<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: epakai</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epakai</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:33:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=epakai" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Tesla China Sales Up 91% in Feb, BYD Down 47%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tesla sales by month were above 58,000 for the past 2 years except last February 2025 (30,688). February 2026 they sold 58,600.<p>The only thing I could take away is that Tesla had a bad month last February.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:49:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341502</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got a IPX in 2022 and restored it. I was a bit lucky and mine was an ex-IBM unit that came with the Weitek SPARC POWER μP processor (80 MHz) upgrade.<p>It makes for a pretty good project box as one of the smaller SPARC machines. Lots of documentation from hobbyists, Sun's own service manuals, and OpenBSD/NetBSD. Flash SCSI disk replacements are much easier to get your hands on now (I used a ZuluSCSI).<p>I've kept a log with photos: <a href="https://drislock.org/pkb/machines/perfect.html#a-little-lunchbox-machine" rel="nofollow">https://drislock.org/pkb/machines/perfect.html#a-little-lunc...</a><p>It seems to have been part of IBM's IBM-IPT Tester system. Hostnames were interesting: flower, owl, piglet, diamond, hotlips. I didn't get any interesting data though since this system relied on network resources.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:21:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314886</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Altitude can be a huge limiting factor. I biked from Texas to Oregon, and the first days in the Rockies were brutal. It seemed I could barely travel 50 feet up hill without taking a break. I even considered turning around because it just felt impossible.</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703694">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703694</a> (5 days ago, 7 comments) Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708996">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708996</a> (4 days ago, 1 comment) HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761527</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is pretty much what Lutris does. I'm using it with already downloaded GOG installers, and Lutris' crowd-sourced install scripts. It looks like they do account integration, so it might be possible to directly download and install games.<p>It can run things with regular wine or proton installed by steam. There is a lot of complexity compared to Steam or the GOG client.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:39:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627723</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Razer isn't mentioned, but I know they're using Airoha AB1571DN in Blackshark V3 Pro transmitter. Not sure what is on the headset end.<p>Don't see any mentions on their last firmware update, and I can't find older ones.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025">https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457385">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457385</a></p>
<p>Points: 42</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:51:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are shifting the goalposts here. Campaign donations are not her bank account.<p>Who is going to "take it away" in this scenario? We're not talking about a 'tax the rich' scenario anymore. I don't think she needs to be worried about congressional finance reforms because they write their own laws.<p>Sometimes politicians will directly tell the truth to you. I'm not evaluating that though. I'm looking for evidence to the contrary, which would be real estimates above the amount she stated, but the only one out there is the absurd $29 million that can't be reached even if you add up her whole career's worth of political donations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:50:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332739</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a hell of lot better than your estimate of "look at her bank account".<p>Here's something a little more substantiated. In February 2025 she claimed her wealth is under a half million.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1887197530573717552" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1887197530573717552</a><p>Happy to look at evidence to the contrary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:56:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332381</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you take a look at her bank account? It seems like she's not even a millionaire yet. Some reports are putting her net worth at $49,000 or $125,000.<p>Where are the non-mammon mouthpieces in congress? Your focus feels way too narrow to take a reasonable conclusion from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:37:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332248</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a Gotek floppy emulator hardware, about $50 USD.<p>A USB floppy drive will be cheaper, maybe $20.<p>I <i>think</i> the T1100 has standard 34-pin IDC connector, but Plus variant uses 26-pin so the Gotek will need an adapter (and probably doesn't fit cleanly).<p><a href="https://archive.is/gFVNm" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/gFVNm</a> (medium post, shows the adapter)<p><a href="https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/549" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/549</a> (somebody had issue with high 5V rail causing Gotek to not work)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:06:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950771</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Why use OpenBSD?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Debian still has security fixes, and point releases. unattended-upgrades is the package that automates their install.<p>I think you can also do unattended release upgrades by using the 'stable' release alias in sources. That will probably result in some stuff breaking since there will be package and configuration churn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945970</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to recent TLDs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently noticed the mom and dad TLDs. One has a lot of potential for phishing so all the big sites seem to have MarkMonitor registering their names there. You can visit ebay.mom though, and amazon.mom redirects to an inactive URL for the family program.<p>Curiously, dead.mom was redirecting to www.nro.gov, an org with a rather interesting secret history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:02:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779975</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are ST Micro parts with two USB ports that can can both be devices. I'm not sure the implications of powering them both at once. Look at STM32F407/417.<p>It might be simpler to get 2 microcontrollers and establish a communication link between them. Something like Arduino (Nano or even smaller third party boards), or Teensy would be suitable for this kind of setup.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706604</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "Trenchant CEO indicted for stealing their exploits and selling them to Russia [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why did they list all his watches? Would they have been seized already, or are these things he posted about online?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679718</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "The Rubygems.org takeover"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His specific words were "it's no longer full of native Brits" with a link to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London</a><p>Then he goes on to point out more than sixty percent of the city were "native Brits" in 2000, but that number corresponds to the White British categorization.<p>Ergo he's conflating White British with native British.<p>He also said "A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now." Maybe he is extremely observant, but I don't think that follows unless he is talking about skin color.</p>
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<p>I've been using Lutris on i3 with multiple monitors. Enabling gamescope has been extremely helpful. I just get a window that tells the game to render at some fixed resolution, and it is happy to scale fullscreen or any size. I've been using i3's fullscreen toggle, it goes to the current monitor, or I can move it to another with my regular i3 binds.<p>It looks like gamescope has it's own fullscreen shortcut (super + f), but people complain about it about it going to the wrong display. Maybe your window manager offers a more consistent full screen option like i3 does.</p>
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<p>Utter trash. Motorola has broken the stock lock screen, and this is somehow part of it. I can no longer choose list style notifications, and viewing notifications on the lock screen requires an extra tap.<p>If you leave Glance enabled it also breaks your lock screen clock appearance, and forces a small clock pushed into the corner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:49:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622513</link><dc:creator>epakai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by epakai in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We read the history, a lot of it rhymes. Conservatives failed, and exchanged their values for a populist outsider to maintain power (see Franz von Papen). The outsider demeans immigrants and 'sexual deviants'. The outsider champions nationalism. He pardons the people who broke the law to support him. Condemns violence against the party while ignoring the more common violence coming out of the those aligned with the party. Encourages the language of enemies when discussing political opponents and protestors.<p>Nazi has a lot more connotations than genocide. I'm not sure it is worth nitpicking over. Even if you tone it down to Fascist or Authoritarian there will be push back.</p>
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<p>I'm running into this as well (Firefox Debian). I suspect it may be Firefox's tracker blocking combined with the older extended support release.<p>Sometimes just refreshing the page seems to work too. Disabling the tracker blocking allows cross-site requests to Cloudflare endpoints which seems to be enough. Maybe worth allow-listing CF domains, but I didn't look into if that is possible yet.</p>
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