Hacker News: baobrien

New comment by baobrien in "Can my SPARC server host a website?"

baobrien — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:57:01 +0000

Recent OpenBSD should be able to do modern TLS, and probably ACME, which would have been more interesting.

New comment by baobrien in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

baobrien — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:37:17 +0000

The Dolphin is on display at the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

New comment by baobrien in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

baobrien — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:31:36 +0000

Not much in space; There's almost no matter to convect!

New comment by baobrien in "Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon"

baobrien — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:13:57 +0000

What does the RF front end look like? I see the Lattice ECP5, but what are you using to go from bits to waves?

New comment by baobrien in "YAML document from hell (2023)"

baobrien — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:56:03 +0000

Too clever by half

New comment by baobrien in "Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught"

baobrien — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:32:47 +0000

I've never had my ID checked boarding a domestic flight in the US. ID and sometimes boarding pass are checked at the TSA checkpoint before the gates.

New comment by baobrien in "Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught"

baobrien — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:19:09 +0000

Those pages both refer to the security checkpoint, not the gate agent prior to boarding. I've never had my ID checked while boarding domestically in the US.

New comment by baobrien in "Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company"

baobrien — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:10:08 +0000

GPS C/A signals are pretty straightforward to generate and not authenticated.

New comment by baobrien in "MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)"

baobrien — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:35:36 +0000

They don't. Analog low-pass filters don't do linear interpolation between samples.

New comment by baobrien in "MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)"

baobrien — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:11:08 +0000

Reconstruction filters in DACs are analog low-pass filters. They don't do a linear interpolation between samples.

New comment by baobrien in "Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life"

baobrien — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:36:48 +0000

'mindmatters.ai' being associated Discovery Institute, founded entirely to push creationism in US public education, is not a great sign for the credibility of this article.

New comment by baobrien in "Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP"

baobrien — Sun, 28 May 2023 18:29:47 +0000

FJG2V-CDW3P-K7BKD-89FCT-GM6MY

New comment by baobrien in "Bcachefs – A New COW Filesystem"

baobrien — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:45:39 +0000

yeah, most of the kernel maintainers in that thread seem to be against it. bcachefs does seem to also have a non-code-generating implementation of this, as it runs on architectures other than x86-64.

New comment by baobrien in "Bcachefs – A New COW Filesystem"

baobrien — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:31:56 +0000

huh, this is fun: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZFrBEsjrfseCUzqV@moria.home.lan...

There's a little x86-64 code generator in bcachefs to generate some sort of btree unpacking code.

New comment by baobrien in "AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable"

baobrien — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:37:33 +0000

I bought my own 3rd party cable modem for Xfinity and it works fine.

New comment by baobrien in "The $8 Linux Computer"

baobrien — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 06:43:56 +0000

It looks like it has MIPI DSI. If you were determined, you could use a DSI->HDMI bridge. AD makes one of those for some reason: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...

New comment by baobrien in "Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)"

baobrien — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 03:16:17 +0000

I don't think running on a bunch of CPU architectures is really unique to NeXT. Windows NT ran/runs on x86, Arm, Alpha, MIPS, Itanium, and PowerPC, all with a desktop as a full-blown product. Forms of desktop Linux will run on all of those and more.

New comment by baobrien in "Installing a payphone in my house"

baobrien — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:41:38 +0000

In early 3-slot North American payphones, there literally was a bell that the coins struck and a transducer inside the payphone body.

New comment by baobrien in "Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine"

baobrien — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:38:56 +0000

They weren't based on the same novel -- but the novels "Fail Safe" and "Red Alert" were similar enough, and the release dates of "Fail Safe" and "Dr. Strangelove" were so close that Peter George and Stanley Kubrick sued the author and production of Fail Safe over copyright. In the eventual settlement, Columbia Pictures bought and distributed Fail Safe.

[I'm basing this on a reading of Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)#Lawsuit ]

New comment by baobrien in "[dead]"

baobrien — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:11:57 +0000

This poster's whole submission history is a little bizarre; Three pieces of blogspam from "Thomas Blobaum" and one thing related to the "Nebraska Blackshirts", a part of a US college football team.