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New comment by soruly in "Why Japan has such good railways"

soruly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:32:39 +0000

successful train lines in Japan are all built between CBD and some spots / attractions. Odakyu: odawara / hakone, Seibu: chichibu, keiou: Takao, toukyuu: Nikko / kinugawa, nankai: Takao.

Tourists spots are usually in the mountains and the CBD is near the sea. And residential area is developed between them along the lines so the trains carry bidirectional passengers to work or relax on the same line, higher utilization keeps ticket fare low.

New comment by soruly in "Hetzner's Statement on Price Adjustment"

soruly — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:05:40 +0000

New comment by soruly in "Hetzner's Statement on Price Adjustment"

soruly — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:48:37 +0000

The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products.

Hetzner's Statement on Price Adjustment

soruly — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:48:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121072

Points: 4

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New comment by soruly in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

soruly — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:28:20 +0000

same here. sometimes it makes me feels guilty for using light mode. Maybe we should yell out something like "hold-on can't see anything"

New comment by soruly in "Rapidus explores panel-level packaging on glass for next-gen processors"

soruly — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:49:24 +0000

It seems the square "wafer" (silicon substrate) is developed by Mitsubishi Materials a year ago.

https://www.mmc.co.jp/corporate/en/news/2024/news20240821.ht...

New comment by soruly in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

soruly — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:03:05 +0000

CSCI 3210: Modern text encoding and processing

Learn unicode and utf-8.

Unlearn the 1 char = 1 byte concept

Not only encoding/decoding but searching and sorting is also different. We may also cover font rendering, unicode modifiers and emoji. They are so common and fundamental but very few understand them.

New comment by soruly in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)"

soruly — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:36:35 +0000

Yes. As a site owner who keep fighting with bots and malicious traffic, I wish web browsers provide me a way to identify real users from bot traffic. Otherwise I'll have to put everything behind account registration.

New comment by soruly in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

soruly — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:20:14 +0000

> "coherent desire" or "precise imagination" or "structured wishing."

the most precise way to express your desire is by giving computer commands, or you may call it programming.

New comment by soruly in "7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression"

soruly — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:35:52 +0000

thanks for the tips. As my data has very low entropy, both can compress down to 3-4% of original size, but xz is a lot faster in compression.

raw size: 9612344 B

zstd --ultra -22 --long=31 => 376181 B (3.91% original, 4.088s compress, 0.013s decompress)

xz -z -9 xml => 353700 B (3.68% original, 0.729s compress, 0.032s decompress)

zstd -17 --long=31 could match the compression time of xz, but the size is bigger (405602 B, 4.22% original)

If you compare only the compressed size (not to the original size), .zst would be about 6-15% larger than .xz

New comment by soruly in "7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression"

soruly — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:52:07 +0000

I think it depends on what you're compressing. I experimented with my data full of hex text xml files. xz -6 is both faster and smaller than zstd -19 by about 10%. For my data, xz -2 and zstd -17 achieve the same compressed size but xz -2 is 3 times faster than zstd -17. I still use xz for archive because I rarely needs to decompress them.

New comment by soruly in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

soruly — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:32:58 +0000

Bi-directional gates are always open by default. One-way gate would close after a certain time to prevent people coming from the wrong side.

New comment by soruly in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

soruly — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:22:14 +0000

There are charging machines that accept cash cards / debit cards, but only those issued by Japanese banks. So cash is the only option for touristists. You can go completely cash-less if you can use mobile Suica / ICOCA, which let's you charge your phone with Apple Pay / Google Pay (with osaifu-keitai).

New comment by soruly in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

soruly — Sat, 17 May 2025 17:58:28 +0000

Yes, I believe so. JR East is now planning to fade-out magnetic tickets by using paper QR Code tickets.

New comment by soruly in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

soruly — Sat, 17 May 2025 17:35:45 +0000

Japan has lots of IC cards in various regions, and they have spent a lot of effort integrating their system. Unfortunately some IC cards like Kumamon decided to opt-out due to high maintenance fees.

AFAIK, you can go through up to 4 different company networks once you enter paid-area. Beyond that, you'll need to do the override settlement (乗り越し精算) with the help of station staff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_Mutual_Usage_Servic...

New comment by soruly in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

soruly — Sat, 17 May 2025 17:13:04 +0000

Suica has a pretty large sensing distance (85mm). So it can "power up" the card at a distance before getting close to the reader.

To avoid large touch area causing accidental touches, places like vending machine requires you to keep your card within sensing area for up to 1 second before completing the transaction.

reference: https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/suzukij/1316685....

Speed test between magnetic ticket / IC Card / Credit Card https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQM5NNnCi4

New comment by soruly in "Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures"

soruly — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:01:58 +0000

and yes they did. aside from the keihin touhoku line that's already running in parallel with yamanote line, JR East added a new track called ueno-tokyo line about 10 years ago. And the trains on the new lines are mostly 15-cars (with 2 double decker cars!). Note that for passengers travelling north-south they can also take the west route (going through shinjuku instead of tokyo), and there're also 3 parallel lines on the west. JR runs on narrow gauge which takes less space, and is cheaper to construct. Maybe this is one reason to make these expansion project fesible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueno%E2%80%93Tokyo_Line

New comment by soruly in "Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures"

soruly — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:15:48 +0000

> Rush hour had a train there every ~2 minutes

actually 2 trains every ~2 minutes on the east side of the yamanote loop, it runs in parallel with keihin tohoku line every station from tabata to sinagawa. The platforms are arranged side by side, so if you miss one train, the next train is probably right behind you. it's fun to see trains racing right next to each other. Other than that there are also rapid lines running in parallel that takes you straight to major stations by skipping some smaller ones.

New comment by soruly in "After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel"

soruly — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:33:07 +0000

The domestic ISP I use has all its IP ranges assigned to spamhaus's Policy Block List. https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ However, the ISP does operate its own SMTP proxy that's free to use. So I can send and receive emails using home IP address.

New comment by soruly in "See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser"

soruly — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:47:17 +0000

All my hobby websites I own have all these in-app browsers blocked.