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Re:Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:13AM (#49655986)
For it's size it's pretty good. I run it and the older Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, which is significantly faster, but also a bit dumber, on both my PC and my MacBook.

Wouldn't trust it for long form coding, but for shorter stuff it's really good.

Re:Self hosted email continues to steeply decline on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:03AM (#49329521)
I have deployed stalwart as my replacement for mailu and iv never had such an easy time setting up mail, i love it.
Re:MinIO repository is no longer maintained on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:06AM (#47000631)
RustFS is dead simple to setup.
Re:Redis vs. BoltCache on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:08AM (#46383444)
Hey, nice project, but I'm wondering if I'm just missing any _test.go files, or if there are none ?

Especially for the performance claims these or a Readme on how to replicate them would be great.

Re:Show HN: My high school team's space probe on Sunday March 16, 2025 @05:39AM (#43377838)
Congratulations on your launch! Super interesting to see all of the technical documentation behind it.
100 Mbit/s (IEEE 802.3u) is commonly called "Fast Ethernet" (Compared to the prev 10 Mbit/s which is just "Ethernet", or the later 1000 Mbit/s "Gigabit Ethernet" (IEEE 802.3ab)
Re:Show HN: Ephemeral VMs in 1 Microsecond on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:42AM (#42493133)
I would go with lua for the players. You can easily sandbox it, by not compiling in the dangerous functions. Using debug.sethook you can limit execution by count (https://www.lua.org/pil/23.2.html). And finally you can bring your own alloc for lua.

There are also decades of articles on how lua works with C and C++, and you can find examples for Rust and others too.

Re:O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:19PM (#42138507)
I can already see AI scammers phoning AI anti-scam agents.
Re:MQTT turns 25 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @07:29AM (#41913233)
HiveMQ has a public one: https://broker.hivemq.com/
Why not ? If you need to have HA you could easily spin up a kubernetes cluster and still be cheaper.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Monday September 30, 2024 @05:56AM (#41695361)
Im currently developing a larger scale 3D printer. My goal is to convert parts of my old Ender-V3 into a new CoreXY frame that can print up to 512x512x256mm (for comparison the P1 series from Bambulabs has 256x256x256mm), while keeping the costs under 500 Euro.

A full BOM and Tutorial will be released FOSS if i manage to finish it.

Re:Reentry – An Orbital Simulator on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:32AM (#40196300)
Seems to work using Proton (https://www.protondb.com/app/882140)
Re:Why One Man Spent 12 Years Fighting Robocalls on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:56AM (#40156937)
I wonder why this is such a large problem in the US. Here in Germany i don't even remember the last time i got a robocall (if ever).
Re:ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:14AM (#40063517)
It depends, in Germany we enjoy a quite high turnout of ~70-80% for federal elections (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2274/umfrage/...) [The site is in German, but should be fairly easy to read].

While for European elections it is usually 40-50% with huge differences by country (https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/turnout/)

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:34AM (#39428116)
I have Tidal HiFi-Plus (19.99 Euro/month [up to 24-bit, 192 kHz]), but i can't really say that i would recommend it. There is also HiFi (10.99/month [up to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz]).

My biggest problems with Tidal (except for the price) are: - Music suddenly becomes unavailable (greyed out), only to be become available under the same name later again (but you need to manually re-add it to playlists). - Sometimes it just stops the playback and if i resume it always jumps to one specific song.

I cannot say anything about the mobile player, as i only use it on PC.

Alternativly: Just buy the music you like as FLAC.

From the German BSI-TR-02102-1 ([0],[1]) guidelines

"Combination of Classical and PQC Security: The secure implementation of PQC mechanisms, especially with regard to side-channel security, avoidance of implementation errors and secure implementation in hardware, and also their classical cryptanalysis are significantly less well studied than for RSA- and ECC-based cryptographic mechanisms. In addition, there are currently no standardised versions of these mechanisms. Their use in productive systems is currently only recommended together with a classic ECC- or RSA-based key exchange or key transport. In this case, one speaks of a so-called hybrid mechanism. Parallel to a PQC key transport, an ECC-based key exchange using Brainpool or NIST curves with at least 256 bits key length should be performed. The two shared secrets generated in this way should be combined with the mechanism given in Section B.1.1 of this Technical Guideline. Here, the standard [96] in its current version explicitly provides the possibility to combine several partial secrets. A hybrid approach, as proposed here, is further described for example in [5] as the most feasible alternative for a use of PQC mechanisms in the near future. Provided that the restrictions of the stateful mechanisms XMSS and LMS recommended in this TechnicalGuideline are carefully considered, these hash-based signatures can in principle also be used alone (i.e., not hybrid), see Chapter 6"

[0]: English version: https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...

[1]: German version: https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikat...

Re:Mozilla sccache: ccache with cloud storage on Sunday December 24, 2023 @08:42AM (#38753395)
It should work if you modify the cross docker image, so that it uses the sccache executable as wrapper
Re:I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:36AM (#38528671)
If you don't encrypt your network traffic, you can quite easily decrypt it on another PC (as you can just set promiscuous mode on your 2nd PC NIC), giving you undetectable read-only hacks like "radar", where you basically have a map of the game with the enemy positions, health, gun, ...

If you encrypt it, this is no longer possible. If a cheater wants to decrypt it, he has to get access to the decryption key, which usually is send over an TLS encrypted connection (with certificate pinning in place) [Or in some cases self made encryption :/].

Therefore he has to either reverse the game to get the certificate or has to attempt to read it while the game is running. In the first case the game developers (and the Anti-Cheat providers) will try there best by obfuscating the specific regions. And the 2nd case is basically what AC is all about, and therefore difficult for modern Anti-Cheats.

In germany we now have a "Warntag" [literally "Warn day"], which is scheduled to be once per Year in September.

This is mostly a result of a previous test, which revealed that in case of a catastrophe, most germans would not be warned (Sirens not functioning, cell broadcast was not used, ...)

Sadly the website of our Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance is not translating every page to english. https://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-Vorsorge/Bundesweiter-War...

Re:I want XAES-256-GCM/11 on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:53AM (#36629436)
Just doing some very quick benchmarks: https://scarjit.github.io/cryptoBench/target/criterion/repor...

It's measureable, but in most applications i wouldn't optimize this part.

Re:Chrome Ships WebGPU on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:17AM (#35466079)
Yes, checkout the "Privacy considerations" part of the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations
Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:28PM (#32827470)
If you get paid moving that mountain, it would be a job.