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New comment by connorboyle in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

connorboyle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:19:25 +0000

> The announcement speaks of blocking domains, URLs and IP addresses, the latter of which affects legitimate services if the addresses belong to CDN services such as Cloudflare.

> La información habla tanto de bloqueos de dominios, URLs y de direcciones IP, caso este último que, cuando se produce, afecta a servicios legítimos si se trata de direcciones pertenecientes a servicios CDN como Cloudflare.

Another casualty of the centralized internet of our time

New comment by connorboyle in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

connorboyle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:59:50 +0000

> And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software.

I know the author isn't claiming this is definitive evidence, but I think it's so comically weak it is probably not worth mentioning at all.

New comment by connorboyle in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"

connorboyle — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:53:19 +0000

>> 我等在此...

This is also an example of a plural suffix ("-等") which the post author paints as English/Western influence (specifically "-们")

New comment by connorboyle in "Stop Sloppypasta"

connorboyle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:38:23 +0000

I can understand why various unscrupulous entities and individuals would use AI to generate "slop" content to drive clicks/karma farm etc. But it's baffling to me when I ask someone a question and they respond saying they asked ChatGPT/Claude/etc. and then just share the full response. They seem to genuinely think this is something I wanted them to do.

New comment by connorboyle in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

connorboyle — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:58:48 +0000

It makes sense to me that a program currently written using multiple processes would now be re-written to use multiple truly parallel threads. But it seems very odd to suggest (as your grandparent comment does) that a program currently run in multiple containers would likely be migrated to run on multiple threads.

In other words, I imagine anyone who cares about the overhead from serialization, IPC, or process creation would already be avoiding (as much as possible) using containers to scale in the first place.

New comment by connorboyle in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

connorboyle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:26:59 +0000

Regardless of exclusive RoW or signal priority, it is physically impossible for a bus route to:

1) stop every few hundred feet to pick up and drop off passengers

2) maintain an effective speed significantly faster than running

New comment by connorboyle in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

connorboyle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:36:13 +0000

A bus route that is made twice to be twice as fast (whether through stop consolidation or some other means) will mechanically be twice as frequent, given the same number of service-hours. Slow buses are either more expensive to run, or come less frequently.

How Space Manufacturing Could Be Revolutionary – Scott Manley

connorboyle — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sH2a57eXM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727577

Points: 2

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Show HN: An Ishihara (colorblindness) test generator

connorboyle — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:11:35 +0000

Article URL: https://connorboyle.io/ishihara/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711616

Points: 1

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New comment by connorboyle in "Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey"

connorboyle — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:40:57 +0000

Author here: sorry, I've only recently discovered my blog is unusable for some iOS users. I'll try to fix it in the near future

New comment by connorboyle in "Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey"

connorboyle — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:53:10 +0000

Thanks for reading and commenting.

I used "|x|" notation because I don't like introducing new unknown names if I don't have to. Too bad the annotation is ambiguous; I'll make a note about it.

If you right-click on the math blocks, you can change some of the parameters of the MathJAX renderer. One feature I've found helpful is the "click to zoom" which can be activated by following `Math Settings -> Zoom Trigger -> Click`.

I tried changing the text color. How does it look to you now?

New comment by connorboyle in "Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey"

connorboyle — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:30:26 +0000

Author here: thanks for sharing!

The Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm, Visualized

connorboyle — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://connorboyle.io/2025/09/11/fft-cooley-tukey.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250699

Points: 2

# Comments: 0