WalterGR

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by WalterGR 3d ago
31 comments so far on this earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684196
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by WalterGR 5d ago
320 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735
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by WalterGR 5d ago
513 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658299
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by WalterGR 6d ago
In practice, there’s a potentially tremendous impact if you’re using a spinning metal disk. Sectors at the beginning of the disk (which is at the outer edge) are read/written way faster than sectors at the end. File systems tend to p
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by WalterGR 7d ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624603 “DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro” 399 points | 19 hours ago | 216 comments
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by WalterGR 8d ago
“I resigned from Anthropic today” (twitter.com/hilbertspaess) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227 564 points | 9 hours ago | 766 comments
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by WalterGR 13d ago
> The show (and book series on which it's based) Wool (2011). Shift (2013). Dust (2013).
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by WalterGR 14d ago
(If you post a comment here on HN, then hit the back button, edit your comment, and click “reply” again, you end up posting multiple comments. That’s what’s happened here.)
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by WalterGR 15d ago
Discussed here, with 719 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263
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by WalterGR 15d ago
Direct link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9Q8VSSM “KooingTech 150MHZ Machine Pulse Chip Mode Chip ACE V3 for X360 Slim”
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by WalterGR 16d ago
And Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, published in 1979. I read it as a child and recall enjoying it.
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by WalterGR 16d ago
But then you have an entire front end written in Tcl or some other non-COBOL language (to continue the above example,) right? Or is there a way to run Tk as a daemon?
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by WalterGR 17d ago
The Ars article says it’s from Steam2. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak...
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by WalterGR 18d ago
5 days ago, 33 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800
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by WalterGR 18d ago
Part 2: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/revisit.h... Discussed here a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654411 Part 3: https://www.muppet
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by WalterGR 18d ago
Fragmentation is an issue with any file system. SSDs dramatically reduce the cost of fragmentation but do not eliminate it, as non-sequential access is still slower than sequential access.
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by WalterGR 19d ago
Yes. Xfinity is the big one. Their devices create two hotspots: one for the customer and one to power their Xfinity WiFi service and for bandwidth offloading for their cellular service. Instructions for disabling it: https://ww
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by WalterGR 19d ago
It’s not mangling. The article’s subtitle doesn’t fit within the character limit.
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by WalterGR 19d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479566
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by WalterGR 19d ago
Also see the user’s other submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477212 “OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2” (github.com/openai) 66 points | 1 hour ago | 50 comments
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by WalterGR 19d ago
124 comments on this submission from 10 hours prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473522
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by WalterGR 21d ago
Ah, thanks for the correction. I was under the impression that AFL (I don't know much about AFL++) could instrument arbitrary binaries (with obvious limitations like requiring a known calling convention.)
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by WalterGR 22d ago
And isn’t forex 24/5?
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by WalterGR 22d ago
185 comments 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263658
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by WalterGR 22d ago
Any fuzzer needs to compare its results to AFL (American Fuzzy Lop), "a free software fuzzer that employs genetic algorithms in order to efficiently increase code coverage of the test cases." https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by WalterGR 22d ago
That’s… strange. Could you give an example?
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by WalterGR 22d ago
Related: "Your hex editor should color-code bytes" (simonomi.dev) 614 points | 4 months ago | 159 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846688
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by WalterGR 22d ago
There’s some great stuff in there. > As part of our continuous struggle to make Emacs simpler, we’ve removed the `margin` face, so text shown in display margins will now use the same `default` face as the rest of buffer text. Our long-t
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by WalterGR 22d ago
97 bytes for Windows at the time this very nice walkthrough was written: http://www.phreedom.org/research/tinype/
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by WalterGR 23d ago
What would prevent someone from applying the same algorithm on a computer to sign arbitrary images?

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