Hacker News: hinoki

New comment by hinoki in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

hinoki — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:48:12 +0000

Maybe one day it will be so casual that one could catch a Joby wearing some jobby catchers.

New comment by hinoki in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

hinoki — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:19:41 +0000

I had to look this up, because I had never heard of it. How could a lens be damaged by infrared lasers?

It turns out it’s the sensors that are easily damaged by high powered lidar lasers.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/keeping-lidars-from-zapping-ca...

New comment by hinoki in "Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician"

hinoki — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:14:40 +0000

That Wikipedia article has a nice picture comparing the two shapes which shows how they’re more complex than you’d think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerver%E2%80%99s_and_Hamm...

New comment by hinoki in "Anatomy of US inequality"

hinoki — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:26:53 +0000

Do you have data showing a drop in per capita median wealth?

I found this nice visualisation: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

But it’s totals, and not inflation adjusted.

New comment by hinoki in "Claude for Chrome"

hinoki — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:50:30 +0000

How do screen readers work? I’ve used all the aria- attributes to make automation/scraping hopefully more robust, but don’t have experience beyond that. Could accessibility attributes also help condense the content into something more manageable?

New comment by hinoki in "The enduring puzzle of static electricity"

hinoki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:24:46 +0000

It actually helps the extraction from the coffee grounds too, not just for reducing mess.

https://youtu.be/nLnB99VJ0HE

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259023852...

New comment by hinoki in "Why Algebraic Effects?"

hinoki — Sat, 24 May 2025 08:30:42 +0000

Forget it Jake, it’s land of Lisp.

New comment by hinoki in "My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding"

hinoki — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:05:05 +0000

Safari on iOS 18.1 doesn’t render the second character properly either. (Unless it’s a 口 :)

New comment by hinoki in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

hinoki — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:34:44 +0000

https://ui.perfetto.dev/

Won’t get you end to end latency, but should be able to trace the input events through chrome, and show the context swaps of all the Wayland/dbus stuff.

EDIT: looks like Linux system tracking is more work, but possible https://perfetto.dev/docs/quickstart/linux-tracing

PMI Behind the Scenes: The OK Go Project [video]

hinoki — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7hI-mPqr8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774498

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by hinoki in "Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive"

hinoki — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:06:50 +0000

It’s a mixture of Chinese Whispers and Telephone, two names for the same game.

New comment by hinoki in "A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)"

hinoki — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:42:45 +0000

They were the same a long time ago, but there has been some drift. If you use the wrong typeface, it’s still intelligible but looks strange.

Blog post I found with some examples: https://blog.skritter.com/2015/06/font-differences-between-j...

New comment by hinoki in "The brain has its own microbiome"

hinoki — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:29:56 +0000

Is there any evidence (yet?) of an autoimmune disease caused by the immune system accidentally attacking part of the micro-biome?

New comment by hinoki in "Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps"

hinoki — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:20:10 +0000

If you’re not speculatively executing, you don’t need a branch hint because you don’t need to speculate which way it goes.

Also, I don’t think executing both sides of a branch ever took off on any mainstream CPUs (unless Itanium counts). It wastes power to spend half your execution units on things that won’t be committed, why not use them on the other hyperthread instead?

New comment by hinoki in "Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain"

hinoki — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:23:30 +0000

I would also add the Peninsular War to the list of major conflicts in Spain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War

New comment by hinoki in "BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20"

hinoki — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:49:24 +0000

Sometimes you still get sketchy passengers sitting across from you: https://twitter.com/PrectiveGallery/status/17667709878137695...

(Tweet about bedbugs on the yamanote line)

New comment by hinoki in "Gravitational waves may have made human life possible"

hinoki — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:22:31 +0000

Is both. They cause gravitational waves, which is how the system gets rid of energy, which allows the orbits to decay, causing the collision (and more waves).

New comment by hinoki in "Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high"

hinoki — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:58:32 +0000

Maybe trickle down economics works if you ask nicely? :-)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-PM-Kishida-asks-compan...

New comment by hinoki in "Show HN: Aldi Price Map"

hinoki — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:09:50 +0000

(Spaghetti or butternut) squash

New comment by hinoki in "The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium"

hinoki — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:55:41 +0000

My uninformed opinion: lots of speculative execution is good for single core performance, but terrible for power efficiency.

Have data centres always been limited by power/cooling costs, or did that only become a major consideration during the move to more commodity hardware?