Hacker News: jeff_vader

New comment by jeff_vader in "Source code of the Estonian online voting system"

jeff_vader — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:32:36 +0000

Explanation is in the README:

> The intention behind this repository is to make source code of the Estonian online voting system available for public review.

> The repository is not used for active development, but will be kept up to date, so the code that can be found here is the code that is used for election.

New comment by jeff_vader in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

jeff_vader — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:01:07 +0000

Is Kagi search still (partially?) relying on Yandex?

New comment by jeff_vader in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

jeff_vader — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:35:44 +0000

Is Kagi search still relying on Yandex?

A second data centre has been attacked and I've seen reports of Yandex crawlers stopping their work.

New comment by jeff_vader in "The RAM shortage could last years"

jeff_vader — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:28:21 +0000

Wait until China invades Taiwan.. (ok, it's not too likely, but what if?)

New comment by jeff_vader in "A Year of Telepathy"

jeff_vader — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:13:06 +0000

Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some sort of tissue reducing its effectiveness. Has Neuralink made any advancements in that area?

New comment by jeff_vader in "Fair Pricing"

jeff_vader — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:53:29 +0000

When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy.

edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Lunar Lander"

jeff_vader — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:06:17 +0000

Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms"

jeff_vader — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:06:58 +0000

I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my apartment after a run.

To make everything really simple I scraped my public profile directly from esp8266 controller (so there's no need for extra steps of setting up Strava app to gain access to the API). Worked relatively well.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls"

jeff_vader — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:22:05 +0000

Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.

New comment by jeff_vader in "California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite"

jeff_vader — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:01:04 +0000

My father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noticeable side effects other than maybe sore shoulder.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks"

jeff_vader — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:09:16 +0000

Not from Russia, but nearby.. It was very common - kinda wild east and nobody cared. As soon our telecom started providing DSL - we (neighbourhood kids) got a commercial DSL into my apartment and shared it between 2 five story apartment buildings. Our set up was tiny and not very reliable. Some local networks like this grew and became almost proper internet providers. But they continued this gray practice of pulling cables in the air, between buildings. They'd also do other sketchy stuff like installing hubs/switches into electrical boxes and tapping supply from the building. We learned about it when a technician from a provider like this dropped a screwdriver on live wires and knocked out power for half of the building.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?"

jeff_vader — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:47:20 +0000

English Wikipedia and some Linux distribution which can be downloaded as a full set of packages + sources.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane"

jeff_vader — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:27:09 +0000

Basic flight instruments almost always have a backup. In case of F-35 there's a small square screen in centre console which shows attitude indicator and flight parameters. Needless to say, if main screens are out you are turning around and looking for the nearest airport.

New comment by jeff_vader in "What we can learn from vintage computing"

jeff_vader — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:46:28 +0000

> Teaching my kids programming on an Apple //c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness.

New comment by jeff_vader in "AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway"

jeff_vader — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:06:17 +0000

Reminds this current slightly comedic (IMO) situation in my office: a few months ago developers were given access to GitHub's "Copilot Enterprise". Then, a month or so later, organisation also adopted another "AI" product checking pull requests for risks associated with "use of generative AI". And needless to say it does occasionally fail code written without any "generative AI"..

New comment by jeff_vader in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

jeff_vader — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:30:05 +0000

On top of problems with helium leaks there's now another issue[1]:

> Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction control system jets have failed off. A manual flight test has been put on hold while flight controllers look to restore those jets with a hot fire.

[1]: https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1798738262368104639

New comment by jeff_vader in "Boeing Starliner team detects new helium leaks en route to space station"

jeff_vader — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:28:26 +0000

On top of that there's now another issue[1]:

[1]: https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1798738262368104639

New comment by jeff_vader in "Running Windows 95 on a disposable vape"

jeff_vader — Wed, 01 May 2024 12:47:21 +0000

Title should be "Creating Windows 95 theme for a disposable vape" or something similar.

New comment by jeff_vader in "The Berkeley Software Distribution"

jeff_vader — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:40:02 +0000

And we're all happy CVS users.

New comment by jeff_vader in "Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem"

jeff_vader — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:44:24 +0000

Related - there's also ESP8266 based TheOldNet wifi modem[1] in case you want TCP/IP over wifi networking in your MS-DOS machine (or possibly others which have support for SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol).

[1]: https://github.com/TheOldNet/theoldnet-wifi-firmware-binarie...