1) I had to abbreviate the title as the official article title is 4 characters too long for HN.

2) The gift link in use to bypass the Verge paywall was posted by the official Verge account to /r/Android on Reddit[1].

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1rktkbp/comment/o8...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263978

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

I won't spoil it here either :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwV1lEDJH9Y

If you meant PC-based mesh networking, I'll leave someone more knowledgeable to speak about that :).

[1] - https://meshtastic.org/

[2] - https://meshcore.co.uk/

Further, "Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue."

Nothing salacious here - just another one man open source project with a burnt out maintainer :(.

[1] - https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069

Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select ;-)

Also can't forget the ,#401 dialing prefix to enable the device to call home over the Internet using a USB Ethernet adapter instead of the phone in the early days.

TiVo's whole approach to commercials in recordings was largely informed by ReplayTV though. ReplayTV took a lot of heat and lawsuits for their automatic commercial skip functionality, which is why TiVo never implemented it and buried 30 second skip behind the code.

[1] - https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40378137547796-Wh...

[1] - https://we1spn.org/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZxmubVjd0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43841033

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

Does anyone know exactly what the Bosch service sends the dishwasher?

While I agree that connecting a dishwasher to the Internet should not be necessary, it does open the door to an interesting scenario if what gets sent to the dishwasher is not a command to run a mode but an actual program to control the dishwasher. In theory that would mean that Bosch could alter the programs that get sent to improve the dishwasher over time.

On a dishwasher with no connectivity the modes simply are what they are from the factory. But on a connected dishwasher if the Bosch engineers figure out that when in ECO mode using every third sprayer saves water while not altering the cleaning performance expected of that mode, they can update the payload and make the dishwasher you already have even more efficient. They could also in theory create a whole library of modes for specific use cases or scenarios (All glass, hard water, etc.)

Of course, this has potential drawbacks as well. They could change a mode and alter behavior you expect, and it could potentially be a hacker's playground, but if done well it could be a net positive.

They would buy a 30 minute paid programming in the early hours on cable TV networks under the name "Teleworld Paid Programming". The box would tune the channel, record the show, and then decode the data from the recording.

I always thought there was something interesting there, as the process would need to survive the MPEG encode/decode process on the TiVo itself in addition to whatever they needed to do the broadcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI

I had to run the link through TinyURL because using the original URL pulls up the 2023 HN thread which is entirely different.

It looks like they are headed to a multi-threaded pread implementation now [3] and someone has created a patch to tweak the current mmap fallback that uses pread to perform better in the meantime [4].

[1] - https://www.libtorrent.org/upgrade_to_2.0-ref.html

[2] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667

[3] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/7013

[4] - https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/21300

If you’re a desk jockey, or impact resistance is not a concern, CR-39 will give the least aberration with the exception of crown glass.

The hidden hack here if you need/want impact resistance is to ask for Trivex lenses. Same impact resistance as polycarbonate but much better ABBE value. It’s often overlooked because it costs a little more than polycarbonate and most people don’t complain about the distortion.

Also, anecdotally, you get what you pay for with progressive lenses. I have a cheap lens in my sunglasses and a higher end lens in my daily drivers and I can easily tell the difference.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215