Hacker News: windsurfer

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?

New comment by windsurfer in "AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support"

windsurfer — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:41:12 +0000

HEVC isn't widely supported by web browsers: https://caniuse.com/hevc

AV1 is supported by almost all web browsers: https://caniuse.com/av1

New comment by windsurfer in "Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases"

windsurfer — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:44:51 +0000

10 pounds of fentanyl is enough to lethally overdose about 2 million people.

New comment by windsurfer in "Create non-game apps with Godot Engine"

windsurfer — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:44:29 +0000

This often-repeated statement doesn't really communicate how the editor works. While it does use many of the same APIs, you couldn't build the editor from within the editor (bootstrapping). The editor itself is largely written in C++ and not Godot's integrated language GDScript, you can see for yourself https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/master/editor

New comment by windsurfer in "Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix"

windsurfer — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:49:58 +0000

It's interesting how this site gets around the ``rel="noreferrer"`` added to the link from HN. The banner uses a :visited CSS attribute to selectively show/hide the banner client side if your browser has been to the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971867. With how many other browser history privacy leaks have been released lately using :visited hacks, I wonder how long it will be until browser vendors disable :visited support across domains entirely.

New comment by windsurfer in "ChatGPT is not all you need. A SOTA Review of large Generative AI models"

windsurfer — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 01:41:05 +0000

"Nay, good sir, do not dismiss the AI's composition as mere puffery. 'Tis true, the machine doth not possess the soul of the Bard, yet it doth strive to emulate his style and grace. And who are we, mere mortals, to deem what does or does not sound like Shakespeare? Let us not forget, he too was but a man, with faults and flaws. Let us instead embrace the evolution of language and the advancements of technology, for they may lead us to new heights of literary splendor."

New comment by windsurfer in "Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin"

windsurfer — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:57:45 +0000

A man fired multiple bullets into a telescope and put many holes in the primary mirror, but the science capabilities were only minimally affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_J._Smith_Telescope

This telescope design already has a giant hole in the middle, and the light-collecting capabilities are hardly affected by small holes.

New comment by windsurfer in "Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'"

windsurfer — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:50:18 +0000

You might be interested in this https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x

They are shipping soon after many delays.