Hacker News: 0x1ch

New comment by 0x1ch in "Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight"

0x1ch — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:56:42 +0000

Man, I hate being rude because I myself weighed 230lbs once upon a time, I get it. I just dealt with a 200lb+ man who spread his legs past the arm rests. Pissed me off the whole flight because I had to contort my body in my own seat so he wasn't spilling into me.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

0x1ch — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:00:44 +0000

Probably similar to what I do with my papers and resumes, I write them myself then throw them through LLMs for suggestions and corrections, manually reviewing the output.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

0x1ch — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:59:05 +0000

Any cheap camera with the IR filter removed from the lens. Some better than others.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

0x1ch — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:19:38 +0000

Wild spores and such yeah. When you purchase spores for the intent of growing them, you generally get a kit to mix them into a syringe or they already arrive in the syringe ready to be used. I tried growing some culinary strains and they generally come in the mail like that.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

0x1ch — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:15:08 +0000

This is probably the best alternative provider for individuals that I could find, unless you're orchestrating a fleet of servers or something. Personally I'll wait out my next billing cycle with hetzner, as I expect other hosts to follow shortly.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

0x1ch — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:03:02 +0000

I imagine it would require the bad spores to be carried with the good ones. Typically you get a slurry solution that you carry in distilled water, injecting your substrates. That would need to have the bad stuff in it as well.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:51:19 +0000

End of the day, dark mode would've been totally ignored if there wasn't a perceivable benefit, placebo or not. People want to make everything difficult, I guess.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Keep Android Open"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:05:03 +0000

The ability to install signed and unsigned APKs directly correlates to the financial institution policy regarding mobile devices and banking apps. Unsure how you've separated these two.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Facebook is cooked"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:47:48 +0000

New user. To see replies THAT fast on a new user reply which generally isn't pushed to the top of the feed, I find that very interesting.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Keep Android Open"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:38:14 +0000

Have you talked or met anyone born after the 90s? Everyone banks on their phone, it's the norm not the exception.

Edit: Someone also made a good point, one of my CC's I can barely even manage without the app since the website barely works.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Keep Android Open"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:37:37 +0000

It verifiably does not on open source and free android roms like Graphene. Unsure where you're getting your info.

New comment by 0x1ch in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:19:48 +0000

You underestimate my friend and true keyboard nerds. We're talking 40% splits and less, two or more additional programmed layers in combination with tap key combos, vim-binds everything he can.

I don't think losing a few letters or context switching is a big concern to him anymore lol. He doesn't even type QWERTY in English, he's a colemak guy haha.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Keep Android Open"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:14:31 +0000

If I can't use banking or my NFC wallets on my phone, it has become 90% useless. The other 10% of usefulness is texting and calls, which every other phone can do.

Unfortunately, this mostly means using the closed android ecosystem.

New comment by 0x1ch in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:36:11 +0000

Paypal G&S generally always gets money back if something went wrong on a p2p transaction. I've been scammed once or twice, but I always use G&S and have received my money back in full.

If you don't use that, then you're pretty much screwed with Paypal F&F, Zelle, Cashapp, Venmo etc. At least as far as I'm aware.

New comment by 0x1ch in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

0x1ch — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:25:16 +0000

My friends and I have been actively in the "CLI/TUI" since middle school. Anyone tinkering on linux that used tiling window managers is already very familiar with the domain.

New comment by 0x1ch in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

0x1ch — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:36:50 +0000

> The issue with kinesis and all those nice small symmetrical keyboards is that not every alphabet is as short as English.

> Russian, for example, has 33 letters.

Ironically, the biggest enthusiast of these splits I know in real life (he owns a kinesis) is a slavic guy, speaks both Ukranian and Russian, but I suppose he's typing in English for most of the day at his job, however I know he uses layering for the cyrillic.

New comment by 0x1ch in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

0x1ch — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:27:59 +0000

I think using a standing desk has really helped. I don't use mine at work often, but I generally am standing when I'm at home and it really does feel like it has improved my shoulder issues and posture.

New comment by 0x1ch in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

0x1ch — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:46:59 +0000

Just hit my mid twenties. Want to say I started having some shoulder issues around 20 years old. Although correlation =! causation, I largely think this is because of my lifelong computer usage and PC gaming. It doesn't bother me all the time, but every few months something will change up and it comes back. Surprisingly, my wrists and hands are completely fine, no carpal tunnel or anything similar.

New comment by 0x1ch in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

0x1ch — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:40:13 +0000

I was wardriving my neighborhood and realized my elderly neighbor's CPAP machine is broadcasting some type of BT signal 24/7. I imagine it's transmitting some important stats, but it did make me have a 2nd thought about medical devices being IoT or BT enabled.

New comment by 0x1ch in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

0x1ch — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:36:48 +0000

Hopefully your comment gets pushed to the top. Would like the security guys from the blog to see it.