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New comment by chewmieser in "Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader"

chewmieser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:45:11 +0000

I had similar concerns before I snagged it but I’ve read multiple books on it so far front to back. It’s wonderful. Extremely happy with it. vCodex is a great firmware but even crosspoint is quite good!

My wife reads on a kindle with a larger font and since the margins are much smaller and my font size is a bit smaller as well we’re basically reading similar sized pages.

New comment by chewmieser in "Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader"

chewmieser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:41:02 +0000

Xteink doesn’t have a front light or touchscreen. It can’t keep time. A lot of people dislike the stock firmware. The battery isn’t user-replaceable.

Xteink is smaller, thinner, and magnetic. It’s cheaper and available today. It has physical buttons. There’s a ton of firmware options and community around it already. Some firmwares have apps and games beyond reading if that interests you. Community firmwares vastly open up available file formats.

Both are some form of open, although Xteink probably less so given some models are locked. Both will require some hunting for DRM free ebooks. Both run ESP32 chips, the Open Book touch running a more powerful dual core one.

I love my X3. The size and magnetic feature means I always have it on me for a quick read whenever a moment strikes.

New comment by chewmieser in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

chewmieser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:13:58 +0000

The ads are less intrusive than paid subscriptions from the providers IMO. Not a fan of the double-dip either though.

New comment by chewmieser in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

chewmieser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:12:08 +0000

Use the share menu and select the News app and it’ll open the story in it. Not as easy as those app banners but still not too difficult.

New comment by chewmieser in "Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters"

chewmieser — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:48:42 +0000

That’s fun!

Couple of things I would suggest:

Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least

Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.

Neat either way!

New comment by chewmieser in "HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton"

chewmieser — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:53:56 +0000

Aqua mode really feels like walking through water. It has that same level of resistance on your legs.

I don't believe a weighted vest provides that same feel, but I'm not entirely sure how they differ either.

New comment by chewmieser in "HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton"

chewmieser — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:30:56 +0000

There was another brand that went through Kickstarter recently:

https://dnsys.ai/

I have one of their units. It definitely assists with hiking in the standard modes and the "aqua mode" on the device does increase resistance. As an able-bodied person who hikes for sport, I don't tend to use it much. Though I sometimes throw it on with aqua mode for some added resistance for smaller hikes.

New comment by chewmieser in "Thoughts on Daylight Computer"

chewmieser — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:01:15 +0000

Throwing another vote out there for Supernote. Very responsive, particularly around handwriting - which feels flawless. Been a perfect device for me, but more limited than a Boox. That’s fine for my use-case, but still worth calling out.

New comment by chewmieser in "Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses"

chewmieser — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:33:01 +0000

The camera is one of the most important features for me. I had (and returned) a pair of INMO Air2's primarily because of the poor camera quality. Waiting to see how the TCL RayNeo X2 performs (was supposed to ship in December, still waiting) but may just cancel those and wait for the next generation to release, which was just announced at CES.

I love the notifications and the other stuff as well (mapping, translations... Even streaming YouTube through them while I exercise) but my primary driver for these was to have a rapidly accessible camera. I found great success with the Humane AI Pin primarily for this feature.

FYI there are some other options available today for glasses without cameras (Vuzix has some, as well as some announced at CES) and/or with simpler screens... As well as some with screens in the frame (like Halliday) if the rainbow effect gets to you.

New comment by chewmieser in "Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub"

chewmieser — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:45:24 +0000

MIG Flash Dumper

New comment by chewmieser in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

chewmieser — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:51:54 +0000

Nebula might be worth checking out, I've heard it's pretty good but I have not personally used it.

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

New comment by chewmieser in "Chatbot Pulls People Away from Conspiracy Theories"

chewmieser — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:02:31 +0000

Gift article - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/health/chatbot-debunk-con...

New comment by chewmieser in "Vacant pharmacies are holding back NYC retail"

chewmieser — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:04:59 +0000

Haha whoops

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/nyregion/pharmacies-vacan...

New comment by chewmieser in "Vacant pharmacies are holding back NYC retail"

chewmieser — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:45:13 +0000

Gift link (fixed): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/nyregion/pharmacies-vacan...

New comment by chewmieser in "Let's 'Double-Click' on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword"

chewmieser — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:44:59 +0000

Sharing with everyone else that has a subscription, or is enticed enough to snag one. I’m not sure why you feel it needs to be free in order for you to consume it? But OK - the rest will just subscribe or move on.

New comment by chewmieser in "Let's 'Double-Click' on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword"

chewmieser — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:17:18 +0000

Because? I subscribe to WSJ - so I can read this just fine. I don’t see why you can’t as well if you find the content interesting. It’s the same with academic journals, people are just sharing what’s interesting and that just so happens to be behind a paywall.

If you remove all paid content you would just have blogs left eventually… And all they’re doing is just paying for the content and regurgitating it.

New comment by chewmieser in "Ask HN: Programmable Lasers?"

chewmieser — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:49:14 +0000

Are you looking for more DIY on the hardware side or more of a commercial offering? Wicked Lasers has a pretty neat "laser cube" that has APIs available for it.

https://www.laseros.com/

https://github.com/Wickedlasers/libLaserdockCore

New comment by chewmieser in "Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye (2010)"

chewmieser — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:15:56 +0000

It's on PubMed for free: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3061152/

New comment by chewmieser in "The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas"

chewmieser — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:32:00 +0000

It was pretty bad but they did include a color switcher in the top-right so you can go to white/black.

New comment by chewmieser in "The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction"

chewmieser — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:09:06 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/science/stegosaurus-fossi...