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New comment by asimovDev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

asimovDev — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:03:31 +0000

yeah it was a refurbished / returned in open box m3 max model, cost around the same as 24gb/1tb m4 pro I was consdiering, thought might as well get something cooler.

When the limit is hit, you just cant use claude anymore until the new month / week / day starts , correct? We have Claude at work but we are just told to use it as much as needed and not worry about it so all of us each easily ammass around 100eur in usage every month on the enterprise seats plan.

Thank you for the answer

New comment by asimovDev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

asimovDev — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:31:12 +0000

Yesterday I tried to take another crack at reverse engineering my e-scooter. I am don't have the energy to sit down and read through the decompiled android app, so I thought I'd try using Qwen3 Coder next for that but it kept looping when analyzing it, probably due to my terrible prompt. I tried with Mistral Vibe and then OpenCode. OpenCode showed me that the agent was trying to search for all kinds of strings over and over again. I am thinking I'll try yet again this week

I am close to buying a Claude sub but the thought of it going haywire and costing me extra money in tokens is too scary yet. Not to mention how much provider LLMs (not sure on the correct terminology for them as opposed to local) could hamper your reverse engineering efforts (looking at you Fable).

I really want to solve this scooter and have my own app for it. There's a firmware update feature in the app, maybe I could dump the firmware at least and that would help. Anyone have suggestions on what language model would be the best for this task (analyze decompiled and obfuscated android app / analyze dumped firmware ) ? i have a 96gb macbook and would prefer a local one (I guess to make myself feel better for having spent money on it?) but something through OpenRouter or whatever would do just fine as well

New comment by asimovDev in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

asimovDev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:46:45 +0000

Did Apple state it? I remember it was one of the lead engineers who worked on Apple Silicon, which I guess could count as an Apple statement

New comment by asimovDev in "Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C"

asimovDev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:28:35 +0000

there are terminal emulators that are GPU accelerated to be fair, so in a sense this game would get GPU accelerated?

New comment by asimovDev in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

asimovDev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:55:24 +0000

I remember trying to browse a Flash build promo website for Transformers 2 on my PSP (what a 2009 sentence) and it wouldn't load. I was quite disappointed.

New comment by asimovDev in "Claude Fable 5"

asimovDev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:30:01 +0000

I wonder if one could vibecode a TAS with SOTA models? Surely there's plenty of training data from some old forums in there

New comment by asimovDev in "macOS Container Machines"

asimovDev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:21:42 +0000

it always gets a sad chuckle out of me to hear that some native linux ports run worse than the windows version under proton. i think valve games are like that (l4d2 for example) and recently I think Hollow Knight: Silksong was like that

New comment by asimovDev in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

asimovDev — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:23:25 +0000

i understand it's missing the point of your comment, but teeth affect quality of life so much that it's really ill-advised to neglect them

New comment by asimovDev in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

asimovDev — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:11:48 +0000

I do a similar version of this, where if I notice a mistake in generated code, I fix it manually (or at least attempt to) instead of telling Claude to fix it.

New comment by asimovDev in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

asimovDev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:20:29 +0000

I also did some reverse engineering, although mine was a soundcard which seemed to use an older version of this software (GUI was different). I used Wireshark to sniff out the LED and EQ packets and then wrote a CLI utility with hidapi library in C.

It doesn't have bluetooth so thankfully something like this wouldn't happen with mine. It's crazy that there's no auth at all for Bluetooth. I was reversing my e-scooter recently (still WIP) and there was a whole bunch of authentication required before its app could control any of it. I am still not confident in its security though

New comment by asimovDev in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

asimovDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:37:12 +0000

Wouldn't arcade cabinets vs home video game consoles be a more apt comparison?

New comment by asimovDev in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

asimovDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:13:33 +0000

>Lenovo, HP, Dell and Apple accounted for almost 75% of the world's PC market in the first three months of this year, according to research firm Gartner.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-4-10...

New comment by asimovDev in "Chuwi Minibook X"

asimovDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:49:54 +0000

I feel spoiled because the train table on my train of choice fits my 16in Macbook , almost like it was made with the sole purpose of carrying this laptop on it

New comment by asimovDev in "Dav2d"

asimovDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:48:16 +0000

I once watched an entire movie (around 90 mins) on a Nokia 6303. This reminds me of that

New comment by asimovDev in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

asimovDev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:31:51 +0000

I have an ancient DDR3 Xeon that doesn't support any AVX (dual x5690 and 96GB 1333 MHz RAM). You reckon it would even build / run at all?

New comment by asimovDev in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

asimovDev — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:31:49 +0000

There's still indexing, linting and code analysis tools running as well as multiple Docker containers (those are pretty much idle outside of running tests or migrations to be fair) and whatever else it could be doing in the background.

I spend 95% of the time with just PHPStorm and other stuff like the terminal, slack and ticketing open. And the browser of course (safari). Xcode and Android Studio are rarely opened. Mostly when I want to test out something in the apps that isn't on testflight / firebase yet.

New comment by asimovDev in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

asimovDev — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:06 +0000

is there any hope for someone to become a professional in the field without an electronic/computer engineering degree? I'd love to do stuff that I can actually hold in my hand (did some reverse engineering for a usb sound card and it felt rewarding cause I could quite literally hear the success), but I only have a computer science adjacent degree (BBa in Business Information Technology).

New comment by asimovDev in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

asimovDev — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:54:33 +0000

I am mostly in PHPStorm with several projects open + sometimes I have Xcode and/or Android Studio open as well

New comment by asimovDev in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

asimovDev — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:59:10 +0000

BG3 is a native game, they dropped x86 support shortly after launch on macOS (or maybe even in beta)

New comment by asimovDev in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

asimovDev — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:57:22 +0000

interesting. for me only the bottom and the top part above the keyboard gets warm during my work. 16inch model. Is yours the 14inch one?