<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CheeseFromLidl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CheeseFromLidl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:04:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CheeseFromLidl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve just read the wiki page on Magnetorquer but I couldn’t find what I was looking for: ballpark numbers.<p>What kind of current are you driving those coils with (amps or dozens of amps?). What order of magnitude is the resulting force (a few newtons?)<p>I’ll gladly read the paper but knowing myself I won’t remember why exactly when a few weeks passed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752119</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ok you have reduced my cringe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:38:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574768</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the reason I cringe every time I hear or read statements like “we went to the moon”, “we’ve split the atom”, “we developed antibiotics”, …<p>No, we didn’t. A few who are not like us did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573910</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches
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This actually describes my benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms. The only thing missing is the suicide-inducing tinnitus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:05:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573852</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Photographing the hidden world of slime mould"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve occasionally found them, but only when their color contrasts with the background during walks. Can they be found year round? Do they have a preference for logs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556220</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m going to go against the standard advice of this book or that course.<p>Pick up (broken) equipment and start disassembling it to figure out how they turn A into B [1]. Go down the rabbit hole of hunting down the service manual of the thing or one of its siblings. Look at how the pcbs follow the same pattern in competing design. Look at how all the yamaha, sony, medion, … amplifier/tuners are made in the same way and learn from it. Notice that one that is costlier and has those few quircks in its design. Notice how different variations of a theme achieve the same result, but died out because the tech doesn’t scale or simply proved to be suboptimal. Try to repair your broken equipment by understanding the path that the signals and power lines follow.<p>Rinse and repeat a few years and you’ll get a grasp on what the innards of an unknown electronic thing looks like without opening it. Then open it and be amazed that there was a different, cheaper, simpler way to turn A into B.<p>All along the way you’ll experience that most educational resources aren’t actually that good at explaining, or that they follow a different school of mathematical notation, or that they’re really good at explaining this detail but the rest is missing.<p>Design your own pcbs. Remember that - like software - hardware design is iterative. Remember that - unlike software - hardware iterations cost money.<p>Hope this helps.<p>[1] the ways to turn A into B are rather limited and it relies heavily on electromagnetism and conservation of energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:49:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539985</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "A Christmas Present to Myself – Vector Network Analyzer (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for submitting this. I’m currently working on the schematic of a VNA and having a ref design is a big help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454361</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  a process that can be used *on site* to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the *remediation of contaminated sites*</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436901</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this work on a practical level? Do you scrape the soil to a depth of a foot and submit it to electrolysis or is the soil washed and the sludge then processed? How many grams of halogens does this recover per square acre of contaminated site? Does this sterilise the site?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:11:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436793</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "This "mushroom" is not a fungus, it's a plant that breaks all the rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This plant gave up photosynthesis, shrank its genome, and learned to clone itself—and somehow survived for 100 million years.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251219093322.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251219093322.htm</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337953">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337953</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:41:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251219093322.htm</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same experience here. The more commonly known the stuff it regurgitates is, the fewer errors. But if you venture into RF electronics or embedded land, beware of it turning into a master of bs.<p>Which makes sense for something that isn’t AI but LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:05:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131498</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "The three thousand year journey of colchicine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I opened the article expecting to read about its use in plant breeding: colchicine is renowned there for inducing polyploidy. Never knew it has a history in medicine.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078129</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder what the influence of wind is on survival of flying insects. Over here - W. Eu. - we’ve seen storms on a monthly base now. I don’t think the energy balance of foraging adds up if there’s too much wind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:25:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016419</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where can I find the picoIDE schematics & code? All I find is picoGus.</p>
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<p>4) the whole system is rigged and the playbook is entering a new chapter</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:41:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912812</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did anyone ever make a simulator for pennies hitting the floor like in the top video?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903512</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Fixing LCD Screen Corruption of a Tektronix TDS220 Oscilloscope"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m in the process of cleaning out my “varia” parts bin. It’s a box of neat-looking chips with an id that looks easy to google for datasheets … but most are locked away as you state. There is a fixed barrier for hobbyists around the 100 to 200MHz bus rate area. From there on hardware that’s available for diy projects gets dumbed down or bottlenecked in some critical section. Every once in a full moon you get a glimpse of the product brief for a chip you desoldered from a docsys decoder and see what’s behind the NDA wall. Oh well, here’s to fpgas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899842</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Fixing LCD Screen Corruption of a Tektronix TDS220 Oscilloscope"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very true. I’d like to add that it appears to be common on chinese sites to use micro-payment systems. You want the modified code / device driver / pinout / datasheet or rom dump? Please pay 3 cents.<p>On the Russian fora I’m often hitting a wall with unfamiliar chip IDs in their schematics. But when looking up smd markings they often have a nice photo of the part in situ.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:58:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897911</link><dc:creator>CheeseFromLidl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CheeseFromLidl in "Advent of Code on the Z-Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last year was my first participation and did everything in javascript in the browser. It’s high level enough to not lose your time in details, you have a graphical output if needed (canvas), text output, threading, parsing, …</p>
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