Hacker News: Waraqa

New comment by Waraqa in "The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)"

Waraqa — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:27:39 +0000

New comment by Waraqa in "The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)"

Waraqa — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:23:14 +0000

I still remember the shock when my father told me he had connected his laptop to the internet without a cable. I'd heard of wireless networking but didn't know it was a standard feature in laptops at the time and all you need is to find a wifi point.

New comment by Waraqa in "Old Stockholm Telephone Tower"

Waraqa — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:36:30 +0000

Does that mean the quality of the voice calls in that era was better than later systems? Since it's logical to have loss of quality when a weak signal is amplified.

New comment by Waraqa in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"

Waraqa — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:15:36 +0000

This is great news for the entire ARM ecosystem. The fact that ARM is now exceeding the best x86 CPUs marks a historical turning point, and other manufacturers are sure to follow suit.

New comment by Waraqa in "A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports"

Waraqa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:42:30 +0000

How did you measure it?

I saved the page as mhtml and it was only 24.4 MB

New comment by Waraqa in "China Bought $12.6B in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It's $0"

Waraqa — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:30:58 +0000

https://archive.is/EAInd

The King Of Programming Languages (1993) [pdf]

Waraqa — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kednos.com/pli/king.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361955

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Waraqa in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

Waraqa — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:10:35 +0000

See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359626

Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World (2018)

Waraqa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/now-time-start-planning-post-android-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333645

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Waraqa in "Download responsibly"

Waraqa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:04:45 +0000

IMHO in the long term this will lead to a closed web where you are required to log-in to view any content.

New comment by Waraqa in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

Waraqa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:23:24 +0000

It was moved to a new path so you have to create symlinks in both locations to the new path under /usr/lib/newlib1.2/newfile.so otherwise, You can download a script that will make that for you but it will only work if you have all the dependencies for that script installed and their version numbers match the ones that the script owner had when he wrote the script.

New comment by Waraqa in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

Waraqa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:08:24 +0000

You are right but the fact that it will be harder to distinguish between human written and AI written text means that we will be looking for signs that indicate a human written text and will tend to prefer humanly mistakes over AI perfect tutorial.

New comment by Waraqa in "Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)"

Waraqa — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:33:05 +0000

It's the only one that's not very good at hiding itself.

New comment by Waraqa in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

Waraqa — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:15:20 +0000

There is an official download option inside the app. If they limit the download speed to the watching time, it won't be useful.

New comment by Waraqa in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

Waraqa — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:11:28 +0000

>very energy efficient

If your server has a lot of idle time, ARM will always win.

New comment by Waraqa in "Elements of C Style (1994)"

Waraqa — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:34:06 +0000

The page style doesn't look so bad even though it's using very simple HTML elements of the era. Just looking at it reminded me of the early days of HTML.

edit: It uses CSS which was invented in 1996 (according to Wikipedia). That means it was updated at a later date.

New comment by Waraqa in "Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World"

Waraqa — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:55:25 +0000

It can only be categorized as durable after careful revision from human experts and extensive testing. This is what the article is about.

New comment by Waraqa in "A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)"

Waraqa — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:52:14 +0000

It would be useful if there are a comparison for their resources usage especially for people who need them in constrained resources environments.

New comment by Waraqa in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

Waraqa — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:18:49 +0000

I wonder why his karma is less than the points of the post. doesn't karma follow the total points of one's posts and comments?

New comment by Waraqa in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

Waraqa — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Add to this the ability to make it cross-platform executable[1] that has no dependencies to get the perfect file format.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan