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New comment by deadbeef7f in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

deadbeef7f — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:59:35 +0000

I am building a device that turns the headless Echelon exercise bikes (and rowers?) into fully featured bikes without using their predatory app.

If interesting in receiving a beta testing unit, let me know!

New comment by deadbeef7f in "Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq?"

deadbeef7f — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:06:28 +0000

The headline used a name I was not familiar with: "commonly known as jimsonweed, thorn apple or devil’s trumpet."

New comment by deadbeef7f in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

deadbeef7f — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:52:34 +0000

My subscription feed now has a row of 3 videos labeled "priority", then a row of 3 videos labeled "latest", then a row of "Shorts," then it appears to continue on with the "latest" but there's no label.

This is from memory so I may have got something wrong. And I could be an A/B test subject as this has been new as of a few weeks. There's also a "More..." fold or two in there.

This pattern does not represent how I use the product. I do not watch shorts and I don't know how or why they mark things as a priority. I want to know what's newest and the time ordered list being deprioritized in the UI and fractured makes that worse.

New comment by deadbeef7f in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

deadbeef7f — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:50:13 +0000

> Can you attempt to quantify this effort in comparison to other game consoles?

The person who hacked the original Xbox wrote a book on the topic, which they've since made free: https://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf