Hacker News: canbus

New comment by canbus in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

canbus — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:09:53 +0000

Does anyone know how to turn on the flashlight without a third-party app in AA mode?

New comment by canbus in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

canbus — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:13:41 +0000

People get attached to things they've been using for decades. Also most of the world is still written in c/c++ so any critical mass has quite a lot to go up against.

Rust isn't perfect but it solves a lot of the pitfalls of C++ (not just UB, package management, horrible cmake files, linker errors etc.)

New comment by canbus in "Identity verification on Claude"

canbus — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:32:43 +0000

Why is the world going in this direction? I don’t want to give my biometric data to everyone. I can’t change it if it gets breached or sold on…

New comment by canbus in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

canbus — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:35:26 +0000

And who tells Meta what to do?

New comment by canbus in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

canbus — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:26:35 +0000

Love a Cummins. The Bosch plunger pump is like a mini-me engine on the side of the block!

New comment by canbus in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

canbus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:14:08 +0000

Right, brand new. But I think if the UK government want everyone to be using EVs they really need to help out the used market by incentivising it in some way. I can't get much other than a Nissan leaf or Renault Zoe under £10k second hand, or some massive SUV which I don't want. So then I'll buy an ICE powered car instead...

New comment by canbus in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

canbus — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:30:24 +0000

Maybe it’s the lighting, but that doesn’t look even on both sides to me - that’d bother me more than the sharpness.

New comment by canbus in "The MacBook Neo"

canbus — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:52:13 +0000

likewise - surprised someone hasn't tried to run docker on it yet and reported success/failure.

New comment by canbus in "My Homelab Setup"

canbus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:39:32 +0000

i have similar on an old dell optiplex, which works really well. I've got lots of raw files in a zfs pool, but they aren't currently backed up anywhere else. any suggestions for cloud storage which works well with rsync?

New comment by canbus in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

canbus — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:37:43 +0000

What a great plot for a Black Mirror episode. Oh wait, it’s real life.

New comment by canbus in "Apple Creator Studio"

canbus — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:21:13 +0000

Tried Darktable?

Running a web server on a disposable vape

canbus — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/nicotine_vape_web_server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262757

Points: 2

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New comment by canbus in "Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures"

canbus — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:47:08 +0000

The picture showing the flow of people reminds me of Alexey Titarenko's "City of Shadows" - http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofshadows - both creative long exposure photos.

New comment by canbus in "Does gear matter?"

canbus — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:27:20 +0000

both are just tools at the end of the day!

New comment by canbus in "Does gear matter?"

canbus — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:43:59 +0000

if you're wondering whether gear matters you probably have enough kit. Get out there and shoot instead!

New comment by canbus in "0 To 100 kph in 1 second [video]"

canbus — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:58:30 +0000

> A drag racer doesn't need range

in fact it only needs 1/4 of a mile!

New comment by canbus in "0 To 100 kph in 1 second [video]"

canbus — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:36:39 +0000

unfortunately not - will see if i can dig some out. haven't been over to santa pod for a while so the pics are a bit rubbish.

New comment by canbus in "0 To 100 kph in 1 second [video]"

canbus — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:36:04 +0000

superchargers (compressed air), huge sets of staged injectors, low compression ratios, stoichiometric ratio of nitromethane to air (1.7:1 instead of ~14.7:1 like normal petrol!) - as you say, it's about how fast you can convert the liquid to an explosion.

New comment by canbus in "0 To 100 kph in 1 second [video]"

canbus — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:45:13 +0000

even if we do, I'll miss the pure noise they make!

New comment by canbus in "0 To 100 kph in 1 second [video]"

canbus — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:44:26 +0000

Not at real time - i'm a hobbyist photographer so have snapped the tyres digging into the track, but they're far too fast to see with a pair of eyes! really the only thing you can see is a blur then a parachute being deployed. the noise goes through you like nothing else though. I have metal plates in my arm due to an injury and was worried the vibration was going to undo the hardware :-D