<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: blacklion</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blacklion</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:51:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blacklion" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm asking, if OP believes that they WILL face real consequences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287127</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you really believe in this?<p>You can see fate of Guantamo's officers and their chain of command. As far as I remember, nobody was really punished, several people were dismissed, but with full pension.</p>
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<p>"blazingly fast" as in how much trading rules could you apply to 10Gbit/s stream of stock market data on one core? On one socket?<p>How 100Gbit NICs could your filter through your stateful firewall at line speed? And with 64 byte packets?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:05:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870831</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But third item means that there are two organs almost by definition, so original headline maybe slightly sensationalist, but not technically false.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:05:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766275</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see LCD layer here. Passive color filters, B/W capsules (which reflects or doesn't reflect incoming light, depends on orientation), TFT (thin layer transistors, not LCD — liquid crystal display!) as control to orient capsules.<p>Yes, it is not 4 color capsules as in Spectra, but where is LCD?<p>LCD what is caught my attention (and surprise) in your commentary.<p>But now I see difference, thank you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729875</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are used in book readers. Amazon Kindle Colorsoft, for example. Or I have android phone with such screen (though, not latest generation).<p>Rather opposite: I never seen consumer products with two-layer displays.</p>
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<p>Do you use AudioMoth embedded mic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:13:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720130</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Compressing a flag to 11 bits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun fact: Constitution of Nepal has chapter about format of The Flag and it reads as geometry textbook problem (starred one, for advanced students).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705617</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised that all original firmwares were not protected at all.<p>I've tried to fix firmware of some cheap (but with good DAC and analog schematics) Chinese media player based on STM32 and firmware was protected by no-read fuses and only action possible in this case is to wipe flash, but not to read-out firmware.<p>And this scooter looks much more professionally-made and expensive product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694569</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "The case against JPEG XL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think, whole idea of «web images» is silly now.<p>Browsers are new OSes.<p>There is no any «web» anymore. E-mail clients are web, news readers are web, image galleries are web, heck, even image editing software could be web (google:photopea).<p>And as such there should not be «web-optimized» formats anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:16:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694511</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "The case against JPEG XL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MPEG4 supports interactive 3D scenes (read: games!) via bit-encoded VRML which can include JavaScript. I don't know any software which support this features (even without interactivity), but it is here.<p>I'd wrote reader for this bit encoding many years ago when company I'd been employed at made custom VRML engine for Samsung featurephones (project was dead on arrival as at this moment smartphones / Android become available and all this lineage of featurephones was killed).</p>
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<p>But it is not for prosumer. I don't want my PC to be terminal to 4-5 providers of compute who could ban me or raise prices tenfold overnight.<p>I don't see any advances for me, only for my employer, maybe, but it is not sure thing too.</p>
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<p>It is interesting, that changes from 8.0 to 8.1 is more substantial than from 8.1 to 9.0.<p>I don't say it to mean "they did less work," no, what his interesting to me is choice of major version bump instead of minor one.</p>
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<p>In the theory, if you install DLNA renderer/controller (player) on TV you could make appropriate DLNA media source from VLC or, maybe, ffmpeg.<p>Put it on RPi (as it could skip transcodnig and pass media streams as-is) and put into the box :)<p>We are on HN, after all!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090913</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IPTV from your ISP is typically multicast (even if your connection is point-to-point), and if you have more than one network behind your router (for example, you have separate networks for wire clients, owner's wifi and guests wifi) you need to understand hot it works to setup your router correctly that you can watch IPTV on any device in any of yours networks.</p>
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<p>This "hopelessly proprietary, and you have to pay to use it." is what scary me most.<p>How often there are stories "Google/Apple/Microsoft [but mostly Google] deactivate my account for some stupid reason and I lost everything: my business, my tax data, my client data, my developer account and access to my apps, everything".<p>With LLM/Coding agent providers it will be worse!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978337</link><dc:creator>blacklion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blacklion in "Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rocket-like, yes. Like illustration from old "Amazing Stories" or other "pulp" magazine of golden age of SciFi :)</p>
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<p>Yes, it is why last iteration by Luke Maximo & Father used trimmed-down propellers rotating really fast :-)</p>
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<p>Interesting, that this form-factor was popularized by DIY builders. First one was dutch-built, sponsored by Red Bull after prototyping stage, to film Verstappen's full F1 lap (so semi-DIY, so to say), but then record was taken back and forth between two DIY builders — Ben Biggs in Australia and Luke Maximo and his father<p>Latest record by Ben Biggs was 626kph (389mph).
Latest record by Luke Maximo was 655kph (408mph).</p>
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<p>> It's okay to receive salary though.<p>Are you sure? I'm paying 48% as income tax, and then 21% as VAT and some additional taxes on gasoline, electricity, LPG, car, motorcycle, house and water. Additionally I'm forced to buy health insurance and cannot pay for medicine out of my pocket, insurance is only way to go.<p>If I invest my money (buy ETF, for example) I need to pay tax on imputed income over my open positions on the stock market (no matter, goes actions/ETFs/options up or down, I pay for open positions, not for my income from these positions).<p>If I have more than 57K€ in the bank (with 0.5% interest when official inflation rate is about 4% and real one is more like 10-12%) I need to pay tax on that money (not for the interest earned, but for sum on the account!).<p>Looks like it is not Ok to receive salary if it is a notch above poverty level, too.<p>Oh, and now I need to pay duties (on top of VAT) on each purchase in non-EU internet shop, no matter how cheap it is, and there is minimal duty 4€ per item. So, buying something small but unique on AliExpress is very costly too. And it is not protection of local brands — because almost nothing is produced here, especially for DIY hobbies (my case, but I'm sure everybody can name other group of goods which has good selection over aboard).<p>I've get free samples of some technical fabrics from USA (could you buy then in EU, by meter and as privet persond and not a business? Nope) and payed 14€ to the state: like 2€ VAT on FedEx shipping costs (goods are FREE!) and 12€ fix to process this transaction. And, no, it is not FedEx fee, it is local custom fee, it it the same for official national post service. Nicccccce.</p>
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