Hacker News: aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aw3c2Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:14:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark"]]>Thanks!

]]>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:34:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474134aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474134https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474134<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft"]]>FYI that link just gives a log-in screen.

]]>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:33:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474129aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474129https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474129<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Building the New Twitter.com"]]>I want to see all tweets of the people I follow. Precisely because I decided to follow them. It's the whole point of the site for me. Seeing all the updates from accounts I care about.

]]>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:31:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474110aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474110<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage"]]>No, that gives almost zero information as to the known cause:

> A technical incident in the Galileo ground infrastructure is affecting the functioning of the Galileo system, as a result of which there is a temporary interruption of some of the Galileo initial services.

> The cause of the technical incident is identified and recovery actions are implemented to ensure that the nominal service is resumed as soon as possible while safeguarding quality of the services.

]]>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:59:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442030aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442030https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442030<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark"]]>There are lots of opposites in the features table. Which of those are important to me as a data analyst and gamer?

]]>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 21:19:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20436107aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20436107https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20436107<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy"]]>In Germany there was a recent ruling that scraping, even for competing purposes, is fine.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urteil-zu-Screen-Scr...

]]>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:35:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432585aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432585https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432585<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports"]]>Yeah, I am not sure what is so special about this. I expected some truly unique ports. My 13.3" Fujitsu Siemens S936 has no USB-C (age) but all the others plus a smartcard and a sim card slot. 12.5" is not exactly a magnitude smaller.

]]>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:33:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432574aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432574<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

> He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.

]]>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:35:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395702aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395702https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395702<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Fast, Offline, Reverse Geocoding; Or, in Which Polygon Am I? (2015)"]]>2015

]]>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:34:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385430aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385430<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions"]]>Does iOS do anything to prevent this?

]]>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:32:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385398aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385398<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "British Airways faces record £183M fine for data breach"]]>The state is made up by the people it represents so by this, society benefits as whole.

]]>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:27:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380630aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380630<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies"]]>They do it because you should let them spy on you.

]]>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 14:31:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369865aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369865<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)"]]>Once.

]]>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:11:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336511aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336511https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336511<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Satellites threaten privacy"]]>FYI before you scroll down to gauge the length and interestingness of the story, you have to click "read more" on the top. What a messy website.

]]>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:59:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336391aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336391https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336391<![CDATA[Reset C by GE Light Bulbs]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20242805

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:33:04 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKoaw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20242805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20242805<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Open Source Game Clones"]]>Not too useful in its current form as it freely mixes third-party engines with actual free games.

]]>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:52:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116366aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116366https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116366<![CDATA[Using Awk and R to parse 25 TB]]>Article URL: https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112347

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:35:00 +0000https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112347<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]"]]>And rightfully so! Privacy is a right of utmost importance and for a surveillance product should be a cornerstone of its design.

]]>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 08:00:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074164aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074164<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements"]]>Pi-Hole is a very simple DNS based blocker. You can not whitelist ad providers on a origin basis.

]]>Thu, 30 May 2019 14:25:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20051418aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20051418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20051418<![CDATA[New comment by aw3c2 in "Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users"]]>There is no damage being done by ad blocking, please don't use such language.

]]>Wed, 29 May 2019 16:52:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20042493aw3c2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20042493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20042493