Hacker News: cph123

New comment by cph123 in "Websites Should Be Printable"

cph123 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:53:03 +0000

No, I'd consider books absolutely necessary.

New comment by cph123 in "Websites Should Be Printable"

cph123 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:34:03 +0000

I personally think printing unless absolutely necessary is a waste of resources.

New comment by cph123 in "Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses"

cph123 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:00:37 +0000

I was a student who would wear my Google Glass out and about (in the UK) and no one ever said anything negative. Of course, they might've looked at me and thought I was a glasshole. Most people I interacted with were intrigued by the novelty.

New comment by cph123 in "Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type"

cph123 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:05:01 +0000

For basic previewing I like to use https://htmledit.squarefree.com which has been online for years and does it all client side.

New comment by cph123 in "A 4x4 MIMO SDR tile for spatial RF vision and beamforming"

cph123 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:40:11 +0000

Am I right in thinking from the comparisons this only works at 4.9 to 6.0 GHz?

New comment by cph123 in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

cph123 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:56:39 +0000

Just for a bit of comparison... I'm in the UK and don't drive. It is a 10-min walk to a big Tesco superstore, which is really convenient. It is on my commute too (which I also walk, Uber if its raining heavily).

New comment by cph123 in "Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems"

cph123 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:41:07 +0000

It looks like the number of IPv4 /24s their ASN was announcing has dropped significantly: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as5378#announced-ip-add...

New comment by cph123 in "AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)"

cph123 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:55:33 +0000

"Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uninformed ad-hoc reckon, by going to bbc.co.uk… clicking on ‘what I reckon’ and then simply beating on the keyboard with your fists or head."

New comment by cph123 in "Mosh Mobile Shell"

cph123 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:46:06 +0000

Let's not forget https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core

New comment by cph123 in "Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you"

cph123 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:09:20 +0000

An alternative might be to ask lots of mundane refrigeration questions, replying to each one with "that's cool"

New comment by cph123 in "I've Heard Receipts Are Toxic. Is It Safe to Touch Them?"

cph123 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:31:26 +0000

In the UK we had something similar called Flux. I don't think it got widely adopted.

Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179645

New comment by cph123 in "Telephone Exchanges in the UK"

cph123 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:02:53 +0000

He also has a fascinating YouTube channel, I'm a big fan. Lots of old musical equipment and experiments in addition to telephony.

New comment by cph123 in "Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser"

cph123 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:50:07 +0000

Is this different to http://insecam.org ?

New comment by cph123 in "Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways"

cph123 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:01:45 +0000

I have been using a vertical mouse for a long time now, and it is very comfortable for me. But it does take some getting used to, when I watch others trying to use my computer they always struggle with it. Interestingly as well as being more comfortable to use, I find that it improves my pointing accuracy, feels like fewer unnecessary movements.

New comment by cph123 in "Persuasion methods for engineering managers"

cph123 — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:13:04 +0000

This is the case for me too for every Substack page in the past few days. I'm on desktop using Vivaldi as a browser.

New comment by cph123 in "'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'"

cph123 — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:37:17 +0000

Could SR-IOV VFs be a solution to that?

New comment by cph123 in "MacBook Air M4"

cph123 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:42:47 +0000

I'm at exactly the same point with mine, it still feels like new even though it is nearly 5 years old.

I have yet to update beyond Monterey though (even though I really should) in case it slows down a bit or the battery life isn't as good.

New comment by cph123 in "It's okay to code on nights and weekends"

cph123 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:58:51 +0000

When I was a teenager and while studying at university I used to spend a lot of my spare time coding. Then after I got a job as a developer this dropped off quite quickly, opting instead to socialise and pursue other hobbies in that time.

Since becoming a manager at work less of my time is actual coding, and in the last 6 months or so I have started to code a lot more on my own projects and I'm really enjoying it. It feels like overall there is a certain desire/capacity for it, and if that is getting used up at work, so be it, if not, then it fills up outside of work hours.

Either way, each to their own. Some people would probably love to spend more time coding or on other hobbies but have other commitments like family to consider.

New comment by cph123 in "Secure your URLSession network requests using Certificate Pinning"

cph123 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:21:25 +0000

This means I will need to update the app when the certificate changes on the server, i.e. it has expired and needs to be renewed.

New comment by cph123 in "Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary"

cph123 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:28:34 +0000

Yes I remember doing the same. I'd probably be about 12 years old, and my dad asked "What is this Ubuntu thing you got in the mail?", even now he asks me about Ubuntu.