Hacker News: cbsks

New comment by cbsks in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

cbsks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:08:28 +0000

I have a laptop with a touchscreen that I regularly forget is a touchscreen until I accidentally touch it.

New comment by cbsks in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

cbsks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:28:41 +0000

Canonical source: https://bash-org-archive.com/?5775

New comment by cbsks in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

cbsks — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:52:34 +0000

I really don’t want to work for the defense industry, but I have to admit that they do have very fun problems to solve. You know there are people at NRO who are dedicated to ship tracking via satellite. I assume they can easily track ships without cloud cover, but how do they do it when it’s cloudy? Heat signatures? Synthetic Aperture Radar? Wake detection?

New comment by cbsks in "BC got rid of Daylight Savings"

cbsks — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:20:24 +0000

British Columbia, Canada

New comment by cbsks in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

cbsks — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:58:15 +0000

I’ve been using the Dygma Defy daily for over 2 years. Highly recommend.

New comment by cbsks in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

cbsks — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:34:59 +0000

That’s Simon’s goal. “All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmark until I get one.”

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...

New comment by cbsks in "Vim 9.2"

cbsks — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:11:05 +0000

“Let’s spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to avoid donating to a good cause”. Large corporations can be so ridiculous.

New comment by cbsks in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

cbsks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:59:10 +0000

Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.

New comment by cbsks in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

cbsks — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:58:05 +0000

Looks like Firefox is immune.

This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif...

On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension:///myfile.png" is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly generated for every browser instance. This prevents websites from fingerprinting a browser by examining the extensions it has installed. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

New comment by cbsks in "We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable"

cbsks — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:35:58 +0000

Nothing drives more creativity from me than a tool in need of a project.

New comment by cbsks in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

cbsks — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:00:57 +0000

Tesla’s “autosteer” is significantly more advanced than the “lane keeping” feature I’ve seen in rental cars, or my own 2023 Jeep. My understanding is that autosteer will actively keep the car centered in the middle of the lane, while the “lane keeping” I’ve experienced will only adjust the steering when you approach the lane edge, which pin balls you back and forth like a drunk driver.

New comment by cbsks in "Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says"

cbsks — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:18:50 +0000

My company has a policy limiting the number of high level execs traveling on a plane at a time. I wonder if plane manufacturers have similar restrictions. It’d be an ironic to for them to simultaneously assert that their planes are safe for the general public, and also believe the risk is too high for a planeload of their execs to fly in one.

New comment by cbsks in "Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory"

cbsks — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:19:27 +0000

On Linux, if the blocks are page aligned, you could use mremap(2) to swap blocks very efficiently without using any additional physical memory.

New comment by cbsks in "Pebble Round 2"

cbsks — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:58:31 +0000

What’s the maximum range to your phone to get notifications? I’ve been trying to cut back on my reflex to look at my phone every few minutes. It’d be great if I could keep my phone on a charging stand and be able to walk around my house and still get notifications.

New comment by cbsks in "QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop"

cbsks — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:07:19 +0000

Linux on top of a hypervisor. There are several companies providing hypervisors, including the one I work at, so my experience is biased.

New comment by cbsks in "QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop"

cbsks — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:19:44 +0000

It’s also running virtualized in a lot of cars! Although I’ve seen more and more US car companies switching from QNX to Linux. Chinese car companies I’ve worked with all use Linux instead of QNX, so perhaps that is the future.

New comment by cbsks in "Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work"

cbsks — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:03:11 +0000

I would open a new bug for each of those questions and say “we will evaluate this after the MVP is implemented”. Give the person credit in the bug description. That will usually satisfy their concerns. Set the priority on the bugs to low and I’ll never even have to look at them again, unless one of them actually becomes a problem.

New comment by cbsks in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

cbsks — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:38:27 +0000

It’s a 6 digit pin. Doesn’t seem worthwhile to hash. What are the best practices here? I’m not sure

New comment by cbsks in "Show HN: Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard)"

cbsks — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:29:04 +0000

The downside is that some services, such as video streaming, block access from VPNs.

New comment by cbsks in "McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022)"

cbsks — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:05:54 +0000

Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.