Hacker News: keanebean86

New comment by keanebean86 in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

keanebean86 — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:54:33 +0000

Good luck watching the office when your cat pushed your upstairs AP off the balcony. Your tv won't auto switch to the downstairs AP which is now closer than the one that's suddenly in the driveway.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

keanebean86 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:02 +0000

There was also 15 "why I replaced tredge.Js with slametic.js" posts a day.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

keanebean86 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:07:40 +0000

My personal hard line is having to ask Google for permission to sideload. Even if it's free and no personal info is exchanged. This new process is annoying but I can see it helping prevent scams.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life"

keanebean86 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:38:06 +0000

This is how earth works too. Humans figured out how to survive in all of earth's ecosystems then bulldozed the whole thing. Those waves sweeping across the grid at the end are different countries becoming dominate.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

keanebean86 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:49:58 +0000

I have a LG WP50NB40 but it might be scarce these days. I wanted an external drive. Took about five mins to flash. I've ripped a few recent UHD blurays like the Barbie movie and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness without issues.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

keanebean86 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:02:14 +0000

Some drives have modified firmware that helps when ripping.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

New comment by keanebean86 in "List animals until failure"

keanebean86 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:39:34 +0000

These discussions are really fun to me. The opportunities to be absurdly pedantic are almost endless. Common words for things gloss over so many details. Most of the time those details aren't important but they still exist and there's someone on the internet that cares deeply about them.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings"

keanebean86 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:38:51 +0000

They can gate to the alpha site if the danger is serious enough.

New comment by keanebean86 in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

keanebean86 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:43:24 +0000

I have a cheap android phone that's 4 years old. This game is still playable. Very impressive!

New comment by keanebean86 in "Why language models hallucinate"

keanebean86 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:53:32 +0000

Subtitles increase the signal to noise ratio. At least in our house. We have to keep the tv low to not wake the child. A volume of 10 with subtitles is similar to volume at 16 without subtitles.

New comment by keanebean86 in "GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?"

keanebean86 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:21:04 +0000

That was such a fun time to be into hardware. For years Intel had the money and relationships to keep the Pentium 4 everywhere even though AMD had the better product. The P4 might edge ahead in video rendering but the Athlon would win overall and use less power.

Then Conroe launched and the balance shifted. Even the cheapest Core2Duo chips were competitive against the best P4s and the high-end C2Ds rivaled or beat AMD. https://web.archive.org/web/20100909205130/http://www.anandt...

AND those chips overclocked to the moon. I got my E6420 to 3.2ghz (from 2.133ghz) just by upping the multiplier. A quick search makes me think my chip wasn't even that great.

New comment by keanebean86 in "SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards"

keanebean86 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:23:54 +0000

They could 3d stack it with the SoC so if the flash dies (from all that SoC heat) you have to replace all the chips. Or buy a whole new phone.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm"

keanebean86 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:56:50 +0000

Crabs too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

New comment by keanebean86 in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

keanebean86 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:41:26 +0000

What if, hear me out, the wheels were on the sides and not front and back. It uses gyroscopes to keep itself balanced. Instead of twisting the handle or pushing a button like a savage you lean in the direction you want to go! This is a totally new idea and not a product that was released over 20 years ago and since discontinued.

New comment by keanebean86 in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

keanebean86 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:58:20 +0000

"A recently departed employee had a core router's power going through a wall switch. This was done to facilitate quick reboots. A cleaning contractor turned off the switch thinking it was a light. It took us several hours to determine the situation and restore power"

New comment by keanebean86 in "My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life"

keanebean86 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

I did a detox a few years ago. Just HN and maybe some Google news. Eventually I went back to reddit and it felt so weird. It took some time to get addicted to reddit again because it just wasn't as interesting. I really need to detox again because this stuff has ruined my attention span.

New comment by keanebean86 in "The first experimental support for LK99-type superconductivity"

keanebean86 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:19:51 +0000

This whole situation reminds me of the EMDrive. There was huge excitement when the news broke of a claimed way to produce momentum without expelling mass. That excitement was only intensified when NASA agreed to test one of the proposed designs. Even after multiple reproducible experiments showed zero thrust a vocal minority still believed.

This isn't exactly like that since the results are slightly less conclusive at this point. But the excitement without reproducible data is definitely there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive

New comment by keanebean86 in "Stripe live dashboard"

keanebean86 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:12:37 +0000

Seems to be very GPU heavy. The GPU in my 7320u is maxed out and the site feels really slow.

New comment by keanebean86 in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

keanebean86 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:47:33 +0000

I had an idea to use Facebook messanger as a proxy. Specifically to use the cheap messaging plan on a cruise ship for real internet access. My home computer would be a gateway that monitors fb and fetches/returns websites. I never even tried because it just sounds like a violation of multiple ToSes. Not to mention message size limitations, throttling, my fb messages being pages of encoded text, etc.

I feel like it would need to work like Opera mini to maybe be usable. Even then interactions would be uncomfortably slow.

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

New comment by keanebean86 in "Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles"

keanebean86 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:09:35 +0000

> 1 A/g for a 1 Ah/g

How does that compare to other batteries?