Hacker News: drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drum55Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:19:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"]]>Very little uses crystal oscillators, they’re gigantic compared with electronics today and have very wonky performance over temperature and shock.

]]>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:31:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831103drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831103<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "OpenPrinter"]]>That's why this is just using off the shelf cartridges with commercial heads.

]]>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:41:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798223drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798223<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Midjourney Medical"]]>1 petabyte per 60 second scans implies a kind of comical data rate to storage, even at RAM speeds that’s implausible. Imagine we need to write these to hard drives, they happily sustain 150Mb/s on the high end, which would imply you’d need 115,000 hard drives to absorb that amount of writes. Even with top end NVMe drives you’d need a thousand of them writing simultaneously.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:33:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580844drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580844<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes"]]>xray, photomultiplier and laser tubes are still SOTA. PM tubes in particular have a huge number of glass feed through for the intermediate plate voltages.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:12:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544237drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544237<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"]]>The idea that you could buy any food that doesn’t fit that definition is silly, all foods have additives that’s why you can buy them and they last for more than 60 seconds on a shelf, all foods are processed because we don’t eat raw seeds as the majority of our staple diet. You have to come up with a definition of what “process” is good and bad, and what about them is “bad” before making statements like that.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:48:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412536drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412536<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"]]>It’s basically a wildcard, “ultra processed food” is a classification of nothing and everything. There’s nothing inherently bad about processing food, lots of food is terrible for you but that’s unrelated entirely.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:46:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412510drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412510https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412510<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>There's actually a known prototype MacBook Pro from 2006 with a cellphone radio, and the release MacBook Pros from the time all have a weird looking area near the battery and RAM where the SIM slot was supposed to be, and some leftover parts for the goofy little extendable antenna on the screen. Hopefully they end up doing it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/14/photos-of-a-prototype-m...

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:24:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351276drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351276https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351276<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>I had a thinkpad at one point that had a slot, but because it wasn't optioned for it you had to patch the BIOS or it wouldn't boot with anything in the slot, it seemed so hostile as to be worthless.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:53:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351042drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351042<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>I somehow managed to get it working in 2016 with a lot of hackery, I'd still have it as a usable device if the weird little pouch cells it had didn't die, repacking those batteries seemed like enough of a fire hazard I just didn't bother.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:51:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351027drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351027https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351027<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>The cause is just that the panel is mounted rotated on the device. It's supposed to be used in a tablet where the top is the short end and the side is the long end, opposite to a laptop.

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:46:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350998drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350998<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>The GDP devices are amazing except for the keyboard, which is some fever dream layout I've never been able to understand. https://img.website.xin/contents/sitefiles3601/18006016/imag...

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:40:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350952drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350952<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Chuwi Minibook X"]]>I miss my Sony Vaio P series which fitted in a similar sort of niche, the cellphone radio made it just by far the best laptop I've ever used. Modern laptops don't seem to have provision for a LTE/5G radio which always confuses me a bit, in this form factor it would be ideal. I'm surprised nobody has cloned this actually, with phone screens being the right aspect ratio it seems obvious.

https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/2014/10/03/9f923860-4b47-11e4-b6...

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:35:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350915drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350915https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350915<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "1-Wire"]]>They’re used for proofs sometimes, if you expect your security company to do a specific route they need to go to each token on it and touch them, you see iButtons glued to walls outside commercial buildings for that purpose. Systems like that mean they can’t just say they walked the route and go home, I’ve seen them at airport bathrooms for the same reason.

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:47:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226488drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226488https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226488<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"]]>Proof of work doesn’t work here same as it doesn’t work for email. The effort to mint a valid PoW is always going to put the legitimate user at a disadvantage, whatever the implementation is. Someone with an incentive to spam will always be able to do it faster, more efficiently than you.

You can’t submit a PR because your laptop is too slow? Rent some hash rate from someone, and now you’ve just made a system of paying botnet owners to be able to make a typo fix on a github repo. HashCash was never used in the real world for a reason, it sounds cute but the incentives are so insane as to only work in a vacuum where you assume everyone isn’t cheating.

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:42:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182825drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182825https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182825<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview"]]>The authors profile is also just ridiculous, hundreds of commits a day and their entire profile is also just AI generated lists of AI generated projects each one filled with pompous sounding AI documentation with implausible goals that have rock solid battle tested solutions. I'd be surprised if there was even a real person behind any of this, if there is they certainly have never read any of "their" own code.

Time crystal detection? 100% Accuracy? Give me a break.

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:11:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175783drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175783https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175783<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview"]]>The whole website is AI slop, from the text down to the design.

If it's an actual product who knows, sort of hard to care when the website came from a Claude prompt.

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:02:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175756drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175756<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"]]>3D printed spring, magnet, hall effect sensor by the looks of it.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 06:15:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157325drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157325https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157325<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"]]>That video is very annoying and doesn't in any way replace just having a screenshot of it running.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:07:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153853drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153853<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"]]>Yeah I’ve had one, still do, it never gets used because it’s a project car. Compared with one button press and coming back to a print in a few hours, it’s a constant nightmare of debugging, print issues, and manually changing filaments that aren’t stored in an airtight container and get wet. It’s not even competition, as much as I would like to support open source tools the Prusa stuff is an order of magnitude more expensive than a A1 Mini that will make a reliable print every time.

It’s like saying a bicycle is a serious contender to a train, they both have kind of similar things going on but you’d have to be insane to suggest that they do as good of a job as one another at the things people actually want to achieve.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:57:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116152drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116152<![CDATA[New comment by drum55 in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"]]>I’ve been running mine offline for years, I don’t know why other people haven’t been. They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself, but they’re obviously not completely trustworthy. Easily fixed with an air gap, updates work just great from a USB drive.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:19:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115869drum55https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115869https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115869