Hacker News: feelix

Show HN: A tool to make a bootable USB installer out of macOS, or download it

feelix — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:47:46 +0000

I wanted to be able to get at Apple's content distribution network directly instead of guessing when stuff would be made available to me, and found it convenient to have a physical installer handy so I made this

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256720

Points: 4

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New comment by feelix in "Where Did the Serial Killers from the 80s Go? They're Online, and in Plain Sight"

feelix — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:27:08 +0000

It detected the abuse perfectly, that was the point it was trying to make. They're not using it because they don't want to

New comment by feelix in "Where Did the Serial Killers from the 80s Go? They're Online, and in Plain Sight"

feelix — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:36:04 +0000

I realize this isn’t something people want to think about, but that’s precisely why these people are doing what they do unchecked. The most surprising thing about this is that the people generally are living pretty normal lives and those close to them don’t know that they are running this industry

Where Did the Serial Killers from the 80s Go? They're Online, and in Plain Sight

feelix — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:56:09 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@benedictslaney/p-148558589

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41469660

Points: 23

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Where Did the Serial Killers from the 80s Go? They're Online Now, in Plain Sight

feelix — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:31:15 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-148558589

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41462022

Points: 5

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New comment by feelix in "Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination"

feelix — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:08:37 +0000

Another example of a corner being cut is that it was not tested on pregnant women

New comment by feelix in "Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit"

feelix — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:57:15 +0000

it does work though, because the sandwhichers will just take the delta between the accepted amount out, and the actual expected amount out, front run that, then back run the bulk of the trade with selling that delta on top of the bulk of the trade and benefiting from the price impact that the sandwhiched trade created

New comment by feelix in "Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet"

feelix — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 21:40:35 +0000

yes, I reluctantly do indeed

New comment by feelix in "Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators"

feelix — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:05:51 +0000

I'm curious about exploring this myself, would you mind explaining in more detail what is lacking after forking the main net with ganache?

Is it that you need a high powered server to fork it continuously, and that smart contracts tend to cost a lot to execute, or is there more to it than that? I don't understand what contracts and variables that you're targeting won't be included with the solution we're discussing

New comment by feelix in "Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators"

feelix — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:24:07 +0000

I'm far from an expert on this, you probably know better than I do, but wouldn't forking the blockchain at the block height you're interested in with Ganache and execute it there be enough? or is the issue the transaction queue?

New comment by feelix in "Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet"

feelix — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:12:55 +0000

I've had the opposite experience too. I have an Nvidia linux card and Wayland on Fedora has always worked very well for me. In comparison Xorg on Ubuntu was a nightmare on the same machine

New comment by feelix in "Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors"

feelix — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:21:50 +0000

it's not the same because many retailers do lose money because the short squeeze fails to execute. They dont just not make money, they buy shares for $300 and have to sell them for $100

New comment by feelix in "Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors"

feelix — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:22:12 +0000

it's not. Here's an example

Scenario 1: 1. Client buys share for $400 2. Hedge funds get short squeezed (because trading is not restricted by Robinhood) 3. Stock shoots up to $1000. Client made $600

Scenario 2: 1. Client buys share for $400 2. Robinhood restricts buying the shares (so the short squeeze doesn't happen) 3. Shares plunge to $50 because the short squeeze failed to happen (ie the hedge fund did not have to purchase the shares at higher prices, which is where the capital that the traders would share amongst themselves would come from) 4. Client lost $350

New comment by feelix in "Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors"

feelix — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:58:33 +0000

you completely missed the point. the fact that the squeeze fails means that it fails to squeeze the shorts of the hedge fund, which is the one that will be coughing up billions to pay all the retailers. So yes, the retailers that are buying shares at higher prices will indeed lose actual real money if the short squeeze fails. And it will be due to what is likely to be market manipulation (ie screwing over its clients) by Robinhood

Current x86 vs. Apple M1 Performance Measurements Are Flawed

feelix — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:28:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318020-flaw-current-measurements-x86-versus-apple-m1-performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343424

Points: 2

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New comment by feelix in "M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness"

feelix — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:20:53 +0000

I didn't until you linked to it, but having read it it still does appear that comparing single thread to single thread is not very accurate. Neither would core to core considering single thread does hold some weight compared to real world workloads.

I guess at the very least CPU benchmarking software should have a "thread to thread" benchmarker alongside a "core to core" benchmarker, or something along those lines.

That would be in the spirit of having benchmarks indicate real world usage

New comment by feelix in "M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness"

feelix — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:37:33 +0000

It turns out that the benchmarks for M1 vs latest generation Intel & AMD CPU's are indeed overblown, and it is an incremental improvement more than a great leap forward.

The source of the confusion has been the benchmarking software. To saturate one core on an Intel processor you need to run two threads, because that's the way they are designed. So the single thread benchmarks that have been used so far have been using 50% of the capacity of an Intel CPU core and comparing it with 100% of the capacity of an M1 CPU core.

This article breaks it down fully: https://wccftech.com/why-apple-m1-single-core-comparisons-ar...

New comment by feelix in "iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes"

feelix — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:22:03 +0000

if only they'd do this for apps accessing the microphone, or do the same thing as they do with the camera making the application visibly request access

New comment by feelix in "Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan"

feelix — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:27:20 +0000

You wouldn't know of any reason to believe that the NSA had access to google traffic back when they did if Snowden didn't allow you to know. Why choose to assume they don't rather than do?

Crying elephants and giggling rats – animals have feelings, too

feelix — Tue, 07 May 2019 04:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/crying-elephants-and-giggling-rats-animals-have-feelings-too-87977

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846558

Points: 4

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