Hacker News: longwave

New comment by longwave in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

longwave — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:51:50 +0000

In larger UK venues this has been happening for some years now, there is a campaign against it: https://thefac.org/venuedirectory

This has been followed up by similar action in the US as well: https://weareumaw.org/my-merch

New comment by longwave in "WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]"

longwave — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:38:59 +0000

It sounds like a combination of the Download Monitor plugin plus a misconfiguration at the web server level resulted in the file being publicly accessible at that URL when the developers thought it would remain private until deliberately published.

New comment by longwave in "Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value"

longwave — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:52:52 +0000

This comment reminded me to check whether https://www.distributed.net/ was still in existence. I hadn't thought about the site for probably two decades, I ran the client for this back in the late 1990s back when they were cracking RC5-64, but they still appear to be going as a platform that could be used for this kind of thing.

New comment by longwave in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

longwave — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:10:10 +0000

I also wonder how many of the numerous AI proponents in HN comments are subject to the same effect. Unless they are truly measuring their own performance, is AI really making them more productive?

Human coders are still better than LLMs

longwave — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:41:04 +0000

Article URL: https://antirez.com/news/153

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

Points: 655

# Comments: 735

New comment by longwave in "The cultural evolution of distortion in music"

longwave — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:22:43 +0000

Similarly, Mistabishi's Printer Jam from 2009 sounds much like you might expect from the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNV4ZW33fA

New comment by longwave in "4o Image Generation"

longwave — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:29:38 +0000

It seems this is because the string "autoregressive prior" should appear on the right hand side as well, but in the second image it's hidden from view, and this has confused it to place it on the left hand side instead?

It also misses the arrow between "[diffusion]" and "pixels" in the first image.

New comment by longwave in "Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?"

longwave — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:44:18 +0000

This smells like an advert. Over the last year I've spent less money on energy by being on Octopus Tracker (which requires a smart meter) over any fixed tariff.

New comment by longwave in "Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox"

longwave — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:25:47 +0000

Tabs now show a preview on hover since Firefox 129, which is a nice improvement, but it's not actually mentioned on that page.

New comment by longwave in "Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen"

longwave — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:57:10 +0000

If this is true does this mean we don't need fingerprint scanning hardware any more, but we can just use a microphone and software to unlock a device when the user runs their finger over any convenient surface?

New comment by longwave in "Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup"

longwave — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:25:10 +0000

I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up taking too long and using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.

[0] https://www.borgbackup.org/

New comment by longwave in "Where Have All the Websites Gone?"

longwave — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:02:15 +0000

This site has seemingly solved both of those problems. So isn't HN the modern StumbleUpon, albeit with more focus on technical topics?

New comment by longwave in "How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment"

longwave — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:04:25 +0000

I love it when kids shows do things like this. The BBC show Hey Duggee has an episode called The River Badge which is a homage to Apocalypse Now, recreating a number of similar scenes and pieces of dialogue. Other episodes have references to other movies that kids won't know but that are great fun for adults when they notice.

New comment by longwave in "NATS report into air traffic control incident details root cause and solution"

longwave — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:08:19 +0000

> I wonder why they can't reject the flight plan for an aircraft that's already in the air?

You need to know everything that may be in the air - if you skip the details of a flight that may be in the air, you risk routing another flight through the same space and the possibility of collision? So if you can't do that safely, the only option is to shut down; existing flights can continue but no new flights can be routed until the anomaly is resolved.

New comment by longwave in "When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?"

longwave — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:32:53 +0000

Jesse Armstrong also co-wrote Four Lions and Peep Show, amongst others. It's amazing how a very small group of people can have such an influence on a vast amount of cultural output.

New comment by longwave in "When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?"

longwave — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 07:50:29 +0000

Armando Iannucci is the link here; he produced and wrote for The Day Today, all the Alan Partridge shows, and also Time Trumpet.

New comment by longwave in "Incident with Issues and Pull Requests"

longwave — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:40:11 +0000

Yeah, I was getting 500s for about three minutes before they posted the status update. I guess it's good that they at least update the status page in a timely fashion, but the third day in a row of downtime is not exactly good service.

Incident with Issues and Pull Requests

longwave — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nf7s6933tnn8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901790

Points: 205

# Comments: 139

New comment by longwave in "Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages"

longwave — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:23:37 +0000

The failure mode seems different to yesterday - then I was seeing failed pushes, today push works but Actions fail with "GitHub Actions has encountered an internal error when running your job." - but it is still irritating having your workflow interrupted on what seems to be an increasingly frequent basis.

New comment by longwave in "Ubuntu's settings won't open after setting CPU to 'performance'"

longwave — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:16:21 +0000

I agree. There is mouse lag during high CPU load in Wayland that I never had in X11, but if I switch back to the X11 desktop then mouseover/hover cursor changes are broken in Firefox. I can't find solutions to either of these issues, so I'm seemingly stuck with one or the other, unless I reinstall and downgrade to 20.04.