Hacker News: codefeenix

New comment by codefeenix in "Traintrackr – Live LED Maps"

codefeenix — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:47:21 +0000

Wow this is presented exactly the same as the flight data led display. It is odd that the advertising method and the comments are similar to the previous.

New comment by codefeenix in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

codefeenix — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:13:32 +0000

really?

New comment by codefeenix in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

codefeenix — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:21:52 +0000

even though that raising the gear is a up motion and fuelcut off is a down motion?

New comment by codefeenix in "Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase"

codefeenix — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:51:28 +0000

BEasS

New comment by codefeenix in "Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web"

codefeenix — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:55:57 +0000

Here I was expecting to see emulated Cisco software

New comment by codefeenix in "DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented"

codefeenix — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:19:46 +0000

If some sufficiently intense compute calculations were ran, will the display that shows the battery voltage drop?

New comment by codefeenix in "All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication"

codefeenix — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:42:23 +0000

Is optical digital or analog?

New comment by codefeenix in "Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms"

codefeenix — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:32:34 +0000

maybe not categorically, but potentially the best place for that person.

New comment by codefeenix in "Helium Implicated in Weird iPhone Malfunctions"

codefeenix — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:14:11 +0000

Great video about this on Applied Science's channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzWaVvB908

New comment by codefeenix in "I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals"

codefeenix — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:20:48 +0000

this dude used all the vintage parts to run a Beowulf cluster of 8086's to host this site.

New comment by codefeenix in "Nuclear's role in a net-zero world"

codefeenix — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:41:17 +0000

Why not title this "Nuclear's role in the world" because NetZero is still a company that does stuff. Also, why the apostrophe?

New comment by codefeenix in "Warner Bros shelves finished ‘Coyote vs. Acme’, takes $30M tax write-off"

codefeenix — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:47:26 +0000

Writing off a business expenditure just reduces your tax liability. It is similar to putting money into R&D for a potential product and then not producing the product. Yeah you tried, paid consultants, paid for hardware, labor, etc.. but realized that it wouldn’t workout as planned or wouldn’t end up being profitable.

New comment by codefeenix in "Grade inflation: What goes up must come down"

codefeenix — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 10:04:01 +0000

never had a company look at my highschool grades...

New comment by codefeenix in "Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You'll Do Well in the Bad Times (2006)"

codefeenix — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:28:37 +0000

Whos debacle?

New comment by codefeenix in "Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number"

codefeenix — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 05:49:05 +0000

Just waiting for the .timer TLD so someone can get 555.timer

New comment by codefeenix in "Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range"

codefeenix — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:10:22 +0000

What about wavelength reflected by zebras versus(or compared to) waht flies can perceive?

New comment by codefeenix in "Dating Other Task Managers"

codefeenix — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:55:48 +0000

I initially thought the title referenced dating someone with a job title of "task managers".

New comment by codefeenix in "We're improving search results when you use quotes"

codefeenix — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:41:03 +0000

keep the ad placement the same, but make search work. Is it so hard to separate the two?

New comment by codefeenix in "FBI investigation determined Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear comms"

codefeenix — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 07:09:06 +0000

Some countries can't. The countries that can't probably do not have the resources to ignite a nuclear war.

New comment by codefeenix in "Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default"

codefeenix — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:04:55 +0000

Never been any issue with Lenovo before 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870