Hacker News: vaughnegut

New comment by vaughnegut in "U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device"

vaughnegut — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:37:59 +0000

University of Toronto, it's in TFA and even the URL.

New comment by vaughnegut in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

vaughnegut — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:25:04 +0000

Nice, I'm hosting a LAN party with friends next month, I might try this out. Thanks for sharing!

Are there any plans to open source it?

New comment by vaughnegut in "Not buying another Kindle"

vaughnegut — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:12:26 +0000

Maybe it's a Canada thing, but it works seamlessly with Libby for me.

New comment by vaughnegut in "Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer"

vaughnegut — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:01:53 +0000

Favourite article I've read in a while, what a delight. I wonder what kind of performance you could get if someone hand wrote a dedicated, modern C compiler for it.

New comment by vaughnegut in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

vaughnegut — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:02:38 +0000

Something like 70% of the Korean peninsula is mountainous, and a lot of the space between mountains is taken up by cities and farms. This puts flat land at a bit of a premium

New comment by vaughnegut in "Those who can, teach history"

vaughnegut — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:11:27 +0000

My first BA was in history before I went into tech stuff.

It's honestly a hard question and depends on you. I think there's two core challenges: 1. What would be interesting to you and motivate you 2. Finding quality sources

The first one is easy but the second one is hard if you don't already know a fair amount of history, and there's tons of junk out there.

I'm admittedly pretty snobby on my sources but some recommendations (pick whatever works for you): - The Revolutions podcast is excellent. Made by the same guy as History of Rome - Unironically, the AskHistorians subreddit is a gem. It's hard to find questions with answers. Just search for their Sunday day of reflection posts. It's a compilation of interesting answers - If you're able to get into textbooks (not everyone is), do a search for an intro level textbook that's a short survey of an area/time. For example you find smallish intros to most regions and times from Cambridge

What are you interested in and how do you think you'd enjoy learning?

New comment by vaughnegut in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

vaughnegut — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:51:13 +0000

Windy allows you to select your model. For that reason it's my go to for accuracy.

Different models have different strengths, though. Some are shorter range (72h) or longer range (1-3 weeks). Some are higher resolution for where you live (the size of an area which it assigns a forecast to, so your forecast is more local).

Some governments will have their own weather model for your country that is the most accurate for where you live. What I did for a long time was use Windy and use HDRPS (a Canadian short range model with a higher resolution in Canada so I have more accurate forecasts). Now I just use the government of Canada weather app.

I genuinely wonder what the weather Channel, iPhone/Android official weather apps, etc. use under the hood for global models. My gut says ECMWF (a European model with global coverage) mixed with a little magic.

New comment by vaughnegut in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

vaughnegut — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:28:54 +0000

Kobo devices do a full page refresh periodically, which is probably what you're seeing. iirc it will do it on chapter transitions to make it less jarring.

Basically, it's intentional and relatively rare (unless you have really really short chapters).

New comment by vaughnegut in "Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes"

vaughnegut — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:40:50 +0000

I wonder how many of the pipes are made of wood. I forget the source, but I heard a decent number of pipes in Montreal are very old and made of wood (which is better than the proliferation of lead pipes that are still being removed)

New comment by vaughnegut in "Pixel 10 Phones"

vaughnegut — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:43:41 +0000

In fairness it's AI "upscaled". What kind of car that is isn't actually present in the original image's data, it's a best guess from the AI.

New comment by vaughnegut in "Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?"

vaughnegut — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:11:42 +0000

It feels simplistic, but if the primary problem is fissures and pockets forming, I'd assume they would be full of air. If you know the volume of the wheel and the density per pound, you could weigh it on a very precise scale

New comment by vaughnegut in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

vaughnegut — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:08:27 +0000

For Kobo format ebooks, you can use calibre. There's an extension that automatically converts the files for you when you send to device.

On Kobo you also have access to your library and pocket integration.

Honestly Kobo feels like the more feature complete device

New comment by vaughnegut in "Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities"

vaughnegut — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:59:20 +0000

Anyone know how it does in wintery places? I'm seeing that it's in Michigan now

New comment by vaughnegut in "Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source"

vaughnegut — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:37:21 +0000

At the very top of the article is a collage of them

New comment by vaughnegut in "Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings"

vaughnegut — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:57:31 +0000

I've found a lot of NHL content on Bluesky, to find people I went to a subreddit and searched for Bluesky to get recs on who to follow

New comment by vaughnegut in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

vaughnegut — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:05:42 +0000

Their product release posts and their engineering posts are usually really well written. Transit App is a gem

New comment by vaughnegut in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

vaughnegut — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:17:24 +0000

That's why I love my Kobo Libra 2. Physical buttons, sweet spot for size, easy to sideload or I can buy on Kobo on device/mobile/desktop or sync pocket or get library books from overdrive/Libby.

New comment by vaughnegut in "ReMarkable Paper Pro"

vaughnegut — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:21:25 +0000

What did you find hard about sideloading on the Kobo? I've had a Clara and now a Libra, sideloading books is as easy as plugging in a USB cable and clicking and dragging files onto it like it's a usb stick.

It's optional, but you can use Calibre with an extension to convert epub to kepub as well.

New comment by vaughnegut in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

vaughnegut — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:56:56 +0000

For me specific video files will freeze the app and render it unusable. It's really frustrating

New comment by vaughnegut in "rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++"

vaughnegut — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:38:20 +0000

It also works with Go, I think support for it is built into Goland too