Hacker News: jandrese

New comment by jandrese in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

jandrese — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:34:47 +0000

It depends. If it's a basic webpage clicking the resume icon usually works fine. If it's some file hosting thing that wants you to pay a monthly fee for full download speed the resume often fails.

New comment by jandrese in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

jandrese — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:00:16 +0000

This year is far from typical however. The AI bubble is throwing all of the numbers out of whack.

New comment by jandrese in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

jandrese — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:23:52 +0000

One word: Volume.

You can make a nice profit off of the enterprise space, but the big winners are the guys who put the work into servicing the consumer market.

New comment by jandrese in "So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?"

jandrese — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:42:28 +0000

I'm guessing they lost their back issues due to neglect and sometimes tragedy. When people are first starting out they often don't think that in 30 years time they will want a physical copy of their joke periodical and warehouse space is always limited. When budgets get tight it is sometimes the storage bill that has to be cut.

New comment by jandrese in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

jandrese — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:37:19 +0000

There is a button on the top right to turn off the music.

New comment by jandrese in "Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years"

jandrese — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:03:52 +0000

"Hey boss, do you think there is a chance this scheme might introduce radioactive byproducts into the ground water?"

"Shut up"

New comment by jandrese in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

jandrese — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:44:19 +0000

There should be additional audio logs you can find under some squares that provide snippits of backstory.

New comment by jandrese in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

jandrese — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:42:48 +0000

I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.

New comment by jandrese in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

jandrese — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:59:45 +0000

This is exactly what they are going for. To not have to build and run expensive gas plants just for a few hours in the evening. It also allows you to run the few gas plants that you do build for longer to better amortize their build costs, making them less expensive overall.

New comment by jandrese in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

jandrese — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:53:26 +0000

Hydrogen is a storage medium. It's fundamentally different than natural gas. Think of it more like a more complex, expensive, and inefficient battery; with the only advantage being that you can store more energy per unit volume at large scales.

New comment by jandrese in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

jandrese — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:30:20 +0000

And it's definitely not for being critical of Israel's government's policies. You can believe that the Jewish people deserve to have a peaceful place to live, and also believe that what they are doing to Palestine is wrong.

New comment by jandrese in "Solving Factorio Quality"

jandrese — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:23:52 +0000

The bigger problem with busses in Satisfactory is they're too fragile. One component backs up and it can wreck the bus for everybody else. Setting up the extra belts to deal with overflow at every spot ends up being more work than just running dedicated belts for each component.

New comment by jandrese in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

jandrese — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:04:56 +0000

> But there are much more modern, cost-effective ways to build very-high-altitude, very-fast aircraft. I'm doubtful that going manned is the right approach. It takes a lot of weight and space to carry a person and the required life support systems. That capacity could be better utilized for more fuel and sensors.

Is there? High speed turbofans are still exotic technologies. Or are we doing the research with drone rockets now? I have to imagine that building a modern SR-71 replacement would be an expensive development project with little commercial prospects. The sort of thing that is extremely hard to complete in the modern political environment.

New comment by jandrese in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

jandrese — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:51:00 +0000

He realized that the discovery server was just handing out another hostname, so even though he couldn't spoof the discovery server since he knew the hostname it was going to provide he put that in his local DNS and point it at his server. Since the RTMP server was on a different domain the best solution would be to make a wildcard for that domain that points at his server, that way it won't break if Twitch shuts down or starts up a new server in his area.

New comment by jandrese in "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"

jandrese — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:21:16 +0000

Because Apple doesn't care. Siri is just something that is bolted on when you buy the hardware. Cortana was an actual product that Microsoft is trying to sell.

I don't know anybody who uses Siri for more than just setting an occasional timer or something. Usually it's a nuisance when she is accidentally activated and takes over the interface.

New comment by jandrese in "Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net"

jandrese — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:12:19 +0000

Yeah, this is on those irresponsible companies that...are offering Internet services. Those hussies.

New comment by jandrese in "RAM: the forgotten history (2024)"

jandrese — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:20:13 +0000

Usagi Electric managed to recover the code from a 1960s era LGP-21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjh0SaA5dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39SwIl3wQDw

The coating wasn't a problem, it was a couple of the heads that sort of failed.

New comment by jandrese in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

jandrese — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:41:59 +0000

A classic case of someone projecting out to infinity from just after the first bend of the S curve.

New comment by jandrese in "Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock"

jandrese — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:07:31 +0000

In my experience if they test positive the tech will stop and wipe down the machine before trying again. They're highly prone to false positives.

New comment by jandrese in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

jandrese — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:36:28 +0000

At this point if Oracle's reputation has any more negative impact it is liable to roll over and suddenly have an amazing reputation.