Hacker News: themerone

New comment by themerone in "Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison"

themerone — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:30:46 +0000

Here's the referenced YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM4CD64xDE

New comment by themerone in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

themerone — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:26:58 +0000

It's been 3 years, I might have people mixed up, but that was the justification at the time.

New comment by themerone in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

themerone — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:58:40 +0000

If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims there was no interest or advantages over existing formats.

Concerns about the implementation only came up after years of pushback forced google ton reconsider.

New comment by themerone in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

themerone — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:30:59 +0000

With that logic, the Django orm should only support one database.

New comment by themerone in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

themerone — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:55:10 +0000

HBO owns Westworld and stopped streaming it to avoid paying residuals.

New comment by themerone in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

themerone — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:45:34 +0000

Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.

New comment by themerone in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

themerone — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:45:09 +0000

I'm very surprised that you find this surprising. Do you mostly stay at Airbnb? I expect this at any traditional hotel in the US.

New comment by themerone in "Ask HN: For Mac users – Do you have а shoulder pinched nervе?"

themerone — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:40:58 +0000

How is this relevant to just Mac users?

New comment by themerone in "X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland"

themerone — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:31:03 +0000

That project is a pipe dream. They don't have what it takes to continue X11 alive once X.Org pulls the plug.

New comment by themerone in "Are these real CVEs? VulDB entries for dnsmasq rely on replacing config files"

themerone — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:51:29 +0000

Why go through the trouble of exploring such a bug, when you have the ability to just replace the binary with something with a backdoor?

New comment by themerone in "Windows utilities go on every machine I set up"

themerone — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:22:32 +0000

AI Slop.

New comment by themerone in "Ask HN: Sites that don't zoom – why? how? workarounds?"

themerone — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:32:49 +0000

It would be easier to ask google than post here. It's the first google result for "blocking website scaling"

Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has cared about since the 2000s.

New comment by themerone in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

themerone — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:53:12 +0000

Most Kobo books have DRM. There are a few publishers (TOR) and authors that are DRM free, but most of books I've wanted have it.

This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, although I only use it with burner accounts. They run Ancient versions of Android.

New comment by themerone in "TiVo Stops Selling DVRs"

themerone — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:50:16 +0000

Did I just wake up from a time loop?

New comment by themerone in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

themerone — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:38:22 +0000

Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance

New comment by themerone in "OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework"

themerone — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:15:53 +0000

Wasm can be sandboxed. Its a safe as visiting a website with javascript.

New comment by themerone in "AVIF updates: performance notes and when it wins"

themerone — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:43:05 +0000

Google blocking jpegxl from Chrome is tragic.

AVIF is only better when quality is less important than saving bandwidth. AVIF is also significantly less capable.

New comment by themerone in "Feds say 100k-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC near the UN"

themerone — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:35:53 +0000

What's the legitimate use case for a 1U rack with 32 cell modems (Assuming 1 modem for every antenna in the photos)?

New comment by themerone in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

themerone — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:42:46 +0000

Wasm is one of the best solutions for running untrusted code. Alternative are more complicated or have limited language choices.

New comment by themerone in "Is OOXML Artifically Complex?"

themerone — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:10:17 +0000

It's as complex as it needs to be to losslessly convert old binary office files.

A better format would have made us geeks a lot happier, but the average user just wants things to work the way they always have.