Hacker News: fred256

New comment by fred256 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

fred256 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:00:24 +0000

https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/identity/passkeys

New comment by fred256 in "Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut"

fred256 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:43:28 +0000

The full list is at the bottom of their press release: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...

New comment by fred256 in "Abusing Go's Infrastructure"

fred256 — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:25:57 +0000

No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related to Spam and Abuse.

Marissa Mayer's Eternal Sunshine

fred256 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platformer.news/marissa-mayer-sunshine-shine-app-design-cofounder-quits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937636

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by fred256 in "Peter Norvig: New Python Operators (2023)"

fred256 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:37:16 +0000

Semi-related, in a past life, I used ... to indicate "not implemented yet":

    def not_implemented_yet():
      ...

New comment by fred256 in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

fred256 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:36:58 +0000

> MS-DOS shipped with a TUI text editor since version 5 (1981)

MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not 1981.

New comment by fred256 in "Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML – No JavaScript or CSS"

fred256 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:10:23 +0000

A long, long time ago I also implemented tic-tac-toe in HTML. But just as a set of HTML pages with links for each X move (and an implied O move by the "computer" player). Total size of all the pages combined is about 60 kilobytes.

New comment by fred256 in "Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops"

fred256 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:03:46 +0000

The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.

Fly.io: Bottomless S3-backed volumes

fred256 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:40:56 +0000

Article URL: https://community.fly.io/t/bottomless-s3-backed-volumes/15648

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684122

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fred256 in "Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)"

fred256 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:19:17 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093933

New comment by fred256 in "Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace"

fred256 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:56:14 +0000

Didn't this happen a few weeks ago already?

New comment by fred256 in "MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough"

fred256 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:58:13 +0000

And you can buy a modern reimplementation: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min...

New comment by fred256 in "Understanding DeepMind's sorting algorithm"

fred256 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:30:29 +0000

This reminds me of challenge 28 from the game Human Resource Machine.

New comment by fred256 in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

fred256 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:06:42 +0000

Unless I misunderstand, it's less than a frame at 60 Hz (= 16.7 ms per frame).

A chiral aperiodic monotile

fred256 — Tue, 30 May 2023 00:47:32 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920

Points: 181

# Comments: 83

Google Trust Services ACME API available to all users at no cost

fred256 — Sat, 27 May 2023 00:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-trust-services-acme-api_0503894189.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090926

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by fred256 in "An Aperiodic Monotile"

fred256 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:14:33 +0000

From the paper:

> A single hat is asymmetric, and so in any patch we can distinguish between “unreflected” and “reflected” orientations of tiles.

New comment by fred256 in "FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried"

fred256 — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:20:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)

New comment by fred256 in "Map of the Internet"

fred256 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:28:41 +0000

I thought this was going to be a link to https://xkcd.com/195/

New comment by fred256 in "Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google"

fred256 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:25:25 +0000

> He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering.

Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.