Hacker News: Peanuts99

New comment by Peanuts99 in "What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI"

Peanuts99 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:31:02 +0000

I built a pen plotter and my biggest challenge was converting and previewing the GCode for plotter images. Recently though I've build a huge toolbox of tools with Codex using spare usage and it's an absolute game changer. Good use of it for sure.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:46:18 +0000

Bit flips from cosmic radiation. Pretty common.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

Peanuts99 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:24:15 +0000

If a small business is modifying the product and not telling the eventual customer they've done so how is that not fraud? I don't want to buy a Raspberry Pi with a memory chip from who knows who which might have not passed QA modified by people who may or may not do a decent job at soldering it to the board.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "How to buy a good car for $1000"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:51:21 +0000

I think you greatly overestimate how many 8-10 year old EVs will actually require replacement batteries. Barring a few models with poor engineering choices, most cars will still have 80% of their capacity after 10 years and won't have the downsides of having a 10 year old ICE engine with a variable record of maintenance.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:37:17 +0000

Isn't this usually because people don't like big jets flying over their houses.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

Peanuts99 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:34:26 +0000

Have you got any proof that anyone has been arrested specifically for a social media post?

The most common case is Lucy Connolly, who was arrested for inciting racial hatred and pleaded guilty to the crime which carries a prison sentence.

Or are you just a random non UK citizen who has been reading disinformation on social media?

New comment by Peanuts99 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

Peanuts99 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:11:38 +0000

Merchants aren't going cash only to sell your data, they're doing it because it's expensive to handle cash and makes their taxes a whole lot more troublesome too.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:33:47 +0000

If you've got access to an Azure subscription and you don't pay the bill personally.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

Peanuts99 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:09:05 +0000

What's to stop someone spoofing a GPS signal during that fix?

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:18:12 +0000

This is mostly a solved problem. My ThinkPad track pad is as good as any Mac.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac: The future of supercars is combustion engines"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:47:05 +0000

The difference being Swiss watches are elegantly engineered pieces of art whereas internal combustion engines of any kind are essentially just rube goldberg machines that we have collectively normalised as a society.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:24:09 +0000

A single bus journey is $20? That's insanely expensive.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

Peanuts99 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:46:14 +0000

I didn't think they'd completed the move yet, it's only partially on Azure - which to be fair could be another problem in itself.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:09:40 +0000

Perhaps driven by the very low likelihood of anything positive coming out of this.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

Peanuts99 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:59:07 +0000

It costs money to campaign, it's not a seat any other party had a chance to win and it sends a clear message from the other parties that the whole stunt was a waste of everyone's time.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "My server is a phone now"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:44:01 +0000

Some of those SFP cards can use quite a bit of energy on their own. They're not designed with energy efficiency in mind.

I've got an Optiplex with an i5 and two hard drives and that idles around 12W when idling.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:17:44 +0000

I take it that you'll be pleased when a data center is proposed to be built behind your house then yes?

New comment by Peanuts99 in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

Peanuts99 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:40:33 +0000

You might have poor quality incoming AC. Capacitors in the power supplies will be under more stress if you regularly have over/under voltages or small spikes and surges.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

Peanuts99 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:30:11 +0000

You can do the same with the GDID, it's stored in the registry.

New comment by Peanuts99 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

Peanuts99 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:14:25 +0000

Not in this case, but if you aren't building it to put humans in it at all, you can build it with higher requirements in mind. Traditionally there's no point building a plane that can withstand much over 9g.