Hacker News: Neywiny

New comment by Neywiny in "Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom"

Neywiny — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:58:05 +0000

So they made the battery, arguably the most concerning thing to replace as the vehicle ages, ridiculous to replace?

At least they're not reusing names for entirely new things. Mustang Mach-e is so weird. New vehicle, new name. Good

New comment by Neywiny in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

Neywiny — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:58:57 +0000

Depends on the field I guess. Some smaller companies I've seen have dramatically lower leadership costs, so ICs get more of the share of the gross revenue. Even with perhaps a discount to clients for choosing a small business, they can still come out on top

New comment by Neywiny in "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"

Neywiny — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:09:47 +0000

Which is interesting because most autoconf programs I've seen do the opposite. They have all these defines and then don't use them. Just seems like a waste of time. Cmake has been better but still sometimes cmake will pass and the code still doesn't build

New comment by Neywiny in "Elevators"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:54:08 +0000

I mean this in the nicest way possible. Do you see all these cloud photo/video leaks like from robot vacuums or whatever and think they don't know it can be done locally?

New comment by Neywiny in "Show HN: Elevators"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:38:05 +0000

Because there would need to be some automated service and you best believe it'll be flock 2.0

New comment by Neywiny in "Linux on ESP32"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:40:32 +0000

What I remember was they said it could come back if people needed it but it was broken for looking (months, years) at a time. So even if they didn't remove it, 6.12 might be the last working version with it anyway

New comment by Neywiny in "Show HN: Elevators"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:40:24 +0000

It would have to be done by weight. If you had a button to not allow stopping for others, people would abuse it. If it was a camera, security issue. Presumably if somebody is moving a piano or something else heavy it'll be fine

New comment by Neywiny in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:12:31 +0000

I think I've seen it the other way. I told an AI I had data coming in at some fixed, slow rate that I wanted displayed. It did the job but only for that case. It literally put a polling loop to catch one sampling at that duration. I've noticed it gives me very specific code to the exact data, or wildly complicated code for all possible data to ever exist. Finding the middle ground has been my challenge

New comment by Neywiny in "My PM agent suggests firing my coding agents and creating a replacement"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:05:58 +0000

So even other AIs recognize that AIs are gently coaxed at best, and that's not really good for the team. This is why I don't understand things like rule files or in-context boundary. There's no actual rule or boundary, just a request for one. If anything fire the AI coding agent, hire a human, and keep the PM

New comment by Neywiny in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

Neywiny — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:14:52 +0000

I'm not connecting to drives. What I'm connecting to has that speed of interface. And I think that's all I can say about that.

New comment by Neywiny in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

Neywiny — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:24:38 +0000

I'm using the sonnet at work. Work paid for it. Yes it's more expensive. I have gotten over 25 gbps bidirectional, but not by much. Maybe 27. A big downside is that it only supports 15W upstream power which I didn't think to check, so since that laptop only has 2 usb-c ports for power input, it's a bit limiting.

The upside, though, was that I plugged it in, got my throughput, and never had to worry ever again. Remember that engineering time is mucho $$. So troubleshooting overheating, divising a solution, manufacturing it, etc, that all eats into the savings.

The $400 dock would be cool though. It seems smaller than the sonnet and fixes my charging problem. Weirdly I didn't think I'd care about not including transceivers but they did actually come in handy, so that is a downside. Might try to get one of these if I need another one in the future.

New comment by Neywiny in "New microwave frying method could make French fries much healthier"

Neywiny — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:54:12 +0000

Not one mention of air fryers?

New comment by Neywiny in "Microsoft Struggling with AI-Discovered Security Bugs"

Neywiny — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:40:02 +0000

I made it I think a decent way through the article before giving up. It's such a dumb stance. The bugs don't exist because AI found them. Chaining vulnerabilities has been around forever. They'd have to be morons to not think that adversarial actors are already aware of these vulnerabilities. It's just like the IRA quote. Microsoft has to be safe all the time. Adversaries just need to find one. This framing of the situation as if the AI is at all impacting the number of bugs that exist or need to be fixed is very head in the sand.

Just the other day I dragged the wrong file into a folder by mistake in SharePoint. For the life of me I could find no menu option for undoing that, or moving it back. As far as I could see, I can only move by clicking and dragging, and there was no breadcrumb so I could only move down into folders. That's mostly because for whatever reason, SharePoint looks and acts differently on every instance I've seen. So there's no unified instructions. I ended up just copying the file. Nobody can convince me that a UX as trash as SharePoint is anywhere close to bug free.

New comment by Neywiny in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

Neywiny — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:19:18 +0000

Isn't this already done? Don't they send narcotics back to a lab? And do sobriety tests back at the station if you refuse a field test?

New comment by Neywiny in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

Neywiny — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:17:57 +0000

Huh. On my device it shows up as 0 AED. I wish it could be in $, I don't know how to exchange all that money

New comment by Neywiny in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

Neywiny — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:29:24 +0000

It's funny. Sometimes it's very confidently accepting any and everything, but then other times it'll fight me to the death that something dumb like idk symlinks don't exist and it's so foolish to think otherwise

New comment by Neywiny in "Uhubctl – Control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs"

Neywiny — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:01:43 +0000

Jeff Geerling has some videos about that. It's a hardware thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoAW0eLiXY

New comment by Neywiny in "AXI – Agent EXperience Interface"

Neywiny — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:59:21 +0000

Funny because I've had lots of difficulty with LLMs writing code for AMBA AXI stream interfaces

New comment by Neywiny in "Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi"

Neywiny — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:08:15 +0000

Other comment says no wifi but even if it did, those antennas don't radiate in a straight line

New comment by Neywiny in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

Neywiny — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:50:57 +0000

Good to see a recognition that power tools are powerful. Too many amateur videos of people experimenting without nearly enough control and messing up projects