Hacker News: oakwhiz

New comment by oakwhiz in "Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering"

oakwhiz — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:30:16 +0000

I thought that it was patent related, other than adding slightly more PHY complexity

New comment by oakwhiz in "Tank leaking toxic chemicals in Orange County will spill or explode"

oakwhiz — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:52:06 +0000

While benzene vapors are bad, we probably shouldn't tolerate very much benzene being in things that are rubbed onto the skin intentionally. Trace amounts as you say might not really matter though.

New comment by oakwhiz in "Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%"

oakwhiz — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:21:56 +0000

It could go into the information directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

New comment by oakwhiz in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

oakwhiz — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:38:48 +0000

With sufficiently defined lease contracts it should be possible to price out the used machine risk from a new machine... Hmm

New comment by oakwhiz in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

oakwhiz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:42:22 +0000

Minor nitpick but they are both considered Ethernet. The 4 pair copper one is 10GBASE-T.

New comment by oakwhiz in "How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way"

oakwhiz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:03:04 +0000

Seems like a missed opportunity to try adding a capacitor dead-bug style onto the board to see if it cleans it up.

New comment by oakwhiz in "Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow"

oakwhiz — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:33:08 +0000

Shouldn't you be giving people their tokens back when you used their tokens to test on their environment?

New comment by oakwhiz in "X For You Feed Algorithm"

oakwhiz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:39:59 +0000

This is open source. You're thinking of trusted execution, audits, licenses with disclosure requirements, or signed affidavits which is a totally different thing than open source. Otherwise you could claim that just about anything isn't open source just because you're not sure what is happening on someone else's computer.

New comment by oakwhiz in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

oakwhiz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:59:48 +0000

HN's autocorrect seems to cause more trouble than it's worth.

New comment by oakwhiz in "How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?"

oakwhiz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:44:52 +0000

Sinc interpolation is somewhat resource-intensive / latency inducing which is why it's not used as frequently in realtime audio.

New comment by oakwhiz in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

oakwhiz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:58:12 +0000

I see telecoms make loops all the time both indoors and outside. The loops should be strapped together and strapped down though.

New comment by oakwhiz in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

oakwhiz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:49:20 +0000

Bends ideally need pull boxes, but given the lack of pull boxes, you might be able to use fish tape where where fish rods / glow rods don't work, if you cannot get a pullstring / pull cable going.

New comment by oakwhiz in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

oakwhiz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:45:36 +0000

If it's any consolation, you can have fiber without jackets as long as they are cable-managed very carefully.

New comment by oakwhiz in "CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift"

oakwhiz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:46:37 +0000

The failure rate of an individual layer of Swiss cheese should be bounded under most circumstances but not all. So you should probably have more layers when hazards cannot be eliminated.

New comment by oakwhiz in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

oakwhiz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:50:58 +0000

To me the problem with drag and drop is not only that it has to be a single continuous motion, but that nothing else interrupts you at an inconvenient time while you are doing it. The consequences of an incorrect drag and drop can be confusing. This "pick and place" UI is more precise and less error prone but a lot less convenient. Maybe there is a middle ground.

New comment by oakwhiz in "Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers"

oakwhiz — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:21:39 +0000

probably something like a stirling engine + working fluid going down tubes in the plate, it becomes worth it to develop silicon-on-insulator GPUs and other weird technologies that run at higher temps

New comment by oakwhiz in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

oakwhiz — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:12:35 +0000

legal citogenesis?

New comment by oakwhiz in "Show HN: Wolfrominoes"

oakwhiz — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:55:59 +0000

It seems a little unintuitive to me, might be better as a click and drag kind of puzzle

New comment by oakwhiz in "FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)"

oakwhiz — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:17:36 +0000

The chip itself supports using a TCXO instead of a regular crystal

New comment by oakwhiz in "Ubiquiti SFP Wizard"

oakwhiz — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:46:58 +0000

If it's a PON then it's not Ethernet media. You would then be looking for an ONT SFP but those are far from ordinary SFPs. They are not just dumb devices, there is a lot going on inside them since they crammed a whole ONT into the SFP, and it communicates SFI back to the host equipment as if it would have been Ethernet.

https://hack-gpon.org/ont-wo-mac/

You would need the ISP to "adopt" your ONT into their network similar to what is observed with cable modems.