Hacker News: yclept

New comment by yclept in "AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans"

yclept — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:51:33 +0000

Tangentially related: Back in the day, the AMD Cool'n'Quiet feature had a funny effect in CS:Source where your player would move much faster than normal. This resulted in bans because of the obvious advantage, which was mistaken for a speed hack.

New comment by yclept in "Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange"

yclept — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:06:09 +0000

That is part of the false narrative you and many were fed and believed. Investigations, reporting from many parties, and the vicitm's own family weigh against this drivel.

Nuclear flash cards: US secrets exposed on learning apps

yclept — Sun, 30 May 2021 04:18:50 +0000

Article URL: https://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-flash-cards-us-secrets-190918744.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27330557

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

John Sotos – Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome (2017)

yclept — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23877720

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yclept in "The Coming Chip Wars"

yclept — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:37:17 +0000

I think you are purposely narrowly referring to 1 action of many in a crisis that has had >10,000 deaths.

$10M in free cloud hosting resources for Covid-19 relief

yclept — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:42:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rackspace.com/lp/special-offer-openstack-compute-resources

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637881

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yclept in "The Consul outage that never happened"

yclept — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:31:30 +0000

Consul seems to be more prone to issues than one would hope though. Imo the feature set is not worth the increased complexity and operational burden. There are simpler ways of handling service discovery and configuration without running your own consensus based cluster.

New comment by yclept in "Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B"

yclept — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:28:59 +0000

Is there any way to pull data from the fitbit device itself offline?

New comment by yclept in "AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors"

yclept — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:43:06 +0000

China

Wikipedia blocked in China ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

yclept — Wed, 15 May 2019 12:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://news.trust.org/item/20190515093902-dtlw1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19918523

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Amazon's facial-recognition technology is supercharging local police

yclept — Wed, 01 May 2019 12:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Amazon-s-facial-recognition-technology-is-13808193.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19796542

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by yclept in "Build your own Mint"

yclept — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 04:19:00 +0000

I don't know why I never looked for something like this before, but thanks for the link!

New comment by yclept in "Robinhood launches 3% checking account"

yclept — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:26:42 +0000

Would you really move your emergency funds into a less secure more likely problematic service though?

China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

yclept — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:10:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/new-moon--china-to-launch-lunar-lighting-in-outer-space-10844096

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

TempleOS Creator Terry Davis Has Passed

yclept — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://templeos.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927849

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Neopets was run by Scientologists

yclept — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:03:31 +0000

Article URL: https://theoutline.com/post/4190/neopets-was-run-by-scientologists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878994

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace Being Considered by Apollo Global Management

yclept — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/apollo-is-said-to-consider-ipo-of-cloud-hosting-firm-rackspace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16690141

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

US House Financial Services Committee Hearing on Cryptocurrency Markets

yclept — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:07:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.c-span.org/video/?442556-1/hearing-focuses-cryptocurrency-markets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586308

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yclept in "Neopets HTML Guide"

yclept — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:38:27 +0000

I remember during school showing my Math teacher (who was a big Ultima gamer but also played Neopets) how I set up a fake neopets shop that prompted you for login.

New comment by yclept in "Visualizing Meltdown on AWS"

yclept — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:32:02 +0000

We saw instances which normally kept a healthy stock of CPU credits quickly burn through them and severely degrade in performance thanks to Meltdown :<