Hacker News: UI_at_80x24

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:07:50 +0000

I noticed that when I was there. I was pleasantly surprised to see as many BYD as I did.

That infact made me consider BYD even more seriously. Being able to see the car in person is far more impressive the a YouTube video.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:46:00 +0000

These are impossible to search for.

Do you have a link for unixbeard?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:29:39 +0000

Me too!! It's a huge pet peeve. And it's so hard to get people to see how it's linguistically AND mathematically WRONG.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Don't Use a gmail.com Address"

UI_at_80x24 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:42:08 +0000

Blog is getting too much spam, so they are restricting posts/comments from Gmail.com addresses.

That's ok, I understand the desire. I also recognize that it's a lazy "fix". I have my own domain and prefer that so I can track compromised sites.

In quasi-related conversation though, in the last year I have encountered 2 "necessary" websites (insurance, and medical form) that would only accept: Gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc addresses!

It's frustrating.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:27:40 +0000

And most importantly they teach their offspring about the dangers!

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:26:05 +0000

This information may have been supplanted but newer studies, but one study determined that African Wild Dogs were the most successful pack hunters on the planet with a ~92% success rate. (success being defined as 'eating' after a hunt.

Edit: Opening line from the article - Wild dogs are the most successful hunters in Africa, with a kill rate of 80 percent.

And my favorite story about these animals is that they vote! https://www.science.org/content/article/wild-dogs-vote-initi...

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "typ.ing"

UI_at_80x24 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:22:13 +0000

No it is not a mistake. It is not fashionable in digital media thanks I believe to twitters character limits.

Look at any printed media from the last 100 years. Printing presses, books, magazines, newspaper.

A double space offers a visual clue where a 'mental breath' takes place.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes"

UI_at_80x24 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:10:38 +0000

Given the context, your domain name is 'chefs kiss', perfect.

I am completely curious what your legal defense would be though.

"Come do things with AI that are probably illegal!"

What?! We had no idea people would do things that are illegal!

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:21:04 +0000

Quality of code output has dropped dramatically since 4.5 IIHO. Time to complete has gotten worse too.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "TFTP Honey Pot Results"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:03:49 +0000

Man, besides being slow; I really miss those days.

I could say I was "into computers" and it meant something. Eternal September ruined it.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

UI_at_80x24 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:28:32 +0000

Dell chargers only work (reliably, and at capacity) with Dell devices. Also Dell devices will (sometimes) refuse to work with 3rd party chargers.

Get a charger that displays the voltage & current being output on a port and you will quickly see what devices adhere to standards.

The USC-C port doesn't guarantee compatibility. Manufacturers are being evil and pushing proprietary protocols over open standards.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:02:54 +0000

Lol, that's what I thought this was about too.

Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Plein Air"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:15:01 +0000

It shows paintings based on your location and the 'time of day', or something.

From the `About`:

>Plein Air — A painting for right now, wherever you are

>Plein air — French for in the open air — was the discipline of painting outdoors, in front of the weather, the way Constable studied clouds in Suffolk meadows and Monet painted the same haystacks at every hour of every season. The painters took the canvas outside because the light couldn't be remembered later, only stood inside as you painted.

>Plein Air stands you next to one of those paintings. The sky over your head and the sky in the painting share the same kind of hour — the same long afternoon, the same threatening storm, the same fog clinging to the river. One painting, chosen for right now. Tap the title to see why it was picked.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

UI_at_80x24 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:01:39 +0000

Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support? I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:37:28 +0000

Here's an easy script to scan for compromised packages:

https://cscs.pastes.sh/aurvulntest20260611.sh

Not my script. It's easy to read/parse. Never pipe a script directly to bash.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:13:39 +0000

Have you looked into Sway/i3?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:09:05 +0000

In the infamous words of George Carlin:

"Selling is legal, and fucking is legal; but selling fucking is not legal."

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:04:18 +0000

I loved the look of the fonts on DOS after I upgraded from a C64. My favorite was the exclamation mark on 1024x768 (VGA). It had curves! Pointy at the bottom right above the dot, and the rounded curve at the top. I've never found a monospace non-bitmapped font that had the same character. (ha!)

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

UI_at_80x24 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:10:25 +0000

I have encountered the exact same kind of frustration, and no amount of prompting seems to prevent it from "randomly" happening.

`the error is on line #145 fix it with XYZ and add a check that no string should ever be blank`

It's the randomness that is frustrating, and that the fix would be quicker to manually input that drives me crazy. I fear that all the "rules" I add to claude.md is wasting my available tokens it won't have enough room to process my request.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:59:25 +0000

Similar in concept but for different reasons; does anybody know of a way to convert images into a '8bit pixel map'?

My wife likes to take images and crochet them into tapestry/blankets/cozies.

It seems to me that if we could get a grid overlay onto an image she could then make whatever she wanted. (One color per 'pixel')