Hacker News: bigtech

New comment by bigtech in "Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer"

bigtech — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:38:40 +0000

Finally!

New comment by bigtech in "What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases"

bigtech — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:27:57 +0000

As with Mars (and Silo) we need a very deep pit to protect humans from the radiation.

New comment by bigtech in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

bigtech — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:42:23 +0000

This has me thinking that fiber optic drones using this technology might be able to discover the location of signal-jamming equipment. But only for the good guys.

New comment by bigtech in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

bigtech — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:16 +0000

This does look better! :)

New comment by bigtech in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

bigtech — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:49:54 +0000

Not that the author needs my defense, but that image says to me, 'hey, I'm just a guy who wrote a book and there's no budget for art' -- which fits a DIY aesthetic in 2026

Show HN: Magpie – my self-hosted replacement for Google/Yahoo email aggregation

bigtech — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:53:50 +0000

I built Magpie, a self-hosted email aggregator that pulls multiple IMAP/SMTP accounts into a single inbox.

I started it because Google is dropping support for pulling emails from my Yahoo accounts (Gmailify), and I wanted a private, self-hosted solution.

Key points: * Unified inbox with search and threading * Lightweight backend + modern web UI * Easy to deploy (Docker or manual) * Privacy-first, fully open source

This is the baseline release and it’s meant to be simple, functional, and easy to extend. I’d love feedback, bug reports, and contributions from anyone interested in email tooling or self-hosted software.

https://github.com/FynleyMsg/Magpie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840144

Points: 3

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New comment by bigtech in "What someone learnt when they replaced their Pi 5 with a Amazon mini desktop"

bigtech — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:09:19 +0000

I bought an N100 mini that looks just like the Ars picture, but it's branded from Beelink as an S12Pro -- it does all of this and more. Mine is in the living room with the HDMI attached to my TV, but I RDP into it for most things. I installed WSL and and initially ran Plex from Docker, but switched to Windows native as it is simpler to setup and maintain.

New comment by bigtech in "Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?"

bigtech — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:07:29 +0000

Middle class is shrinking; people in tighter economic situations can't afford hobbies?

New comment by bigtech in "If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (1778)"

bigtech — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:47:50 +0000

It's an interesting history, better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.

New comment by bigtech in "Ask HN: Is this a feasible idea or rather not?"

bigtech — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:04:15 +0000

Seems possible from the technical side, but not so sure about the money part. if I'm following you correctly, XYZ.com would have shown an ad on their site and received, say 1 cent. With your service running, you visit XYZ.com, ad is replaced by a white box, and they receive, let's say 2 cents? If so, seems like efficient microtransactions will be a challenge.

New comment by bigtech in "Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction"

bigtech — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:07:21 +0000

There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.

New comment by bigtech in "Ask HN: What's your use case for iPads/Android pads?"

bigtech — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:48:16 +0000

My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.

New comment by bigtech in "I am getting out of software development after 10 years of coding"

bigtech — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:50:19 +0000

I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.

As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.

New comment by bigtech in "Restaurant menu tricks (2020)"

bigtech — Sat, 08 May 2021 19:58:48 +0000

Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?

New comment by bigtech in "Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings"

bigtech — Wed, 05 May 2021 18:04:29 +0000

I would have though SAG-AFTRA require all on-screen talent to be paid.

New comment by bigtech in "Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy"

bigtech — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:35:16 +0000

Age of the infected population?

New comment by bigtech in "Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’"

bigtech — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:34:06 +0000

Do you have some reason to believe that meat is healthier, or is this speculation?

New comment by bigtech in "Why I prefer objects over switch statements"

bigtech — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:55:13 +0000

The article provided some good examples of times when code readability can be increased without a bulky switch statement. However, there are times when I find the switch statement most closely communicates the idea of what needs to occur to some developer in the future.

New comment by bigtech in "Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost"

bigtech — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:30:45 +0000

tldr: legalizing video gambling has brought in additional revenue, but not as much as expected. Illinois borrowed money in advance based on the expected rates.

New comment by bigtech in "China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side"

bigtech — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:58:49 +0000

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.