Hacker News: chime

New comment by chime in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

chime — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:06:09 +0000

If it was just 2-4 weeks of camera footage archives accessible to local police with paper trail on an as-needed basis, I doubt there would be much opposition.

But then this happened in my county:

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/06/19/prosecutors-sa...

New comment by chime in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

chime — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:05:23 +0000

You should still keep doing the bottom-up approach for the rest of the docs. Just update the README first paragraph or two as the gp says.

New comment by chime in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

chime — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:07:21 +0000

Highly recommend `fd` for the sheer speed:

    fd -HI "^(setup\.mjs|Math_Symbol\.js|math_init\.js)$"

1. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

2. `brew install fd`

New comment by chime in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

chime — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:04:38 +0000

Yeah, I'm curious too because I've been following all 3d printer news lately and only news re: Snapmaker is that they officially hired Ratdoux who came up with the full spectrum printing and they're integrating it into Snapmaker Orca.

Orca really needs a plugin system so that we don't get so many forks. I want full spectrum, wave overhangs, Snapmaker customizations for their printers, Sovol customizations for theirs. I also want the latest Orca nightly. So that's 5 different forks of Orca a good plugin system could replace.

New comment by chime in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

chime — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:00:29 +0000

Depends on your budget but I am extremely happy with Snapmaker U1. I print with ASA, PETG, and TPU. It prints PLA very well by default. It runs klipper, gives you full SSH with root. I installed paxx12's extended firmware using a USB flash drive - https://github.com/paxx12-snapmaker-u1/SnapmakerU1-Extended-... and have been able to get 20+ fps camera feed.

New comment by chime in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

chime — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:42:51 +0000

There was more than enough skepticism and cautious optimism too. While it sounded too soon to be real, it wasn't unlike carbon nanotubes, graphene, or solid state batteries — previously unachievable material-tech getting validation in the lab, with a 20yr pipeline for global production. With even nuclear fusion being achieved in very specific / limited instances in the last decade, it's not inconceivable to hope that maybe RTSC are just around the corner.

New comment by chime in "The browser is the sandbox"

chime — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:53:44 +0000

> Sidenote: Flash's scripting language, ActionScript is also directly responsible for the generational design of Java-ahem-ECMAScript later on, also TypeScript too.

I feel like I am the only one who absolutely loved ActionScript, especially AS3. I wrote a video aggregator (chime.tv[1]) back in the day using AS3 and it was such a fun experience.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2007/06/12/chimetv-a-prettier-way-to-...

New comment by chime in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

chime — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:35:16 +0000

Could be from https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... which mentioned https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

New comment by chime in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

chime — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:22:57 +0000

I did and it is amazing for someone with just mild 40s hearing issues. Took a bit of effort and updates to run the hearing test for AirPods Pro 3. Turns out I connected over Bluetooth when I should’ve paired them the Apple/iOS way.

The live listening mode is very good. I can hear my kid trying to quietly walk past 10pm :) There are a lot of features however you cannot selectively choose to lower / raise certain frequencies. I wish it had an equalizer I could use.

The ANC is fantastic, sometimes I even forget fans around me are on. Only issue is that when I use live listen mode and everything is super clear, people still treat me like I’m using full noise cancellation.

New comment by chime in "A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors"

chime — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:52:10 +0000

You just reminded me that my app turned 18 a few months ago.

Another dev, Daniel Flück, extended the app to help color blind users: https://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue/

New comment by chime in "Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip"

chime — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:22:54 +0000

I've been using a QNAP TBS-464 [1] for 4 years now with excellent results. I have 4x 4TB NVMe drives and get about 11TB usable after RAID. It gets slightly warm but I have it in my media cabinet with a UPS, Mikrotik router, PoE switches, and ton of other devices. Zero complaints about this setup.

The entire cabinet uses under 1kwh/day, costing me under $40/year here, compared to my previous Synology and home-made NAS which used 300-500w, costing $300+/year. Sure I paid about $1500 in total when I bought the QNAP and the NVMe drives but just the electricity savings made the expense worth it, let alone the performance, features etc.

1. https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tbs-464

New comment by chime in "Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?"

chime — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:28:39 +0000

Augment Code (https://www.augmentcode.com/) extension in VSCode. The remote agent feature is fantastic and the local agent is worth buying credits for. I've tried almost every AI editor (Cursor, Windsurf, Roo/Cline etc.), tried CLI-based coders (Claude Code, Aider, Codex etc.), and have used them all with ton of useful MCPs and in the end, I've had the best results with Augment.

New comment by chime in "MCP is eating the world"

chime — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:34:10 +0000

If the CLI tool does IO with the agentic CLI tool of choice over STDIO, then it's MCP by definition, with the only caveat being that it runs locally on each user's machine instead of a server. For dev-teams, CLI would work but for non-coders, web-apps or Slack-channel with LLM/MCP integration would be better.

New comment by chime in "Seven Days at the Bin Store"

chime — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:57:49 +0000

Slightly related - Climate Town made a long video on the pallet-sized returns practice: https://youtu.be/WG8idKaX9KI?si=0ejDGzqT9w1zvCXN

New comment by chime in "Claude Code Is My Computer"

chime — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:26:46 +0000

TL;DR: Move your .git folders out of ~/Code into ~/Git/[reponame]. Use ln -s or plain text .git file[1].

I have my code folders in Dropbox on OSX but I believe my process should work for you. I work in node and have a number of monorepos with nested node_modules folders. I run my idempotent dev-files.command script [2] with or without "--nono" in any monorepo and it handles the entire git aliasing and dropbox folder ignore for node_modules process. I use --nono if I ever need to clear out all of the node_modules and do a fresh pnpm install.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout

2. https://gist.github.com/chiragmehta/a41bd33356b6a2f84075d23d...

New comment by chime in "Why Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (and Why That's a Good Thing)"

chime — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:55:05 +0000

Same with Augment. Indexing makes a huge difference in a large monorepo and I can't imagine working in an editor that doesn't support an LLM with full indexing.

New comment by chime in "Databricks and Neon"

chime — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:33:04 +0000

1. Would you sign BAA (for HIPAA) for the Pay As You Go plan? Can't find that anywhere on your site except for that Lite is HIPAA compliant (https://lite.xata.io/security).

2. FYI, couldn't request access via the BYOC form so I sent an email as per the error: There was an error, please try again or contact us at info@xata.io.

New comment by chime in "Why "alias" is my last resort for aliases"

chime — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:01:29 +0000

I have alias s='source ~/.zshrc'.

New comment by chime in "I built an AI company to save my open source project"

chime — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:42:04 +0000

I haven’t tried Timefold but did try a ton of solvers (local and web) a few years ago when trying to optimize MRP schedule. One of the hardest parts was converting my business logic into constraints, especially date based calculations.

Instead of explicit constraints, is there a way to provide a calculation that can be minmaxed? If every order has a due date, can I say +/- 3 days = 0, 7 early = 9999 (not allowed), 7+ days late = (days late)^2?

Please email me (in profile) if you want to discuss.

New comment by chime in "Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel"

chime — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:44:39 +0000

I recently learned that there are two views: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParallelView/ vs https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossView/

And there is definitely a difference between them. If you try to view a cross view image using parallel view, it will look weird and not be easy to focus. Maybe the egg crate image was different?

Here's a quick test: https://i.redd.it/g5ilwgk99r781.jpg

Parallel view is easy for me but it takes a bit of effort for me to see cross view. For cross view, I start by looking cross-eyed at my nose and then try to see the image without fully uncrossing my eyes.