Hacker News: Steve0

New comment by Steve0 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

Steve0 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:12:36 +0000

You could let users import their own Google api key...

New comment by Steve0 in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

Steve0 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:00:28 +0000

I have grown up seeing my parents write physical paper cheques.

It's basic life goods and everything is still signed for, tracked and registered. Besides, banks love to collect interest.

New comment by Steve0 in "Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK"

Steve0 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:25:04 +0000

Check out Llama, Alpaca, Langchain, Dalai.

New comment by Steve0 in "An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space"

Steve0 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:27:55 +0000

Would be strange not to use the Bing crawlers for that.

New comment by Steve0 in "The Ethereum merge is done"

Steve0 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:45:09 +0000

Feels like arpanet atm, so give it some time. https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timel...

New comment by Steve0 in "LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)"

Steve0 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:26:26 +0000

Just to add some more context, these were used back in the day at chill areas of hacker conferences.

Back then wifi (if available) was not very reliable, and battery tech less advanced. People carried network cables and extension cords in their backpack.

New comment by Steve0 in "Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)"

Steve0 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:15:30 +0000

I presume there is some selection bias to take into account here.

New comment by Steve0 in "TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)"

Steve0 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:32:22 +0000

Isn't this comparable to the guy in the Ferrari being mad at other drivers because he's in the same traffic jam as the rest or us?

I get where he's coming from, but that doesn't make it reasonable. And certainly not a scam by Ferrari.

New comment by Steve0 in "Xiaomi Unveils Xiaomi Smart Glasses"

Steve0 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:24:31 +0000

Does anyone have an idea of what the retail price might be?

New comment by Steve0 in "Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card"

Steve0 — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:55:55 +0000

It depends on the qr-code scanner you have on your phone. The one on my android shows a button 'connect to this network'.

In regards to security, you are completely correct. But this is to be used in cases where one would put a paper with the password on the wall, think of coffee shops. Saves some typing. Or you can put a card on your coffee table to help out your house guests.

New comment by Steve0 in "1989 Yugo GVL: Performance Testing"

Steve0 — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 22:35:24 +0000

If there are no other cars, people make them last. They are simple so easy to repair. They don't have many parts, so not much can break.

New comment by Steve0 in "Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)"

Steve0 — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:01:30 +0000

Well, it wasn't "the record companies" as a whole. The creative nomad player was during the same period and had no such limitations. Sony, being a record company and a hardware company, limited their players in this way. And basically paved the way for other companies to take over the market.

Sad because their walk-man was basically the standard before, and sony makes some good hardware.

New comment by Steve0 in "Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces"

Steve0 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:12:47 +0000

An apology used to go a long way... in my perception. Could be wrong of course.

New comment by Steve0 in "Ethereum Is Green"

Steve0 — Sat, 01 May 2021 23:14:01 +0000

Less affluent users could use a staking pool, where they send some of their eth and get a certain percentage return.

Many crypto-exchanges already offer this service.

New comment by Steve0 in "The “Granny Knot”"

Steve0 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:08:21 +0000

Just pull the ends to get it off. Works great, never gets untied.

New comment by Steve0 in "John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code"

Steve0 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:19:09 +0000

Here is a policy of a London casino explaining their facial recognition to be compliant with the gdpr. I suppose this was written pre-brexit.

https://www.hippodromecasino.com/facial-recognition-policy/

New comment by Steve0 in "Actix project postmortem"

Steve0 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:34:36 +0000

Not deleted.

> I moved actix-net and actix-web project to my personal github account. I will make decision during next couple days what to do. I don’t want to see the project becomes ghost of what it was. Maintainers must understand how everything work, but don’t anyone who does and those who could are busy with other projects. At the moment I am planing to make repos private and then delete them (will remove benchmarks as well), unless others suggest better ideas.

New comment by Steve0 in "Actix project postmortem"

Steve0 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:32:06 +0000

It should be noted that the code wasn't deleted, but forked to his private repo, where it's still open for anyone to use, download, fork, ...

New comment by Steve0 in "Actix project postmortem"

Steve0 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:17:15 +0000

I've never heard of "implicit promises". For me a promise is by definition explicit. Anything else are assumptions, in this case false assumptions.

New comment by Steve0 in "Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler"

Steve0 — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:51:50 +0000

I tend to type guid in duckduckgo. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Guid

Bad idea?