Hacker News: nothacking

The (Cooley–Tukey) Fast Fourier Transform

nothacking — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 06:02:50 +0000

Article URL: https://10maurycy10.github.io/misc/fft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851234

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nothacking in "Australia to ban engineered stone"

nothacking — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:49:45 +0000

Silica is one of the most common minerals on earth. Any type of stone countertop has a potentially dangerous amount of inhaled. Just use a dust mask when cutting/grinding stone or when around people who are. If anything, synthetic countertops could (but currently is not) be made to have very low levels of silica, but people should still not be breathing them in.

New comment by nothacking in "Tiny volumetric display"

nothacking — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 23:49:24 +0000

I wonder if inductive power transfer could be used to eliminate the need for a battery. It would only have to power the LEDs, not the motor as that could be mounted to the base. Additionally, both coils could be placed right inside of each other, and on a ferrite core.

New comment by nothacking in "HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened"

nothacking — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 06:03:01 +0000

All of these look like things sqlmap tries, this could all be just one person that tried to target the server.

New comment by nothacking in "Are any words the same in all languages?"

nothacking — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:39:21 +0000

"Tea" is ruined by my native language, Polish: herbata. Robot seems to be a good candidate though: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot

New comment by nothacking in "Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar"

nothacking — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:09:57 +0000

They can round any number under 5 kilocalories to 0, and a gram of sugar has 4 kcal. Same thing with most sweetener packets, which use sugar as a filler or else there would be less then a single grain of powder per pack. Ironically, there is another fairly common filler: erythritol, which has less calories then sugar, and doesn't contribute to blood sugar, but because of how it's produced it can't be labeled natural.

New comment by nothacking in "Should we stop writing functions? (C++)"

nothacking — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 02:56:08 +0000

Honestly these are issues introduced by C++, and avoidable by using C.

Show HN: Modulating and amplifying signals with (electro)magnets

nothacking — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:38:49 +0000

Article URL: https://10maurycy10.github.io/projects/magnetic_modulator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36995546

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nothacking in "Experts starting to doubt AI ‘hallucinations’ will go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’"

nothacking — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:50:15 +0000

These models are basically just very good auto complete, the fact that they are even sometimes right is amazing.

New comment by nothacking in "Show HN: A simple wireless power demonstration circuit"

nothacking — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:42:54 +0000

Yup, just squeezing performance out of a really bad transformer.

New comment by nothacking in "Ask HN: Are the days of CAPTCHAs coming to an end?"

nothacking — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:48:52 +0000

I really don't know, but the next few years will sure be interesting for content moderation and anti-spam methods.

That is provided, of course that, people actually care about bots, large companies might well not, as bots drive up user counts. With increasingly more human like bots, it will be increasingly difficult to determine just how bad it is. An internet full of bots might be a conspiracy theory now (Dead internet theory), but is quickly becoming plausible.

New comment by nothacking in "Ask HN: What buggy software is relied upon by the most people?"

nothacking — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:42:54 +0000

Windows CE (aka wince), it's windows, with all of windows' bugs, but intended for embedded applications, making debugging even worse.

Show HN: A simple wireless power demonstration circuit

nothacking — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 04:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://10maurycy10.github.io/projects/simple_wireless_power/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952378

Points: 8

# Comments: 6