Hacker News: jerbear4328

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Hacker News Live Feed"

jerbear4328 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:22:40 +0000

It (hopefully) took exactly 30 seconds, the page delays every item until 30 seconds after its posted date. It doesn't poll HN's server, it opens a websocket to the official HN Firebase, and without the delay, items appear in large chunks. I'm pretty sure the HN server syncs with Firebase every 30 seconds, so this is as fast as it can go while still being accurate.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Hacker News Live Feed"

jerbear4328 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:19:02 +0000

I tried this, but it required making a request for every comment and would probably call for a backend, wheras this can run just off of the Firebase websocket stream on a static HTML file.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Hacker News Live Feed"

jerbear4328 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:17:16 +0000

Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads"

jerbear4328 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:18:10 +0000

The instance https://cobalt.meowing.de is currently working for YouTube, which is very useful

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

jerbear4328 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:33:50 +0000

https://altstore.io is the big one. You might want the AltStore fork SideStore (you can do the weekly reinstall without a computer, https://sidestore.io). Other tools exist, like https://sideloadly.io and https://appdb.to.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Web Numbers"

jerbear4328 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:45:44 +0000

Currently, we're pretty limited on 5-character ab.xy domains, and they'll cost you over $1000 USD to register[1]. However, 6 and 7 character domains are available, and can indeed be really useful!

[1]: https://micro.domains

New comment by jerbear4328 in "The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings"

jerbear4328 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:12:08 +0000

https://archive.ph/wFgG5

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324"

jerbear4328 — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:49:01 +0000

It looks like it's just the HN submitted title which is wrong (currently "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324"). The article's title is "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×342", and "324" doesn't appear anywhere on the page.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

jerbear4328 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:07:20 +0000

How would the OS know if the app that the browser is querying about is actually the current page? For all the OS knows, the user might be quickly visiting a ton of play.google.com pages for the top 1000 apps on the app store.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads"

jerbear4328 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:20:08 +0000

Those articles are paywalled:

https://archive.is/GWvCX https://archive.ph/ckFB2

New comment by jerbear4328 in "WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator"

jerbear4328 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:44:48 +0000

Reproduced here on NVIDIA as well.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

jerbear4328 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:59:56 +0000

Llama 3.1 isn't under that license, it's under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement: https://www.llama.com/llama3_1/license/

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model

jerbear4328 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:47:10 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/mistral-releases-pixtral-its-first-multimodal-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514727

Points: 163

# Comments: 40

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

jerbear4328 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:10:14 +0000

I think they meant that you lose your windows after a reboot, because Firefox only restores one window, compared to all of your groups.

App Store: PC emulator apps can offer to download games

jerbear4328 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=ty0avr2s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132764

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jerbear4328 in "How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?"

jerbear4328 — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:51:38 +0000

Theoretically, yes, they could, I think. However, with Certificate Transparency, the fraudulent certificates these Certificate Authorities could create would have to be published in CT logs to be valid, where they would be quickly noticed, and the CA would (hopefully) lose credibility and be removed from device's trusted CA list.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript"

jerbear4328 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:09:32 +0000

Woah, it works with multiple fingers! This is wild for pure JS. Interestingly, more fingers means more lag, I guess more stuff being sent between threads.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop"

jerbear4328 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:42:31 +0000

PairDrop is quite nice, it's my go to as it always works. It's a fork of the simpler SnapDrop.

New comment by jerbear4328 in "New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)"

jerbear4328 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:19:42 +0000

Note that the paper and article are from (2021).

New comment by jerbear4328 in "Ask HN: My manager is bad. Should I care?"

jerbear4328 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:12:55 +0000

Perhaps you are kind, which is a great way to be. Niceness is artificial, while kindness is a genuine, caring trait. There was a thread on the distinction yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40696801