Hacker News: Pharaoh2

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

Pharaoh2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:33:08 +0000

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab...

Privately Disclosed: Nov 29 Fix pushed: Dec 1 Publicly disclosed: Dec 3

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

Pharaoh2 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:58:38 +0000

https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Last 30 days, 8.8.8.8 has 99.99% uptime vs 1.1.1.1 has 99.09%

Show HN: Toolbox: Run FFmpeg, Imagemagick, 7Zip and Friends in the Browser

Pharaoh2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:03:46 +0000

I got sick of sketchy online converter sites that phone home and may keep your files and walking non-technical friends through brew/apt/choco installs every time they need ffmpeg or imagemagick and telling them what command to run.

So I built Toolbox, a 100% open source site that compiles my most-used command-line tools to WebAssembly and runs them fully client-side: - FFmpeg (video + audio) - ExifTool (metadata) - 7-Zip (archive/zip/rar/7z) - ImageMagick - Pandoc

Roadmap: - Batch mode - Shareable presets. Complex commands can be saved as URLs so you can send a one-click recipe to a friend, inspired by cyberchef - GPU acceleration via WebGPU someday? (mostly looking at ffmpeg, maybe with WebCodec)

Source: https://github.com/akshetpandey/toolbox (MIT licensed)

I’d love feedback, bug reports, and requests for other tools. If it helps you ditch shady sites or long install docs, mission accomplished.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517407

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Python tool to migrate from YT Music to Spotify

Pharaoh2 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:40:09 +0000

Ran into enough issues that I wanted to switch from youtube music to spotify. So I made a small tool to keep my liked music and playlists.

It will match exact and fuzzy match tracks and will give you a nice output to show progress.

If you also want to make the move, try it out! Let me know if you run into any issues and I am willing to fix them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359262

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

Pharaoh2 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:44:48 +0000

NPOs still need to be financially sustainable/viable. They still need to pay their employees and pay their vendors.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Army soldiers not impressed with Strykers outfitted with 50-kilowatt lasers"

Pharaoh2 — Thu, 16 May 2024 23:50:06 +0000

The wiki link says otherwise. Silver and gold are <40% reflective in visible, while aluminium is ~90%, neither of that is enough. Reflectivity goes down very quickly as metals heat up.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

Pharaoh2 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:30:30 +0000

The article's result is large than that

Python PyPI object storage provider outage causing package installs to fail

Pharaoh2 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://status.python.org/incidents/z81z34x6fsng

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425094

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "[dead]"

Pharaoh2 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:15:24 +0000

This isn't real. This is a scam video for crypto.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Final thoughts on Ubiquiti"

Pharaoh2 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:47:01 +0000

I see it there

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer"

Pharaoh2 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:10:53 +0000

Its fairly common to embed canary trap into message to find out who the leeker is. Not saying this memo had one, but its generally no longer safe to just show redacted messages without compromising the source.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam"

Pharaoh2 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 01:35:01 +0000

This scams are very common and fairly easy to detected even without contacting the person.

I have been looking at apartments since november and finally found a place in January, and this is the third apartment I have rented in SF over the last 5 years. I believe this one would have been caught by point 2.

Detecting a SF craigslist rental scam:

1. Is it too good to be true? Its a scam. What's too good to be true you ask? Check other listings, especially on something like rentSFnow, or the many other property management company to get a baseline price range.

2. Reverse image search the images and if it comes from a house listing on redfin or some other website to buy/sell houses, its a scam.

3. Does it mention a management company? Check their website, if the apartment is not listed there, its a scam. If they don't have a website, its a scam. Does the building/apartment's google maps or yelp not link to the management company website? Its a scam.

4. Are the pictures really good/professional looking? It MAY be a scam.

5. Does the listing provide no/very little info about the apartment/roommates? Its a scam.

6. Look for listings for the same apartment on alternate sites like apartments.com/hotpad/zillow/trulia. Don't find another listing for the same place? Its a scam, with a minor chance that the owner may not be technically adept, in which case look at the pictures, if they are good, its a scam.

7. Are there multiple postings on the same day/close by with different titles but same content? Its a scam.

If it passes all of these, it may still be a scam, reach out and proceed with caution.

If after reaching out, they ask for deposit before seeing the place, its a scam. If they ask you to sign up on any website, it may be a scam. If the sign up requires credit card/bank account or sensitive personal info, its DEFINITELY A SCAM.

Ignore most things they tell you, the only thing you should care about is actually checking the place out and making sure it works for you in person.

Even if they let you see the place, IT MAY BE A SCAM. Proceed with caution and make sure the person actually own the place/has the right to rent the apartment.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles"

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:34:39 +0000

Its mostly higher bandwidth from being closer to source. Latency is definitely improved but so is bandwidth if you are in peered in the same exchange. Peek bandwidth is going to be much higher, especially if you are pulling/pushing north of 10G.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:56:49 +0000

Basing this solely as a person from India and not some research background,

In the small minority of hacker rank study set, I would say that women are just as much encouraged or frankly expected to be in STEM as men. Although I am fairly certain that this observation will quickly disappear and will be heavily male dominated on a larger percentage of the population.

Really, looking at the actual hacker rank source, it seems like their sample set is really tiny and heavily biased.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:49:32 +0000

Presumably because the gap exists in the current system, and the current system is optimized for the current scoring function. Changing the scoring function will cause the system to rebalance into a new steady state.

Although, there is no clear reason why the new steady state would not be female dominant or evenly split, but if I were to take a bet, I would bet that the new scoring function will still hold existing bias because the problem starts much earlier.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning modern 3D graphics?"

Pharaoh2 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 07:07:00 +0000

Modern 3D graphics has a lot of facets, a good resource as well as engine for PBR rendering is filament and is documented here: https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.html

Using HTTP3/QUIC with Cronet in Your Mobile App

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 23:43:55 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-react-native-log/using-cronet-in-your-mobile-app-7dda3a89c132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872546

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "Netflix suffers first massive global outage"

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:34:51 +0000

That just the fire stick, or the netflix firestick app or your network. That isn't netflix's infrastructure problem. Netflix is the most reliable of netflix/hulu/hbo.

Try a higher end streaming devices that wired to your router

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "What is 1e100.net?"

Pharaoh2 — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:40:29 +0000

Its the domain name they use for their servers. Its generally a good practice to have a dns name that maps to a particular server apart form the website its supposed to be serving for administrative purposes.

Try this:

> dig google.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:

google.com. 299 IN A 172.217.164.110

> nslookup 172.217.164.110

Non-authoritative answer:

110.164.217.172.in-addr.arpa name = sfo03s18-in-f14.1e100.net.

New comment by Pharaoh2 in "The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable"

Pharaoh2 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:39:17 +0000

That seems to deal with anti-circumvention provisions and not copyright provision and not with infringing on trademark/copyright as the GGGGP (white-flame) seems to be pointing to.