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New comment by murderfs in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

murderfs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:58:03 +0000

> I always found that case a bit odd. For one he was blogging under his real name and had made his medical practice known, so you could just google him.

Cade Metz wrote the article under his real name, and his home address is public information, but presumably he wouldn't appreciate it being published on the internet. Why is that any different?

New comment by murderfs in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

murderfs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:48:03 +0000

SODIMMs are huge compared to a BGA memory package which is a problem if your goal is to minimize your board size (e.g. I don't think there's a reasonable way to fit it into a Raspberry Pi form factor without something weird and expensive like a mezzanine connector). Routing the signals is also somewhat more annoying because they all come out of one edge of the connector compared to a BGA package which has them fan out in every direction, giving more space for length matching traces, etc. You'll likely need additional PCB layers compared to a BGA chip.

New comment by murderfs in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

murderfs — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:44:36 +0000

You see the same sort of thing around here with people complaining about the death of Google Reader on anything that even vaguely mentions Google.

New comment by murderfs in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

murderfs — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:39:18 +0000

This is likely more of a Windows filesystem benchmark than anything else: there are fundamental restrictions on how fast file access can be on Windows due to filesystem filter drivers. I would bet that if you tried again with Linux (or even in WSL2, as long as you stay in the WSL filesystem image), you'd see significantly improved results.

New comment by murderfs in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

murderfs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:24:13 +0000

> The maintenance costs are higher because the lifetime of satellites is pretty low

Presumably they're planning on doing in-orbit propellant transfer to reboost the satellites so that they don't have to let their GPUs crash into the ocean...

New comment by murderfs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

murderfs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:29:40 +0000

They're IATA airport codes (except for San Francisco, which should be SFO).

New comment by murderfs in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

murderfs — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:15:35 +0000

Sure, it could blow up its economy and have the U.S. just switch to the existing domestic alternative, which also appears to be superior (tirzepatide).

New comment by murderfs in "FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence"

murderfs — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:27:03 +0000

> Generally, text compresses extremely well. Images and video do not.

Is that actually true? I'm not sure it's fair to compare lossless compression ratios of text (abstract, noiseless) to images and video that innately have random sampling noise. If you look at humanly indistinguishable compression, I'd expect that you'd see far better compression ratios for lossy image and video compression than lossless text.

New comment by murderfs in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

murderfs — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:04:27 +0000

Yeah, but almost everyone wants money. You can see this by looking at what projects have the best documentation: they're all things like the man-pages project where the contributors aren't doing it as a job when they could be working a more profitable profession instead.

New comment by murderfs in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

murderfs — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:38:03 +0000

I don't think I've ever seen documentation from tech writers that was worth reading: if a tech writer can read code and understand it, why are they making half or less of what they would as an engineer? The post complains about AI making things up in subtle ways, but I've seen exactly the same thing happen with tech writers hired to document code: they documented what they thought should happen instead of what actually happened.

New comment by murderfs in "Eat Real Food"

murderfs — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:03:59 +0000

> Been doing it the same way for centuries so, care to elaborate on what's wrong with how they farm?

You're talking about the same Japan that's had rice shortages for like two years now, right?

New comment by murderfs in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

murderfs — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:19:16 +0000

Ratelimiting doesn't solve anything, you can just parallelize your queries across IP addresses.

New comment by murderfs in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

murderfs — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:24:47 +0000

Well, they'd be more functional as insurance, at least! The way insurance is supposed to work is that your insurance premium is proportional to the risk. You can't go uninsured and then after discovering that your house is on fire and about to burn down, sign up for an insurance plan and expect it to be covered.

We've blundered into a system that has the worst parts of socialized health care and private health insurance without any of the benefits.

New comment by murderfs in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

murderfs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:12:48 +0000

How did she get into the supermarket in the first place?

New comment by murderfs in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

murderfs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:49:27 +0000

Drag scales by frontal area (and the coefficient of drag tends to actually be lower on longer objects), so as long as the SUV is longer than a sedan, it'll tend to have less aerodynamic drag proportionally (rolling resistance scales with weight, though, so you still have to pay that cost).

New comment by murderfs in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

murderfs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:03:28 +0000

The answer to almost every question in soldering is 'more flux'. Solder wick has flux in the center of the braid, but it's hard to get it into tight places like structural through-holes. Adding your own liquid/paste flux will make the wick much more effective.

New comment by murderfs in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

murderfs — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:33:10 +0000

Get a hot air gun: it'll make your life way easier. You can tin the pads with a soldering iron, put the connector on and squirt some flux on the leads, and then just blow hot air until it reflows into place.

New comment by murderfs in "NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece"

murderfs — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:56:14 +0000

Applying this criticism to DeepSeek is ridiculous when you compare it to everyone else, they published their entire methodology, including the source for their improvements (e.g. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP)

New comment by murderfs in "If the University of Chicago won't defend the humanities, who will?"

murderfs — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:27:43 +0000

> most "real" work in the humanities is locked behind not just academic paywalls but an impenetrable wall of inward-focused jargon.

The problem isn't that there's value obfuscated by jargon, it's that almost all of it is obscurantist nonsense that hides its vacuity by trying to sound profound with jargon.

New comment by murderfs in "Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method"

murderfs — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:16:46 +0000

The analogy would be taxing the car based on its value, not based on the value of the people and goods it carries.

Which is what we do!