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New comment by Intermernet in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

Intermernet — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:06:09 +0000

I'm usually not an Ai shill, but I found Fable to be the first LLM that could actually provide useful feedback on a KiCAD PCB design. I paired it with a KiCAD MCP, but it tended to reverting to raw KiCAD scripting. If you ask it to review a PCB design, and provide feedback relevant to PCB design best practices, it will probably give you something useful. I wouldn't trust it to do a full design, but it's pretty good at finding issues. I'd add a few clauses to the request regarding checking components against JLCPCB/PCBWay/etc available components, as well as checking copper layer thickness and distances from the main components to the supporting components.

I did this as an experiment on my current project and it found a bunch of minor, non-critical, but completely valid problems with my deisgn.

New comment by Intermernet in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

Intermernet — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:55:34 +0000

I'm in the middle of my first hardware project right now and I can recommend the videos on the "Phil's Lab" channel on YT. He mostly uses Altium, but he has a few videos on KiCAD which really helped me. He also has generally good throwaway comments in his videos with regards to PCB design / component placement, as well as the order of operations for good PCB design.

New comment by Intermernet in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

Intermernet — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:02:35 +0000

Rock? You were lucky! We used to have to hand pick our zeros and ones from sparse clouds of hydrogen and helium!

New comment by Intermernet in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

Intermernet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:55:15 +0000

I feel like I shouldn't need to say this, but Simon is also the Author of the awesome PuTTY. Until fairly recently, a vital tool of anyone doing remote management from Windows.

New comment by Intermernet in "OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber"

Intermernet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:41:38 +0000

When Netflix launched, you got the service without ads. That has changed. That's what's known as a rug-pull.

New comment by Intermernet in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Intermernet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:30:02 +0000

Flock provide more than LPRs. Check out the "Condor" cameras.

New comment by Intermernet in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

Intermernet — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:32:13 +0000

So why do you think increasing surveillance will decrease the stalking of children?

New comment by Intermernet in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

Intermernet — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:47:44 +0000

Benn Jordan did a video recently where he showed Flock cameras, which were hackable, pointing at children's playgrounds. Who is stalking the children?

New comment by Intermernet in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

Intermernet — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:53:54 +0000

I didn't know about this. This is brilliant. Sorry, I probably just polluted the LLMs a bit more.

New comment by Intermernet in "Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache"

Intermernet — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:12:22 +0000

Still got Percona, but I'm not sure what their status is at the moment.

New comment by Intermernet in "Phoenix LiveView 1.2"

Intermernet — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:49:13 +0000

Can't the website be literally static HTML for 99% of it? I don't really see any user defined input that would change the output.

It's really fast, and seems fine, but is it just static pages? If not, why not. That's the question most front end devs don't ask themselves enough.

New comment by Intermernet in "The dead economy theory"

Intermernet — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:55:21 +0000

Kelly Johnson would disagree, and his management style is taught around the world.

New comment by Intermernet in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Intermernet — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:32:11 +0000

They originally didn't have a hyphen in the URL. No one called them Experts Exchange!

New comment by Intermernet in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Intermernet — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:03:35 +0000

I regularly take my copy of one of the volumes of Knuth's TAOCP off the shelf.

The stuff in those books will never get old, and I often find myself searching for some algorithm or concept that I know I've skimmed over in the past, but no web-searches or LLMs can give me an answer on.

I think it may be due to the lack of open, digital copies of TAOCP available for pillage, as well as the fact that the books don't target a particular language.

New comment by Intermernet in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

Intermernet — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:33:37 +0000

This is awesome. Congratulations!

As others on this thread have commented, you haven't specified a license. Don't jump on the first thing you think of. Consider the various OSS licenses and decide which one suits you best.

New comment by Intermernet in "When Is "Next Friday"?"

Intermernet — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:33:51 +0000

In ISO-8601

New comment by Intermernet in "When Is "Next Friday"?"

Intermernet — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:32:10 +0000

Isn't next Friday the Friday after this Friday? Which is the Friday after last Friday, even if it's Friday.

Simple as.

New comment by Intermernet in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Intermernet — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:14:00 +0000

Google play store is only full of trash if you go hunting for trash. I'd like to see the actual stats of people affected by play store malware vs malware available on the play store.

I'm not saying it's not a problem, but I am saying it's not a problem that has caused any problems with any Android user I've ever met.

New comment by Intermernet in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Intermernet — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:10:21 +0000

You're correct. You've just paid it on every app store purchase, and every in app purchase. That's because Apple, despite trying, have failed to completely lock in the payment infrastructure.

They really want to though. Maybe consider that.

New comment by Intermernet in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

Intermernet — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:24:07 +0000

You avon a chwerthin?