Hacker News: SpaceInvader

FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2025

SpaceInvader — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:20:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119501

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Reddit Is Down

SpaceInvader — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Reddit/status/1859338440942420389

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198281

Points: 12

# Comments: 10

iPhone 16 Pro

SpaceInvader — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/iphone-16-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491867

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by SpaceInvader in "FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success"

SpaceInvader — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:43:06 +0000

I'm using FreeBSD on my servers non stop for 20 years. It has some quirks, but it's rock solid.

FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2022

SpaceInvader — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-10-2022-12/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34529287

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by SpaceInvader in "I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh [video]"

SpaceInvader — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:18:18 +0000

He was the first I know of that did such thing.

New comment by SpaceInvader in "FreeBSD 12.4"

SpaceInvader — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:59:39 +0000

You don't get telnetd enabled by default. To get it working you need to explicitly start it. No idea why you're talking about it here.

New comment by SpaceInvader in "FreeBSD 12.4"

SpaceInvader — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:44:45 +0000

Binary upgrades on FreeBSD are fine. I rarely compile my own kernel these days, but even when I did needed a custom kernel I never had any issues. It just works, For me FreeBSD and OpenBSD needs much less maintenance than Linux.

FreeBSD 12.4

SpaceInvader — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 08:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.4R/announce/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877153

Points: 136

# Comments: 23

Chernobyl Disaster – An Inside Look – 3D

SpaceInvader — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:04:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwtNvnWZjZY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836084

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’

SpaceInvader — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:46:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/028e0109-6e87-42ed-8480-996cf645ce04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703915

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Apple Design Awards

SpaceInvader — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:36:30 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566445

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Grigori Perelman – mathematician who refused to accept $1.000.000 prize

SpaceInvader — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564746

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by SpaceInvader in "Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens"

SpaceInvader — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:31:20 +0000

Actually perspective WILL BE different, angle of view is changing, not what the lens is rendering.

New comment by SpaceInvader in "Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens"

SpaceInvader — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:30:41 +0000

I'll try :) Generally speaking focal length is a characteristics of a lens which does not change, if you use smaller sensor you're just "cropping" what given focal length would render. For example if you'd have, let's say 100mpix camera and 24mm lens it would give you different perspective than 85mm evn if you would crop 24mm image to have same angle of view as 85mm.

New comment by SpaceInvader in "FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]"

SpaceInvader — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:55:55 +0000

FreeBSD is not a "desktop first" system and has strengths elsewhere. I use it for 20+ years constantly. Sadly my experiments with FreeBSD desktop ended years ago as there always was something "not working".

New comment by SpaceInvader in "Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens"

SpaceInvader — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:42:06 +0000

> If you have an APS-C camera, which is quite common, then you want a ~32mm lens, and if you use M4/3 like I do, then you want a 25mm lens, to achieve this same effect.

It's not the same effect, far from it. It's different focal length, that will render different image.

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022

SpaceInvader — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-07-2022-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362086

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The Commodordion – C64 Accordion

SpaceInvader — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:38:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCYvoC4muc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33322386

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Rapatronic Camera

SpaceInvader — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:17:49 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054338

Points: 2

# Comments: 0