Hacker News: extraduder_ire

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone"

extraduder_ire — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:16:35 +0000

Does the version on f-droid not have that limitation?

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

extraduder_ire — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:29:10 +0000

I do find it kind of funny that the Dyson company sold a vacuum cleaner called the "Dyson ball".

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

extraduder_ire — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:21:18 +0000

SSDs have outclassed hard drives in density for a while now. Kioxia claims their LC9 is over 245TB in capacity, announced July 2025.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

extraduder_ire — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:06:48 +0000

If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Installing Every* Firefox Extension"

extraduder_ire — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:03:34 +0000

The author mentioned there were far more in the chrome store, and it would be impossible to download them all in the same way he did here.

Anything that can inject content into webpages you load has pretty extensive abilities for abuse, let alone extensions with more access to browser APIs.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:41:28 +0000

The gamepads often cost more than the console itself, because they're region locked and you can't use the console without one.

There is an attempt to clone the functionality of the gamepad ongoing that's somewhat usable: https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla

New comment by extraduder_ire in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:37:51 +0000

I'm sure an external version exists too, but USB-PD makes some amazing things possible: https://shop.giltesa.com/product/nintendo-wii-usb-c-kit/

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:25:29 +0000

Even the version linked to is out of date. The homepage links to a version of this guide[0] updated as recently as 2024. Still likely not the best place to get started.

0: https://www.patater.com/manual-git/

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

extraduder_ire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:56:41 +0000

Where are you getting 23 from? That's only 8-ish million values max.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

extraduder_ire — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:50:11 +0000

"Instantly" being at least ten minutes (average) in this case.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Italian TV Copyright-Strikes Nvidia over Nvidia's Own DLSS 5 Footage"

extraduder_ire — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:42:16 +0000

Reminds me of NBC filing a takedown for any video including the Beat Saber song "$100 bills" because it appeared on an episode of Jimmy Fallon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19775804

I'm sure it happens all the time, but that was my first exposure to it.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Italian TV Copyright-Strikes Nvidia over Nvidia's Own DLSS 5 Footage"

extraduder_ire — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:37:46 +0000

Youtube's takedown system isn't technically a DMCA notice. It's in addition to them.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

extraduder_ire — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:36:31 +0000

I've had ctrl+f work for searching within the transcript on the page recently. I assumed it wouldn't due to lazy loading, but was surprised because the video I tried it on was quite long.

filmot.com exists too (found it on here, currently can't get past the cloudflare captcha to double check), but I have no idea how much of youtube's transcripts it has archived.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

extraduder_ire — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:21:49 +0000

His wife and kids are sanctioned too. Sometimes it isn't even anything you did.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:41:40 +0000

Calling it c++ might give the wrong impression to some people too, since it doesn't have the STL, rtti, or exceptions for boards like the Uno r3.

It is c++ though. Just limited in similar ways to the US air force's requirements for using the language.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:37:22 +0000

Most of the "professional" microcontrollers have complicated flashing schemes, expensive bespoke IDEs, and limited language support. Treating a lot of that like a moat around their products.

I find it remarkable that they haven't tried to make all of that easier. Any board with arduino support is easy to start using, with pared down c++, boards similar to the micro:bit support micropython and javascript as well as a few others, and a ton of modern development boards have UF2 support.

UF2 is a step change in how easy it is to flash a binary onto a microcontroller. You hold down a button before connecting it to a USB port, and then it appears as a USB drive for you to drop a file onto, once it's done "copying" the board is flashed and will run your code as soon as it resets.

If you want to gain familiarity with a board, you can drop a .uf2 file with a REPL on it and run code on the board a line at a time.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:28 +0000

Unless you need it to be less than 3 kelvin for some reason, helium doesn't do that.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

extraduder_ire — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:24:45 +0000

> Most helium from most wells is simply vented because it is expensive to separate even with its relatively high concentration

I remember a similar situation with neon early in the Ukraine invasion a few years ago. What I expect to happen is some other source coming online that currently doesn't try to capture it for economic reasons.

Helium recovery in scientific settings for cost saving reasons is already done, so it's not like there isn't expertise in using it.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs"

extraduder_ire — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:06 +0000

From the stats I've seen, people in the US are doing it. A huge amount, and more each year.

The economics of it are just too good. Adding grid connectivity seems to be the bottleneck right now.

New comment by extraduder_ire in "Car Seats as Contraception"

extraduder_ire — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:25:59 +0000

Check the area near the hinge on the front passanger-side door, there should be a labelled thing you can turn to disable it. (using a key or screwdriver, similar to the rear childlocks)

It might be due to me being in Europe, but every car I've ever seen with an airbag for that seat has had it along with a sticker warning about it in the sunvisor area.