Hacker News: ce4

New comment by ce4 in "DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?"

ce4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:15:43 +0000

You're already loading it perfectly according to The Oatmeal :-D

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/dishwasher

New comment by ce4 in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

ce4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:08:39 +0000

The CVEs are from Mid 2025 and Danfoss has published Firmware updates back then. There was plenty of time for a fix.

New comment by ce4 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

ce4 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:56:26 +0000

It might be worth it to check out what the market offers. Here in Germany lots of well known brands have started to cater to the non-alc consumers for the last few years. I like eg. Andechser Hell alkoholfrei. The increased competition resulted in some good nonalc beers from reputable wellknown brands

New comment by ce4 in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"

ce4 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:52:48 +0000

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/ :-)

New comment by ce4 in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

ce4 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:36:19 +0000

It resembles part of an electric motor, namely the windings (double t armature)

New comment by ce4 in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

ce4 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:20:57 +0000

Maybe your own site from when the link was present has been archived by the Internet Archive. I'd give it a try, maybe you can recover that link at least

New comment by ce4 in "Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand"

ce4 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:47:09 +0000

https://m.xkcd.com/1897/

New comment by ce4 in "Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec"

ce4 — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:19:42 +0000

You can try "foremost", it isnt as easy to use but a bit more configurable - at least from memory (I have used it many years ago)

New comment by ce4 in "Termux"

ce4 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:44:13 +0000

I use it for lots of stuff, remote scanning from an old Canon flatbed scanner attached to my NAS (powered by a really ugly phone-local bash script, nothing else), rsync, renames (or the like using one liners), ssh tunnels to different destinations (to circumvent IP blockages) and of course YT downloads (using the source git folder and running it using "python -m yt_dlp $OPTIONS $URL" - when it breaks, a git pull is all it needs most of the time, I also have local patches that are not upstreamed)

New comment by ce4 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

ce4 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:32:48 +0000

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/806/

New comment by ce4 in "Show HN: Learn German with Games"

ce4 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:00:38 +0000

It does make sense though (once you know where it comes from):

Before the ubiquity of watches, time was announced using church clocks and bell strikes. There's a big bell for hours (low pitch) and a smaller one for announcing quarters (higher pitch).

Signalling zero is not possible using "zero bell strikes", so 00:00 is signalled by 4 strikes of the quarters bell and 12 strikes of the hour bell.

Thus, the sequences go like:

11:15 1x quarter bell

11:30 2x quarter bell

11:45 3x quarter bell

12:00 4x quarter bell + 1x hour bell

Basically it makes sense then as all the quarters belong to the same hour.

New comment by ce4 in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

ce4 — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:48:39 +0000

That and the professional gear is optimized for operational speed (e.g. a glassware dishwasher that has a 10min cycle for a bar. Guess how much water/electricity it needs).

New comment by ce4 in "Wikipedia: Database Download"

ce4 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:35:24 +0000

Aard2 for Android exists since at least 2015:

https://f-droid.org/packages/itkach.aard2

I have many current and old dumps and can switch between a few years. Very nice in case of deleted articles or to check old time stamped versions. It also supports more than just Wikipedia like wikiquote or wikivoyage or cooking wiki. You can compile own mediawikis too

New comment by ce4 in "Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update"

ce4 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:10:36 +0000

Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?

New comment by ce4 in "Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?"

ce4 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:23:26 +0000

That's not how bamboo works though. It is hollow and needs to be processed into larger blocks

New comment by ce4 in "Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?"

ce4 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:19:52 +0000

Src please

New comment by ce4 in "Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks"

ce4 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:16:54 +0000

Is there more information on this?

New comment by ce4 in "Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer"

ce4 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:42:21 +0000

I dont think one could reason that. Maybe some insight: The author is an engineer and had worked at Google and published the Goomics strip internally. It is also available at https://goomics.net/62

PS: Later he worked at Twitter and commented that also: https://twittoons.com/

New comment by ce4 in "Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud"

ce4 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:28:23 +0000

There's another thing not mentioned. From the payload it looks like one may be able to spoof other customers' sensors by altering the serial (maybe it's a contiguous number) and replay the request. Heck, it is just one "curl -X PUT -d ..." command away, the info is all in the article

New comment by ce4 in "Librebooting the ThinkPad T480"

ce4 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:37:22 +0000

That doesnt solve stuff. I had to desolder the SOIC8 chip in an X220 because my programmer didnt like the power draw of the remaining attached circuitry that consumed additional power. I also upgraded OpenWrt Routers by soldering bigger RAM and bigger flash chips in the past