Hacker News: 392

New comment by 392 in "Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)"

392 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:27:17 +0000

I resent the accusation that no one uses the all caps version :-)

I found support for generating it to be hit or miss with the free online generators, but it really improved scannability for a QR I was pasting onto a vehicle!

New comment by 392 in "Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)"

392 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:51:40 +0000

what is the state of the art now, that runs on-device? the article didn't mention the Q$ family, but I haven't found anything better than that plus mixing/co-judging with a dynamic-time-warping based approach

New comment by 392 in "The Cold Email"

392 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:22:07 +0000

You should ask him if we can read the email please :-)

New comment by 392 in "Rayforce"

392 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:33:06 +0000

Perhaps the fact that 99+% of today's workloads could be running on the client if it were as easy as shipping Rayforce and the data directly to the client.

Besides that, pure C that you can embed into your app is much easier to deploy for some (and likely 100x more performant) than stuff that comes via Helm chart [cries in JVM 'big'-data solutions]

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

392 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:32:09 +0000

I've been experimenting in this space, where might I find a guide for what to build that would be useful to you? I suspect most existing approaches are an order of magnitude slower and harder to use than they need to be.

New comment by 392 in "America Has Become a Digital Narco-State"

392 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:19:03 +0000

Did the decades of Oxy which caused this epidemic not count as safe and legal access? I suspect we've tried allowing opiates more than once or twice in the millenia we've been here.

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?"

392 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:00:21 +0000

What would you plug this FPGA into? Where will you trade? How much more will you make thanks to the FPGA's lower latency?

New comment by 392 in "Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years"

392 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:54:09 +0000

Magna Carta: 1215 Boolean logic: 1847

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

392 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Email your audiologist and ask for your audiogram. Should be straightforward to apply an equalizer to match it, esp if can find an equalizer with db(a? m?) labels

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

392 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:57:07 +0000

Least equipped to provide? They've been working on machine learning algos for exactly this purpose for twenty years.

New comment by 392 in "One Handed Keyboard"

392 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:49:45 +0000

The best way to speed up is to practice. Alternative layouts are a waste of time unless you're trying to fix an ergonomic / pain issue, and even then the board itself and your technique and lifestyle are more important. I type faster than any Dvorak user I've met and I did nothing make that happen except be impatient. But typing is basically over with now that Whisper is a single button press away.

New comment by 392 in "Steam Machine"

392 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:49:37 +0000

My m4 macbook had a weird flashing external monitor issue. One that eventually led to my monitor appearing to break. But have no fear, it's a known problem since m1 times and not a priority to fix.

New comment by 392 in "Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment"

392 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:43:50 +0000

If you read the gnokepitch in the first comment it makes a lot more sense.

New comment by 392 in "Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment"

392 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:39:41 +0000

You should mention that it offers phone/tablet viewing in the manufacturers pitch, that's awesome over a custom c++ thing. I don't know it they'll care about the bundle size, if you're worried about visual space / where to put it.

New comment by 392 in "Show HN: Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)"

392 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:08:23 +0000

I like the idea, and am excited to see an experimental implementation. You will have to ignore many haters who don't realize that Excel is the most popular programming language in the world. "Stop writing dead programs."

New comment by 392 in "The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug"

392 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:58:19 +0000

Is this why MacBooks have had weird flickering issues with some monitors since the M1 with no end in sight?

New comment by 392 in "Materialized views are obviously useful"

392 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:56:33 +0000

https://youtu.be/iT4k5DCnvPU?si=cZ_TYuynKavksQKG

New comment by 392 in "Pixel 10 Phones"

392 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:47:04 +0000

As a Samsung user, I couldn't tell ya. I've been clicking cancel when it popped up weekly for two Samsung phones in a row.

New comment by 392 in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

392 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:51:31 +0000

Is the video not one long science experiment? With you confirming your one textile experiment resulted in a tear?

New comment by 392 in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

392 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:32:08 +0000

Also accepting gmaps work, if only it could preemptively cache the return trip for any trip longer than an hour, so that I'm not stuck with no service trying to remember how I got there.