Hacker News Reader

How floats work is a non-trivial part of my 3rd semester CS course (Computer Architecture) in the US, I'd imagine the same applies to every other good college.

ArcticLandfallon Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)

Wireless devices go through an FCC certification process that publishes teardowns. And iFixit posts.

ArcticLandfallon Tangara is an open source, iPod-inspired portable music player

The ESP32 comes with SBC built in, and the (open source) software is still under development, so presumably it'll get added later.

ArcticLandfallon Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

As someone genuinely passionate about technology who sees the 90% in it for just the easy money at college, I'm very happy. Less superficial monetary incentive means people who are truly passionate about the craft will have more of an opportunity to shine.

ArcticLandfallon H2 Database – CVE getting flagged by automated scans

The URL should point to a particular comment, but HN removes fragments: https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3686#issueco...

ArcticLandfallon Dating, education, and sex ratios

Bo Burnham's "Lower your expectations" is a hilarious comedy song covering this exact point. For both men and women.

ArcticLandfallon If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

Individual Geocities pages are not valuable landmarks, but Geocities as a whole - the aesthetic, the community, the history - is definitely something to preserve. And the cost of saving all of Geocities is a tiny fraction of any physical monument.

ArcticLandfallon Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London

> You live in a city bubble

Or relatively, you live in a suburban bubble? Different lifestyles, different modes of transport.

ArcticLandfallon Operation Charlie: Hacking the MBTA CharlieCard from 2008 to Present

Can someone ELI5 why MBTA has to trust the balance stored on the card in the first place? It seems like this whole issue would go away if they just kept the balance on the server and flagged cards that did not corroborate.

ArcticLandfallon FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition

> Sunglasses before control over the 100s of Millions of devices

More importantly, medical eyeglasses that many people rely on to see properly.

ArcticLandfallon Ask HN: What kind of web apps would Martians accessing Earth internet need?

BitTorrent is a great example of GPs idea, but neither that nor IPFS will work across those latencies in their current state.

Some distinction will definitely be needed between 'requesting from earth' and 'loading from your roommate' in the UX. Early implementations might even centralize cache-state.

ArcticLandfallon The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus

No-touch menus and QR codes don't have to be a binary choice. Menus can be posters on the wall, papers inside a glass table, or anything else.