Hacker News: chris_overseas

New comment by chris_overseas in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

chris_overseas — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:35:09 +0000

You can (hopefully) root your TV: https://e.nya.je/getroot/ and then follow a guide like this to disable all the snooping: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/lg-tv-block-mini-how-to/2551...

Disclaimer: I haven't tried any of this myself, I've just been looking into it as I am/was considering buying an LG TV.

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

chris_overseas — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:03:20 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594878

Points: 1201

# Comments: 4

Clean up your Android TV

chris_overseas — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://tv.cobanov.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583387

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Powerful Anthropic model, Fable 5, on track to return soon

chris_overseas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:37:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/anthropic-fable-5-return-soon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703825

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Marble Fountain

chris_overseas — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866697

Points: 895

# Comments: 92

New comment by chris_overseas in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

chris_overseas — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:28:21 +0000

A link to the press release https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens...

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

chris_overseas — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:20:01 +0000

Article URL: https://supercarblondie.com/electric-motor-yasa-more-powerful-tesla-mercedes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797242

Points: 622

# Comments: 598

New comment by chris_overseas in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

chris_overseas — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:32:02 +0000

There's a lot more detail describing the project in a couple of forum posts here: https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/sarcasm-an-over-eng...

S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine

chris_overseas — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vindar/SARCASM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777682

Points: 278

# Comments: 57

New comment by chris_overseas in "OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps"

chris_overseas — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:23:37 +0000

There's some backstory to the CoMaps fork that is detailed here: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareho...

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this other than having seen the above link mentioned in a comment elsewhere as to why people should switch to CoMaps.

Does AI boost productivity? The evidence is murky

chris_overseas — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:49:20 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/does-ai-actually-boost-productivity-the-evidence-is-murky-260690

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540730

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dungeon Rampage code rescued from a child's laptop and is relaunching on Steam

chris_overseas — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/dungeon-rampage-interview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295546

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital

chris_overseas — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:43:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd3ygd7mrno

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662263

Points: 103

# Comments: 88

New comment by chris_overseas in "Live Map of the London Underground"

chris_overseas — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:29:31 +0000

Looks great but I'm watching this while sitting on a tube right now. What I assumed was my train was lagging by quite a bit and then disappeared!

New comment by chris_overseas in "Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back End"

chris_overseas — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:42:56 +0000

Not entirely true - e.g. Kotlin has null safety built into its type system, and I find it much nicer than the option/optional approaches used in various other languages.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/null-safety.html

New comment by chris_overseas in "Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?"

chris_overseas — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:16:16 +0000

Not quite what you're asking for, but there was this discussion and website that you'll hopefully find relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660255

New comment by chris_overseas in "Build It Yourself"

chris_overseas — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:07:00 +0000

Agreed, and the small stdlib is one of the main reasons for this problem. I understand the reasoning why it's small, but I wish more people would acknowledge the (IMHO at least) rather large downside this brings, rather than just painting it as a strictly positive thing. The pain of dealing with a huge tree of dependencies, all of different qualities and moving at different trajectories, is very real. I've spent a large part of the last couple of days fighting exactly this in a Rust codebase, which is hugely frustrating.

FTC sues John Deere, alleging decades of monopolized repairs

chris_overseas — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/ftc_sues_john_deere/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42717528

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

A Study on the Coﬀee Spilling Phenomenon in the Low Impulse Regime (2015)

chris_overseas — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:14:09 +0000

Article URL: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/a-study-on-the-coffee-spilling-phenomenon-in-the-low-impulse-regime#email-newsletter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445380

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chris_overseas in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

chris_overseas — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:37:56 +0000

A lot of people here are recommending WLED for the controller, but I would suggest you look at the Pixelblaze [1] instead. I've used both in a bunch of different projects and strongly prefer Pixelblaze over WLED.

Some reasons why: - It has a much more intuitive user interface - It's far easier to program new patterns. Programming is done in-browser with a language that's a subset of Javascript, with code changes being applied in realtime. - Due to the way its rendering engine works, the patterns it produces are generally far more 'organic' looking and smoother than most of the WLED ones. - It's possible to map LEDs in arbitrary 2D or 3D configurations (think lights strewn all over a Christmas tree), which WLED can't really do at all. - If you have multiple Pixelblazes you can get them to sync with each other over Wifi. - A really helpful community forum.

Downside: - The firmware isn't open source, though some of its tooling is, and the firmware is stable and gets fairly regular updates, so it's not a huge issue to me. YMMV.

For the LEDs, you probably want wired bullet-style strings of LEDs rather than the thin copper LED strips since they're generally more suited to outside use. By far the most common (and generally cheapest) type of LEDs are WS-2812B or similar. They're OK, though you might notice they don't have good definition at low brightness levels. APA-102 or equivalent are a bit more expensive, but have MUCH better dynamic range, so I'd suggest going for these if you can. There are other better (and more expensive) LEDs still, but it starts to become diminishing returns, plus they can be hard to come by or find suitable controllers for. If you're running lengths of more than a 150 or so LEDs then power starts to matter, and you'll either need to inject power regularly into the strips, and/or use LEDs designed to take 12V or 24V. These can come with caveats such as worse power consumption and/or fewer addressable LEDs per meter, so research what you're buying carefully.

[1] https://electromage.com/pixelblaze