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Article URL: https://www.electricdwelling.com/calculators/gas-vs-heat-pump/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809562

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Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tired-of-price-hikes-how-to-cancel-your-netflix-subscription/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809551

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Article URL: https://www.theindex.media/americas-constitutional-crisis-is-really-about-technical-debt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809529

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A few of us here are probably familiar with the original Xbox modding scene and the iconic xbins FTP server. Recently, I came across an amazing tool called Pandora by Team Resurgent [0], which got me thinking about how incredible something like this would have been 20 years ago. Just to clarify, I had no involvement in creating Pandora—I’m just inspired by their work.

For those who aren’t familiar, getting access to xbins involves a rather dated process. You need to connect to a channel on an EFnet IRC server, message a bot for temporary credentials, then plug those credentials into your FTP client to access xbins. Pandora (and my app) simplifies this entire workflow into a single click.

Inspired by Pandora, I decided to build my own take on what this dream tool might have looked like back in the day. I wrote a native Mac app on original hardware—an Intel iMac (20-inch, 2007)—running a 20-year-old operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

This was my first foray into native Mac app development, though I’ve done some iOS development in the past. The result is Uppercut [1], and the source is available on GitHub [2].

For the development process, I used Claude to help with a lot of the coding, especially since I was constrained to Xcode 2.5 and the pre-“Objective-C 2.0” features available at the time. I had to be very specific in prompting Claude to avoid newer features that didn’t exist back then. Since the majority of Objective-C code out there comes from the era of iOS development (which relied heavily on Objective-C 2.0 until the arrival of Swift), this was a unique and challenging exercise in retro development.

[0] - https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/Pandora [1] - https://uppercut.chadbibler.com [2] - https://github.com/chadkeck/Uppercut

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809518

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://animehunch.com/crunchyroll-premium-login-details-leaked-users-at-high-risk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809507

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://static.poder360.com.br/2025/01/processo-irma-san-altman-jan2025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809467

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://httpd.apache.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809464

Points: 5

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I do remote work from our home office, we have redundant WAN, wired gigabit ethernet to each desk, a pretty decent Ubnt AP if we decide to roam, and a symmetric 600Mbps FTTH connection and it performs quite well…. Except for my girlfriend.

A couple of months ago she got assigned a Dell Precision laptop besides her Mac, given her line of work she needs more beefy graphics adapter than those from an over-the-counter Mac laptop could offer. As she settles in and starts using the Dell laptop regularly instead of unplugging and plugging the Mac, she starts telling me that from time to time her Internet becomes sluggish, we switched her wired connection to a dock, then a USB-C gigabit connector, but this random issue still happens from time to time.

I don’t think of it much as every time I run Fast or Speedtest on her laptop I get over 80% of the ISP speed stated on the service contract, and I don’t have this issue, so I brush it off and blame a transient problem with Box or any other cloud storage she’s using… (I have seen Azure blob storages / network shares working slower on certain ISPs that might be doing some kind of selective throttling, so I simply conclude it has to be something similar…)

This year as her team members start getting back online to work after the holidays she has to hold conference calls more regularly. And she starts complaining during each call that her internet is slow… but again, a few moments later once I’m available and she’s also available I check her laptop and I get speeds 80% - 85% of the advertised bandwidth from my ISP.

Her work involves uploading 50GB collections of files, sometime even 150GB at a time, so I wonder if she’s multitasking other uploads or downloads that might slow down her connectivity… Until today…

- Hey fcq, I just found out! My internet connection gets REAL SLOW when I answer Teams calls!

I go to her desk and she’s running fast.com she’s only getting like 20/30Mbps out of the 600/Mbps This makes no sense! She hangs up the call and the speed test starts going faster and reaches a decent result. Then she runs fast.com again and she gets the max speed!

I told her to start a call and we saw the drop in the speed! It is Teams!!!, or is it?

I’ve never seen anything like it, I checked the settings on Teams and there is nothing even resembling like a QoS or network setting there… So a couple of Google searches later I found this

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/teams-throttles-internet-when-calling/9fcbf261-a5b6-490d-a1d8-750a0b8a6da9

As OwenWhitehouse points out:

* I traced this issue down to the Dell Precision Optimizer. What a piece of garbage this app is. In the Network settings, there is an option to give conferencing apps maximum bandwidth, and IT IS ENABLED BY DEFAULT.*

I immediately open this mysterious app from Dell I’ve never even bothered to open, and voilà, there is that setting turned on, I turned it off and problem is gone!

So, the mysterious bandwidth drop during Microsoft Teams calls was caused by Dell…

I wonder who on Dell thought that crippling the overall bandwidth to 5% is beneficial AT ALL.

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809445

Points: 4

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Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/502

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809441

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/education-department-cuts-dei

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809421

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/code-retrieval-eval/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809409

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@ivan_82469/the-downfall-of-a-us-78m-yr-amazon-brand-due-to-amazon-security-breach-keababies-09af7c5d68ea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809396

Points: 6

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809393

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2025/01/how-quickly-will-ai-improve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809390

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/asking-directions-01.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809374

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/01/23/balanced-ternary-rounding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809332

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/antioch-the-first-foodist-mass-shooting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809331

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://sebgnotes.com/blog/2025-01-23-when-is-ai-actually-useful-a-practical-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809317

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272801/adhd-research-shorter-life-expectancy-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809308

Points: 1

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