Hacker News: phonon

New comment by phonon in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

phonon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:16:14 +0000

Pat has been on record many times that he was against dividends but the board declared them anyway.

New comment by phonon in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

phonon — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:54:49 +0000

Isn't that just 2x supersampling? If you want "perfect" antialiasing that's the minimum you need, no?

New comment by phonon in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

phonon — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:19:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleischer_(judge)

New comment by phonon in "Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor"

phonon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:16:12 +0000

So that is not correct workaround at all for AGPL licenses. By moving the MuPDF logic into a Web Worker, you are still providing a "modified version" of the program to the user to interact with. The "separation" via a Web Worker does not change the fact that the user is interacting with a system that includes AGPL-licensed code.

New comment by phonon in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

phonon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:45:30 +0000

Are you kidding? He had extremely sensitive roles as Devin Nunes' House committee aide from 2017–2019 in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, National Security Council aide and deputy director of national intelligence (2019–2020), and then Chief of staff to the secretary of defense (2020–2021).

New comment by phonon in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

phonon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:26:03 +0000

https://github.com/zaphar/sheetsui

New comment by phonon in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

phonon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:04:19 +0000

SpaceX originally partnered with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Wyler and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb in 2014, then they eventually went their separate ways.

https://x.com/greg_wyler/status/1116101020675977218

New comment by phonon in "AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation"

phonon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:40:27 +0000

Well, you can always use a Fujitsu A64FX...let me check eBay.. :-)

New comment by phonon in "H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation"

phonon — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:55:12 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fXrPMGM5E From a former senior employee at American Express.

New comment by phonon in "Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months"

phonon — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:13:23 +0000

Not according to the 5th Circuit, sadly....

"The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that ‘seeking admission’ is like being an ‘applicant for admission,’ in a statute that has never been applied in this way, based on little more than an apparent conviction that Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained — some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens,” she added. “Straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel.”

https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-upholds-trump-a...

New comment by phonon in "Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc."

phonon — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:34:47 +0000

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66831340/mobley-v-workd...

New comment by phonon in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

phonon — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:32:21 +0000

Derive is more sophisticated. TI-89/92/Nspire is close though.

New comment by phonon in "ChatGPT Health"

phonon — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:52:30 +0000

Yes, I've found the more financially motivated doctors in the higher end "concierge" type centers are not as skilled or experienced or overall motivated as the ones who seek out the patients with difficult cases at government reimbursement rates. The irony...

New comment by phonon in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

phonon — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:46:06 +0000

It was three out of four people.

New comment by phonon in "Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A"

phonon — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:59:18 +0000

That's peak usage. I don't know how reduced the PHY power usage is when there aren't any memory accesses. For comparison, the peak wattage of Meteor Lake is something like 30-60 Watts.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-whiskeylake-meteorlake...

New comment by phonon in "Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A"

phonon — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:19:11 +0000

Lunar Lake had a 40% reduction in PHY power use by using memory directly onto the processor packaging (MoP)...roughly going from 3-4 Watts to 2 Watts...

New comment by phonon in "Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas"

phonon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:16:26 +0000

New comment by phonon in "Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S."

phonon — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:43:57 +0000

You forgot Allstate insurance!

New comment by phonon in "No, it's not a battleship"

phonon — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:56:41 +0000

Not really, sorry.

https://news.usni.org/2025/12/19/dod-ig-army-navy-miscounted...

New comment by phonon in "No, it's not a battleship"

phonon — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:55:51 +0000

Not that impressive really...

"DoD IG: Army, Navy Miscounted Recruits With Low Academic Scores

The Army and Navy exceeded the legal level of recruits with the lowest acceptable Armed Forces Qualification Test scores, according to a report from the Pentagon’s Inspector General released this week. The services, which are in the midst of reversing years of stagnant new enlistments, each created preparatory courses that would allow potential recruits with low AFQT scores to spend weeks studying under military teachers, in order to raise their scores and then move to boot camp.

While both the Army and Navy have seen success with the preparatory programs, helping the services to meet recruiting goals, following the Pentagon’s guidance on how to count these recruits may have violated federal law, the new report alleges.

Under U.S. law, a service can only have 4 percent of its recruits that score in the lowest percentiles on the AFQT, unless it gets the permission of the secretary of defense, which would bring additional Congressional oversight. As of March 31, 2025, the Navy exceeded that percentage, without permission of the secretary of defense, with 11.3 percent of recruits falling into what the military calls category IV scores, according to the Dec. 11 OIG report...."

https://news.usni.org/2025/12/19/dod-ig-army-navy-miscounted...