Hacker News: dw64

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category

dw64 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:58:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782136

Points: 498

# Comments: 236

Anthropic Exploring Usage-Based Pricing for Claude Subscribers

dw64 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:00:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dwahdany/status/1984332240155717873

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775470

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dw64 in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

dw64 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:18:05 +0000

Having hosted a small mail server for friends for over a decade now, I can only think of this as a myth.

Gmail has specific bulk (!) sender requirements, which to my knowledge don’t include a blanket downranking of residential and „VPS“ IPs (the latter are just datacenter IPs anyways). You need TLS, SPF, DKIM, DNS and reverse DNS entries that align, ideally DMARC and that’s pretty much it.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126?hl=en#zippy=%2Creq...

At one point I misconfigured a relay as unauthenticated and we got abused by spammers for a day. We got put on all sorts of blacklists within hours and got our IPs cleared self-service immediately after fixing the issue.

If you just send emails completely unauthenticated, yes they will be blocked.

New comment by dw64 in "A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website"

dw64 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:32:00 +0000

We do accept „censorship“ if it follows due process based on clear and well-intended laws. Think taking down piracy sites, child porn, slander.

But CUII is formed by a private oligopoly, with anonymous judges, implementing vague rules, trying to keep secret even what they block. All while limiting what the vast majority of Germans (who don’t know what DNS is) can access on the internet. IMO that’s the issue.

New comment by dw64 in "Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown"

dw64 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:09:30 +0000

Also, where is Apple Intelligence at all for any other language? I‘m from Germany and my phone is set to German. There is still no option to even enable it, although the phone was marketed all the same for Apple Intelligence.

New comment by dw64 in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

dw64 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:54:02 +0000

> > Consolidating all of those forums in a single place was nice.

> Was it, though?

The great thing about Reddit is how it removes almost any friction from creating and joining new „forums“. The less friction or transaction cost you have the better. Without Reddit I’m not sure we’d have dedicated forums of people posting their grilled cheese sandwiches or Babylon 5 GIFs

New comment by dw64 in "Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used"

dw64 — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:11:13 +0000

> The reason you're paying is for the ink to be delivered, even if pricing is only indirectly related to that.

This is factually plain wrong. You’re paying per page. If you print more pages than agreed, even on the same cartridges, you need to pay up per page. When you sign up, they even tell you to keep your original cartridges because the new ones are for your subscription only.

No one is paying for an agreed amount of ink or cartridges to be delivered. That’s not the service. The advantage of InstantInk is that you literally don’t care about ink anymore. You know you can print the amount of pages and HP takes care of when and what ink you need.

New comment by dw64 in "Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used"

dw64 — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:05:36 +0000

Except that dollar shave club sells you replacement parts at a reduced rate (eg 9$ parts for 6$ per month) while HP sends you ink cartridges that usually cost around 100$ for 3$ per month to use. The service wouldn’t make any sense for them if you’re allowed to use them outside of the subscription. This constant complaining about InstantInk is completely nonsense.

New comment by dw64 in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

dw64 — Sun, 21 May 2023 09:37:59 +0000

Please see their article [1] for details, before claiming something is impossible. TL;DR: They check how many ads and trackers are on websites and punish those in the sorting. Most of the useless websites are full of affiliate links, ads and tracking so they naturally get downgraded.

If you’re talking about a niche topic with only one result you obviously still get that one result, but I’d argue for most search terms the issue lies in ordering the very many results.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements

New comment by dw64 in "Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]"

dw64 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:04:29 +0000

It's back up as of now!

New comment by dw64 in "Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe"

dw64 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:04:29 +0000

Fixed that number some minutes after posting, missed a couple of magnitudes there :)

New comment by dw64 in "Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe"

dw64 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:51:28 +0000

I've had an ASIC miner (the only viable way to mine Bitcoin) at home for testing purposes and you can rest assured, that the power usage and noise profile of those devices is incomparable to any home purpose device. We're talking 3 kW constant load, meaning 26 MWh or 26,000 kWh per year. Per capita electricity usage in Europe is around 5,600 kWh per year [1], that is about ~4,6 times less, including your whole gaming setup all other appliances.

Also, the noise of the fans required to cool such an electric load will get you thrown out of any apartment complex fast, not even considering that this heat is dissipated into your living room which would lead to somewhat uncomfortable room temperatures of over 30°C even in the coldest of winters.

What you're probably thinking about is GPU-based mining, but that has nothing to do with Bitocin.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1262471/per-capita-elect...