Hacker News: aaronharder

New comment by aaronharder in "Bill Atkinson has died"

aaronharder — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:48:06 +0000

More details here: https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html

New comment by aaronharder in "The midwit home"

aaronharder — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:32:39 +0000

Do you have a link to that doorbell product? My house came with the same problem.

New comment by aaronharder in "Information Camouflage"

aaronharder — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:17:15 +0000

I think Google+ had already broken Google search in that several way years before Disney+ appeared.

New comment by aaronharder in "The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9"

aaronharder — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:06:04 +0000

Micro Men! Great little TV movie, and really interesting story of the rivalry between UK golden-age home computing giants Sinclair and Acorn (Acorn being the company behind the BBC micro, and also originally the "A" in "ARM").

New comment by aaronharder in "Researchers build 700TB optical disc that can probably store all of Netflix"

aaronharder — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:40:29 +0000

They use a new nanocomposite material, which combines graphene oxide flakes with upconverted nanoparticles (UCNPs) to achieve an unprecedented data density.

Researchers build 700TB optical disc that can probably store all of Netflix

aaronharder — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techtelegraph.co.uk/researchers-build-700tb-optical-disc-that-can-probably-store-all-of-netflix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290349

Points: 2

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New comment by aaronharder in "$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin"

aaronharder — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:49:21 +0000

...and so, teaching us rubes that lesson was Elon's intended 3D chess move all along?

New comment by aaronharder in "Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process"

aaronharder — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:30:17 +0000

Via HN yesterday, some good thoughts on that question: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/

New comment by aaronharder in "Low Doses of LSD Acutely Increase BDNF Blood Plasma Levels in Healthy Volunteers"

aaronharder — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:54:18 +0000

Incorrect and vulnerable crypto is why people are microdosing LSD?

New comment by aaronharder in "Routed Gothic Font"

aaronharder — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:51:31 +0000

Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame?

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...

New comment by aaronharder in "Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet"

aaronharder — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:22:43 +0000

Either way, too early.

New comment by aaronharder in "Kilo LISP"

aaronharder — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:09:13 +0000

I suspect it's called Kilo Lisp because all those sizes are in the of "kilobyte" order of magnitude, rather than "megabyte." But not because any aspect of it is exactly 1k in size.

Fun name either way.

New comment by aaronharder in "How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime"

aaronharder — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:01:05 +0000

Or how about the bash script that takes python's print out of the binary and converts it to decimal?

New comment by aaronharder in "Lyft Files for IPO"

aaronharder — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:03:14 +0000

Don't know much about the ride share industry, but am interested and curious. Which parts of this type of app do you think would be particularly difficult to scale?

New comment by aaronharder in "Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years"

aaronharder — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:09:50 +0000

Ah yes! The great Tom Lehrer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo

New comment by aaronharder in "AmigaOS 3.1.4"

aaronharder — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 23:43:26 +0000

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930

New comment by aaronharder in "Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit"

aaronharder — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:52:18 +0000

I would assume the best intentions for the vast majority of individuals working in the health system. But the economy of that system is one that favors treatment over cure/prevention. I'd like to believe that is a mistake of circumstance and not a design of human greed.

New comment by aaronharder in "Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free"

aaronharder — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:24:30 +0000

I'd argue benevolent belongs in quotes. Not to question the very clear upside to the game development community. But rather to acknowledge that Epic is likely anticipating the benefits to itself as a company will be higher than the costs.

New comment by aaronharder in "How Firefox Got Fast Again"

aaronharder — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:50:28 +0000

I find the absence of Smart Zoom on Mac Firefox to be very painful indeed. The "double right tap" gesture works in both Safari and Chrome, and zooms in exactly on the div/image you're interested in. I've searched for alternatives in FF, but even the half-working ones I found don't work in Quantum. Sad because I'm rooting for Mozilla, but just can't function in their browser without Smart Zoom.

New comment by aaronharder in "Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global"

aaronharder — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:24:01 +0000

Everyone would notice a nuclear attack. NSA exploiting vulnerabilities to their own ends, not so much.