Hacker News: bschwindHN

New comment by bschwindHN in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

bschwindHN — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:26:43 +0000

Is your UI kit open source? I do think calling into the native OS toolkits is the way to go, when they exist.

I'm curious if you use winit for windowing, or something lower level that's just mac specific.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks"

bschwindHN — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:48:42 +0000

If you can get to JLCPCB levels of automation (in their fab) and produce a better frontend experience (shouldn't be too hard, JLC's is awful but still one of the better ones) then that will be amazing! North America desperately needs something like this. Good luck!

New comment by bschwindHN in "Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer"

bschwindHN — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:06:51 +0000

Encryption is a toilet paper roll.

New comment by bschwindHN in "AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest"

bschwindHN — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:12:47 +0000

Not just you, it's immediately obvious as an AI image, it's got the piss filter and all kinds of telling details. Detecting AI images like this should be a basic skill at this point.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

bschwindHN — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:05:24 +0000

I use the magnifier on iOS to examine small electronics on a PCB, or other small detailed things.

Similarly, on MacOS I use the Zoom feature (Command Key + mouse scroll) to pixel peep when doing graphical work.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

bschwindHN — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:33:30 +0000

Should be, OpenGL still runs on MacOS.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Computing Camera Rays"

bschwindHN — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:45:47 +0000

Great writeup, I am constantly forgetting the little details of clip space and homogenous coordinates. I work with graphics just infrequently enough where it's not 100% in my head, so this was a good refresher.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

bschwindHN — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:50:24 +0000

> I've never in my life been served a plate of food that perfectly matched the picture unless it was a user-uploaded image

You can get damn close in Japan. I've even had situations where the food looks _better_ than the photos.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

bschwindHN — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:46:36 +0000

Yeah how dare he suggest you improve yourself or learn more about the thing you seem to be interested in operating. I could understand if we were on a website about technology and curiosity, but this is just hacker news.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

bschwindHN — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:55:34 +0000

Also came here specifically to make sure this was posted. I'd pay good money to go to a bowling alley like this with friends.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

bschwindHN — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:45:35 +0000

Just letting you know you're not alone in coding by hand.

New comment by bschwindHN in "An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)"

bschwindHN — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:38:12 +0000

I'd be interested to see how Vello compares if it were to be dropped into WebKit as the main rendering engine.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

bschwindHN — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:22:44 +0000

Wow, the UI on that weather app is slick! Well done to whoever designed/implemented it.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

bschwindHN — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:18:43 +0000

I work on software and a bit of hardware for my job, at tonari. It's basically a low latency video "portal" to connect spaces. My most recent hardware project was to add an OLED display + rotary encoder dial to the product. That was a fun project, and it turned out great! It was also my first time doing a 4 layer board and having to worry at least a little bit about EMI and all that. All my previous stuff has been lower speed 2 layer stuff, like a custom mechanical keyboard.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

bschwindHN — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:51:37 +0000

OshPark's quality is high, but their prices are certainly higher too. Good to support them though if you live in the States, since that's where they manufacture the boards.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

bschwindHN — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:48:53 +0000

Wow, very very similar to my first PCB, a breakout board for the TSL4531. I ordered it from OshPark back in 2016. Used the exact same soldering iron, and a Quick hot air station, though it's the less fancy one than you have.

https://github.com/bschwind/tsl4531-module

https://imgur.com/ozk7UuS

(sorry for imgur, not sure what people use for image hosts these days)

I then went on to also make a BME280 breakout:

https://github.com/bschwind/bme280-module

From there on I've made various PCBs, and thankfully they've pretty much all worked on the first try. I do take a lot of extra time to verify the design and double check all the datasheets.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

bschwindHN — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:55:29 +0000

It's weird. I get that growing up in a nurturing household is a privilege, but I'm not sure the answer is to hook up kids to AI. Maybe some form of it could be beneficial, but it just seems too ripe for abuse, and/or too easy to have unintended consequences.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

bschwindHN — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:11:16 +0000

This comment looks like pure astroturfing.

New comment by bschwindHN in "Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line"

bschwindHN — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:12:10 +0000

We should get our top frontier models on the task. Perhaps they can devise a motorized finger contraption to push the button without human intervention.

New comment by bschwindHN in "MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League"

bschwindHN — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:58:53 +0000

Where is the option to call all of my tm8s trash? That's an essential part of the experience!