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New comment by dundercoder in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

dundercoder — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:37:13 +0000

This is the second time in my life I’ve heard of this book. It was a wickedly weird book. I think I was 1/3rd through it before I figured out the plurality of the characters.

New comment by dundercoder in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"

dundercoder — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:50:19 +0000

I loved the drop on dock.

New comment by dundercoder in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

dundercoder — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:33:49 +0000

But did it work?

New comment by dundercoder in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"

dundercoder — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:29:09 +0000

I have a p50 or p51, it’s so heavy, just a tank. I think they called it the portable workstation. I have LOVED this thing. It ran any Linux distribution I needed, was speedy, keyboard never missed, it’s in a closet now in headless mode running proxmox.

New comment by dundercoder in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

dundercoder — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:33:42 +0000

I use it for visual accessibility but I won’t lie, I do think it looks way cooler. My first computer was a 286 with DR-DOS. That could have something to do with it.

New comment by dundercoder in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

dundercoder — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:28:35 +0000

That’s wild. Mines a lack of living retina cells from retinitis pigmentosa. I need bright light to see, but bright light causes glare.

I’m guessing hard contacts not helping anymore or not an option? Have a buddy who is maintaining his vision that way.

New comment by dundercoder in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

dundercoder — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:36:34 +0000

I’ll fight. Dark theme isn’t just a UI preference. It’s an accessibility tool. I have a degenerative eye condition that has progressed to the point where I literally cannot use a black on white display

So I use dark reader on web and get creative with apps that think dark mode is dumb.

New comment by dundercoder in "Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input"

dundercoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:33:48 +0000

Got it working. Very interesting. I gotta play with it some more.

New comment by dundercoder in "Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage"

dundercoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:32:33 +0000

I heard it got better, but we ran into the BOTF (billions of tiny files) issue around 2016. (For a genealogy startup this was a serious issue)

New comment by dundercoder in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

dundercoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:06:53 +0000

Gluster was that for me

New comment by dundercoder in "Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input"

dundercoder — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:32:34 +0000

I’ve got a midi watcher. I can get midi in to the app and it’s recognized, can’t see any midi messages out

New comment by dundercoder in "Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input"

dundercoder — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:08:47 +0000

I’m very excited to try this. I haven’t looked deep into it but Steinberg makes an sdk for vst/au development. It has rust bindings!

https://steinbergmedia.github.io/vst3_doc/vstsdk/index.html

New comment by dundercoder in "LotusNotes"

dundercoder — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:49:19 +0000

With everything as a note, how was it so performant? How did it scale so well?

New comment by dundercoder in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

dundercoder — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:56:57 +0000

KG7SYA - sometimes found on the intertie

https://www.k0tfu.org/repeater-systems/intermountain-interti...

New comment by dundercoder in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"

dundercoder — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:24:57 +0000

It’s like they worked at my last workplace

New comment by dundercoder in "ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height"

dundercoder — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:06:23 +0000

Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a central nervous system stimulant used for ADHD and narcolepsy, but it is not an amphetamine based medication, unlike Adderall. While both increase dopamine and norepinephrine, Ritalin acts as a reuptake inhibitor rather than a stimulant that directly releases these neurotransmitters like amphetamines do.

Adderall saved my life. YMMV

New comment by dundercoder in "Making RSS More Fun"

dundercoder — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:35:44 +0000

I would love to use RSS to disseminate updates I’m working on, especially to my family. But my family wouldn’t know what RSS was, let alone use a reader. Are there ways my family could already be using RSS and not know? I don’t want to try to get them to install yet another app or use another service because the friction will prevent them from doing it.

New comment by dundercoder in "DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor"

dundercoder — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:49:25 +0000

Appreciate the correction.

New comment by dundercoder in "DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor"

dundercoder — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:58:17 +0000

This is very interesting to me because a plant this old might be cheaper to operate than a new plant, but might be like the space shuttle in that replacement parts aren’t readily available and thus expensive to custom manufacture.

If you were to step into the control room you’d see analog phones, tiny incandescent bulbs behind plastic covers… looks like a sci-fi set from the 60s.

The expensive part of a reactor isn’t really the reactor or tech itself, it’s the government regulation from the DOE and NRC.

I worked at Areva/Framatome/B&W and IIRC they still have the archival room where hundreds of 4 inch D ring binders held the original design docs that had to be submitted for approval.

New comment by dundercoder in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

dundercoder — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:07:41 +0000

I ordered citric acid off of Amazon (it’s great at getting out hard water stains in bathrooms and toilets and helps keep my water softener going well (I add some to the salt tank), also can add some good kick to lemonade)

For every cup of vodka (40 or 60% can’t remember, but prolly 40. Though scientifically 60% would be better) I add 1 to 2 tsp of powdered citric acid. Takes a surprisingly long time to dissolve so you’ll get a quick workout shaking it. I’ve added blue food coloring before to make it more visible in the dispenser to see the level but it’s not necessary at all so I usually skip it.

I make it in a 1 liter bottle which will last a couple months. We have a Bosch dishwasher, refill it… every couple of weeks maybe? I’m not the only one filling it. We do 1-2 loads of dishes a day (4 kids who can’t ever seem to find the cup they JUST used. Probably a parenting problem)

I have no idea if that’s helpful. But I did just lookup a cost by fluid volume- I live in a state with high alcohol tax rates and my cost per fluid oz of my DIY rinse aid is around $0.19 (mostly from alcohol, per fluid oz of citric acid is less than one cent. ) for reference, the small bottle of Jet-dry is $0.58/flOz.