Hacker News: HardwareLust

New comment by HardwareLust in "Playa Phone"

HardwareLust — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:21:49 +0000

Dammit I left my acoustic coupler at home.

New comment by HardwareLust in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"

HardwareLust — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:15:32 +0000

My only question is, why would all refrigeration be under the remote control of DECA? That seems unnecessarily complicated.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Why Chinese Daily Life Vloggers Are Exploding on YouTube [video]"

HardwareLust — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:50:26 +0000

Interesting, I've never seen even one show up in my feed (yet). Japanese daily life vloggers, yes but that's expected considering my past proclivities.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Newly Invented Pixel Could Turn Screens into Cameras"

HardwareLust — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:40:05 +0000

One step closer to telescreens becoming a reality.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI"

HardwareLust — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:17:45 +0000

Keyword there being 'had'?

New comment by HardwareLust in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

HardwareLust — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:39:15 +0000

Im surprised they let it run for 2 years. Still not going back to X though.

New comment by HardwareLust in ""No Disc, No Buy" Is Bigger Than Sony Expected"

HardwareLust — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:15:17 +0000

Did they learn nothing from the shit storm that MS set off when they tried this with the Xbox years ago?

New comment by HardwareLust in "New Science Says Scrapping a Working Gas Car for an EV Is Usually Greener"

HardwareLust — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:08:20 +0000

Scrapping a working gas car for mass transit is even greener.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Pentagon order US universities to Cut Chinese or else"

HardwareLust — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:54:50 +0000

The Red Scare is in full swing.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?"

HardwareLust — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:08:25 +0000

I subscribe to Wired, American Chess, and Architectural Digest. I had a sub to Raspberry Pi Magazine, but now I just read the free PDF version.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage"

HardwareLust — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:55:52 +0000

Interesting! Hadn't even considered that.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

HardwareLust — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:41:13 +0000

I was just grocery shopping yesterday (Philly) and there seemed to be no lack of the low quality sardines I normally see on the shelves every week? There are no "empty shelves" that I have seen in the two stores I normally shop at.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Long Story Short: Daily word game"

HardwareLust — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:28:18 +0000

It's a fun game but seems pretty easy? I've finished every puzzle in two guesses.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage"

HardwareLust — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:15:51 +0000

Unless I'm missing something, seems kind of short-sighted to not keep a local copy of the schedule just for this very situation?

In fact, why would you even design it like this to begin with? It's not like a pet feeding schedule is dynamic data that changes every day. Makes no sense.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor"

HardwareLust — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:14:51 +0000

Thank you very much! I appreciate the free book, and I love reading about sailing.

New comment by HardwareLust in "The End of Reading Is Here"

HardwareLust — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:55:39 +0000

The thing that intrigues me is that while fewer people are reading, more books than ever are being written.

The total number of new books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, to more than four million books.

Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops

HardwareLust — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:50:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/09/controversial-bitcoin-fork-bip-110-mines-two-blocks-then-stops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245272

Points: 10

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New comment by HardwareLust in "William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69"

HardwareLust — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:03:47 +0000

That's a real shame. He was also an excellent musician, too. I remember buying his first album on CD back in the 80s called Strange Cargo and it quickly became one of my favorites.

New comment by HardwareLust in "Play PICO-8 on your Apple Watch"

HardwareLust — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:56:41 +0000

Unless I'm missing something, this might be a neat trick but I can't imagine actually playing a game on that tiny screen with microscopic controls?

New comment by HardwareLust in "I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13"

HardwareLust — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:45:01 +0000

Did not expect the Neo to drive competition this fast, but I'm glad to see it. Kind of a bonehead move by Dell to leave out the headphone jack though.