Hacker News: Lwrless

New comment by Lwrless in "Every GPU That Mattered"

Lwrless — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:05:39 +0000

I don't see my first GPU on there, it was the humble GeForce4 MX440. It could run almost any game I cared about for a surprisingly long time, even if it's not a true modern card. These days almost all my machines are on iGPUs baked into the CPU. There's way less fun for me, but they are a lot more compact at least.

New comment by Lwrless in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

Lwrless — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:18:27 +0000

I'm puzzled by Espressif's naming here. We had the ESP32-S3, so "S31" sounds like "S3, variant 1," but this part doesn't really look like a simple S3 variant. And then there's an ESP32-E22, but no E21 or even a plain E2 anywhere.

Edit: found an article explaining some of their naming logic, and said that the SoC naming will get its follow-up article, but sadly it never happened. https://developer.espressif.com/blog/2025/03/espressif-part-...

New comment by Lwrless in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

Lwrless — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:34:50 +0000

Got my RPi 5 16GB quite a while ago for around $160 and already thought that was expensive... It’s still powerful enough for almost everything I throw at it, honestly a bit overkill in most scenarios.

With prices steadily going up, for me it's starting to feel more sensible to repurpose the RAM sticks I've collected from old PC builds / laptops and just throw together small amd64 boxes instead of buying more RPis.

New comment by Lwrless in "Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player"

Lwrless — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:15:46 +0000

It seems this model does not have a recording feature. There's an alternative model from Aiwa with Bluetooth and cassette recording support, but I'm not sure if it's available globally, could not find much information about it online.

https://www.syl-via.com/products/aiwa-t7-retro-bluetooth-cas...

It's surprising to see these kinds of retro cassette players still being updated in 2026.

Sashiko: An agentic Linux kernel code review system

Lwrless — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sashiko.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474323

Points: 51

# Comments: 3

iPhone 17e Teardown Reveals an Upgrade 16e Owners Can Use

Lwrless — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ifixit.com/News/116245/iphone-17e-teardown-reveals-an-upgrade-16e-owners-can-actually-use

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423584

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

MacBook Neo Teardown [video]

Lwrless — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPCGqoBB4Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372453

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lwrless in "PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug"

Lwrless — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:40:04 +0000

I recently got my hands on an M5Stack NanoC6 (https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/M5NanoC6), it's also quite small and I'm pretty happy with it. It has onboard IR and a Grove connector, good enough for IoT projects at home.