Hacker News: windsurfer

New comment by windsurfer in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

windsurfer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:33:05 +0000

Voting on this site is a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/vote, so it's not that unusual.

New comment by windsurfer in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

windsurfer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:03:48 +0000

Yes the event horizon would be smaller than the width of a proton. Good luck getting anything into that with 300 TW of gamma rays coming out of it.

New comment by windsurfer in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

windsurfer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:18:34 +0000

If you had a small black hole in a lab you could generate power from the hawking radiation, likely enough to power the entire world. A 1,000,000 ton black hole would last over a thousand years without feeding it more mass and produce about 300 TW of energy (increasing over time, so you better keep feeding it). You'd also need some pretty good sunglasses to be able to watch things being thrown into it. Also I'm not sure how you could throw anything into it given the amount of radiation pressure... Maybe a dedicated particle accelerator could do it.

Anything smaller while also lasting long enough to do an experiment on and you'd likely end up producing too much energy and destroying the planet.

New comment by windsurfer in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

windsurfer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:16:30 +0000

The M87 supermassive blackhole is thousands of times as massive as Sagittarius A*, but since Sagittarius A* is a lot closer their emission rings appear roughly the same size in the sky (42 μas vs 51 μas). Both have already been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope

New comment by windsurfer in "Incident CVE-2026-LGTM"

windsurfer — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:22:13 +0000

Perhaps a [Satire] note should be added to the headline.

New comment by windsurfer in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

windsurfer — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:19:35 +0000

Yes usually, since an important aspect of steganography is error correction. For example we know that SynthID is robust enough to survive resizing and small blurs.

New comment by windsurfer in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

windsurfer — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:29:53 +0000

Even if you remove a watermark, the companies still have a record of which images they have generated and for whom. Even if you remove the obvious watermarks, all major image generators are using steganography to embed hidden information that you can't be sure were removed. This is a type of one-sided arms race where one player gets to be invisible if they want to.

New comment by windsurfer in "God sleeps in the minerals"

windsurfer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:19:05 +0000

> All types of asbestos fibers are known to represent serious health hazards in humans and animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#Health_impact

New comment by windsurfer in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

windsurfer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:32 +0000

https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-gui uses on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech

New comment by windsurfer in "Wayland Nvidia"

windsurfer — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:47:57 +0000

I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.

New comment by windsurfer in "Wayland Nvidia"

windsurfer — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:42:52 +0000

It has been my experience that this is currently the case. I haven't had to even open protondb or search for a workaround in over a year. The only titles I know that don't work are a handful of multiplayer games that have intentionally disabled linux support.

New comment by windsurfer in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

windsurfer — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:46:54 +0000

It is officially recommended by the Troy Hunt: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/i...

New comment by windsurfer in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

windsurfer — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:39:07 +0000

You can download the entire dataset using curl (will be 40+ GB)

    curl -s --retry 10 --retry-all-errors --remote-name-all --parallel --parallel-max 150 "https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}"

New comment by windsurfer in "I tried Servo"

windsurfer — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:12:20 +0000

They integrated Pocket as a proprietary service in their open source product 2 years before Mozilla acquired it. Removing the integration required editing about:config. The complaints were mostly during that time.

New comment by windsurfer in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"

windsurfer — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:07:28 +0000

> Does a faster moving black hole cause more or less damage to a target?

When a black hole accretes matter, the matter can create tremendous radiation before it crosses the event horizon due to the atoms experiencing many effects such as rapid nuclear fusion and becoming new forms of matter such as neutronium. The precise amount of energy released depends on spin, charge, and size of the black hole, and the speed at which the matter approaches the black hole.

If a tiny black hole (Let's say 10cm across) ripped through the earth at significant speed it would be like the center of the planet momentarily became the center of a star and (hand waving a bunch of assumptions) the total energy could easily be greater than the gravitational binding energy of the planet. The planet would explode.

New comment by windsurfer in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"

windsurfer — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:44:16 +0000

The black hole in the paper is also ~7 solar masses. If that passed between the Earth and the Moon it would rip apart the earth from just the tidal forces.

New comment by windsurfer in "Show HN: Multi UPS SNMP based shutdown"

windsurfer — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:25:50 +0000

Automatic updates? Node.js? Why would one want to use this over the tried-and-tested Network UPS Tools that already ships with most Linux distributions?

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

windsurfer — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:42:45 +0000

They do block side loading of audiobooks. You can only play audiobooks from Audible on Amazon Kindles.

New comment by windsurfer in "Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org"

windsurfer — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:35:55 +0000

That ACF security update was not made available on WordPress.org due to ACF maintainers being blocked from accessing WordPress.org, according to WordPress.org's blog https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/

New comment by windsurfer in "James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds"

windsurfer — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:03:51 +0000

The edge of the Mandelbrot set expands out to infinity and yet the area within the edge is finite. Who is to say that the universe isn't a hologram on a higher-dimensional Mandelbrot set-like object?