Hacker News: huhtenberg

New comment by huhtenberg in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

huhtenberg — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:23:42 +0000

https://finviz.com/map says Hi :)

New comment by huhtenberg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

huhtenberg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:03:13 +0000

No pm on hn, mate.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:23:20 +0000

At 26MB setup package it most likely doesn't.

New comment by huhtenberg in "US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO(stationary orbits)"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:40:47 +0000

> A new kind of Russian satellite is now in the mix. This satellite, officially known as Kosmos 2589, was launched in June 2025 into a highly elliptical orbit alongside a smaller spacecraft designated Kosmos 2590. The two satellites performed a series of high-altitude rendezvous and proximity operations with one another before Kosmos 2589 began moving toward a more circular geosynchronous orbit, where it arrived in April.

> One of the US military’s GSSAP satellites was waiting for it. The US inspector spacecraft is now looping around Kosmos 2589, swinging near the newly arrived Russian satellite twice per day, coming as close as 8 miles (13 kilometers).

Someone's full-time job is this. Crazy stuff.

US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO(stationary orbits)

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:37:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/threes-a-party-us-china-and-now-russia-are-on-the-prowl-in-geo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182738

Points: 3

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New comment by huhtenberg in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:31:24 +0000

Good luck with random AS blocks. Sounds thoughtful.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

huhtenberg — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:34:34 +0000

> https://www.n1kdo.com/meter-clock/index.html

Can't access it. Connection attempts time out.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

huhtenberg — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:23:25 +0000

Give "Please Don't Touch Anything" a try.

New comment by huhtenberg in "France pulls last gold held in US"

huhtenberg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:56:21 +0000

Gold is down 10+% since its recent peak. They likely sold then and repurchased later.

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:53:04 +0000

Probably more on imaging / as going up and \ as going down.

I'd think that associating pitch increase/decrease with up/down works for the vast majority of people without any second thought.

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:48:55 +0000

> ë

What else is there with ë except for Noël and Israël ?

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:10:39 +0000

If there's one thing I wish someone pointed out when I was just starting learning French is this:

  é - the accent is pointing up, so it's a higher-pitched e

  è - the accent is pointing down, so it's a lower-pitched e

That's it. That's how it should be explained.

* It's also in their names - aigu and grave, but this requires knowing what these words mean.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Chuck Norris has died"

huhtenberg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:29:16 +0000

Chuck Norris jokes were making rounds well before Vin Diesel was even born.

New comment by huhtenberg in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

huhtenberg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:05:42 +0000

What if you have two things? You'd then need two buttons.

The push button is a perfectly viable option, it just needs to be in a form factor that's works. Could be as simple as a tiny low-energy Bluetooth board with a coin battery that will last several months.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:24:04 +0000

Why would it mean that?

All inbound packets are matched against existing sessions. In this case none will turn up, so the packet will go through the "new session" flow and be subject to the same filtering as a bare SYN. Look up how connection tracking works, e.g. in the Linux kernel, it's rather simple and logical.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:37:29 +0000

Sanity checks, sure, but SYN,!ACK packets cannot be rejected before the conntrack for obvious reasons.

> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Nowhere close to being "plenty". It's doable, but this is extremely niche.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:27:01 +0000

> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Even in the presence of a conntrack entry created by an earlier outbound SYN,!ACK ?

Got a source?

New comment by huhtenberg in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

huhtenberg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:34:29 +0000

Looking at all ready-made options on Amazon and elsewhere - anyone who will roll out an adult-oriented well-made single-button camera that takes in standard thermal paper rolls will make a fortune. This is such a great thing to have for get-togethers and parties. But it's essential to not being bound by $X/shot proprietary cartridges and be able to shoot and snap without thinking. Mementos for everyone!

* ... without thinking of costs involved. $2 per polaroid with half of them not even developing properly is a bit too high for spontaneous photography urges.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Show HN: Stacked Game of Life"

huhtenberg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:38:16 +0000

I am a simple man. I see Game of Life in the title, I upvote the post.

New comment by huhtenberg in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

huhtenberg — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:53:39 +0000

WhatsApp infamously did just that.

It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.