Hacker News: wolfi1

New comment by wolfi1 in "God sleeps in the minerals"

wolfi1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:22 +0000

reminds me of a quote from my favorite band: God thinks in the geniuses, he dreams in the poets and he sleeps in the rest of the people

Photocatalytic Water Splitting

wolfi1 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:18:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photocatalytic_water_splitting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774622

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wolfi1 in "Tofolli gates are all you need"

wolfi1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:01:35 +0000

ok, the Landauer limit defines the minimum energy for a bit flip but I don't see how a Toffoli gate would require less energy for a bit flip let alone come into the region of the Landauer limit. Could someone with more knowledge enlighten us (or at least me)?

New comment by wolfi1 in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

wolfi1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:59:37 +0000

there was a time when I used a simple "§" in my password. turned out, some Android keyboards don't have the "§". Since then I play it safe with my passwords, using only characters I don't need a specialized keyboard for

New comment by wolfi1 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

wolfi1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:18:01 +0000

ok, it's stable (at least from the photos), but I would prefer a more lightweight approach

New comment by wolfi1 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

wolfi1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:50:08 +0000

> Companies are seeing this switch, so they adapt. I guess they see more the possibilities of getting more data on their customers and even selling their data to others

New comment by wolfi1 in "US Rescue op in Iran was likely attempt to extract HEU from Isfahan"

wolfi1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:47:24 +0000

knowing Trump he would already have boasted about that on truth.social

New comment by wolfi1 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

wolfi1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:08:30 +0000

in its beginning .NET was a wrapper around ActiveX and Com-objects and it tried with C# to replace Java (disregarding the Virtual J++ attempt). as their own JVM did not meet the license agreement they made with Sun. so there were several reasons and not every reason being one a developer would care about

New comment by wolfi1 in "Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year"

wolfi1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:39:45 +0000

but even the pricey tests can wrongfully have positives. if you eat sweets in which poppy seeds are ingredients you test positive for opioids (although near to the detection limit)

New comment by wolfi1 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

wolfi1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:22:30 +0000

Austria provides their implementation only to people with Austrian citizenship or people working in Austria

New comment by wolfi1 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

wolfi1 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:11:35 +0000

I'm not quite sure if the German implementation is possible without mobile devices (couldn't find anything on that at first glance). the Austrian implementation on the other hand does not require a mobile device, if you want to do it on a pc you just need a fido2 token

New comment by wolfi1 in "Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist"

wolfi1 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:15:21 +0000

I wanted to have a model which tells me the modes which are supported and which is actually selected for a reasonable price and which I can order at a reasonable trader. this model seems to do the trick

New comment by wolfi1 in "Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist"

wolfi1 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:24:01 +0000

there are several: one that is moderately priced and which I consider myself to buy is the JOY-IT UM120

New comment by wolfi1 in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

wolfi1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:00:02 +0000

unfortunately, laws are not everything. you need to know how to get around them. our country for example has the habit of creating a lex fugitiva that means that some regulations could be changed in other not related laws. good luck finding the correct regulation without a law degree

New comment by wolfi1 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

wolfi1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:57:47 +0000

forgive me my rant, but when I see "just install it with cargo" I immediately lose interest. How many GB do I have to install just to test a little tool? sorry, not gonna do that

New comment by wolfi1 in "Niche Museums"

wolfi1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:56:33 +0000

Musee Champollion in Figeac, France about Champollion and his deciphering of the hieroglyphs and deciphering of ancient texts generally

New comment by wolfi1 in "Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets"

wolfi1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:48:16 +0000

temporarily might be a bit of an euphemism here

New comment by wolfi1 in "Is it a pint?"

wolfi1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:08:29 +0000

no one drinks it that way, except for those who drive. and believe me, for half a litre in half an hour one yields an acceptable beer temperature

New comment by wolfi1 in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

wolfi1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:57:22 +0000

he mentions inverter freezers at the end so it must have been updated more recently

Chest Fridge (2009)

wolfi1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mtbest.net/chest-fridge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473279

Points: 184

# Comments: 102