Hacker News: Egonex

New comment by Egonex in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

Egonex — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:54:14 +0000

People think that with better D2D technology, emergency and telemetry messages will still be short and to the point. These messages will not be like streaming videos.

When companies work together on things, like spectrum and constellations and handset deals it changes how people get billed.. It does not change the fact that people want to keep the messages small when millions of devices are using the same channel.

I am curious to see if people will still talk about having satellite access or if they will start talking about paying for what they use once this is up and running. D2D technology is still going to be used for these messages.

New comment by Egonex in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

Egonex — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:23:25 +0000

Totally get it. We work on compact binary alerts for constrained links. We have the same obsession with bytes.

New comment by Egonex in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

Egonex — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:53 +0000

This is a very interesting project. Protocol choice on constrained hardware like this is always underestimated, most people default to JSON over HTTP, but on devices with limited MTU or battery constraints the overhead adds up really fast.

We have seen similar trade-offs working on binary encoding for our alerting systems; even a few hundred bytes difference per message changes what's feasible over BLE or LoRa. What protocol the intercom uses natively and how much of the HomeKit overhead is format vs transport?

New comment by Egonex in "How not to fork an open source project"

Egonex — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:32:45 +0000

The fork itself is not the problem, but presenting it as your own project. Put the upstream link high in the README, say clearly what you actually changed and don't bury attributions just at the bottom.

New comment by Egonex in "Show HN: TypeShim – .NET WebAssembly Meets TypeScript"

Egonex — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:11:35 +0000

Nice work, well done. I'm also building a .NET open source project (emergency communications protocol and related systems). I'm curious about your experience contributing to dotnet/runtime. Was the PR process straightforward? Thanks.

New comment by Egonex in "AI coding agents accidentally introduced vulnerable dependencies"

Egonex — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:46:31 +0000

This is what we do. We use AI for drafting but we never merge without doing a manual review of dependencies. Every package version is pinned explicitly, and our CI always runs a dependency scan before deploy.

The AI is fast at scaffolding, the bottleneck is still us catching what it gets wrong. NOthing is easy unfortunately

New comment by Egonex in "ReSharper for VS Code and compatible editors (Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) is out"

Egonex — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:35:11 +0000

I will try this in Cursor. The C# tooling in VS Code has improved a lot. I'm curious to see how ReSharper adds to it. Thankyou