Hacker News: Velocifyer

TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 (2024, video)

Velocifyer — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:39:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_GN8qPf8g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235612

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Velocifyer in "Mario Meets Pareto"

Velocifyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:29:49 +0000

This doesn't account for vehicle size (important for red shell wall breaking[0]) and drifting style[1].

[0] A redshell wall break is when you point your vehicle near a wall to break a redshell without using a defense item. [1] Drifting style is either inward or outward. Inward drift has more intuitive controlls and is way better for intermidiate players, but pro players dislike it because is removes various difficult tricks.

I recommend yoshi on the yoshi bike with azure rollers and the paper glider.

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

Velocifyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-over-limit-set-by-congress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199399

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

New comment by Velocifyer in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

Velocifyer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:28:51 +0000

I simply never ask LLMs questions specific to my codebase (except for finding what function/file does something, because that is annoying), and instead use generic questions.

Tree Style Tab

Velocifyer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096120

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by Velocifyer in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

Velocifyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:21:19 +0000

I suggest that you don't make the filters to hard to bypass (I would do DNS in both a DNS server and /etc/hosts, along with a browser extension), to encourage them to learn about technology. (although that might stop working due to Ai chatbots)

New comment by Velocifyer in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

Velocifyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:49:08 +0000

Metro By T-Mobile works well, if you navigate through the website to find the $25/month ($30 without autopay or for the first month) postpaid unlimited plan. It is a T-Moblie MVNO.

It is hard to get eSIM to work, but they have good customer service (but you need accses to a phone to call them, so you should try something like textnow or Google Voice) which helped my friend set it up.

It is not a intruductory offers, AFIK.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Self-host your mail server"

Velocifyer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:23:33 +0000

I was going to self host my email server, but somehow my email provider (Migadu) is cheaper than a VPS ($19 USD per year) and offers custom domains, catch-all, and unlimited addresses.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

Velocifyer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:34:49 +0000

I assume you mean bedrock edition, but you did not specify.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

Velocifyer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:33:11 +0000

Do not set the heap size to more than 8GiB, even if using heavy modpacks. Anything above 8GiB actually makes the game run worse, unless you have tons of players, because of GC lag.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

Velocifyer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:34:03 +0000

Go to https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Setting_up_a_Java_Edition_... for how to create a vanilla server for Minecraft Java edition (which is the best version, but is only on Windows and MacOS and Linux, unlike the significantly inferrior bedrock edition, which is way buggier but is avalible elsewhere).

If you need more performance, install [fabric](https://fabricmc.net/) and then install [lithium](https://modrinth.com/mod/lithium), but do not use mods like paper or spigot or purpur as they will mess up farms.

BackToCatalina: Restores macOS Catalina UI on Newer Versions of macOS

Velocifyer — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nfzerox/BackToCatalina

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851886

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Velocifyer in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

Velocifyer — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:26:01 +0000

I have been suspicious that streetcomplete is funded by intelligence agencies who want to increase the amount of OSINT avalible.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

Velocifyer — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:59:13 +0000

Importantly, this would work way better on a speedcube than the rubick's brand cubes. Never use the rubick's brand rubicks cubes. I use the Moyu RS3m V5 maglev, and I think that it would work well for hiding uSD cards.