Hacker News: bloggie

New comment by bloggie in "A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear"

bloggie — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:01:37 +0000

To be honest there is not much to it, you buy the movement, put it in a case, and put the hands on it. you can get everything from aliexpress. it's easier and often cheaper to just buy a normal watch if you need one.

New comment by bloggie in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

bloggie — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:04:55 +0000

Should Tesla pay people to use Autopilot?

New comment by bloggie in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bloggie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:24:01 +0000

I didn't know what a MNT Pocket Reform and wow! Rockchip, 20 cm wide keyboard, ix ethernet connector, 4 hour advertised runtime, 2 inches thick and costs more than a macbook. You really have to suffer to stick it to the man!

New comment by bloggie in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

bloggie — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:43:12 +0000

Well the guy who wrote the blog post seems to have been in charge of windows for the last 2 years so he’s still at it.

New comment by bloggie in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

bloggie — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:58 +0000

I'm sad to see it doesn't work in reverse... nobody can decipher LinkedIn Speak.

New comment by bloggie in "AirPods Max 2"

bloggie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:12:31 +0000

I found this forum last year https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php which opens the door up to a high number of lower cost manufacturers making very high quality products. although the forum audience (audiophiles) generally eschew wireless products and prefer open backed (loud for everyone else and no noise cancelling) headphones, there are all kinds of products discussed.

New comment by bloggie in "The MacBook Neo"

bloggie — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000

I'd be interested in this but it seems the price is much higher than stated here, or this was some temporary deal. It's also larger and quite a bit heavier but I guess that is a personal preference. The screen also looks pretty lacking (300 nits!). I do see it around $1200 CAD where the new macbook is $800 CAD and in stock. However all said I do not think a lot of people will be buying this new macbook because they are comparing specifications. Laptop manufacturers show off their specifications and have tons of different models because that is how they can differentiate their products from each other. Apple doesn't need to play that game and can deliver usability and value, and good in-person after sales support to the general consumer.

New comment by bloggie in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

bloggie — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:13:09 +0000

Yesterday I wanted to change a white background to transparent on some clip art. I’m still learning Affinity so asked Google Gemini Nano Banana PRO 2. The output looked ok at first but the grey squares were a little off. They didn’t make a perfect grid. I opened it in mspaint and was able to erase the grey squares. It didn’t change the white background to transparent, it just drew an array of grey squares, but only good enough for a first glance. I have no idea how these AI tools can make anything of use if left to their own devices.

New comment by bloggie in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

bloggie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:14:22 +0000

The idea that community votes will result in the best content floating to the top is flawed, because what happens is the most popular content gets upvoted and not necessarily the most insightful or pertinent. This effect is magnified as the network or communities grow and welcome more a more general audience. The most prominent commentary is often useless jokes, memes, reactions etc. Slashdot, HN, lobsters have similar flaws with different strategies to overcome them.

New comment by bloggie in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

bloggie — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:27:19 +0000

I wonder if this is the first step towards AI as an appliance rather than a subscription?

New comment by bloggie in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

bloggie — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:42:55 +0000

techbriefs, photonics spectra, photonics focus, EAA Sport Aviation? I don't think it's going to be anything super popular, to become popular you have to appeal to a broad audience. But in niches there is certainly very high quality material. It also won't be (completely) funded by advertising.

New comment by bloggie in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

bloggie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:52:29 +0000

About a third of Madoff's fund, a little over a month of Google AI spend, about nine months of Ozempic sales. Fun!

New comment by bloggie in "Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022)"

bloggie — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:09:36 +0000

I don't see the unit shown anywhere, is the calculator unit-agnostic?

New comment by bloggie in "39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]"

bloggie — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:23:47 +0000

Yes this makes CCC look bad. You can tell they were not serious because they used OpenPNP. From the video - "most importantly, it is open, hackable, and extensible." not mentioned: able to assemble electronics!

New comment by bloggie in "The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer"

bloggie — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:32:09 +0000

Ironic isn't it, since Thorlabs brought down the cost of optical tooling and made components more accessible - they are the Amazon of optics and remain a cost leader.

New comment by bloggie in "Gmail is entering the Gemini Era"

bloggie — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:35:15 +0000

I was a free user ~20 years ago and still use them today! It's exactly what I need out of email, with everything included in the one price tier. I tried ProtonMail and some others like iCloud but found no equivalent.

New comment by bloggie in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

bloggie — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:29:26 +0000

I work with camera sensors and I think this is a good way to train some of the new guys, with some added segments about the sensor itself and readout. It starts with raw data, something any engineer can understand, and the connection to the familiar output makes for good training.

New comment by bloggie in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

bloggie — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:15:26 +0000

> I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why.

So what? This article isn’t for them and this isn’t a major news site for the general public, it’s a site for people who want or need to know how things work.

New comment by bloggie in "CERN Council reviews feasibility study for a next-generation collider"

bloggie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:26:31 +0000

These experiments afaik don't require particle accelerators and are a different field of science, one of the largest of these detectors is the LIGO observatory overseen by Caltech

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-ligo

There is a list of similar observatories in this document

https://dcc-llo.ligo.org/public/0125/G1600979/003/G1600979_L...

New comment by bloggie in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

bloggie — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:35:09 +0000

I haven't used LLMs much but Perplexity always give me tons of links, I really appreciate it vs. chatgpt.