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> https://longbets.org/6/ Anyone know why this (and many other bets) have been removed? https://web.archive.org/web/20080803213625/https://longbets.... >By 2010, more than 50 perce…

Thanks, I was familiar with encryption but not with bitlocker. So this only affects a particular mode of bitlocker in which the drive is automatically decrypted on boot without the…

If I was releasing a laptop with Linux support as a key selling point, and the battery life was bad on Ubuntu 24.04 but good on the pre-release 26.04, then I'd advertise the good f…

At its current distance, best case RTT would be about 420ms

Here’s the original article which was much more informative and interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20260314105751/https://backnotpr... Can’t believe HN has become so afraid o…

Similarly, "X that actually works"

Looks much closer to Haiku than Sonnet. Maybe "Qwen3.5 122B offers Haiku 4.5 performance on local computers" would be a more realistic and defensible claim.

The other advantage of fibre is subtlety if you can't (or don't want to) run it through walls. 0.9mm diameter and light enough to attach it with occasional dots of glue instead of …

I can second this 0.9mm transparent stuff, I've run it successfully and it's very subtle. Depending on the media converter pair you're using, you probably want UPC instead of APC. …

Anecdotally, everything works flawlessly on my work machine: Optiplex Micro, Intel iGPU, Fedora KDE 43, 4K 32" primary monitor at 125% scale, 1440p 27" secondary monitor at 100%. N…

I use LiteLLM as a proxy.

Instead of shutting down completely, why not this: For goo.gl links that were created by google, continue redirecting them as normal. For others, show a warning page explaining to …

>The greatest proportion of users who self-activated a hard ad-blocker found out about it through advertising (34%)

This seems to just be a description of the normal, desired, advertised functionality of the watch.

This looks like it could be very valuable for quite a lot of people- thank you for making it! Just a couple first impressions from your site... loading it on a phone, the first thi…

Thank you! Just used this to clear away a load of tabs. Some gripes: I wish I could just use it standalone without it replacing the "new tab" page. I wish I could view the full tit…

This looks fantastic and is relevant to some game modding ideas I've had. I love your blog series about decompiling Tenchu too. Thank you for releasing this stuff!

@dang Hard paywall

This youtube video seems to show a cat recognising its reflection: https://youtu.be/kQBHB682xsQ?t=20

"The customer understood that their code was broken either way. They just were curious why unordered_map seems to demonstrate the problem more clearly." Seems reasonable to me. It'…

Your GPU is 6 years, 7 months old. As an analogy, consider someone in 2007 objecting that their 2001 GeForce3 Ti500 can't run Crysis/Mass Effect/etc. The PS4 generation really mess…

Yes! There's a public git repo here: https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git "Public" in the sense that anyone can just push to the "mob" branch. You don't even need an account. Such anarchy…

>It appears that, during our transition to the digital age, the internet completely disappeared. We scoured the globe for it, but it seems to have been completely erased from exist…

Those results look excellent. I'm trying to gauge whether something like this could potentially work in realtime, i.e. in games. I know it inevitably depends on hardware, resolutio…

>This can be said for any 100% online college. I'm curious about this part. Do such students tend to underperform at interview?