WalterGR

3 ms·

1.
by WalterGR 7d ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762493 , which has 61 comments so far.
2.
by WalterGR 7d ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697549 “A rough guide for going back to the Moon” (ibm.com) - 162 comments
3.
by WalterGR 9d ago
23 comments, 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788588
4.
by WalterGR 9d ago
And indeed, already: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/strategic-petroleum-reserve-... "Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations" https:&#x2
5.
by WalterGR 10d ago
85 comments, 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649222
6.
by WalterGR 11d ago
13 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706451
7.
by WalterGR 11d ago
“The function was offered as a preview feature and was previously available only in the Frontier program and the Microsoft 365 Insider program.”
8.
by WalterGR 12d ago
Related, from a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697171 “New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore” (ieee.org)
9.
by WalterGR 12d ago
What do you find lacking in iOS’s swipe keyboard implementation?
10.
by WalterGR 12d ago
That’s been around for ages. Documentation is here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit For major platforms: “iOS 10.0+ / iPadOS 10.0+ / macOS 12.0+ / watchOS 3.2+” Maybe I’m misunderstand
11.
by WalterGR 12d ago
597 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735
12.
by WalterGR 13d ago
31 comments so far on this earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684196
13.
by WalterGR 14d ago
320 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735
14.
by WalterGR 15d ago
513 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658299
15.
by WalterGR 15d 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
16.
by WalterGR 16d 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
17.
by WalterGR 17d ago
“I resigned from Anthropic today” (twitter.com/hilbertspaess) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227 564 points | 9 hours ago | 766 comments
18.
by WalterGR 23d ago
> The show (and book series on which it's based) Wool (2011). Shift (2013). Dust (2013).
19.
by WalterGR 24d 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.)
20.
by WalterGR 24d ago
Discussed here, with 719 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263
21.
by WalterGR 24d ago
Direct link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9Q8VSSM “KooingTech 150MHZ Machine Pulse Chip Mode Chip ACE V3 for X360 Slim”
22.
by WalterGR 25d ago
And Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, published in 1979. I read it as a child and recall enjoying it.
23.
by WalterGR 25d 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?
24.
by WalterGR 26d ago
The Ars article says it’s from Steam2. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak...
25.
by WalterGR 27d ago
5 days ago, 33 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800
26.
by WalterGR 27d 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
27.
by WalterGR 27d 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.
28.
by WalterGR 29d 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
29.
by WalterGR 29d ago
It’s not mangling. The article’s subtitle doesn’t fit within the character limit.
30.
by WalterGR 29d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479566

More ›