Recent submissions

Comment · 6 days ago
They are a de facto monopoly for decades. They can afford annoying everyone.
Comment · 7 days ago
A bit harder to reverse the baked in firmware. Beyond your garden variety of hacker for sure.
Comment · 10 days ago
Much worse. Log4j was hard to exploit and worked only in specific condions. And it was bad. This is something else.
Comment · 27 days ago
Biggest problem of leds is we have no good standards. Classic screw in bulb makes no sense with LEDs. Other formats usually mean you are screwed when you have to replace. So far LED strips seem the best way. A bit of soldering but you can replace them by parts.
Comment · 27 days ago
Read about Dubai light years ago. I am happily surprised someone else knows about this too :)
Comment · 27 days ago
Early LEDs were fine. Then they overclocked them a bit too much and they just break now. Too much current and so on. You can make a very simple led very bright but it won't last. If you undervolt them instead they are dim but last forever. So the deal is to have many undevolted LEDs. Ofc that is pricier...
Comment · 1 month ago
The OS is no longer a product they care about. Brings no money compared to Azure.
Comment · 1 month ago
I remember a Windows update pushed through SBS that bricked all machines in company overnight. Boot up to bsod. Was that Windows 7?
Comment · 2 months ago
Been using matrix for years now. Even operating a server for a small community. It is slightly more involved for regular users though so that is not the best but otherwise works. Setting up your own federated instance is quite simple, there is an Ansible playbook around to make it even easier. You could even isolate it and have it only for your org. From what I know there is some traction to get it adopted in a bunch of agencies eu-wide.
Comment · 2 months ago
LoRa is not fast enough?
Comment · 2 months ago
Sounds like it fills the same niche as LoRa. Never heard of it though, thanks.
Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder how many people died of heart attack when they saw this.
Comment · 3 months ago
On the other hand having 10 times as many bridges could prove to be an impossibility when maintenance costs come knocking.
Comment · 4 months ago
Iirc in java I managed to parse those just fine. Ages ago though.

I also recall actually seeing some web pages somewhere using semicolon, possibly IBM stuff.

Comment · 4 months ago
School system was created to increase productivity.

It is also and equalizer. Unschooled kids from bad backgrounds now start even lower.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton