Hacker News: bonyt

New comment by bonyt in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bonyt — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:45:02 +0000

> Each issue is reasonable by itself...

The problem of many hands - when responsibilities in a group that collectively does harm are divided between many people, who can be held accountable when each person individually acted reasonably?

I think organizations are, more and more, siloing roles in this way intentionally (or at least emergently), such that blame can only ever be collective if they do harm. Since it's so much harder to redress collective blame, this can be effective in avoiding consequence entirely.

New comment by bonyt in "Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website"

bonyt — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:53:18 +0000

I set up a server that limits bandwidth through it to max dialup speeds, with rate limit buckets per-IP: https://dialup.moveything.com/. It has some gifs, progressive jpegs that are fun to watch load, and a mirror of xkcd.

New comment by bonyt in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

bonyt — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:47:29 +0000

Some folk on YouTube played a game like this (Snake) in real life with the South Korean rail network. It's Jet Lag: The Game - a great show, most seasons are different games. I think the one where they played Snake is one of their more complex seasons - they also play Hide and Seek and Tag across continents, and games like that.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ZcpBcwdC4ZwbTbCqIC...

New comment by bonyt in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

bonyt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:19:47 +0000

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

New comment by bonyt in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

bonyt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:55:05 +0000

For YouTube, I've used it in Safari on iOS for a while with UnTrap for YouTube that lets you disable short[1]. On desktop, a uBlock origin filter works[2].

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/untrap-for-youtube/id163743805...

[2]: https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

New comment by bonyt in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:18:22 +0000

Sure - of course! Hope it can be helpful.

New comment by bonyt in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:34:09 +0000

I replaced the keyboard MacBook Air M1 keyboard with a $20 model from Amazon and it's been going strong for a full year. I had spilled ginger ale on the original.

The board is riveted in, but there are enough screws to hold the replacement in place. Removing the board is a shockingly violent process, but it worked for me.

Keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQBVMM3X (price has gone up).

Video of rivets breaking: https://i.tonybox.net/9f2083b218d5.mp4 (you can see I missed a screw and slightly cut my hand here too).

New comment by bonyt in "Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:34:18 +0000

The article linked in the first paragraph is almost more interesting to me[1]. Some of these places, like the subway, have air frequently circulated that can filter aerosols but leave CO2; this limitation makes me somewhat doubt its usefulness as a proxy for disease transmission risk.

Apart from disease transmission, since I've gotten a CO2 monitor in my apartment I've noticed that running the gas stove or oven for even a little while will make a huge spike in CO2.

[1] https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2026/02/so-you-want-to-monitor-...

New comment by bonyt in "Typing and Keyboards"

bonyt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:26:00 +0000

I'm a fan of scissor switch keyboards, which I think makes me a bit odd - I got used to them from laptops and now I have an MX Keys Mini that I really like. I like the short travel and the tactile nature of them - I tried a slim mechanical (Nuphy Air75) but it still slowed me down considerably and was uncomfortable. I touch type but not home-row, so maybe my chaotic typing style doesn't work on heavier keys.

New comment by bonyt in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

bonyt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:19:47 +0000

Can't even get 4K on most streaming services on macOS now... It's not just Linux anymore.

Netflix lets you in Safari[1]; Disney+ limits you to 1080p[2]; and Hulu limits you to 720p[3].

[1]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764 ("Mac computer with an Apple processor or Apple T2 Security chip").

[2]: https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-video-quality ("Please note 4K streaming is not available on computer browsers").

[3]: https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-video-quality ("Hulu.com streams in quality up to 720p").

What's My ΔE(OK) JND?

bonyt — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336213

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bonyt in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

bonyt — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:26:45 +0000

Neat, it's staggering that there hasn't been a good non-subscription option for a simple utility like this for iOS. I've used Termius for a while, but it pushes a subscription and AI features pretty hard.

I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS.

[1] https://secretive.dev/

New comment by bonyt in "List animals until failure"

bonyt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:08:18 +0000

I just made a variant of this that uses the browser speech recognition API. It's simplified, with none of the flair of the original, but should be fun to play in person. It's fun to shout animal names at computer with friends.

https://t.moveything.com/animalscream/

(works best on desktop chrome. it's too slow on safari in my testing.)

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5

bonyt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:12:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312892

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by bonyt in "The appropriate amount of effort is zero"

bonyt — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:14:04 +0000

"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be."

- Office Space (1999)

New comment by bonyt in "DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation"

bonyt — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:31:44 +0000

Hey, working at the DNALC was my first job when I was in high school. I made a port of their iOS 3D brain app for Android, based on pre-rendered images (which was the style at the time - 2009-ish). It looks like it has since been taken down, which makes sense - I targeted my G1 at the time for acceptable performance, and Android broke things as it moved on. I also helped out on some web apps at the time. Great experience.

https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/products/3d-brain-app.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307055457/https://play.goog...

New comment by bonyt in "Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths"

bonyt — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:33:48 +0000

I think your license has a typo that inverts the meaning:

> This license does now allow for the fonts to be embedded in software apps or e-books.

New comment by bonyt in "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"

bonyt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:51:48 +0000

Does each container network of the 256 really need its own /64? Is there some constraint that doesn't let them work on a /72?

Recording audio using a high speed video camera, hot dog, and an AM radio tower

bonyt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:39:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMF3Plt-mCY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850161

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bonyt in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

bonyt — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:56:34 +0000

Looks like openDesk uses Collabora Online, which is itself based on libreoffice online - web based libreoffice.

https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#document-management ("Collabora Online powers openDesk with a robust office suite designed for efficient teamwork and secure document editing.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online ("Collabora Online (often abbreviated as COOL) is an open-source online office suite developed by Collabora, based on LibreOffice Online, the web-based edition of the LibreOffice office suite.")