Hacker News: room606

New comment by room606 in "Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware"

room606 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:14:13 +0000

https://blog.confiant.com/p/adint-weaponized-ad-tech-for-zer...

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targ...

New comment by room606 in "VanMoof, the e-bike startup, officially declared bankrupt in The Netherlands"

room606 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:34:28 +0000

There are probably 50+ manufacturers that use Bosch motors/batteries, however e-bikes that use these components tend to be higher quality and considerably more expensive than VanMoof i.e. Riese & Muller, Canyon, Cannondale, Orbea

New comment by room606 in "Nordstream: An Accident?"

room606 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:47:25 +0000

It's called burning bridges. Both domestically and internationally. It signals that Russia is committed to seeing the war through regardless of what the West does and it consolidates power domestically by discouraging any potential conspirators from acting against Putin since destroying the pipelines makes it virtually impossible for any replacement to resume delivery of gas to Europe

New comment by room606 in "Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day"

room606 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:36:00 +0000

AFAIK, only one of the NS2 pipelines has been damaged. Both branches of NS1 are leaking but there has only been one reported leak on NS2

New comment by room606 in "In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether"

room606 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:33:25 +0000

https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616

A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance

room606 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:59:01 +0000

Article URL: http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/predicting-twitter-trending-topics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728807

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Mypy - An experimental Python variant with dynamic and static typing

room606 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:41:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.mypy-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561973

Points: 108

# Comments: 39

New comment by room606 in "VirtualBox broken on Ivy Bridge Macbooks after 10.8.2 and Firmware Update"

room606 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:02:42 +0000

Can anyone confirm this update does not break VirtualBox on the mid 2011 Macbook Air i7? I rely on Vagrant and am not feeling confident enough to update since the issue appears to be related to VT-x on the CPU

Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering?

room606 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:46:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/can-a-kids-toy-bring-more-women-into-engineering/262373/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539481

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by room606 in "iPhone 5 Keynote Predictions: Mainstreaming AI?"

room606 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:24:49 +0000

There's a demo of Siri in the linked Vimeo presentation that starts around 8:00. It's pretty impressive

http://vimeo.com/5424527

New comment by room606 in "Mythbusters: Stored Procedures Edition"

room606 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:38:44 +0000

If you're lucky enough to be using PostgreSQL with pl/python, you can write your stored procs in Python

https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/speeding-django...

New comment by room606 in "Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2"

room606 — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:15:43 +0000

WSGI is fine if you're building short-lived, simple request/response style web apps but if you want to do any sort of async messaging, long-polling, or use websockets i.e. a modern web app - then it leaves a lot to be desired. Mongrel2/Brubeck appear to be designed with these considerations in mind.

New comment by room606 in "Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment"

room606 — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:17:44 +0000

I'm not certain but I think it was one of these

http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/speakers/raymond-hett...

New comment by room606 in "Google Singleton Detector"

room606 — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:23:00 +0000

Misko's blog is brilliant and it is truly a shame he isn't posting as much as he used to

Some posts relevant to this discussion

http://misko.hevery.com/2008/08/17/singletons-are-pathologic...

http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/flaw-brittle-gl...

Why personal genomics matter but not enough that you should really care

room606 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:09:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11Genome-t.html?pagewanted=all

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by room606 in "Ask HN: Inspirational movies"

room606 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:21:54 +0000

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Breaking Away

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19...

New comment by room606 in "Use Vim Like A Pro"

room606 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:37:35 +0000

Or Pentadactyl - an improved fork of vimperator by it's most active developers. Probably the only thing keeping me from using Chrome as my main browser http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

New comment by room606 in "Ask HN: Django Deploy Recommendations"

room606 — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:03:21 +0000

I was in the same boat a few months ago and found this PyCon workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss extremely helpful

http://blip.tv/file/3632436

http://github.com/jacobian/django-deployment-workshop

New comment by room606 in "Innovative Android/iPhone app uses camera and flash to check your heart rate"

room606 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:56:05 +0000

I've not used this app but this is definitely possible and has been covered in the literature. The final link is to a paper presented recently which actually proposes using a mobile phone for this.

Would be interesting to see what other information can be extracted from optical signals. Tricorders can't be that far off now.

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-18-10-1076...

http://vassilios-chouliaras.com/pubs/c51.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717852/

https://embs.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/abstract.pl?C...

New comment by room606 in "Secret Hacker Bookshelf"

room606 — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:23:32 +0000

If I were to recommend only one Java book, it would be this one. Definitely deserves to be on the list.