Hacker News: bprater

New comment by bprater in "Passkeys Are Not a Trap"

bprater — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:45:39 +0000

Passwords always risk a transferrable oops: "Hi friend, this is the bank calling. We've got a big issue: what's your password so we can fix it?"

New comment by bprater in "Magic Lantern Is Back"

bprater — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:46:45 +0000

More backstory: before the modern generation of digital cameras - Magic Lantern was one of the early ways to "juice" more power out of early generations of Canon cameras, including RAW video recording.

Today, cameras like Blackmagic and editing platforms like DaVinci handle RAW seamlessly, but it wasn't like this even a few years ago.

New comment by bprater in "How to Give a Good Talk"

bprater — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:42:48 +0000

Start your talk by telling a little story about yourself and bridge it to your topic. In many of the talks I've listened to - I've felt more connected instantly to the speaker than any other technique, including comedy.

New comment by bprater in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

bprater — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:26:31 +0000

ProjectionLab offers a lifetime plan. How does this factor into profitability - as they'll never be able to bill this subset of customers again (for the same product)? At what point does this group of users start to degrade the performance of the business - simply because there is no more input for their required output?

New comment by bprater in "Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application"

bprater — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:42:10 +0000

Two CAD other projects using OpenCascade worth checking out: Beegraphy and BitbyBit. Beegraphy uses the Rhino/Grasshopper modeling style and BitbyBit sticks with Cascade's ethos.

New comment by bprater in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"

bprater — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:53:05 +0000

Any alternatives to Gumroad in buying this?

New comment by bprater in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

bprater — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:50:17 +0000

Half a can of soda. The main electronics controller visible in the photo is likely 20x20 or 30x30mm, the standard for FPV style drones.

New comment by bprater in "Just use fucking paper, man"

bprater — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:59:29 +0000

Try different writing devices, too. I love gel pens and mechanical pencils.

New comment by bprater in "After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)"

bprater — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:07:21 +0000

"Plus, margin is hard to rally the team around."

"Growth is tangible."

Love the way he packaged this!

New comment by bprater in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

bprater — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:09:48 +0000

DJI isn't just a drone company. They've been actively moving into audio/video production very rapidly. If this ban sticks, they will lose their FCC license, and your Pocket 3 camera (or any DJI device) will no longer be able to connect to your phone.

New comment by bprater in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

bprater — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:06:28 +0000

This is the correct answer. DJI will happily geofence any area in America to be able to keep selling their project here.

New comment by bprater in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

bprater — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:05:44 +0000

Correct. This is why all the drones come with screens on the sticks now.

New comment by bprater in "iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol"

bprater — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:24:39 +0000

From the article:

>> Although quantum computers with this capability don’t exist yet, extremely well-resourced attackers can already prepare for their possible arrival by taking advantage of the steep decrease in modern data storage costs. The premise is simple: such attackers can collect large amounts of today’s encrypted data and file it all away for future reference. Even though they can’t decrypt any of this data today, they can retain it until they acquire a quantum computer that can decrypt it in the future, an attack scenario known as Harvest Now, Decrypt Later.

New comment by bprater in "Jar Jar Binks: The greatest thing that ever happened to Star Wars"

bprater — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:49:25 +0000

This site needs to be removed from Hacker News.

New comment by bprater in "Rolls-Royce calls off bets on electric planes, says low-carbon fuel is future"

bprater — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:22:50 +0000

Batteries are heavy. Teslas are very heavy cars. Aircraft are extraordinary light, compared to ground-based vehicles. Even in flight, large aircraft will burn a lot of their fuel during ascent. Electric powered aircraft get to drag around the heavy used batteries until recharge. And then you have to figure out how to refuel. Until a significant change in battery density, electric planes aren't going to be a thing.

New comment by bprater in "High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers"

bprater — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:11:08 +0000

Only if it's using non-vision sensors. Plenty of FPV drones fly at night, and it's all down to pilot expertise.

New comment by bprater in "A celebration of roguelike games"

bprater — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:36:45 +0000

If you want to try Rogue Light, Vampire Survivors has been a blast to play. Similar: Brotato.

New comment by bprater in "Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro"

bprater — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:10:16 +0000

In case you are curious - they are still holding 120Hz for their flagship, the Pixel 7 Pro.

New comment by bprater in "What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast"

bprater — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:58:59 +0000

If you want to use a traditional credit card (inside of Paypal or GPay), your options are currently limited. Shopify has the best implementation of this tech with ShopPay ... if you pay at any Shopify merchant, you have the option for Shopify to remember your digits. This streamlines checkout to a click or two. That's the big USP of models like this - speed of checkout.

New comment by bprater in "43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)"

bprater — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:21:42 +0000

As a reference, folks that fly quadcopters, drones and flying wings often will transmit at 1 to 2 watts of power using line of sight. (Yes, at the edge of legal.) .02 watts is an insignificant amount of power for radio transmission.