Hacker News: NL807

New comment by NL807 in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

NL807 — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:45:32 +0000

>What I'd like to know is what software runs adequately under it in 4 GB RAM.

I find this question rather sad.

New comment by NL807 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

NL807 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:02:12 +0000

The world doesn't even have the foresight of doing something basic, like mitigating against fuel crisis scenario, let alone what you have suggested.

New comment by NL807 in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

NL807 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:18:17 +0000

> SVGs should never have supported scripting.

I would even go further: HTML should never have supported scripting.

New comment by NL807 in "How to Implement an FPS Counter"

NL807 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:40:51 +0000

FPS based on last frame is good to see load spikes, particular periodic ones, if you graph them.

FPS based on the median of a moving window is good if you want perceived frame rate, which rejects extreme outliers.

FPS based on the average of a moving window is good if you want statistical mean frame rate.

New comment by NL807 in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"

NL807 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:18:32 +0000

Not quite true. Lots of Thai dishes use a tonne of fish sauce and even shrimp paste in their dishes. They even make side dish dipping sauce (Nam Jim Jaew) that's like basically 50% fish sauce.

New comment by NL807 in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

NL807 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:56:02 +0000

In electric circuits, information is transmitted through the electric field, which itself is close to the speed of light.

New comment by NL807 in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

NL807 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:41:00 +0000

>No, challenge the entire system.

Agree in principle. But people like her does not have the resources, financially and emotionally to go through the legal system again. Unless there are charitable lawyers who are willing to do it on her behalf for free.

New comment by NL807 in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

NL807 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Problem with the markdown approach the text will become rapidly ugly with hacks, non-standard annotations to enable same features as HTML.

New comment by NL807 in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

NL807 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:35:46 +0000

Yeah I can see that being a source of annoyance for situations like yours. However, I welcome it from a privacy perspective. The indicator alerts the user if some nefarious application covertly enables the microphone.

New comment by NL807 in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

NL807 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:10:48 +0000

> If you have to explain it, there is zero chance of massive adoption.

Here's the thing, one should not need to explain it no mire. Devices or applications accessing content with an RSS option should present it to the end user through a convenient interface.

New comment by NL807 in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

NL807 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:46:54 +0000

Season 1 was great. 2 is meh. 3 is probably the last one I'll watch, as I'm losing interest. The Joe MacMillan dude basically carries the show.

New comment by NL807 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

NL807 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:01:51 +0000

>Those companies will then destroy those clothes, reporting them as sold to consumers.

I think those companies might just actually sell them, and report to the company is being destroyed.

New comment by NL807 in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

NL807 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:31:13 +0000

>Native app development is an evil necessity.

I wish people did more native app development.

New comment by NL807 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

NL807 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:18:55 +0000

Dudes must be really bored there

New comment by NL807 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

NL807 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:16:40 +0000

These machines don't really detect what kind of materials stuff is composed of, much of that is just a crude classification based on density. True identification requires broadband x-rays emission with spectral analysis.

New comment by NL807 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

NL807 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:10:15 +0000

>It's about making people feel safe.

It adds stress. I fondly remember flying in the 80s vs today. Travelling back then was more chill.

New comment by NL807 in "Television is 100 years old today"

NL807 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:39:52 +0000

lol I did this with my mates. Get one of those 1 kV ceramics, give it some charge and bob's your uncle, you have one angry capacitor.

New comment by NL807 in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

NL807 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:54:47 +0000

>Like it or not, mods should be free.

Why? If it's original work, and it does not violate existing laws, whoever makes it should have the right to seek compensation for their work, if they see fit. It's basically software like any other. Licensing models have been successfully applied to software plugins in past, mods fall into that category.

New comment by NL807 in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

NL807 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:48:29 +0000

CDPR's policy and the law are orthogonal things. They would have to demonstrate that the mod and its business model violates some kind of law.

New comment by NL807 in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

NL807 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:04:10 +0000

Documentation is fantastic.