Hacker News: eschneider

New comment by eschneider in "Tesla patents camera wiper for self-driving resulting in more doubts FSD owners"

eschneider — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:53:31 +0000

This...has been a feature on security cameras for at least a decade.

New comment by eschneider in "Don't answer the first question"

eschneider — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:47:06 +0000

There's a fine line here when dealing with customers. Sometimes it works well to answer the exact question, if you can, and follow up with "Can you tell me a bit why you're asking so I can understand a bit more about the problem?" Once you tease out a bit more about how they got there, it's often possible to offer better solutions and it never feels like you blew off their original ask.

New comment by eschneider in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

eschneider — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:37:25 +0000

It's ok to reject for any number of (or no) reasons. Nobody needs to feel like a jerk for taking a project in the direction they want.

New comment by eschneider in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

eschneider — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:17:34 +0000

This seems...fine?

I know when I run into bugs in a project I depend on, I'll usually run it down and fix it myself, because I need it fixed. Writing it up the bug along with the PR and sending it back to the maintainer feels like common courtesy. And if it gets merged in, I don't need to fork/apply patches when I update. Win-win, I'd say.

But if maintainers don't want to take PR's, that's cool, too. I can appreciate that it's sometimes easier to just do it yourself.

New comment by eschneider in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

eschneider — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:08:17 +0000

Well, this is disappointing. They were my goto site for keyboards. :/

New comment by eschneider in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

eschneider — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:44:52 +0000

That sorta surprised me. Once I could identify a connector type from a schematic, it was almost never a huge problem getting them in small (1 to 5 piece) quantities. It's mostly a question of finding the right distributor.

New comment by eschneider in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

eschneider — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:34:27 +0000

Because when the AI customers explode N months down the line, you don't want to be on the hook for a new factory.

New comment by eschneider in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

eschneider — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:22:24 +0000

Interesting...1999 is probably a bit early for that Bosch to be running one of the usual ECU update protocols like UDS. It sounds like it's in the bootloader and looking for a valid executable. So the FW updater is likely in the bootloader.

If you can open it up and find the JTAG pads, it should be simple-ish to use a JTAG reader to dump the image and then you can figure out the update protocol from that. It's unlikely to be complicated.

New comment by eschneider in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

eschneider — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:00:44 +0000

ECU software development is sort of my day job. If you're going to go down this path, I seriously recommend getting the specialized plugs and connectors and making your own wiring harnesses to whatever size you need. It's absolutely easier than manhandling a full wiring harness or cutting one down. Cheaper, too.

New comment by eschneider in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)"

eschneider — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:20:20 +0000

I mean...you should always design with speed in mind (In that Jeff Dean sense :) but what 'premature optimization' is referring to, is more like localized speed optimizations/hacks. Don't do those until a) you know you'll need it and b) you know where it will help.

New comment by eschneider in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

eschneider — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:28:03 +0000

Ok, fellow old hacker here. I have a similar problem and I found that a lot of the hand pain was from mouse/trackpad usage. My hands have been a lot happier since going to a trackball because I don't do nearly as much gripping and pressing.

New comment by eschneider in "Ask HN: How can a non-technical founder prove they're more than an "idea guy"?"

eschneider — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:17:21 +0000

Non-technical founder? Can you line up investors or customers based on your pitch? That's pretty much the acid test.

New comment by eschneider in "Where did all the starships go?"

eschneider — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:55:45 +0000

They didn't go anywhere. Lots of excellent starship/space opera novels out there with more coming out each year. There's just lots there stuff too. :)

New comment by eschneider in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

eschneider — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:38:44 +0000

Nice! Old me and my old bike are sticking to 200kms this year. :)

New comment by eschneider in "The future of software engineering is SRE"

eschneider — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:35:50 +0000

Who wants to be on-call for someone else's buggy vibe-coded app? Sign me right up for that...

New comment by eschneider in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

eschneider — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:01:25 +0000

Very much this.

New comment by eschneider in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

eschneider — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:15:29 +0000

Yeah...I know some delta pilots and apparently the inflight computers were sometimes spending more time playing chess than flying the plane...

New comment by eschneider in "A Time of Technical Deflation"

eschneider — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:55:31 +0000

Alas, AI generated code is usually more tech debt.

New comment by eschneider in "Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)"

eschneider — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:06:24 +0000

Is my remote experiences strange or do other remote workers not have some sort of chat where people ask if you've got a minute and drop in a video conference link if they need a quick chat on something?

New comment by eschneider in "Ask HN: Have You Automated Cooking?"

eschneider — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:01:16 +0000

I've had to cook from scratch for many years because I've lived with people with various food restrictions and sometimes that's just the easiest way to do things.

That said, you really don't need to spend 1-2 hours a day on cooking. If you put a little time in and level up on some basic skills, you can make shockingly good meals in 10-20 minutes.

It's mostly a question of figuring out what you like and getting good at making those things, then generalizing the skills you have into making more things.