Hacker News: wolpoli

New comment by wolpoli in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

wolpoli — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:10:17 +0000

The HN crowd understands that, depending on bottleneck, adding a fifth network connection (lane) between 2 nodes may not necessary decrease the latency (travel time).

New comment by wolpoli in "Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees"

wolpoli — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:36:40 +0000

Is Delta using older Wifi equipment? I was under the impression that the current Wifi standard now prevents deauth attacks.

New comment by wolpoli in "Stolen Buttons"

wolpoli — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:16:23 +0000

I have always felt that the button in the last couple version of Windows was a bit off. This page confirms it: Old school buttons used to stay in a "selected" state after being pressed, but that was not implemented in Windows 8's new UI.

New comment by wolpoli in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

wolpoli — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:11:45 +0000

There is no coherent reasoning here for banning open weights. The billion of dollars to train a model was supposed to be a moat so they can sell tokens. AI labs can't make money by capturing values from intelligence if any company could get the weights to build their own AI token factory.

New comment by wolpoli in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

wolpoli — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:38:43 +0000

If a person were to receive data from someone subjected to such restriction, is the receiver bounded by the same restriction?

New comment by wolpoli in "Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law"

wolpoli — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:44:46 +0000

Honest question: what is the ultimate end game if at some point a court in another country orders a domain be reinstated? Do we end up with a domain registration system per country?

New comment by wolpoli in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

wolpoli — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:48:13 +0000

Constraints include needing to keep component cost low and ensuring that they could sell more hardware in 2 years.

New comment by wolpoli in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

wolpoli — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:55 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong, but I recall they did give a full refund when they shut down the ebook platform.

New comment by wolpoli in "Alan Greenspan has died"

wolpoli — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:35:38 +0000

Recall that real interest rate = interest rate - expected inflation. The goal of the central banker is to keep real interest rate low. If you have negative expected inflation, that sets a lower bound on the real interest rate since interest rate could only go as low as zero. This gives less flexibility for monetary policy to handle crisis and that scares the central bankers.

New comment by wolpoli in "Alan Greenspan has died"

wolpoli — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:49:48 +0000

> rebalancing of people’s portfolios values It's not just portfolio value. It's well accepted in the economics that wealth impact's people spending (see wealth effect and its cousin negative wealth effect)

New comment by wolpoli in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

wolpoli — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:39:45 +0000

In computer science, we have classes on memorizing/implementing various algorithms so that we may understand their behavior. Could anyone name the reason why grade school students memorize and execute the long division algorithm? I certainly hadn't used long division since grade school.

New comment by wolpoli in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

wolpoli — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:50:16 +0000

> 8. How will age verification work? We know that having a range of methods to prove age is important to ensure online spaces are accessible.

> Ofcom will set out in the coming months different options for effective forms of age assurance for proving whether someone is over 16 that are accurate, robust, reliable, and fair.

The fact sheet doesn't actually specify how age verification will be done so it the title is bit speculative. However, it's concerning that there's nothing in description about preserving privacy.

New comment by wolpoli in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

wolpoli — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:48:05 +0000

Or alternatively, it is plain and obvious that Anthropic is using ethics to justify business decisions.

New comment by wolpoli in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

wolpoli — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:56:58 +0000

The Pi SBCs are squeezed in between the SFFs and the microcontrollers for many use cases. It's only a good fit if there is a need for the GPIOs/Linux/Display. For anything else, there are better products out there.

New comment by wolpoli in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

wolpoli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:53:26 +0000

Raspberry Pi isn't in direct competition with N150's.

Their niche is the industrial/embedded space. For that market, power consumption doesn't matter. What matters is that each model is guaranteed to be available till a specific date.

Lossless data compression software benchmarks / comparisons

wolpoli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20230106191700/https://www.maximumcompression.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313836

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wolpoli in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

wolpoli — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:28:17 +0000

It is rather hard to lose of habit of using search engine with keywords given the change took place without much fanfare. I have no problem using sentences with the current ai tools through.

Over $5M in donations flowed in after the Lapu-Lapu Day attack. Where it went

wolpoli — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lapu-lapu-donations-analysis-9.7207684

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263300

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wolpoli in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

wolpoli — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:58:06 +0000

Does anyone know why the 3DMMForever project stalled? Was technical or was it just a general lack of interest?

New comment by wolpoli in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

wolpoli — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:35:20 +0000

At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.