Hacker News: deckar01

New comment by deckar01 in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

deckar01 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:09:26 +0000

Those use liquid electrolyte cells and the video is more promo than rigorous testing.

New comment by deckar01 in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

deckar01 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:28:42 +0000

The Two Bit Da Vinci YouTube channel has a good video on solid state battery fundamentals and a deep dive into a battery company (ProLogium) that has demonstrated manufacturing at scale.

https://youtu.be/xQFVIs4leig?si=iOOt5gg_2MJAIoFR

New comment by deckar01 in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

deckar01 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:06:04 +0000

> The Site is part of the platform developed and managed by Arduino, which allows users to take part in the discussions on the Arduino forum, the Arduino blog, the Arduino User Group, the Arduino Discord channel, and the Arduino Project Hub, and to access the Arduino main website, subsites, Arduino Cloud, Arduino Courses, Arduino Certifications, Arduino Docs, the Arduino EDU kit sites to release works within the Contributor License Agreement program, and to further develop the Arduino open source ecosystem (collectively, the “Platform”).

This is the definition of “platform” in that document. It is just the websites.

New comment by deckar01 in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

deckar01 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:23 +0000

The “Platform” is just the website. They are saying don’t hack our servers. There is a caveat for content published under an open source license (like the docs).

New comment by deckar01 in "Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms"

deckar01 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:09:06 +0000

I uploaded my own image, tried various crops, but it always guessed cat or deer, with dog<3%.

New comment by deckar01 in "Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms"

deckar01 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:53:18 +0000

I think they only trained on dogs with floppy ears, because it is very confident the German Shepherd is a cat.

New comment by deckar01 in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

deckar01 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:42:35 +0000

I thought there was so much excess solar generation that even the utility company couldn’t store it all. There is a perverse incentive to dump the excess power to prevent the price from going negative and prop up demand for their generation services. There are lots of examples in economics where it is more cost effective to destroy a worthless product than to give it away. When the government subsidized the generation infrastructure and some of that power is generated by residential solar, it makes sense to step in force the utilities to behave in the people’s best interest.

New comment by deckar01 in "Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser"

deckar01 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:17:26 +0000

I’ve been working on a tool to help me discover chord inversions and find fingerings I can comfortably play. https://music.shademaps.com/

New comment by deckar01 in "Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked"

deckar01 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:47:37 +0000

It’s not that dystopian if you are given the choice to trade your attestation for more valuable service. We have been paying for the web by letting advertisers correlate our behaviors together for a couple decades now.

New comment by deckar01 in "Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked"

deckar01 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:14:31 +0000

Making a network request from a script is not abuse, consuming excess bandwidth is. Scrapers already spoof browser reputation and cycle IPs while abusing bandwidth. Recently I wanted to convert the results of an Autotrader filter into a table so I could supplement it with data they don’t track (towing capacity). It was two pages of results, but requesting it from a script was aggressively blocked by browser fingerprinting. I had to port it to JS and run it in my browser console manually to get the data out, wasting my time.

New comment by deckar01 in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

deckar01 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:02:53 +0000

The UX is really bad. POI loading is taking 10+ seconds to update, then any zoom or pan reorders the list of locations. Most of the missing info (around me) is just phone numbers and hours of operation, which are boring and should be trivial to collect automatically.

New comment by deckar01 in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

deckar01 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:41:11 +0000

The first (and only) security report I made to Google was denied then immediately patched (about 10 years ago).

New comment by deckar01 in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

deckar01 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:56:37 +0000

Letting them automatically pick the model is no longer sustainable, but there are some very efficient models that are capable of executing the plan created by a much nicer model. It’s kind of embarrassing to think that Microsoft’s auto model selection was choosing cutting edge reasoning models for tasks like resolving dependency conflicts back when their pricing was at a loss.

The Slate Auto pickup truck starts at $24,950

deckar01 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/955738/slate-auto-truck-ev-price-availability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659086

Points: 4

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New comment by deckar01 in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

deckar01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:06:12 +0000

I tried to photo copy a dollar bill when I was a kid on a dinky inkjet printer. It printed half way then spit out something about counterfeit prevention. I scanned the bill, printed the top half, fed the paper back in, and printed the bottom half. This can only actually stop the completely unmotivated.

New comment by deckar01 in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

deckar01 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:51:11 +0000

When you say continuous interlocking U shape, are you saying it fills one channel from the top until the connected channel fills from the bottom?

New comment by deckar01 in "Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines"

deckar01 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:32:34 +0000

There was some discussion on that topic when they self-promoted this 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242929

New comment by deckar01 in "Ford CEO's Right to Repair Comment Should Make Every Car Owner Uncomfortable"

deckar01 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:43:33 +0000

From what I have read most of the recent EV companies failed due to investor shenanigans. Fisker and Coda made it to production promising ~$30-40k models, but only really delivered ~$50-70k models before they folded. Slate is posting videos of an operational factory building the model they advertised and seem confident it will be under $30k.

New comment by deckar01 in "Ford CEO's Right to Repair Comment Should Make Every Car Owner Uncomfortable"

deckar01 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:03:10 +0000

Slate is outsourcing service operations to any shop that wants to pay $50 to get certified.

https://www.slate.auto/en/certified

New comment by deckar01 in "Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis"

deckar01 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:21:11 +0000

I don’t like the bins drifting from so far away so slowly. There needs to be repulsive force that prevents the bins from colliding.

It would be interesting if the resonators could adaptively model timbre to factor out harmonics while still handling unique timbre at each frequency. That could produce a pitch diagram color coded by instrument.

Edit: I bet you could fork a resonator and run over the window it just finished in reverse to correct the drift.