Hacker News: epx

New comment by epx in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

epx — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:45:01 +0000

+1, always thought it was an IBM standard, move with TAB and commit the form with ENTER.

New comment by epx in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

epx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:27:39 +0000

It is all a conspiracy, now that mechanical keyboards are affordable and available and so many shapes and switches, they want to take this last pleasure (typing) from us

New comment by epx in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

epx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:25:26 +0000

Having a single big DC converter at a home would help a lot with power factor (LED lamps connected directly to AC have terrible power factor).

New comment by epx in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

epx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:56:51 +0000

Have had two Airpods. Great devices, but broke down after a year or so and I don't want to spend their price every single year.

New comment by epx in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

epx — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:35:45 +0000

And checksummed filesystems.

New comment by epx in "Data has weight but only on SSDs"

epx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:35:16 +0000

Was expecting Boltzmann and entropy to be involved at some point :(

New comment by epx in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

epx — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:23:52 +0000

In the last 2-3 years, every contribution I made has been reverted by a reviewer or editor, either giving some excuse like lack of references, or none at all. Ceased to contribute to articles, and financially as well.

New comment by epx in "C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories"

epx — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:40:03 +0000

I understand the individual rationales of C++ things but I lost the faith on the whole thing.

New comment by epx in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

epx — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:23:48 +0000

Yes, it is strictly HTTP, not even persistent connections required.

New comment by epx in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

epx — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:46:10 +0000

Would HLS be an option? I publish my home security cameras via WebRTC, but I keep HLS as a escape for hotel/cafe WiFi situations (MediaMTX makes it easy to offer both).

New comment by epx in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

epx — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:26:55 +0000

I have donated to them in the last two decades, and stopped because of this. Won't feed those beasts

New comment by epx in "Retiring Test-Ipv6.com"

epx — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:39:58 +0000

Thanks for the service. Showed that site to my own ISP's technicians when they were having difficulties to activate IPv6 support.

New comment by epx in "1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70"

epx — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:22:08 +0000

It is a bit expensive for this kind of "dangerous" experimenting. I wish there was a ESP32-like capable of running Linux. (Actually, there is: BeagleBoard. But these are even more expensive.)

New comment by epx in "Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'"

epx — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:40:35 +0000

Aren't 99,99999% of these transistors used in cache?

New comment by epx in "Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)"

epx — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:03:00 +0000

Curious about how difficult would be to splice it.

New comment by epx in "How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force"

epx — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:56:50 +0000

At least here in Brazil, WhatsApp consolidated its position by working well in feature phones that ran J2ME and dominated the low-end market before Android. It took testing and adaptation to each and every available phone (as far as I can remember, J2ME was kind of a loose standard so developing a J2ME on one device did not guarantee it ran well, or at all, in any other). This, coupled with the possibility of eliding the outrageous SMS rates and the availability of EDGE data plans.

New comment by epx in "In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality"

epx — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:31:05 +0000

Imagine being able to live forever... in the dungeon of a dictatorship that is forever as well.

New comment by epx in "The Linux audio stack demystified"

epx — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:42:13 +0000

I miss the simplicity of OSS :\

New comment by epx in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"

epx — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:11:03 +0000

They have and a lot.

New comment by epx in "How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerability"

epx — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:59:43 +0000

Another interesting episode was the detection of RSA keys with common 'p' or 'q' factors using GCD: https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf