Hacker News: anabab

New comment by anabab in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

anabab — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:31:59 +0000

2 bit 160x144px ought to be enough for anything

New comment by anabab in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

anabab — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:06:07 +0000

That's an option in Google maps

New comment by anabab in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

anabab — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:31:26 +0000

The year is 2026. Surely the orbits of all the satellites are known well enough, and optics are modelled well enough for telescopes to know which few pixels to ignore at any given moment?

New comment by anabab in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

anabab — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:59:52 +0000

ACs are uncommon, yet red tape is plentiful.

New comment by anabab in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

anabab — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:22:04 +0000

> new Integer(10) == new Long(10) // compiler error, used to false

wait, really? I thought introducing _such_ incompatibility was not allowed

New comment by anabab in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

anabab — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:47:32 +0000

Looks like those in favor of small government should not vote - to apply evolutionary pressure instead of rewarding unacceptable behavior

New comment by anabab in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

anabab — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:11:59 +0000

wiktionary is better for this usecase since it tends to have a richer coverage of various meanings

New comment by anabab in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

anabab — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:29:35 +0000

> There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school.

Objection. For a hypothetical actor wanting to set the world economy on fire there might be a benefit of enraging the enemy to lower the risk of early deescalation.

New comment by anabab in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"

anabab — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:33:32 +0000

the 2009 collision was well documented and there are interesting reports online

e.g. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100002023/downloads/20...

which has a chart of apogee/perigee of debris. There seem to be examples of debris with _perigee_ above the collision altitude but the vast majority stayed beyond.

New comment by anabab in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

anabab — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:32:22 +0000

fresh water

New comment by anabab in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

anabab — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:16:07 +0000

thats in a scenario with soldiers pushing into no mans land under permanent drone control. Israel demonstrates much lower stats when enemy hides underground. I would imagine having no boots on the ground will lower the numbers further.

New comment by anabab in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

anabab — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:35:33 +0000

> The dwindling stock of unused true Polaroid film is getting absurdly expensive as a result. what's the point? ain't all of this stock expired, with photos ending up just blobs or being gamble at best? (even for film stored in freezers)

New comment by anabab in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

anabab — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:20:57 +0000

How do goldbacks fit into this? They contain gold (up to 3 grams, a non-trivial amount), they are accepted by a (small) number of businesses, and they are supposed to be reused for further transactions.

New comment by anabab in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

anabab — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:02:12 +0000

But why is silver with export restrictions (Shanghai) trading above silver without said restrictions?

New comment by anabab in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

anabab — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:19:08 +0000

Yes but no. The looks are also important. They want 80-99% to stroke their ego and nice pictures to claim legitimacy. The latter seemingly being useful both internally and externally.

New comment by anabab in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

anabab — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:08:45 +0000

Are there mechanisms in place that will prevent them from delaying this decision until, say, 2029?

New comment by anabab in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

anabab — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:38:29 +0000

Ah, it is all Mercator's fault

New comment by anabab in "French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition"

anabab — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:58:44 +0000

Time traveler here. Eventually there would be DPI blackboxes. You do not have to be 100% successful there, blocking 99% and playing cat and mouse with the remaining 1% might be enough.

New comment by anabab in "Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time"

anabab — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:52:03 +0000

IIUC the critical use is by military units, so a process to list all the serial numbers shall be quite straightforward

New comment by anabab in "Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time"

anabab — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:29:54 +0000

A government may introduce a list of identifiers of devices allowed to operate in their territory. With relatively frequent verification to prevent the use of captured devices.