone, I didn’t want to remove these tabs, or to solder anything onto them. I just wanted to connect a cable to them in the easiest way possible.

Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….

New comment by Medox in "Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI"

Medox — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:26:08 +0000

OpenVINO might be a good alternative, as many Intel-based mini pc’s support it. Or a decent desktop with an Intel CPU. Or maybe something with an Arc GPU (integrated or dedicated).

Disclaimer: I didn’t try it yet but the last rabbit hole regarding OpenVINO comparisons looked too good to be true and it seems Frigate supports it too. Win-win.

New comment by Medox in "417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make"

Medox — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:05:58 +0000

Mandatory recommendation of the Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [1] video/version. Especially with this particular song(!), as the 8K version [2] has a different one which doesn't really give the chills... Although, 60fps makes the image much better. Maybe combine the song from [1] with the video from [2]...

The source picture is the 1.5 gigapixels version (69.536 x 22.230 pixels).

Fun fact: watching the video on certain TV's makes them flicker wildly. Probably because they struggle with many dots in motion. On a monitor it works flawlessly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8

New comment by Medox in "Starship Flight 7"

Medox — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:50:04 +0000

Even more:

https://x.com/jp_ouellette/status/1880029255813459973

https://x.com/Sitting_Analyst/status/1880033972748709995

https://x.com/nickpags45/status/1880028951885816056

New comment by Medox in "US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week"

Medox — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:33:56 +0000

The interference wars commence!

New comment by Medox in "Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant"

Medox — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:58:49 +0000

I though that Tabby, the ssh client [1], got AI capabilities...

[1] https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby

New comment by Medox in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

Medox — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:46:47 +0000

> once people (i.e. grandma) changed the input to the streaming device, they couldn’t figure out how to get back to the cable box

Unless you have a remote with the magical "TV" button and you only have to teach (i.e. grandma) to press that one when the TV channels don't appear.

Not sure if this would work with cable boxes though, as they might get separated from the default TV input (as in, scanned channels) but THIS is something they should make smarter (learning the default input and assigning it to the TV button)

New comment by Medox in "Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning"

Medox — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:58:59 +0000

GMKtec Mini PC N97 [1] is 160 EUR on amazon.de (with the 70 EURO voucher that is). Got mine with free shipping to Romania, as the purchase was over 50 EUR.

Also, the N97 has better performance than the N100, but the power consumption is higher. For me its a plus as it's more powerful than the usual N100 mini PC's while much smaller and fan noise is quite low (for now at least...). Not really intended for high workloads and 24/7 anyway. More like a backpack PC.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/G5-Computer-Generation-12GB-256GB...

New comment by Medox in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

Medox — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:55:26 +0000

You could try the portable version [1]. Not so easy to update afterwards, of course, and plugin installations and updates might need some extra steps [2] but having a zipped backup / ready-to-go package, with everything configured as desired, can come in handy.

[1] https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Office/Suite...

[2] https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/86702

New comment by Medox in "Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate"

Medox — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:50:37 +0000

In 8+16 years from now we can celebrate 2048 the whole year. Still time for the author to implement an Easter egg until then.

New comment by Medox in "Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging"

Medox — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:58:38 +0000

Using the simonw resolver is took under 3600s *

New comment by Medox in "Incredibly Ambitious SMB 3 Hack Released After 12 Years"

Medox — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:26:44 +0000

She does have multiple videos on that channel [1] tough, including development videos [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DahrkDaiz/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7HQ6jSCf0

New comment by Medox in "A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily"

Medox — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:01:30 +0000

isprimeapi.xyz would be helpful.

New comment by Medox in "Dual-screen laptops make more sense with this spiral notebook-like hinge"

Medox — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:12:37 +0000

The perfect laptop for interviews and 1:1 meetings!

- Just look at the back of my laptop instead of the projection/TV.

- You want to see more? Sure, let me tilt it. Now I see less. Perfection!

New comment by Medox in "Bitcoin Investors Buy Puts Aggressively"

Medox — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 09:25:06 +0000

Fun fact: in that Big Bang Theory episode, they were hipped about BTC @ 5K [1], while the episode aired Nov 30 2017 and the closing price was already 10K [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc-Hbklizzk

[2] https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/bitcoin-price-november-20...

They recorded that episode probably between March and April 2017 or end of February (?)

New comment by Medox in "The secret of Minecraft (2014)"

Medox — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:57:32 +0000

How else would you find the knowledge if not through separate websites, when using the Web Displays Mod [1] in game? /s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-m2dH4LEw

New comment by Medox in "Sharks test positive for cocaine in waters off Brazilian coast"

Medox — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:11:43 +0000

Sharknarco

New comment by Medox in "Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing"

Medox — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:58:52 +0000

Or something with an N97, which performs better but is less power efficient. e.g. the new Odroid H4's

New comment by Medox in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

Medox — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:58:50 +0000

Until the VPN is affected by the Domain Controller that is on Windows.