Hacker News: Ecco

New comment by Ecco in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

Ecco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:36:15 +0000

Reading the article is what made him say that.

New comment by Ecco in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:45:45 +0000

Kinda ironic that standardebooks.org refuses non-English books but will happily promote a French ranking... I mean none of those books are actually available on standardebooks.org - at least not in their original French version.

New comment by Ecco in "ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:36:28 +0000

That is really cool. I wish it had an animated video to display the result, that'd be even easier to follow and therefore even more impressive.

New comment by Ecco in "Spherical Snake"

Ecco — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:01:01 +0000

Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!

New comment by Ecco in "Ruby Symbols"

Ecco — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:38:54 +0000

I think the whole article is super confusing.

A Symbol is really just a string!

Well, it's a string that will guarantee unique allocations (two identical strings are guaranteed to be allocated at the same address), which makes equality checks super fast (compare pointers directly). But pretty much just a string nonetheless...

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:45:53 +0000

Feels like a disassembly of a boilerplate app, as opposed to handcrafted, minimal assembly code.

For instance I’m pretty sure the autorelease pool is unnecessary as long as you don’t use the autorelease mechanism of Objective-C, which you’re most likely not going to do if you’re writing assembly in the first place.

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:43:30 +0000

How would that impact the App Store approval? AFAIK they review binaries anyway…

New comment by Ecco in "JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool"

Ecco — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:35:46 +0000

Because of a lack of features? It doesn't even have IK so I would argue Blender is in fact easier to use (as in, will get you to the result faster even if you need a bit more time to learn the interface).

New comment by Ecco in "JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool"

Ecco — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:14:31 +0000

How is this any better than a Blender file with a rigged human model?

New comment by Ecco in "Ohno Type School: A (2020)"

Ecco — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:24:50 +0000

Great content, terrible form.

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:34:30 +0000

Thanks. Does it make a big difference in practice?

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:33:28 +0000

Well, that’s my point exactly: mainline kernel is what all distros eventually use.

As a matter of fact I’m currently running an OrangePi 5 as a server using an unmodified Debian Trixie and hardware support is nearly perfect.

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:31:35 +0000

I looked it up rapidly and couldn't figure out the difference with the original OrangePi 5.

By the way, the OrangePi 5 is a pretty good SBC. Much better bang/bucks than RPi, and the mainline kernel support is pretty good and getting better with every release thanks to the folks at Collabora.

https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...

New comment by Ecco in "macOS Tahoe"

Ecco — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:20:29 +0000

I feel like we’ve gone full circle. For decades Apple hardware sucked and was badly overpriced, but you paid the price to enjoy running Mac OS X. Now Apple makes amazing hardware (especially laptops) but the drawback is that you have to run macOS on them.

I really wish Asahi Linux had more support, I would have bought a couple M4 Minis.

New comment by Ecco in "iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats"

Ecco — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:15:29 +0000

The background on that page is so distracting…

New comment by Ecco in "Any info on dock connector of the original Apple iBook G3 "Clamsheel"?"

Ecco — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:04:21 +0000

Amazing, thanks for that link! Do you have any idea how I could figure out what voltage to provide?

New comment by Ecco in "Any info on dock connector of the original Apple iBook G3 "Clamsheel"?"

Ecco — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:47:41 +0000

I'm a huge fan of vintage Apple devices, and just got my hands on an iBook G3. It didn't come with a power adapter, but it has what really looks like a docking connector on the back. However I surprisingly haven't been able to find anything online about that connector.

Does anyone here have any info about that docking connector? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Any info on dock connector of the original Apple iBook G3 "Clamsheel"?

Ecco — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://i.imgur.com/JwIRdkx.jpeg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013802

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New comment by Ecco in "The international standard for identifying postal items"

Ecco — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 03:33:44 +0000

With a limit of 10 million different serial numbers, I wonder how China does it. I can't come up with a decent estimate, and maybe I'm way off. But with the growth of sellers like Shein or Temu, I wouldn't be surprised if they shipped that many parcels in like a single day ? Or at least in a timeframe short enough that they would have over 10 million shipped but yet-to-be-delivered parcels, effectively running out of tracking numbers.

New comment by Ecco in "My dream thermostat (2024)"

Ecco — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:41:01 +0000

Personally my dream thermostat would be Amazon’s smart thermostat, but with a firmware that allows for local control by home assistant.

Here’s why I think the hardware is so great:

- Simple, high-contrast temperature display (7-segment led)

- Just a few buttons to override temp/mode manually

- Reliable sensor (it’s made by Honeywell)

- Nice industrial design (doesn’t get in the way)

- Low price point (got it for $49)

I really wish someone would find a way to unlock their firmware. I tried to mess with it and figured it did MQTT (yay!) but it does certificate pinning :-/ I even opened one up but couldn’t find an easy way to dump the firmware off of its i.MX chip.