Hacker News: askl

New comment by askl in "Web Serial Support in Firefox"

askl — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:10:06 +0000

Should be a single click just like with all the other permission based stuff.

New comment by askl in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

askl — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:06:52 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

New comment by askl in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

askl — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:52:08 +0000

The ones where you have insider information.

New comment by askl in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

askl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:22:33 +0000

> it's clearly a graphics-processing focused card.

Yes, that's what the G in GPU stands for. It's great to see that there are still manufacturers that understand this.

New comment by askl in "Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through"

askl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:46:06 +0000

I just turned off my ad blocker to see how bad it is. Because with it turned on I didn't see any popups.

They have Google ads on their site promoting a paid ad free version of their site? WTF? Why would you pay google to put ads for on your site for your own service?

New comment by askl in "BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp"

askl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:37:48 +0000

Nice to see innovation in the EV market.

Meanwhile legacy EV maker Tesla continues doing nothing other than silly toy projects. (Or rather hyping up silly toy projects and actually doing nothing at all)

New comment by askl in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

askl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:53:21 +0000

Ignoring the real benefits of security updates to prevent the unlikely event of supply chain attacks sounds like a weird tradeoff.

New comment by askl in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

askl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:30:53 +0000

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New comment by askl in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

askl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:07:21 +0000

How about swap on pingfs so you aren't relying on some cloud provider?

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

New comment by askl in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

askl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:46:44 +0000

> Your next phone will be heavier, bulkier, more expensive, and less reliable as a result of these regulations.

Huh, phones are getting heavier, bulkier and more expensive already with every new generation? There's no regulation needed for that. Also more fragile because everything is made of glass.

New comment by askl in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

askl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:04:18 +0000

> If you really want to be able to self-swap your own battery, you can just buy an Android that has a replaceable battery.

Those don't really exist anymore.

> Do we need to regulate something that isn't a problem?

It is a problem and needs to be regulated.

> All regulation has downsides, is it worth paying this price here?

Of course the upsides of regulations are worth it. The downsides might cause slight inconvenience to the manufacturer, so that doesn't really matter.

New comment by askl in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

askl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:12:36 +0000

Stars are a simple metric even someone like a VC investor can understand. Your "better system" sounds far too complicated and time consuming.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

askl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:05:18 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776035

Points: 444

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New comment by askl in "DIY Soft Drinks"

askl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:35:04 +0000

Maybe try contacting Meta Mate [1] for recommendations. AFAIK they are supplying mate leaves to multiple mate soft drink manufacturers.

[1] https://www.metamateberlin.de/

New comment by askl in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

askl — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:24:19 +0000

No, haven't tried it.

For my use case I want something fully portable and battery powered anyways. So the audio stuff should happen on the ESP32. (Or on my phone, that might work too)

New comment by askl in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

askl — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:41:31 +0000

Interesting. I'm currently in the process of building something with a audio reactive LED strip but didn't come across this project yet. The WLED [1] ESP32 firmware seems to be able to do something similar or potentially more though.

[1] https://kno.wled.ge/

Edit: Oh wait, that project needs a PC or Raspberry PI for audio processing. WLED does everything on the ESP32.

New comment by askl in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

askl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:10:32 +0000

The answer to the question in the title is "no".

New comment by askl in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

askl — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:39:17 +0000

That sounds even stupider than using it to go to mars. I really hope it stays a fantasy like most musk projects.

New comment by askl in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

askl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:07:09 +0000

Wow, some of these are looking atrocious. (Victor Mono, Syne Mono, Nova Mono)

What I'm missing is DejaVuSansMono which is what I'm using. The result of the test was Ubuntu Mono, which looks okay too.

New comment by askl in "How to turn anything into a router"

askl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:04 +0000

> you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer.

So if anything can be turned into a router will importing anything be banned as well?