Hacker News: packetslave

New comment by packetslave in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

packetslave — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:34:26 +0000

Literally every movie ever made was made by an LLC created specifically to make that movie. This is not some nefarious thing. It’s common business practice in any number of industries

New comment by packetslave in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

packetslave — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:18:10 +0000

Funny how nobody asks the folks who build golf courses "what about water usage?"

hint: An individual 18-hole course uses between 300,000 to 1 million gallons per day

New comment by packetslave in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

packetslave — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:08:22 +0000

As someone once put it: "McDonald's is a real estate company with a hamburger hobby"

New comment by packetslave in "[dead]"

packetslave — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:21:30 +0000

Nobody cares. Read it, or don't. Complaining about perceived LLM writing adds nothing to the conversation.

New comment by packetslave in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

packetslave — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:29:34 +0000

This is absolutely something that's happening. There are even paid scraper API's that offer "Wayback Machine fallback" as a feature.

New comment by packetslave in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

packetslave — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:46:42 +0000

And you're under the impression that the purpose of a company blog is WHAT, exactly?

New comment by packetslave in "TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer"

packetslave — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:31:55 +0000

> Didn't the DoD at one point build a 1k+ PS3 cluster based on their multi-core chip and had a mini supercomputer CotS?

The Air Force did (Condor) and it hit #33 on the 2010 Top500.

New comment by packetslave in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

packetslave — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:39:25 +0000

Nintendo is probably THE most aggressive company in the industry in terms of going after people for using their IP in unauthorized ways. They don't have a blind eye.

New comment by packetslave in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

packetslave — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:30:19 +0000

> Waymo driver? The vehicles are autonomous

the "Waymo Driver" is how they refer to the self-driving platform (hardware and software). They've been pretty consistent with that branding, so it's not surprising that they used it here.

> Importantly, Waymo takes full ownership for something they write positively [...] But Waymo weasels out of taking responsibility for something they write about negatively

Pretty standard for corporate Public Relations writing, unfortunately.

New comment by packetslave in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

packetslave — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:21:05 +0000

right-click, search Google: "MSK most commonly refers to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a world-renowned institution for cancer treatment and research"

New comment by packetslave in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

packetslave — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:40:53 +0000

Right-click, "Search Google for 'ADC'", takes much less time than making this useless comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

New comment by packetslave in "Cloudflare outage should not have happened"

packetslave — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:29:30 +0000

yep, and it was this exact requirement that also caused the exact same outage back in 2013 or so. DDoS rules were pushed to the GFE (edge proxy) every 15 seconds, and a bad release got out. Every single GFE worldwide crashed within 15 seconds. That outage is in the SRE book.

New comment by packetslave in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

packetslave — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:03:07 +0000

I have a bit of a different take on browser fingerprinting: I don't want to uniquely identify you as a person so I can serve you ads, or whatever. I want to identify your traffic when you're scraping my content from 2,000 different IP's and 1,000 different user accounts, I can block you or rate limit you without hurting anyone else.

Given the scale of scrapers these days (AI companies with VC money have no problem spinning up thousands of VMs running Chrome), fingerprinting at the browser level is the only realistic option.

(obligatory: my personal opinion, not necessarily my employer's)

Choosing a vector database for ANN search at Reddit

packetslave — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1ozxnjc/choosing_a_vector_database_for_ann_search_at/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984301

Points: 1

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New comment by packetslave in "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (1977)"

packetslave — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:49:53 +0000

TCP/IP Illustrated is still in copyright. Please don't post pirated material here.

New comment by packetslave in "This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm"

packetslave — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:53:12 +0000

and his dad was head of computer security at the NSA for a while

New comment by packetslave in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

packetslave — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:15:49 +0000

Google had 86TB of sourcecode data in Piper way back in 2016.

New comment by packetslave in "New coding models and integrations"

packetslave — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:38:37 +0000

Also the just-released DGX Spark from Nvidia (although it "only" has 128gb of unified memory)

New comment by packetslave in "AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference"

packetslave — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:42:33 +0000

in AWS's defense, it's pretty easy to see the rationale for this. The amount of abuse they must deal with is staggering -- "spin up account, do evil stuff until they notice and nuke the account, repeat"

New comment by packetslave in "You Are in a Box"

packetslave — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:33:25 +0000

It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.