Hacker News: racked

New comment by racked in "Building a Quake PC"

racked — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:07:20 +0000

> As I ranted against the '90s and "how hard it was back then to have access to information", my wife came over the workbench, looked at the HDD, and then calmly informed me the J50 was the pins on the left. Hein, mais comment tu sais ca? Then she flipped the HDD to show me the PCB pins were labeled!

Mr. Sanglard is a lucky man :-)

New comment by racked in "Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare"

racked — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:57:31 +0000

I had my new Win11 PC preinstalled by the vendor and then immediately ran Win11Debloat on it. It's been quite painless that way; not many nuisances except a few OneDrive popups to extinguish and the typical forced reboots after updates.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

New comment by racked in "VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025"

racked — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:21:55 +0000

Have you tried SMPlayer? It's a lot like MPC

New comment by racked in "Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication"

racked — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:54:29 +0000

I bet you're getting plenty of downvotes from the Yanks.

Do elaborate on that first paragraph though please, I'm bursting with curiosity about what makes you see it that way.

New comment by racked in "Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication"

racked — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:48:34 +0000

"The technique works by subverting standard social etiquette. The normal rules dictate that we take turns. I talk about myself, then you talk about yourself, etc. Active listening changes that. You are listening, they are talking. We do not take turns.

You need to work hard to maintain these unusual rules. Your partner will try to give you a turn"

This unwritten rule is not understood by many. There are plenty of people out there that are completely happy to drain you of your energy by talking endlessly about themselves. What I try to do in those situations is to assert my speaking time and if that doesn't change their attitude, it's bye bye, fuck off, go drain someone else.

New comment by racked in "Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption"

racked — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:41:35 +0000

I've had an awful experience with Duplicati. Unstable, incomplete, hell to install natively on Linux. This was 5 years ago and development in Duplicati seemed slow back then. Not sure how the situation is now.

New comment by racked in "Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain"

racked — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:58:29 +0000

Why does it have to be -- ever "googled" something? ;-)

New comment by racked in "Show HN: A Hacker News client that only shows YouTube videos"

racked — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:42:45 +0000

Does it include those from comments? Great videos to be found there, too.

New comment by racked in "My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service"

racked — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:36:40 +0000

And when they do, it always has to be something like "No, thanks". Always with the forced gratitude. Never a good old "No, FUCK OFF" to accommodate me.

New comment by racked in "[dead]"

racked — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:22:35 +0000

https://archive.ph/8w7Mq

New comment by racked in "Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market"

racked — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:46:53 +0000

https://archive.ph/rV2tK

New comment by racked in "Microsoft removes Windows11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs"

racked — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:20:33 +0000

What is MS's end game here? The development cost savings seem not worth it. The only plausible reason I can think of is collision with PC manufacturers to boost sales.

New comment by racked in "Passing the Torch on Asahi Linux"

racked — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:01:30 +0000

Just read KF's post about Hector and while it is frivolous (a lot of "who cares" moments), it is also founded with plenty of evidence. Simple freedom of speech, not hate speech.

Also, I would never have read it if it wasn't for this thread. :-)

New comment by racked in "Good engineers are right, a lot"

racked — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:30:36 +0000

The point the author is trying to make is that those are indeed not the right traits to judge an engineer by.

New comment by racked in "Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet"

racked — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:22:03 +0000

It's very true. Having been a heavy user for 4 years in my late teens, I do notice that my memory isn't what it used to be. I'm having to write things down all the time, including people's names and stats.

New comment by racked in "Trump prohibits development of US Central Bank Digital Currency"

racked — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:44:24 +0000

Done.

Trump prohibits development of US Central Bank Digital Currency

racked — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:49:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42819024

Points: 20

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New comment by racked in "Installing OpenWRT on an Unsupported Router"

racked — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:43:17 +0000

> coreboot's "flashrom" doesn't support SPI NAND flashes, neither exists a suitable applet for the Glasgow, and I didn't want to buy an expensive XGecu >>>T56<<< (my TL866II doesn't support them either).

Would the T48 not be sufficient?

Unfortunately it is not clear exactly what flash chip is used. Only thing the T48 doesn't support is OneNAND according to https://www.bulcomp-eng.com/datasheet/XGecu%20T56,%20T48,%20...

New comment by racked in "CDC Reveals U.S. Fertility Rate Hits All-Time Low, Births Decline by 3%"

racked — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 04:11:21 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit about the socioeconomic conditions?

New comment by racked in "Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips"

racked — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:42:33 +0000

What is that circular kit with the stands and pins that he's using here? https://dontvacuum.me/rocketflashrecovery/needles-1.jpg

Reminds me of PCBite