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New comment by Dachande663 in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

Dachande663 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:47:36 +0000

Upvoted because this stinks to high hell of an LLM response. Half the GPs comments seem to be in a similar vein. It’s such a shame but you can’t fight the trolls so don’t take it to heart.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

Dachande663 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:26:26 +0000

Yeah, it's super quick to start with a MK I eyeball to set them, but having a sensor just avoids any drift. I got away with using one by taking a reading and moving the other hand to check they weren't on top of each other already, and then doing a full rotation between readings.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

Dachande663 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:16:24 +0000

I'm currently making something similar but using a BKA30D-R5 (a dual stepper motor used in car dashboards) and a hall sensor to zero the hands.

Copy Protection in Jet Set Willy

Dachande663 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:18:54 +0000

Article URL: https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue45/2/1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854727

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Dachande663 in "Automatic Programming"

Dachande663 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:13:33 +0000

I used to aspire to reach the same and now I lose a bit more respect with their every drag of the AI-pipe.

New comment by Dachande663 in "6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over"

Dachande663 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:37:32 +0000

I want to like Mux. We use Mux. But everything feels half done.

- No 2FA support, at all. Support says it's not on their roadmap. Not acceptable in 2026.

- Editing subtitles requires a series of API calls, meaning I had to make a mini editor for our staff to change a word.

- Same with editing anything really. Playback restrictions, glossaries etc. There's no UI for doing it in-app. I understand that the majority of traffic is via the API, but having nothing in-app feels like an omission rather than a choice.

- Every video has multiple keys; uploads, assets, playbacks. And it's a pain moving from one to another.

Overall we use them, but I wouldn't choose to use them again.

New comment by Dachande663 in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

Dachande663 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:18:03 +0000

I’ve been using this for several years now on a little unraid box to download new photos nightly. There’s a few docker containers that wrap in support for notifying when 2FA is required etc. Always makes me nervous, the access it has, but I’d rather have my photos backed up somewhere I own.

New comment by Dachande663 in "The Colonization of Confidence"

Dachande663 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:55:16 +0000

(Re-)Poster, but not the author. This was submitted a month ago but I've just stumbled across it and was amazed it garnered no attention.

The Colonization of Confidence

Dachande663 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:54:36 +0000

Article URL: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529801

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Dachande663 in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

Dachande663 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:06:20 +0000

So many of these have… designs. Take the buttons, they have texture, they fit into a larger design element. They’re not a rectangle with rounded corners and maybe a gradient.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

Dachande663 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:01:30 +0000

HBO was where I cut my teeth learning to write via fan fiction. Such a shame to see it languishing now.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

Dachande663 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:39:37 +0000

I’m very been trying to get into hardware more. This years project was a speaker which is nearly done (with a few weeks to spare).

Next years (and probably a couple years after) is an electro-mechanical smart watch. Sourced some Ronda GB22 gearbox motors and tritium tubes and planning on using a pcb for the face. What could go wrong.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

Dachande663 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:35:14 +0000

I love this concept and the execution.

New comment by Dachande663 in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

Dachande663 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:36:45 +0000

Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple S3-wrapper to a standard dir? I've got a few apps/services that can send data to S3 (or S3 compatible services) that I want to point to a local server I have, but they don't support SFTP or any of the more "primitive" solutions. I did use a python local-s3 thing, but it was... not good.

New comment by Dachande663 in "Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent"

Dachande663 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:24:30 +0000

ffmpeg is the only community where I've asked for help and been told "if you have to ask, you're too stupid to use this project". Needless to say, it was a welcoming community I continued engaging with.

New comment by Dachande663 in "U.S. Sanctions Cambodian Conglomerate, Citing Role in 'Pig-Butchering' Scams"

Dachande663 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:58:50 +0000

https://archive.is/2025.10.14-150019/https://www.wsj.com/bus...

New comment by Dachande663 in "When Computer Magazines Were Everywhere"

Dachande663 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:26:28 +0000

I miss the days of eagerly picking up the latest PCFormat from the cornershop. The guides, the reviews, but mostly the CD running some old Macromedia Shockwave/HTML website with random apps and tools I could never download in the few minutes a day of dial-up time. Wish I’d kept some of my favourite issues.

New comment by Dachande663 in "The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech"

Dachande663 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:50:49 +0000

Page seems to be down now.

Archive link: https://archive.is/UjCgv

New comment by Dachande663 in "How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS"

Dachande663 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:43:14 +0000

Apple use UWB[0] for nearby location sensing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Apple_U1

New comment by Dachande663 in "The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production"

Dachande663 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:51:50 +0000

OP here. I posted this, this morning and then promptly forgot about it. How come the title has been changed from the blog posts own?