Hacker News: dbl000

New comment by dbl000 in "ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol"

dbl000 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:22:41 +0000

@geotp Ignore a lot of the mean comments, this is an excellent project and something that I've being meaning to hack together for myself. Having web access to remotely debug I2C/UART is a literal godsend. I cannot wait to just drop in an ESP32 instead of having to connect a rats nest of wires.

New comment by dbl000 in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

dbl000 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:54:11 +0000

Some background and other details are on the Adafruit blog: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/29/tindie-is-back-online-a...

New comment by dbl000 in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

dbl000 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:09:56 +0000

That ruthless review prompt seems interesting, would you be willing to share it? I've been trying to have Claude act as a reviewer for me and it feels like it never will disagree.

New comment by dbl000 in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

dbl000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:36:52 +0000

Can you share more information about the undercutting? I've heard of places like Elecrow trying to incentivize people to sell via their platform/OEM service but it sounds like you've had people asking you to license your designs?

New comment by dbl000 in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

dbl000 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:29:08 +0000

About Sunday/Monday last week right before it went down I noticed the site was supper buggy and failing to add things to cart, I emailed support and got a "we are checking the issue". Since it went down all I've heard from support is "Please be patient. Tindie will be back up soon as we are currently performing maintenance. At this time, we do not have an estimated timeframe to provide."

The fact that it wasn't communicated at all prior and not having a timeframe makes me thing this was probably an ops screw up.

New comment by dbl000 in "Sucker: My Year as a Degenerate Gambler"

dbl000 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:39:07 +0000

https://archive.is/NxYwt

Sucker: My Year as a Degenerate Gambler

dbl000 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/online-sports-betting-app-addiction/686061/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439035

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Google Maps's Moat (2017)

dbl000 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:31:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How LLMs are affecting CTF competitions

dbl000 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://vt.social/@lina/116198976928184530

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309693

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dbl000 in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"

dbl000 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:45:18 +0000

The meta lead is probably a reference to Summer Yue having OpenClaw delete all the emails in her inbox despite being told not to.

https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363

New comment by dbl000 in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

dbl000 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:44:42 +0000

That seems to be the intention of https://mosa.cloud/

New comment by dbl000 in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

dbl000 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:43:22 +0000

I've been using the docs tool in my homelab for ~3 months now as a knowledge base for some projects I've been working on with some friends.

It's really good. The typing experience "feels" right and the collaboration features work. I haven't played with the other solutions yet but I'm very excited if they are up to the same standard.

I deployed it with docker and it was relatively smooth. I had to play a bit with the OIDC but I'm pretty sure that was more a me issue than anything.

New comment by dbl000 in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

dbl000 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:10:53 +0000

I am incredibly jealous of people for who this works for. Mine just become too unwieldy to manage or work with because they grow out in a crazy fashion.

My "productivity solution" is currently TriliumNotes with three work spaces as 1) Planner with sub notes for year, month, day 2) Brain Dump with subnotes for year and month 3) Projects with sub notes for each project. I manage tasks with Vikunja and then my time with Google Calendar.

It's an absolute mess, but it's the closest I've gotten to a solution that works the way my brain does.

New comment by dbl000 in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

dbl000 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:24:00 +0000

What's the drama with Watchy? I wasn't aware of any but I didn't play with mine that much either.

New comment by dbl000 in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

dbl000 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:55:38 +0000

I don't understand the rational for announcing that a vulnerability in project X was discovered before the patch is released. I read the project zero blogspot announcement but it doesn't make much sense to me. Google claims this is help downsteam users but that feels like a largely non-issue to me.

If you announce a vulnerability (unspecified) is found in a project before the patch is released doesn't that just incentivize bad actors to now direct their efforts at finding a vulnerability in that project?

New comment by dbl000 in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

dbl000 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:09:39 +0000

I haven't read it, but I will check it out!

New comment by dbl000 in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

dbl000 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:42:59 +0000

I would love an API or the dataset if you could share it somehow! Just to play around with my own book lists.

New comment by dbl000 in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

dbl000 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:40:13 +0000

Echoing what everyone else has said here - awesome site, love how fast it was.

I did notice that when I put in a single book in a series (in my case Going Postal, Discworld #33) that tended to dominate the rest of the selection. That does make sense, but I don't want recommendations for a series I'm already well into.

Also noticed that a few books (Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, Tribalism is Dumb by Andrew Heaton) that I know are in goodreads and reviewed didn't show up in the search. I tried both author's name and the title of the book. Maybe they aren't in the dataset.

It did stumble with some books more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister). Trying the "Similar" button gave me more books that were _technically_ similar because they were novelizations of British comedy shows, but not what I was looking for.

For more common books though it lined up very well with books already on my wishlist!

New comment by dbl000 in "This map is not upside down"

dbl000 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:39:49 +0000

Relatedly there's a Map Men video on why north is up. [0] I don't buy the whole top is 'good' and lower is 'bad'. I think the bias is just a lot of the groups that made maps were located north(ish) and traveling roughly southward which made it a convenient orientation, especially during the age of sail.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14Gtm2Z_70

New comment by dbl000 in "A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams"

dbl000 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:32:28 +0000

This is kind of one of the points Jonathan Rauch made in his book "Cross Purposes"[0]. He talks about how the common zeitgeist went from being christian and conservative to being christian because you were a conservative and because of that people are treating politics with the same fervor that they would have treated religion in the past.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Purposes-Christianitys-Bargain-...