Hacker News: fph

New comment by fph in "Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America"

fph — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:35:38 +0000

Reasons = because they are computing the desktop market share.

New comment by fph in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

fph — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:59:11 +0000

This sounds very self-centered. Many people already see the EU bureaucrats as something alien, let's not give them another reason to think they're selfish.

New comment by fph in ""Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok"

fph — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:32:14 +0000

Looks more like Munch's The Scream to me.

New comment by fph in "Firefox Containers Preview"

fph — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:16:25 +0000

Are they shipping it on Android, too?

New comment by fph in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

fph — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:22:13 +0000

Weird that we chose these numbers because they have many divisors, and yet no one ever says "it's a third past 10", only "half past" and "a quarter past".

New comment by fph in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

fph — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:23:37 +0000

Yes, it is in profile/settings.

New comment by fph in "Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access"

fph — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:18:04 +0000

Personally, I wouldn't use anything beyond ASCII in a password. I don't want encoding bugs to lock me out of my encrypted partition or bank account, thank you very much.

New comment by fph in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

fph — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:00:19 +0000

How would that even work for an open-weight model?

New comment by fph in "LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers"

fph — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:06:35 +0000

There are Latex documents whose output keeps changing no matter how many times you run Latex on them: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30674/document-requi...

New comment by fph in "LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers"

fph — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:04:58 +0000

I'm looking forward to run Lua inside Latex inside Javascript inside Firefox inside my Android ART virtual machine.

New comment by fph in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

fph — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:51:22 +0000

But let's put it in perspective: what you're paying them is more than the average salary in many poorer countries.

New comment by fph in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

fph — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:40:16 +0000

Random shower thought: I wonder if it would be better in the long term to stop digging out archeological findings. The more we excavate, the more damage we do for future archaeologists who will have the superpower of reading these texts without even needing to dig the scrolls free and open them.

New comment by fph in "Egyptian Fractions (2006)"

fph — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:59:56 +0000

That's not an Egyptian fraction decomposition because there are 2 sevens.

New comment by fph in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

fph — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:31:50 +0000

> Does GrapheneOS publish their repro build efforts as a dashboard anywhere?

Instructions to fully reproduce a build are here: https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds (disclaimer: I never tried using them).

New comment by fph in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

fph — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:02:30 +0000

Technically it's "source-available", not "open-source".

New comment by fph in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

fph — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:56:34 +0000

Root on computers is insecure. Malware can steal secrets from other applications. We're just used to it, but the Android security model is much better.

New comment by fph in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

fph — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:54:14 +0000

I recommend Magic Earth. Free with traffic and navigation, and strong privacy promises (unlike Here Maps).

New comment by fph in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

fph — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:15:16 +0000

Mutts also litter your home.

New comment by fph in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

fph — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:38:37 +0000

What did you replace it with?

New comment by fph in "You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone"

fph — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:34 +0000

Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.