Hacker News: doug_life

New comment by doug_life in "I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

doug_life — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:56:58 +0000

Thanks. I’ve been looking for a clean ots solution and somehow managed to not come across your company yet. Just purchased pre-assembled module!

New comment by doug_life in "I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone"

doug_life — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:22:16 +0000

Note this is from 2017

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

doug_life — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:17:39 +0000

dash. (or dashdot) https://github.com/MauriceNino/dashdot is another alternative that is pretty lightweight but has fewer details. Live Demo: https://dash.mauz.dev

New comment by doug_life in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

doug_life — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:56:24 +0000

“In Feb. 2024, Stardew Valley reached 30 million copies sold, and if we assume each copy sold for $15, that means that the game could have generated a revenue of $450 million. A modest 10 percent profit margin puts ConcernedApe’s earnings at $45 million, a number that is likely to increase in the future.” Source: https://dotesports.com/stardew-valley/news/how-much-money-di...

New comment by doug_life in "Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver"

doug_life — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:47:21 +0000

I just threw it into Micro-Cap and it surprisingly didn't throw any errors with the floating node. https://imgbox.com/riKCyWI5

New comment by doug_life in "The Untold History of Arduino (2016)"

doug_life — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:57:22 +0000

Note this is from 2016

New comment by doug_life in "Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR"

doug_life — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:42:34 +0000

It is likely that that the sub had it's antenna tuned to work well in water while the RC car antenna was tuned for open air. The two different mediums will change the antenna impedance.

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)"

doug_life — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:28:40 +0000

Any idea why this would not be compatible with Vivaldi 7.5.3735.66? The store says "This item is not compatible with your current Chrome version"

New comment by doug_life in "Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores"

doug_life — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:42:51 +0000

Should we also stop adding iodide to salt or fortifying white bread? I see your point, but society has benefited as a whole by forcing some of these substances onto populations. I think it's fairly evident that many humans in the US are either unable or unwilling to really care about their health.

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

doug_life — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:13:52 +0000

This may be obvious to most here, but you need Node.js installed for the MCP server to run. This critical detail is not in the set up instructions.

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows"

doug_life — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:39:30 +0000

https://speechpulse.com does fully local audio transcription. The UI and settings are not the most intuitive, but it works fairly well and they are making constant updates.

New comment by doug_life in "Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript"

doug_life — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:08:21 +0000

Side note, I really wish software would stop using EE terminology to name things. Ohm, Capacitor, Electron, etc. It muddies up search results for no good reason. Is there a reason this has become a trend lately?

New comment by doug_life in "VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads"

doug_life — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:22:00 +0000

Unfortunately its not a mirror. Some extensions have licensing issues that prevent them from being on open-vsx. For example PlatformIO. I ran into this issue earlier this week when trying to set up Windsurf which uses open-vsx.

New comment by doug_life in "Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar"

doug_life — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:48:50 +0000

Are there any equivalents that work in Windows 11? There were a handful that worked in previous versions of Windows but lots of them won't work in W11 and those that say they do are risky installs.

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: Okbookmarks – A Search focussed Bookmark Manager"

doug_life — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:19:09 +0000

Hoarder is an option you can self host and has most of the same features as this tool plus more. The AI tagging feature and full page indexing is pretty handy. Hoarder.app

New comment by doug_life in "OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews"

doug_life — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:13:15 +0000

https://github.com/McCloudS/subgen worked very well for me. I had a TV series where somehow the last few seasons timestamps did not match up with subtitle files I could find online. I used subgen and it worked surprisingly well.

New comment by doug_life in "Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band"

doug_life — Sun, 12 May 2024 11:55:44 +0000

Somewhat related is the The Rock-afire Explosion band from ShowBiz Pizza Place. There is an excellent documentary on the history and some of the fans preserving the technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmhS6hcY-A

New comment by doug_life in "Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD"

doug_life — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:41:01 +0000

Very cool to see how it all came together. Can you elaborate on why you chose to use a Kalman filter in your signal chain?

New comment by doug_life in "Beginners guide to building a hardware hacking lab"

doug_life — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:47:29 +0000

I am a fan of the grey market Fluke 17B+. You get many of the features of the high end Flukes like the 87V without the high cost. They are my go to for non critical lab measurements.

New comment by doug_life in "Rust on Espressif chips"

doug_life — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:50:37 +0000

8uA is still large compared to some other options. I work on medical implants that average 15uA while actively sensing biological signals 24hr/day. This includes the analog front end hardware to condition the signals as well. 8uA of deep sleep current would be a non starter.