Hacker News: snalty

New comment by snalty in "Microduck"

snalty — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:44:47 +0000

Ugh, PAL only? I'll wait for the NTSC version.

New comment by snalty in "The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]"

snalty — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:04:07 +0000

Can anyone suggest a starting point to be able to read mathematics papers like this and understand them?

New comment by snalty in "Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work"

snalty — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:36:59 +0000

It reminded me of the Welsh informal greeting "shwmae"

New comment by snalty in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

snalty — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:48:36 +0000

This reminds me of one of my favourite flash games, Fantastic Contraption, for some reason.

New comment by snalty in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

snalty — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:11:30 +0000

For those in the UK who want a static IPv4 or IPv6 block AAISP offer a L2TP service for £2/month. It's limited to 3 megabit/s but might be enough for some use cases.

New comment by snalty in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

snalty — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:18:16 +0000

> reasonably priced storage upgrades

To be fair to Sony here, the PS5 uses a normal m.2 NVME SSD for storage upgrades.

New comment by snalty in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

snalty — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:25:00 +0000

Yeah, here's an example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

New comment by snalty in "Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling"

snalty — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:10:24 +0000

This reminded me of this: https://www.innovationcooling.com/products/ic-diamond/?srslt... which seemed to be all the rage in PC building 10 years ago

New comment by snalty in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

snalty — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:30:09 +0000

Great work! I did something similar before with supermarket loyalty cards before Wallet support was widespread, even had the. Co-op loyalty balance on the card which updated.

New comment by snalty in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"

snalty — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:08:43 +0000

I mostly read on an old iPad mini. The screen is good enough for me that I don't feel like I'm missing out by reading on a non E-ink screen.

New comment by snalty in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

snalty — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:54:21 +0000

It’s not the use of Uracil/Urimidine that bypasses the immune system. RNA uses Uracil instead of thymine in all organisms afaik, and RNA viruses certainly exist. It’s pseudouridine that’s the magic stuff.

New comment by snalty in "Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days"

snalty — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:05:11 +0000

This is cool, but I still see sequencing and metagenomics as being the gold standard going forward.

New comment by snalty in "Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)"

snalty — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:02:51 +0000

CodeCrafters has a BitTorrent client building challenge that I watched Jon Gjengset do on a stream, if someone wants to try and build their own client in an iterative and checked way.

https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/bittorrent/overview

Can the Wii U burn games to Blu-ray? [video]

snalty — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPgHfs7fuQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775403

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by snalty in "Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years"

snalty — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:31:09 +0000

It's about time our national infrastructure benefitted from foreign taxpayer money, considering how often it's been the other way around! Especially with the railways.

New comment by snalty in "Can you convert a video to pure CSS?"

snalty — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:23:24 +0000

The first demo doesn't work for me in Firefox, either.

New comment by snalty in "A custom Zigbee doorbell (2023)"

snalty — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:26:13 +0000

Oh, I have a spare IKEA button. Might have to give this a try.

New comment by snalty in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

snalty — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:25:17 +0000

I'm quite liking Winston for Reddit.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/3UF8bAUN

New comment by snalty in "EE is working with Qualcomm to add Wi-Fi 7 to consumer broadband hubs"

snalty — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:57:28 +0000

I don't think the Openreach ONT is going away for BT FTTP customers any time soon, so for now you are free to just plug whatever router you want into your ONT.

New comment by snalty in "Lego 3-axis styrofoam cutter [video]"

snalty — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:23:28 +0000

My initial comment when opening the video was "Of course it's Akiyuki". I love the GBC modules on the channel.