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New comment by bombledmonk in "The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)"

bombledmonk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:43:55 +0000

Enjoyable episode. Check out his linkedin profile for some fun Easter eggs, I got a laugh.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball"

bombledmonk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:36:57 +0000

That seems adequate. The lack of sort the filters makes it a bit challenging to use. I'd recommend either a sort or a text filter like what you seen on DigiKey. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/microcontrollers/...

New comment by bombledmonk in "Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball"

bombledmonk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:22:40 +0000

Rather than filter in brands, I'd rather filter out brands (aka exclude). Maybe just an include/exclude toggle there? A select all UI element, then deselect might also be adequate.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

bombledmonk — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:45:31 +0000

another +1

New comment by bombledmonk in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

bombledmonk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:48:57 +0000

This should be the April Fools 2026 feature put directly on the live HN site.

New comment by bombledmonk in "How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers"

bombledmonk — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:44:20 +0000

fixed

New comment by bombledmonk in "How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers"

bombledmonk — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:59:34 +0000

I toured a farm in the middle of nowhere in northern MN 7 years ago with this exact system.

Laser Guided Teat Seeking Milker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTERLJDKsIw

Automatic Crane feed loading system for the Roomba-like robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEIcZwQa-o

Reverse Roomba-like automatic feeding robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-QFB827U-M

New comment by bombledmonk in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

bombledmonk — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:48:32 +0000

Good, I'm not the only one. Fully agree with the UX regression on 2 and 3.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)"

bombledmonk — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:33:38 +0000

I've actually been employing Emoji Separated Values (ESV), often , here and there when doing some of this kind of work. Granted, it's not standard, but it's been really useful when I've needed it.

*edit Apparently emojis don't fly here, but it was an index finger pointing right.

Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas to acquire Altium for $5.9B

bombledmonk — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/japanese-chipmaker-renesas-buy-australian-software-firm-altium-59-bln-2024-02-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378786

Points: 4

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New comment by bombledmonk in "Enterprise-Fu"

bombledmonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:17:06 +0000

This is waaaaayy easier to read if you Print this to PDF.

New comment by bombledmonk in "GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users"

bombledmonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:47:19 +0000

It would certainly be nice if it could warn you when you are getting close to the beginning of the chat running off the end of it's capabilities.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Firefox got faster for real users in 2023"

bombledmonk — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:38:35 +0000

I got rid of the top row.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Firefox got faster for real users in 2023"

bombledmonk — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:42:08 +0000

The killer app for Firefox is it still allows some flexibility in tab management. Sidebery and TreeStyleTab have been my anchors in the FF ecosystem. The experience is so vastly superior for tab hoarders and tab-todo methodology that I really can't imagine using something else. I also use FF on android because it has ublock origin and dark reader addons. This make browsing the web on mobile far better. I actually hold little allegiance to FF as whole, I just haven't found any Chromium based browser that works as well for me.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components"

bombledmonk — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:36:14 +0000

I think this should be part of required reading for EE101 type classes in college. The hardcover for $25 shipped on amazon, it's really something everyone in electronics should own.

New comment by bombledmonk in "Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics"

bombledmonk — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:32:11 +0000

You mean like this? https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey

New comment by bombledmonk in "WLED Project"

bombledmonk — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:27:22 +0000

I think the short answer to your question is yes.

You still have to be able to hook up few wires and you'll need to be able to power your LEDs and understand your power needs there, but the live compilation in web based development platform (that's served by the device, no cloud) makes it really ideal for rapid prototyping and getting up and running quickly. No fussing with Arduino IDE or compile times. It's one of those things that "just works".

If you want to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKltz8ji0k

New comment by bombledmonk in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

bombledmonk — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:10:30 +0000

Anyone ever run across anything like this with a simple syntax that can do a timeline with split AND merges? I've always wanted something like the linux timeline [1] as an interactive timeline that can both split and merge.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...

New comment by bombledmonk in "Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?"

bombledmonk — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:37:43 +0000

In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.

Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.

https://forum.digikey.com/t/add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...

New comment by bombledmonk in "Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search"

bombledmonk — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:31:06 +0000

While I appreciate the sentiment of the topic of fuzziness and AI, this also breaks search for people who are looking for precision. For people who are used to a McMaster-Carr or Digi-Key style search where precision matters in results, the fuzziness introduces ambiguity and hampers repeatability. These are both very important when designing products. Amazon, Home Depot, and Lowes are a bear when trying to find something with very specific specifications, it's quite literally rage inducing to add a more specific keyword to q query and get more (wrong) results in the output.