Hacker News: abejfehr

New comment by abejfehr in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

abejfehr — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:09:18 +0000

Sure, but that’s not infinite. It’s always a zero sum game: if someone is playing my game then they're not playing yours (even if someone else might be)

New comment by abejfehr in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

abejfehr — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:46:59 +0000

How? Isn’t there a finite number of people and a finite amount of time to interact with software?

New comment by abejfehr in "I Do Understand Relativity"

abejfehr — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:28:45 +0000

I don’t have knowledge on these topics beyond some YouTube videos, but if you entangled two particles and then transported one to Alpha Centauri, wouldn’t you have a common “now” if you were able to transmit data between them?

New comment by abejfehr in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

abejfehr — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:56:01 +0000

We had similar ideas! Except mine is less customizable, I never thought to add formatting.

https://github.com/abejfehr/bigtext

https://www.abefehr.com/bigtext/

New comment by abejfehr in "Writing code by hand is over, forever"

abejfehr — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:30:46 +0000

Figuring out how to fit together off-the-shelf parts to solve a problem is (was) fun

New comment by abejfehr in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

abejfehr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:18:51 +0000

I made the same mistake as the other person. When I click the breezewiki link I get a full screen banner (on mobile) that directs me to a wiki page with different information.

I didn’t realize there was content underneath the banner on the first page

New comment by abejfehr in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

abejfehr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:44:43 +0000

It seems like Kobo eReaders don't come with a mic.

You could probably use an ESP32-S3-PhotoPainter (which comes with a mic) to do this for even cheaper: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-photopainter.htm

New comment by abejfehr in "Whoisinspace.com/"

abejfehr — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:42:46 +0000

It's disappointing that a YouTuber who presumably doesn't need extra cash resorted to an ad-ridden copy of this great, ad-free, already-existing site.

New comment by abejfehr in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"

abejfehr — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:01:41 +0000

The page you linked says "Attack type: Double tap missile strike"

Edit: it also explicitly says "double tap" under "Events" and links to the article for "Double-tap strike"

New comment by abejfehr in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

abejfehr — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:59:06 +0000

I saw beads at a bead store today that were clearly Pepsi/Sprite but they were "Pepsis" and "Spritc", presumably to be legally distinct.

Is it important that the beads looked like Pepsi/Sprite? Kind of, people want recognizable brands

New comment by abejfehr in "LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices"

abejfehr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:47:12 +0000

How does someone unaffiliated with LG make use of this feature? If they don’t have an API for it then presumably you’re safe from third parties unless the TV is rooted, right?

New comment by abejfehr in "Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive"

abejfehr — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:28:43 +0000

It’s because all sites are made by the same “person” now.

If you get past the anthropomorphism, it’s basically that Claude is just a set of knowledge, including opinions (things they’d more likely do than other things) and everyone is getting the same person to make their sites which is why they all look the same.

Also the same reason everything ends up with the same tech stack (if you don’t steer it specifically) which probably contributes to why GitHub is overwhelmed.

New comment by abejfehr in "I 4x'd a 367x479 stamp-sized photo through 8 upscaling models"

abejfehr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:55:43 +0000

I can only see a mouth and nose on mobile

New comment by abejfehr in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

abejfehr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:17:08 +0000

> Bun stopped shipping a Zig-based runtime after 1.3.14 — the project moved on to a Rust rewrite. Cruller forks that last Zig-era Bun and ports it forward to Zig 0.16 instead of following Bun into its rewrite.

I might be missing something, but where does it mention why specifically they're interested in having this be Zig and not Rust?

New comment by abejfehr in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

abejfehr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:13:58 +0000

They might be referring to the e-Points system, where hitting targets awards points and you can trade the points in for drones, etc

New comment by abejfehr in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

abejfehr — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:35:53 +0000

isn't that what they're saying with "not both at the same time"? the papers both have opposite signs, one has != and the other has =

New comment by abejfehr in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

abejfehr — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:24:55 +0000

I do this.

I have a gaming PC connected to my living room TV, but sometimes I’m lazy and want to play games from my bed.

My solution is that my bedroom TV has a Steam Deck dock connected, so I take my wireless controller to the bedroom and stream the games there instead.

New comment by abejfehr in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

abejfehr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:39:19 +0000

Elbow, Eyebrow, Heart’s Content, Heart’s Desire, and Heart’s Delight

New comment by abejfehr in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

abejfehr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:40:06 +0000

This wasn't an option for us because as an org we used their recommended hook (1) to automatically change node versions when switching directories, but it effectively undoes the lazy loading.

With mise you get the behaviour of automatically switching when you change directories effectively for free.

1. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#zsh

Edit: unless you aliased it to `node` or `npm`, which would be fine I guess but super annoying if you ran node or npm commands often. It is not worth the hassle, no one should use nvm in 2026 imo

New comment by abejfehr in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

abejfehr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:16:15 +0000

I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time.

I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/